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Jewish World Review Nov. 28, 2008 / 1 Kislev 5769 Quotes of Note By Greg Crosby
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As we enter into another holiday season let us be thankful - thankful for the love of family, the kindness of friends, and the fact that this stupid presidential election is over at last. But to listen to what is being said by the mainstream TV and newspaper pundits you'd think that the election is still being waged. It doesn't matter that the Democrats have won, it is simply not enough. The degree of George W. Bush hatred is so strong in some leftist commentators that it seems the only thing that would make them really happy is for Obama to literally walk up to Bush with a dagger, ala Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and personally do him in. "Et tu, Obama?"
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
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.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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.
I don't make jokes I just watch the government and report the facts.
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
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.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
Talk is cheap . . . except when Congress does it.
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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