1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
— John Adams
2. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
— Mark Twain
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
— Mark Twain
4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle .
— Winston Churchill
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
— George Bernard Shaw
6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
— G. Gordon Liddy
7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
— James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
— Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
— P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian
10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
11. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
— Ronald Reagan (1986)
12. I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
— Will Rogers
13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!
— P.J. O’Rourke
14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
— Voltaire (1764)
15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!
— Pericles (430 B.C.)
16. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
— Mark Twain (1866)
17. Talk is cheap… except when Congress does it.
— Anonymous
18.
The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
— Ronald Reagan
19.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
— Winston Churchill
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
— Mark Twain
21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
–Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class… save Congress.
— Mark Twain
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
— Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
— Thomas Jefferson
Thanks Krisco
And yet, with centuries of these kinds of warnings, we elected a Democrat congress and a radical liberal President.
And suddenly, everyone’s surprised.
One
Big-
Ass
Mistake
America
DJ,
Wow, you’re right. After all, the last 8 years were
Blissful
Uneventful
Sane
Happy
I mean really, don’t you think he deserves more than 46 days to undo the Bush Recession?
Surprising that several presidents and democratically-elected leaders are among these.
Did they want a job where they were supposed to do nothing at all? Total anarchy (also known as libertarian government) would leave the country to the mercy of a band of warlords that would certainly rush in if “government” were abolished. Government is here to stay, gentlemen. But please, feel free to revolt. It would be like watching the U.S. military knock over some tinpot dictator, except instead of a bunch of foreigners it would be the neckbearded backwoods conspiracy theorists vs. the most technologically advanced military in America.
And all this over having extremely rich people pay a little bit more in taxes and having corporations pay Ronald Reagan’s tax rate. If only such righteous anger was displayed over sending our troops to Iraq for a false war. Well, at least we now know which people value money more than lives. Ugly stuff, but not unexpected.
I can count on one hand the number of Obama stickers I see on cars now,its a little late now people hes in office,DJ those same people also think they can make Socialism work when its failed every where its been tried in the history of the world
Jeff, I am sure there is a middle ground between fiscal frugality and spending almost 2 trillion dollars in three months (I am including the TARP, as it was passed by Congress) Disliking current fiscal policy is hardly a guarantee that someone supported the previous admin’s overall fiscal policy, which was far from fiscally conservative.
And someone please explain to me how a recession is the best time to implement universal health care coverage at taxpayer expense? Or how proposals to ramp up spending will lead to cutting the deficit in half? I tried that with my credit cards once, didn’t work out so good.
hey paul in boca i would just like to say that this recession was technically started by jimmy carter and followed up by clinton and there was sorta this war thing that was taking a little attention away from bush. Rushing things threw congress so nobody knows what they are signing is sorta how we got into this mess in the first place. And if you look at it closely congress did this and not bush. Plus it was a Liberal congress so it has no correlation to bush in an way shape and or form.