The Gipper

“When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.” –Ronald [...]

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Union Support

Just in case anyone wonders why Obama and the Democrats are so hot to support labor unions, particularly government employee unions, check out their political contributions:     Leading Union Political Campaign Contributors 1990-2010   Democrats Republicans   American Fed. of State, County, & Municipal Employees $40,281,900 $547,700   Intel Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 29,705,600 679,000 [...]

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Ponderisms

 1. Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 a piece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards  NAIVE     2. Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing  section in a swimming pool?  (My sentiments exactly!)     3.  OK ….. so if the  Jacksonville Jaguars are known [...]

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California Teacher Speaks Out

This English teacher has phrased it the best I’ve seen yet .    ”As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of: I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern    California  high school which is designated a [...]

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Two Years of Hope and Change

After two years of Obama … Here’s your change!   January 2009 TODAY % chg Source Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $3.104 69.6% 1 Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43.48 $99.02 127.7% 2 Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) $38.74 $91.38 135.9% 2 Gold: London (per troy oz.) $853.25 $1,369.50 60.5% 2 Corn, [...]

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Dig Him Up and Clone Him!

We will never see this again. Thought you’d enjoy this! It’s one you want your Children and Grandchildren to read. They won’t believe this happened, but it DID. Harry & Bess (This seems unreal.) Harry Truman was a different kind of President.  He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation’s history [...]

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Central Bank a Really Bad Deal for America

“The power to determine the quantity of money … is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is any feasible alternative. There is no need for such arbitrary power. … Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that [...]

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Time for a Means Test

“[T]he most fundamental reality is that the average wealth of the elderly is some multiple of the average wealth owned by people in the other age brackets. Why should the average taxpayer be subsidizing people who have much more wealth than they do? If we are concerned about those particular elderly people who are in [...]

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Fragile Freedom

“Now it doesn’t require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? And such machinery already exists. [...]

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Freedom is Something you Own!

“Greater freedom for tax payers would be seized from tax consumers, in an act of terrorism against the sacred machinery of redistribution. This mindset flows from the fundamental leftist misunderstanding of freedom. They view the essence of freedom as action. … In reality, freedom is property. Every form of collectivism, from fascism to socialism, is [...]

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