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The 5 best sentences you'll ever read:
email | 7/11/2011 | unknown

Posted on 07/11/2011 6:20:53 PM PDT by econjack

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To: max americana
The Erkle ploy is just plausible deniability.

He's a SPY!

He's NOT EVEN A US CITIZEN!

21 posted on 07/11/2011 6:51:45 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: econjack
"2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving."

The product of a local government employee compared to that of one man manufacturing.


22 posted on 07/11/2011 6:51:55 PM PDT by familyop (Rome was burned in a day--twice.)
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To: econjack
And the best 4 words to start a sentence . . .Former president, Barack Obama . . .
23 posted on 07/11/2011 6:53:56 PM PDT by TravisBickle (Are you talkin' to me?)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
-- What is the difference between this, and a zero sum game? --

The zero sum assumption is based on "work" (as in human effort and human ingenuity) or "goods" being a fixed or certain amount. There is a certain amount of goods to go around, and everybody is entitled to some.

The point of "What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving." is to criticize deliberate deficit in human effort. The grasshopper and the ant, if you will.

24 posted on 07/11/2011 6:54:26 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: econjack

Is #5 one that we should complete for ourselves?


25 posted on 07/11/2011 6:54:26 PM PDT by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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To: G Larry
True. Good point. Here's another thought. But "when 50% of voters don’t pay Federal Income Tax," while the other half are deriving their incomes directly or indirectly from government, a default is imminent.


26 posted on 07/11/2011 6:55:41 PM PDT by familyop (Rome was burned in a day--twice.)
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To: econjack

6. “What do you mean I lost, all of time I spent rigging it!”


27 posted on 07/11/2011 6:55:46 PM PDT by He Rides A White Horse ((((unite))))
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To: econjack
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

That one seems to bug me, but I can't quite figure it out right now.

28 posted on 07/11/2011 6:56:19 PM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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To: econjack
Those sentences are fine for attention to human nature, especially in the material realm. But they all miss "the best" parts of spirituality and simple wonder at physical reality.

John 3:16, for those inclined to Christian spiritual "bestness," and if I scratch my head long enough, I'll come up with something more profound than E=mc**2 to note the bizarre nature of physical reality.

29 posted on 07/11/2011 7:02:22 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: G Larry
When 50% of voters don’t pay Federal Income Tax and 10% of the voters who do pay taxes, feel guilty about their prosperity, the remaining 40% better be well armed!

I like that one best!

30 posted on 07/11/2011 7:06:50 PM PDT by CharlyFord (t)
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To: OldNewYork

btt


31 posted on 07/11/2011 7:07:59 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: Cboldt

2nd Thessalonians 3:10

“...if anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”
(My interpretation: Hunger is a great motivator.)


32 posted on 07/11/2011 7:10:12 PM PDT by WestwardHo (Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: econjack

Ping and agree


33 posted on 07/11/2011 7:10:43 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: econjack

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie scored a landslide win over President Barack Obama winning all 50 states in the most lopsided election in US history.


34 posted on 07/11/2011 7:11:30 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: Cboldt

Okay. If the zero sum game assumption is incorrect (and I believe to a large extent it is incorrect in view of the fact this earth and sun are capable of producing more wealth than we can harness), may it not also be incorrect to assert that in every instance where one provides for another, he necessaily robs someone else?

BTW, far be it from me to argue in favor of government as a proper arbiter of wealth redistribution to the extent it rewards grasshoppers. It seems to me, however, both assertions place limits of a “zero sum” nature on what is available in terms of give and take.


35 posted on 07/11/2011 7:13:16 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (minds change)
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To: Wyatt's Torch

The best sentence today is

LET THEM EAT PEAS!!!!!

And should be hammered home.....

Okay..so it’s a paraphrase..but Marie Antoinette never said LET THEM EAT CAKE either and it helped bring her down.


36 posted on 07/11/2011 7:16:42 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Fester Chugabrew
-- may it not also be incorrect to assert that in every instance where one provides for another, he necessaily robs someone else? --

Yes. Gifting from a fixed amount of material (not that [useful] material is fixed, just saying, even if it was) is not "robbery" in any sense of that word.

My point was that the "great sentence" was meant to criticize those who expect something for nothing; and THAT criticism is different from criticizing those who reason from a zero-sum reality.

37 posted on 07/11/2011 7:21:55 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: RummyChick
Since I did not listen, nor do I want to listen to the Phaoroh on youtube, will you kindly tell me what he exactly said? From what I am reading, that was the exact phrase.

I am thinking caseloads of that veggies should be DC bound about now.

38 posted on 07/11/2011 7:23:44 PM PDT by del4hope
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To: Kirkwood

“Not enough money left to finish #5.”

LOL. We shared it!


39 posted on 07/11/2011 7:29:21 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Both sides need to put aside the partisan bickering, & work out how much free stuff I get)
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To: del4hope

“I will not sign a 30-day or a 60-day or a 90-day extension. That is just not an acceptable approach. And if we think it’s hard now, imagine how these guys are going to be thinking six months from now in the middle of election season when they are all up. It’s not going to get easier, it’s going to get harder.
So, we might as well do it now. Pull off the band-aid. Eat our peas. Now is the time to do it. If not now, when? We keep on talking about this stuff, and we have these high-minded pronouncements about how we’ve got to get control of the deficit, how we owe it to our children and our grandchildren. Well, let’s step up. Let’s do it,” President Obama said at his press conference today


40 posted on 07/11/2011 7:34:19 PM PDT by RummyChick
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