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Mark Steyn: What Are We Stimulating? (nothing for the economy, but it will advance statism)
National Review ^
| 5/22/2009
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 05/23/2009 9:44:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the Plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader - the barbarians enter Rome.... Mine was a lovely world till the parasites took over. Robert Heinlein
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posted on
05/23/2009 9:45:12 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/23/2009 9:46:50 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: SeekAndFind
Obomba’s stimulated the coffers of his next campaign.....nothing more! If we are broke, it’s Obomba’s fault!
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posted on
05/23/2009 9:58:23 AM PDT
by
Paperdoll
(Hunter-Palin or Palin-Hunter in 2012!)
To: SeekAndFind; knews_hound
Thanks for posting! I just love Mark Steyn.
Steyn ping!
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posted on
05/23/2009 10:06:11 AM PDT
by
MaggieCarta
(We're all Detroiters now.)
To: SeekAndFind
For all the debt we have buried this generation and future generations with, there is little of nothing to show for it, and what there is won’t last long. We needed sound Capitalist principles applied, and we got romper room Fascism instead.
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posted on
05/23/2009 10:10:13 AM PDT
by
pallis
To: Travis McGee
Hear, hear! Every Democrat should be required to read this! No, every American should!
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posted on
05/23/2009 10:10:46 AM PDT
by
Buddygirl
To: SeekAndFind
Grantwriter. Thats how they spell it. Like in Star Wars Luke Grantwriter waving his hope saber as instructed by his mentor Obi-Bam Baracki (May the Funds be with you!).
Classic Steyn.
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posted on
05/23/2009 10:14:27 AM PDT
by
BigBobber
To: BigBobber
Thats how they spell it. Like in Star Wars Luke Grantwriter waving his hope saber as instructed by his mentor Obi-Bam Baracki (May the Funds be with you!).
You beat me to it. I LOL'd!!
To: SeekAndFind
Brilliant, as usual. My list is getting very tired of anti-Obama articles, but they’re going to get this one, like it or not.
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posted on
05/23/2009 10:29:33 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Buddygirl
Everyone should read “The Road to Serfdom” by F.A. Hayek including everyone on this forum. It is the one or two indispensible primers for conservatives. It was written in 1944 but reads like it was written yesterday. There’s even a part about charismatic leaders who lead the citizenry down the primrose path.
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posted on
05/23/2009 10:46:35 AM PDT
by
driftless2
(four)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/23/2009 11:22:12 AM PDT
by
skikvt
(Palin 2012)
To: SeekAndFind
60% of Vermonters already work for the state or Federal government. I think the goal is to make it 100%. Yet if you hang around there long enough you will hear people talking about seceding from the U.S. and joining Canada. What makes them think Canada would be willing to put 800,000 more people on their dole I don’t know.
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posted on
05/23/2009 11:32:25 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Cloward-Piven Strategy)
To: Travis McGee
Obama is stimulating the bread and circus tea baggers on CNN and MSNBC.
To: TigersEye
“60% of Vermonters already work for the state or Federal government.”
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You can’t be serious! Tell me that is hyperbole, please.
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posted on
05/23/2009 12:37:45 PM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Change has come to America and all hope is gone.)
To: RipSawyer
I believe that is the number I heard when I lived there for three years. I don’t think it includes the famous VT dairy farmers whose industry is highly subsidized with Federal tax dollars either. (thanks to Sen. Leaky Leahy)
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posted on
05/23/2009 1:43:41 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Cloward-Piven Strategy)
To: SeekAndFind; Travis McGee; Straight Vermonter; Elephant in VT
This stimulus is economic quackery. Check what I found from last September.
SEVCA's 10th Annual Flea Market, Silent Auction and Raffle
At the bottom:
SEVCAs mission is to enable people to cope with and reduce the hardships of poverty, create sustainable self-sufficiency; and reduce the causes and move toward the elimination of poverty. SEVCA provides vital services to families and individuals throughout Windham and Windsor counties to achieve those goals. Information about all of SEVCAs programs and services are on its website and will be available at the Flea Market. For more information about this event, please call (802) 722-4575, ext. 105.
Started during the halcyon years of the Bent One's Administration, we got welfare for white devils. There's a great motivating force for minorities. /s
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posted on
05/23/2009 5:11:05 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: MaggieCarta; Rummyfan; kellynla; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; ...
Pinging the Mark Steyn Ping List.
Welcome to the newest members of this ever expanding list.
On or off, please FReepmail me.
I have shed some of my other ping lists so I will have a bit easier time of it to ping you guys.
Even work has made it easier on me by giving me an assistant !
Cheers,
knewshound
knewshounds blog
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posted on
05/26/2009 9:06:01 AM PDT
by
knews_hound
(I for one welcome our new Insect overlords!)
To: SeekAndFind
But, being ineligible for VITA, Secretary Geithner was forced to splash out $49.95 for TurboTax and, simply by accidentally checking the No box instead of Yes at selected moments, was able to save himself thousands of dollars in confiscatory taxation! Oops, my mistake, I meant that, tragically, by being unable to complete his tax return due to a lack of Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, Timothy Geithner was the only one of 300 million Americans to pass the Treasury Secretary Job Readiness Program.Steyn's on a roll today!
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posted on
05/26/2009 10:30:10 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(A person who will ask you to lie FOR them - will ask other to lie AGAINST you.)
To: Travis McGee
Excellent Heinlein quote.
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