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http://www.quotegarden.com/government.html ^ | 03/06/09 | Lucky9teen

Posted on 03/06/2009 4:39:29 AM PST by Lucky9teen

 

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
~H.L. Mencken

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

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)

 

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.)

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

Talk is cheap…except when Congress does it.
~Unknown

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
~Thomas Jefferson


“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
~Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot.  And suppose you were a member of Congress….But then I repeat myself.
~Mark Twain

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

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

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
~James Bovard, Civil Libertarian

Tip o the hat to Freeper april15Bendovr
 

 
Props to Lady Jag

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
~Douglas Casey,

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

 

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
~Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (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 (1986)T

The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal:  a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
~Ronald Reagan

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

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

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
~Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820~1903)

There is no distinctly Native American criminal class…save Congress.
~Mark Twain

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




TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: government; ofst; silliness
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Time for a change?

Don't forget to set your clocks forward this weekend...

1 posted on 03/06/2009 4:39:29 AM PST by Lucky9teen
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To: Lucky9teen

IN BEFORE THE PING


2 posted on 03/06/2009 4:40:19 AM PST by Old Sarge ("Remember, remember, the Fourth of November, the Socialist treason and plot...")
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To: Old Sarge

I’m 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


3 posted on 03/06/2009 4:40:40 AM PST by Dacula (You are where you are by the choices you make)
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To: Lucky9teen

Best silly thread yet!


4 posted on 03/06/2009 4:43:15 AM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Lucky9teen

5 posted on 03/06/2009 4:46:50 AM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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6 posted on 03/06/2009 4:47:59 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: 2111USMC; 21stCenturion; 2ndDivisionVet; 3AngelaD; 4mycountry; 5Madman2; 66-442hot; ...





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Ok....here's a little game to play....

What song titles reflect our current "economic" situation today?

Example: Tom Petty: Free Fallin'


7 posted on 03/06/2009 4:49:00 AM PST by Lucky9teen (What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. And SOON!!!)
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To: Lucky9teen

Barack Obama is not who we thought he was.

A BS comment from someone claiming to be a moderate conservative.

Ain’t change great!


8 posted on 03/06/2009 4:50:57 AM PST by wita
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To: Lucky9teen

Some country song,artist unknown: “Think i’ll just stay here and drink”...
Hank Williams Jr...”A Country Boy Can Survive”.....Fleetwood Mac,”Landslide”....
Roy Orbison, “Cryin’”


9 posted on 03/06/2009 4:54:36 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("No pale pastels,but bold colors".....Ronnie,we sure do miss you,sir!)
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To: Lucky9teen
Whoo-Hooo!!
TOP TEN!
HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!!
10 posted on 03/06/2009 4:55:33 AM PST by marine86297 (I'll never forgive Clinton for Somalia, my blood is on his hands)
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To: Lucky9teen

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

11 posted on 03/06/2009 4:56:47 AM PST by alfa6
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To: Lucky9teen
What song titles reflect our current "economic" situation today?

It's the End of the World as We Know It.

12 posted on 03/06/2009 5:03:53 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. FUBO!)
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To: Lucky9teen

The funniest .GIF on the internet ground-ways.

13 posted on 03/06/2009 5:04:39 AM PST by MaxMax (RINO=RAT!)
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To: Lucky9teen

Love the animated graphic of the bird stealing the chips!

Happy Friday, all!


14 posted on 03/06/2009 5:07:34 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Let the 2nd American Revolution begin!)
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To: Lucky9teen

“Coming Undone” by Korn.


15 posted on 03/06/2009 5:10:47 AM PST by CholeraJoe (Tagline removed under court order)
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To: Lucky9teen
Photobucket
SEE? I told you, didn't I tell you that Edwards had a gay right grip?, I did
16 posted on 03/06/2009 5:11:04 AM PST by MaxMax (RINO=RAT!)
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To: Lucky9teen

I think Flakes by Frank Zappa describes the whole thing pretty neatly.


17 posted on 03/06/2009 5:21:04 AM PST by sig226 (1/21/13 . . . He's not my president . . . Impeach Obama . . . whatever)
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To: Lucky9teen

In the top 20! Wooooooooohooooooo it’s FRIDAY!


18 posted on 03/06/2009 5:28:16 AM PST by rockabyebaby (We are soooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: Lucky9teen
Megadeth- High Speed Dirt
19 posted on 03/06/2009 5:31:19 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Te odeo, interfice te cochleare)
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To: rockabyebaby

Can’t miss being #19.


20 posted on 03/06/2009 5:31:23 AM PST by SolidWood (Palin: "In Alaska we eat therefore we hunt.")
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