The Problem with Government

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The Problem with Government

Pythagorean Theorem: 24 words.
The Lord's Prayer: 66 words.
Archimedes' Principle: 67 words.
The Ten Commandments: 179 words.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: 286 words.
The entire Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words.

Current US Government regulations on the retail sale of cabbage: 26,911 words.
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The Problem with Government

Pythagorean Theorem: 24 words.
The Lord's Prayer: 66 words.
Archimedes' Principle: 67 words.
The Ten Commandments: 179 words.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: 286 words.
The entire Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words.

Current US Government regulations on the retail sale of cabbage: 26,911 words.
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At times most of us feel helpless to do anything as it seems everything is stacked against us.

This is what I do:

Attend Republican Central Committee meetings.

Call our congresscritters.

Talk nicely to libs about government. This does two things, for one it drives many of them crazy and two hopefully some of the info will sink in. Even if the libs are calling me names or raising their voices I still remain calm say ma'am/sir and try to state my view. By staying calm and polite anyone within ear shot will see who is the nut.

Stay informed.

Try to get others to vote correctly with thought, logic and with an eye to the future as well as to history.

Vote!
 
Nice sentiment, but Snopes says this is not true. They say this is really an oldie, been around in similar form since 1951-but still not true.

Bob
 
Originally posted by straightshooter1:
Nice sentiment, but Snopes says this is not true. They say this is really an oldie, been around in similar form since 1951-but still not true.

Bob
Several things that are true are:
Government is to big, they are to wasteful and most of the time they have no idea of what they are doing.
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most of the time, government is the problem,not the solution.
 
The "one" said on the radio today he is going to cut dozens of unneeded and wasteful gov programs.

My first thought was yeah right. My second though was that CMP is in for another fight, not that it is wasteful or not useful but to a flaming socialist/commie it is unneeded and dangerous.
 
The problem(s) with government:
1. The biggest beneficiaries of government programs are usually the people who run them.
2. Since the 1930s government has been a "growth industry" in this country.
 
1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
-- John Adams

2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
-- Mark Twain

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain

4. 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

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw

6. 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

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

8. 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

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

11. 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)

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

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
-- P.J. O'Rourke

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-- Voltaire (1764)

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-- Pericles (430 B.C.)

16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-- Mark Twain (1866)

17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-- Anonymous

18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-- Winston Churchill

20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-- Mark Twain

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress.
-- Mark Twain

23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-- Thomas Jefferson
 
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