If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
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Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.
We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.
Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
The American Dream is really money.
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