[Found in Comments Section of Reason Online, Posted by "Ken Schulz"]
"'Ronald Reagan famously declared that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.'
Reagan got the first half right. 'Government is not the solution to our problems.' However, government is not the problem. No politician would ever speak the real problem's name in public.
Reagan wouldn't identify the real problem. Ron Paul wouldn't identify the real problem. Rand Paul won't identify the real problem.
The real problem is the American people, and the correct statement is, 'Government is not the solution to our problems. You are the solution to your problems.'
You are the solution to your children's education. You are the solution to being unemployed. You are the solution to your retirement, and you are the solution to your parents' retirement. You are the solution to drug addiction. If your problem is that your children are uneducated, you're unemployed, you haven't saved for your retirement, your parents can't live on their own anymore, and you're addicted to drugs, then the problem isn't the government. The problem is you. You were the only effective solution to avoid your problems, and you are the only effective solution to your problems."
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