UNDENIABLE TRUISMS

On this day when our government is "Fast tracking" the President's Budget these truisms are even more undeniable!!!

1. It's 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 Spenceer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)


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

STAND UP FOR YOUR COUNTRY AND WHAT IS RIGHT!!