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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
--- Thomas Sowell

Universities (should) exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not, to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
--- Milton Friedman

"Depts of Education, Energy, Interior, HUD, and Commerce...Gone!!! Audit the FED. $1 trillion in REAL cuts the first year!"
--- Dr. Ron Paul

"I want to use all my strength, to resist the notion that I can run your lives, or run the economy, or run the world. I want to use that strength to repeal and reject that notion, and stand up and defend the principles of liberty."
--- Dr. Ron Paul

“As President I will work to repeal all federal laws that force workers and employers to submit to union officials and their enforcers in the federal bureaucracy.”
--- Dr. Ron Paul

"Nothing can enter the public treasury for the benefit of one citizen or one class unless other citizens and other classes have been forced to send it in."
---from The Law by Frédéric Bastiat

11-16-2011, another Historic day in America. The U.S. national debt is now over $15,000,000,000,000.00. The decline of America continues...

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
---Thomas Jefferson

Restore Honor to the Presidency of the United States Dr. Ron Paul

If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you weren't a racist, please vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot.

Get the US out of the UN, and the UN out of the US! Haiti could use the business...relocate the UN there!

My neighbor's dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.
---Gary Johnson

"If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."
---Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 29 November 1802

The U.S. national debt is now over $14,716,000,000,000.00. Obama wants another $447,000,000,000.00 "Stimulus" to buy union votes.

“It’s hard for government planners, no matter how sophisticated, to ever substitute for millions of individuals working night and day to make their dreams come true."
---Ronald Reagan

"POTUS has played more golf this month than I have. I have created more jobs this month than he has"
---Paul Azinger

Obama keeps talking about our "self-inflicted wound". He's right. We elected him.

And another Historic day in America. For the first time ever, our Credit Rating has been downgraded. Obama is calling for tax increases and even more spending on union construction projects. We can't fix this until 2012.

Another Historic Moment in America. For the first time ever, our national debt now exceeds GDP. Obama is off raising election cash in Chicago.

Obama is "pivoting" to jobs again. I always thought that meant he wanted to help the economy *create* jobs, but there must be more to it than that...

Let me get this straight, we can't pay back the $14.5 trllion debt we already have, so the solution is to borrow almost $2.5 trillion more to spend now, with "promises" to cut the "growth" of government a little over the next 10 years? Government is growing at 8% per year. Does your income grow that fast?

In 2010 we put some adults into Congress that are blocking the exponential growth of government. To Obama, "compromise" means "let me continue the spending binge". Maybe in 2012 we can actually reverse the decline of America.

The "debt crisis" is almost upon us as there's no agreement on raising the national debt limit. Obama is off fund raising for a second term. The decline of America continues.

"this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business, and progress and job creation in my lifetime" "until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs"
---Democrat businessman Steve Wynn, July 18 2011

2.4 million FEWER Americans are working now than when Obama signed the Stimulus spending package. He wants to continue the spending (investing?).

Unemployment continues up to 9.2% and 1 in 7 Americans are now on Food Stamps. The Dems want increase revenues (taxes), increase investment (spending) and continue adding regulations (costs). The decline of America continues as the final Space Shuttle goes up.

Obama "advisor" Fareed Zakaria (author of The Post-American World), "interviewed" Obama's National Security Advisor on CNN. They were so cozy ideologically, I suspect they got a room...

“I certainly do not oppose all wars, rather I oppose dumb wars. Rash wars, wars that are based on passion as opposed to wars based on a sober assessment of our national security interests”
---Obama on Senate floor in 2007

Senator Chuck E. Schumer says Dems won't raise the debt limit unless there are tax increases. Ummm, OK. Don't raise it!

The Obama administration believes taxes on small business must increase, so the administration does not have to “shrink the overall size of government programs.”
---Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner

Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've *worked* in the private sector. They expect *results*.
---Dr Ray Stantz

81 days after starting the war in Libya, we're increasing the covert war in Yemen. Where are the protesters? Hell, where's Congress?

There seems to be a problem with Obama's staff of professors. When they realize the real world expects results, they scurry back to academia!

Professor of Economics Austan Goolsbee is headed back to the University of Chicago. Those that can't do, teach.

Unemployment is up from 9.0% to 9.1%. What do you think, more "stimulus"? Continue the massive spending? Keep printing money? Give more to "green jobs"? Bailout more unions? Continue to increase fuel costs? Continue to add new regulations? Start another war?

“We have 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country that are part of the backbone of our economy and this is not only a reality but a necessity. And that it would be harmful – the Republican solution that I’ve seen in the last three years is that we should just pack them all up and ship them back to their own countries and that in fact it should be a crime and we should arrested them all.”
---DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, May 26, 2011

"... whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that, whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right."
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe."
---Thomas Jefferson

“I am for people, individuals, exactly like automobile insurance, individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance”
--- Newt Gingrich, 1993

National average for gas hit $3.985 a gallon for regular. "adjusted" unemployment is up from 8.8% to 9.0%. Obama took a victory lap at Ground Zero.

"The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
---Barack Obama, December 20, 2007

Social Compact - an agreement, entered into by individuals, that results in the formation of the state or of organized society, the prime motive being the desire for protection, which entails the surrender of some or all personal liberties

STUPID QUOTE OF THE YEAR (so far) - "Most of the rich want to give back more...it's just Washington has never asked them!!!"
---Barrack Obama

“This debt and these deficits that we are incurring on an annual basis are like a cancer and they are truly going to destroy this country from within unless we have the common sense to do something about it”
---Erskine Bowles

The pending Government Shutdown is *so* bad, that Obama jetted off to NYC to party with Al Sharpton.

