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Originally posted by LarseeBear:

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out the trouble by spending more than you can earn.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should be doing for themselves."

-Abraham Lincoln


I think Lincoln said all of these lines shortly after posing for this picture....
1. *issed? That's your imagination. I asked a question. You're the one that got all huffy.
2. I'm glad Carl Sandburg is the end all be all.
3. Here's another quote from Lincoln along the same vein but I guess it should be off limits too:
"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
-Abraham Lincoln
1. Not at all. I also wasn't the one that went digging up four websites in six minutes.

The link I posted is sourced. Again, if you still choose not to believe it that's up to you.

2. No, but when it comes to Lincoln Sandburg has a bit more credibility than you do.

Sorry.

3. Why would that quote (or any legitimate one anyway) be "off limits"?

For someone who didn't get upset, that's comes off as a pretty defensive comment (IMO).
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Originally posted by OkinawaMarine:

Along with that though, if revenue sharing goes away as Jerruh Jones has stated AND we go into an uncapped pay system ala Major League Baseball then you can pretty much hand the NFC North to the Bears 90% of the time and the Super Bowl trophy will rotate between Dallas, New York, Chicago, Washington DC and whatever super billionaire owner in the future who will spend to no end. Green Bay won't be able to compete, Minnesota won't be able to compete and neither will Detroit...Every 3 or 4 years one of the lowly "other" teams in the North will scratch out a wild card or division crown, and we can only hope post season appearances don't come around like they do currently for the Brewers.


The thing that really pisses me off about this is that not only will football become like baseball but I don't think the Joneses of the NFL give a s*** about destroying the NFL as long as they can buy Lombardi's.
When the Pack sucks on the revenue-sharing teat like the bi-queens rather than pays into it, then I'll be concerned. Until then, the Pack is solid and the bi-queens can't survive without handouts.

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out the trouble by spending more than you can earn.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should be doing for themselves."

-Abraham Lincoln

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