Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Who?/Why?
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
-Winston Churchill
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last"
-Winston Churchill
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power."
-Justice Robert H. Jackson
"Willful waste makes woeful want."
-Scottish Proverb
"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
-Barry Goldwater
"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
-Margaret Thatcher
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-Charles Babbage
"Better be alone than in bad company."
-Thomas Fuller
"It is an equal failing to trust everybody and to trust nobody."
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"Wit is the cadence of an enlightened mind."
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-Porkopolis' riff on the Socratic method
"A wealthy man knows when he's rich enough."
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"Politics is the compromise of principles by principals."
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-Winston Churchill
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last"
-Winston Churchill
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power."
-Justice Robert H. Jackson
"Willful waste makes woeful want."
-Scottish Proverb
"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
-Barry Goldwater
"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
-Margaret Thatcher
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-Charles Babbage
"Better be alone than in bad company."
-Thomas Fuller
"It is an equal failing to trust everybody and to trust nobody."
-Thomas Fuller
"Wit is the cadence of an enlightened mind."
-Porkopolis
"Being #1 is desirable, but #2 ain't shit."
-Porkopolis
"Questions that have answers prepare us for questions yet to be answered."
-Porkopolis' riff on the Socratic method
"A wealthy man knows when he's rich enough."
-Porkopolis
"Politics is the compromise of principles by principals."
-Porkopolis
Theory of Wisdom: W = U/t
-Porkopolis
"The stars made eyes so that they could admire themselves."
-Unknown
3 Comments:
Damn to sick people ... so inconsiderate of them.
Dickens would have us "reduce the surplus population."
Paul:
Let's try this simple excercise. According to the Lawson's piece nearly 30% of the budget goes towards Medicaid. Would 31% be enough for you? No? How about 32%? 33? 34? 35?.... 99.99%?
At some point those paying the bills have to start setting priorities about the allocation of limited resources.
Lawson does not make the case for 'reduce(ing) the surplus population' but a rationale analysis of the costs/benefits.
Lawson argument is not for the hyperbolic one of reducing the population, but to simply meet the Federal standards, not exceed them. A reasonable argument not worthy of demagoguery.
As Ohio citizens we've made the choice at some point (through elected representatives) to go above an beyond the Federal minimum coverage. Are we not entitled to make the choice to be at the Federal minimum when other priorities warrant it?
Ohio isn't the mythical world envisioned by Ayn Rand nor is it a world envisioned by Karl Marx.
There are choices and priorities. This administration's priorities are not my priorities and therefore I spend my nights and weekends working for change.
What angers me is when people speak about "lower income people" like they were an abstraction.
You and I sit in front of expensive computers talking about "issues" while there are people who live this life.
I firmly belive that the sort of Ohio that the Blackwells and the "Patriot Pastors" would create, if given a chance, would be one easily recongizable by Charles Dickens.
I don't want that sort of Ohio for either myself, my wife or my two children.
The record of Republicans at the state and federal level is dismal for everyone who is not a $100,000+ donor. Some people just don't realize that with a $600 reduction in federal taxes come $1,600 in increased taxes at the state and local level.
My home state is New Hampshire (my first 11 years) and they still pride themselves on no sales tax and no income tax.
Don't get the idea that they don't pay taxes. Of course they do. Property taxes are through the roof and all those little taxes (drivers license, hotel, meals, etc) are massive as well.
In conclusion ... demagoguery is where you find it. I find it in proposed draconian budget cuts that affect the poor so we can give more and more to the rich.
Republicans are the real class warriors and they do it quite well.
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