We're in another war in the Mideast. This one with only UN permission. Who's next? Yemen? Syria?
The "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine used by the UN in this case, means we have an "Obligation to Shoot" who they say.

Home heating oil was $2.99/gal back in Dec. Gasoline is now around $3.80/gal. Food prices are still climbing. No real reduction in government spending yet...

"For the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of a Governor in Wisconsin, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback"
Have the Wisconsin "Holiday Inn" Democrats come back to work yet?

Are you getting a sweatheart public union deal, or are you paying for those that are?

The U.S. national debt went over $14 trillion today. Will the spending binge stop now?

Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented immigrant' is like calling a drug dealer an 'unlicensed pharmacist'

Socialism - the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.

Professor of Economics Christina Romer returns to the University of California at Berkeley. Those that can't do, teach.

In the Obama tax deal, the Death Tax goes from zero this year to 35 percent next year. The already extended 99 week unemployment benefits go on for another 13 months at a cost of $56 billion. Still no cuts in spending.

Another $1.25 billion to pay up to 94,000 African Americans who farmed or "attempted" to farm in the 1981-1996 time frame. When will I get free Obama money?

Another $56 Billion to continue the extended Unemployment Benefits program for 13 more months? -> Who pays for that?

Unemployment has increased to 9.8%. Do you think this administrations spending programs have helped or hurt?

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property – an unpaid tax bill.
---Hans F. Sennholz

'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
---William Pitt

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
---Milton Friedman

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
---Milton Friedman

Monetizing the debt (printing $600 Billion) has never worked to save an economy for any country in the history of the world. Every dollar you have is now worth a little less.

Another $45 Billion bailout (tax break) for GM to give to it's unions? When will this crap end?

The Declaration of Independence actually says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

Another $42 Billion in stimulus was signed into law today. Had enough of the spending yet?

Another day, another Czar. Elizabeth Warren is now the Consumer Financial Watchdog Czar. Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama.

The administration just added a Carp Czar. We now have 41 unelected and unaccountable Czars over us!

The radical expansion of the size and scope of government to change our nation into a socialist state is threatening the God-given liberty and freedom of every American.

SUMMER of RECOVERY? Heading in the right direction? Unemployment's up to 9.6%. If this is the right direction, where are we going?

Another $26 Billion spent on "Stimulus" -> CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY - "hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government"

Obama's judge Sonia Sotomayor lied during her nomination hearings, now Elena Kagan continues the liberal activist tradition.
Sotomayor claimed she supported individual gun ownership in hearings, then voted against it after being confirmed.

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government, lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
---Patrick Henry

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
---Thomas Jefferson

"The most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I am here to help."
---Ronald Reagan

Comprehensive Immigration Reform -> Amnesty for illegals to get more Democrat voters and union members -> More spending on social programs

Had enough "hope and change" yet? Over 14,600,000 people are out of work so far...

The U.S. national debt hit $13 trillion today. With about 309 million people, the average citizen owns $42,000 of the debt, but there's only 110 million actual taxpayers!

"New Jersey - Recall Menendez Stop the spending and Corruption!"

"3,390,000 more jobs have been lost since the "stimulus" passed. $860 Billion went to...who?"

"Climate Bill -> Cap and Trade -> American Power Act -> Social Justice -> Redistribution of Wealth"

"Obama and the other radicals, spending Americas future, Billions at a time"

"32,000,000 added to health care, 16,500 new IRS workers, 0 new doctors and nurses, and a Govt. takeover of student loans? How does that make sense?"

CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY - "hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government"

Saul Alinsky - Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky - Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It

"PLEASE don't tell Obama what comes after a Trillion!"

"Another Historic Moment in America. Democrats are taking over Health Care (1/6th of the economy)"

"September 11th was also a Historic Moment in America."

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
---Thomas Jefferson

"For the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of a Governor in New Jersey, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback"

"6% of Americans believe the Stimulus package helped. %7 of Americans believe Elvis is alive."

"How's that whole hopey-changey thing workin' out for ya?"

Obama and the Democrats just voted to raise the debt limit another $1.9 trillion to a record $14.3 trillion"

"For the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of Massachusetts, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback"

"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it."
---Barack Obama

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
---Albert Einstein

"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."
---Gov. Sarah Palin

“For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.”
---Michelle Obama, February 18, 2008.

"Life's tough......It's even tougher if you're stupid."
---John Wayne

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
---Albert Einstein

"The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, sooner or later revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph."
---Mao Tse-tung

"Another Historic Moment in America. Unemployment is now up to 10.2%, and we're going to Socialize medicine and increase energy costs?"
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11 straight years of global cooling somehow proves global warming is happening?
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"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
--- Claire Wolfe

"The core of Obama’s medical-care plan is the promise of something for nothing."
--- Thomas Sowell

"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in. And how many want out."
---Tony Blair

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
---Margaret Thatcher

"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
---Ronald Reagan

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world But, the Marines don't have that problem"
---Ronald Reagan

"A democracy can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves benefits from the public treasury. From that point on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy."
---unknown

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience and by parts"
---Edmund Burke

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
---Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.