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olegramps

(8,200 posts) Mon Feb 24, 2020, 09:18 AM Feb 2020

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Lincoln provides the best answer as to the appropriate use of social programs to address needs.

Lincoln stated: “The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.”

― Abraham Lincoln

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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Lincoln provides the best answer as to the appropriate use of social programs to address needs. (Original Post) olegramps Feb 2020 OP

Why, thank you, olegramps! Collimator Feb 2020 #1

Some Republican HE was! dchill Feb 2020 #2

Collimator

(1,639 posts)

1. Why, thank you, olegramps!

Reply to olegramps (Original post)

Mon Feb 24, 2020, 09:21 AM

Feb 2020

That is a great thought, and a quote of Lincoln's that I have never heard.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

dchill

(38,501 posts)

2. Some Republican HE was!

Reply to olegramps (Original post)

Mon Feb 24, 2020, 09:23 AM

Feb 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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