That's a phrase that Dr. Adrian Rogers coined (in 1984) which today takes on special meaning by the policies put forth by the former Obama Administration, the Democrat Party, and its effect on our society.
The complete passage that Dr. Rogers wrote is as follows:
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
Whenever somebody receives something without working for it, somebody else has to work for it without receiving.
When half the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, this is the beginning of the end for any nation.
