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save, produce, and invest.
If
we can do that, it will
mean a growing economy, more jobs, more taxpayers,
less poverty, and less demand for government handouts
and subsidies.
If the American incentive system, rooted in the
principles of the Constitution, continues to survive and
flourish, it will be due to the greater sense of objectivity
among our opinion leaders, the reasoned arguments of
business leaders, the unbiased research of economists,
and the more responsible actions of educators and
public officials.
Then, we can with reason and good conscience
continue to operate on the principle that the market
economy and the limited Constitutional government
stand or fall together, because both are deeply rooted
in the nature of man. Let's get back in touch with our
heritage and celebrate the Constitution of our
remarkably durable Republic.
Initially we asked " ...
does that Star Spangled
Banner yet wave
...
?"
The answer is a resounding,
"Yes."
Here are the rest of the lyrics of the last three
verses of our National Anthem, courtesy of Francis Scott
Key:
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of
the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence
reposes.
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering
steep,
·
As it fitfully blow51 now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches tne gleam of the morning's first
beam,
In full glory reflected nowshines on the stream:
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