We need some statesmen today. We need some patriots (like these two people; John and Abigail Adams). I waited a little while to say this, but Obama turned out to be worse than I feared. I thought Jimmy Carter was bad, and
he was! I thought Bill Clinton was bad, and in many ways
he was! But this guy Barack Obama is the most socialistic, compromising president that I believe we have ever had. I say this after not quite three months. I am afraid we haven't seen anything yet!
My friend Charles Rosson in Arkansas sent me the following. I thank him, and, of course, gcfl.net They are humorous but mostly true.
Wise Sayings: Government
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
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
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving
whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke
10. Government is the great fiction, through which
everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody
else. --Frederic Bastiat
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.
-- RonaldReagan
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
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
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
22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class...
save Congress. -- Mark Twain
23. A government big enough to give you everything you
want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-- Gerald Ford
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