Date:   10/19/2008 8:50:51 PM ( 17 y ago)
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Adam Smith, who was considered a conservative by the way, was talking about equal opportunity to participate and reap the fruits of one's labor for all - not massive government programs that reward slackers.

In other words, if I till, plant and tend a garden and reap the fruits of all the produce and I have a neighbor who has the same opportunity but instead refuses to work, lets his land lie fallow and grows nothing, I do not owe him any of my produce and I resent any authority taking away any of my produce in order to give my lazy neighbor a share.

Maybe that defines conservative.

DQ

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