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When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

— Leland Stanford

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Money is a mechanism for control.

— David Korten

In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.

— Roger Altman

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

— Mike Lee

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.

— William Petty

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

— Francis Bacon

If the country's poorer, it's got less money.

— George Osborne

The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.

— Michael Enzi

I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If you accumulate debts and waste your money, that's, of course, a disaster.

— Jeremy Grantham

✗Opposing Perspectives

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

— Jesse Ventura

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

— J. D. Hayworth