Timely Topic

[Stormy]

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

 

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. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

   

8. 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)

 

9. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers

 

10. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! --  P. J. O'Rourke

 

11. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)

 

12. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. -- Anonymous

 

13. 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

 

14. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. --     Mark Twain

 

15. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress. -- Mark Twain

 

16. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians --Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

 

FIVE BEST SENTENCES

 

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy 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!

[Koach]

Great quotes. 

 

This sound familiar?

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!

[Stormy]

That's exactly what's happening here now.

[Koach]

I am afraid you are right.

[Smiley]

You will never see another conservative president as long as those who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living!

[Guest]

This topic is why people have come to hate people such as the House of Lords in the UK. These horrible people have said the masses are too stupid to govern themselves.

[Stormy]

Well, look at the average voter in the US. The average voter just votes in one of two ways' The way he's told to vote in the last ad he sees, or for the person that promises the most to him personally.

I don't call that real bright and from what I see around the internet, the UK is just as bad or worse.