Points to Ponder

[radtexan]

'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 mst be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on
what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)


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



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)



I don't make jokes I just watch the government
and report the facts.
-Will Rogers

[deathb4disco]

Instead of "points to ponder", you should have named this thread "timeless truths".