I love good quotes from famous people. Here are a few, which currently apply:
“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
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress…but I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain.
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” – George Bernard Shaw
“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
“Giving money and power to government, is like giving whiskey and car keys to teen age boys.” – P. J. O’Rourke
“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” – Frederick Bastiat (1801-1850)
“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
“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” – Will Rogers
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.” – P. J. O’Rourke e
“The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end, and no responsibility at the other.” – Ronald Reagan
“No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe when the legislature is in session.” – Mark Twain
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” – Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” – Thomas Jefferson
“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)
“Talk is cheap…except when Congress does it.” – unknown
“What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.” – Edward Langley
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
“For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments. He appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” – Cicero (42 BC)
All of the above quotes obviously apply to the 435 members of Congress and the President himself. Are they evil, stupid, or just greedy for votes? Is there anything more corrupting than holding an office at any level? Nothing in government has changed in the last 100 – 2,000 years, except that politicians now can print money endlessly, thereby destroying its value. Couldn’t do that even 75 years ago, although in Cicero’s time, they did almost the same thing by clipping coins and diluting their content. So now you see why you have to protect yourself from the D.C. Gang.
TOMATOES
About 250 people have gotten sick…out of 300 million…supposedly from tomatoes. How does anyone know how they got sick? Were they rotten? Were they un-washed? Did they get sick from eating tomatoes mixed with dirty greens on a salad? Were they going to get sick anyway? Did they eat a tomato and get the flue at the same time? So here are all the bureaucrats and news media, literally killing an industry. How many millions get sick each week in America from lots of things? How many get drunk each week or ingest drugs? How many die from lung cancer from endless smoking? “So let’s kill the tomato industry guys, since we haven’t had a scandal lately. It’ll make our news worthwhile and make the bureaucrats act like they are worthwhile too.” Damn the government, and damn the media. 250 people sick, and an industry is killed and everyone is scared. I’m going to eat as many tomatoes as I can. The one dead person was 95% dead from disease anyway, so they just thought they’d blame tomatoes for her final breath, which is so absurd that I can’t stand it. Have a great weekend, and EAT TOMATOES.
Have a great weekend.