Category: Government
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Quote of the Day – Cleaning House Edition
And, yet, incumbents are still re-elected about 95% of the time. If you want to throw the bums out, you gotta start with your bum first. – Say Uncle
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That might work!
Via Rasmussen Reports: 42% Say People Randomly Selected from Phone Book Better Than Current Congress
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Quote of the Day – Unintended Consequences Edition
Legislatures at all levels are prime case studies in unintended consequences, and the only thing more appalling than the blatant partisan self-interest exercised by both parties is the invariable attempt to mask that self-interest as “the will of the people”, and “what’s best for the state/country.” – Marko
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Sobering
From an article by Frank J. Tamel at Examiner.com: Obama’s spending spree is projected to cost the American taxpayer over 13 trillion dollars over then next ten years. Let’s put that number into perspective. One trillion miles is roughly the distance of a round trip from Earth to Pluto three hundred fifty times. One trillion…
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Quote of the Day – Fuel Efficient Edition
If you want to use transport energy more efficiently, build better roads. A Prius sitting in traffic gets 0 MPG. – pdb on Facebook
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Quote of the Day – To the Moon Edition
Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, “If we can put a man on the moon … ,” grab your wallet. – Jonah Goldberg
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Quote of the Day – Penance Edition
This Congress and Administration aren’t about jobs. It’s about making middle class folks pay for our sins. A permanently reduced standard of living will be our penance. – Sebastian
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Quote of the Day – All Enemies Edition
It’s days like this that remind me that the phrase “foreign and domestic” wasn’t put in our country’s various oaths of service on a whim. – Bruce