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| 25 Great Truths & Possibly The 5 Best Sentences | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 25 2012, 08:50 AM (345 Views) | |
| Stoney | Feb 25 2012, 08:50 AM Post #1 |
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GREAT TRUTHS 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 Liber tarian (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 gove rnment 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 25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop FIVE BEST SENTENCES 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity. 2. What one person receives without working for...another person must work for without receiving. 3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. 5. When half of 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, that is the beginning of the end of any nation! |
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| Jim Miller | Feb 25 2012, 09:22 AM Post #2 |
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Amen! |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 25 2012, 01:10 PM Post #3 |
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Catchy, with some truth. But, contrary to the populist notion, government isn't the source of all our problems. only in america can bankers recieve more in bonuses than all the corporations pay in taxes DOWNWARD MOBILITY... THE NEW NORMAL all power to the sheeple... all power to the glorious cadre of corporate lobbyists we can not let an aristocracy of wealth destroy this country" --- jefferson behind every fortune lies a crime government exists to keep the poor from killing the rich limited government... limited to the rich & powerful how's that trickle down laissez-faire voodoo working out for you" AYN RAND IS DEAD... GET OVER IT libertarianism... the freedom to keep the government's nose out of what a bad parent does with their 300 lb sixth grader drain rightwing think tanks FOX NEWS... the more you watch, the less you know low information voter... watch fox, eat dinner, beat wife, go to bed |
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| Stoney | Feb 25 2012, 09:02 PM Post #4 |
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"...only in america can bankers recieve more in bonuses than all the corporations pay in taxes" Didn't your Pay Czar approve many of those bonuses? "...all power to the glorious cadre of corporate lobbyists" Is that the fault of businesses seeking advantage or politicians seeking advantage? "It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights. Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power. Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson |
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| Chris | Feb 25 2012, 11:18 PM Post #5 |
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" government isn't the source of all our problems" Of course it isn't, there are many individual and social problems it has no business interfering with, but it does, and only makes worse. "DOWNWARD MOBILITY... THE NEW NORMAL" I've posted several reports of data showing it is the rich who more often suffer this and the poor who more ofter attain upward mobility. "all power to the glorious cadre of corporate lobbyists" Where do they get this power, tom? |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 27 2012, 09:43 AM Post #6 |
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| Jim Miller | Feb 27 2012, 09:46 AM Post #7 |
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I guess I now know why Tom watches Fox so much. |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 27 2012, 09:48 AM Post #8 |
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Fess up Jim, we know you love the Fox.
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| Jim Miller | Feb 27 2012, 10:21 AM Post #9 |
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I don't watch it, Tom. Sorry. |
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| Pat | Feb 27 2012, 02:28 PM Post #10 |
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Thanks again Stoney for posting this. |
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