Political Observations
or
Nothing Changes but the Date

This financial crisis (2009 / 2010) is forcing companies to make some tough decisions.. it's
beginning to look like we may have to lay-off Andre!!

• Gobal Warming.. An essay on common sense (or lack thereof) written in 2007 by Ann Coulter.. NOTE: 'click' here for global warming scam
  

• the Bob Hope story..
  ON TURNING 70 - 'You still chase women, but only downhill'.
  ON TURNING 80 - 'That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.'
  ON TURNING 90 - 'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.'
  ON TURNING 100 - 'I don't feel old.  In fact  I don't feel anything until noon.  Then  it's time for my nap.'
  
• When it comes to the ghosts of past Presidents stalking 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: "I'm sure they're here," President Harry Truman once complained, "and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day."
  
• CALVIN AND HOBBES -- and MUHAMMAD.. In order to express their displeasure with the idea that Muslims are violent, thousands of Muslims around the world engaged in rioting, arson, mob savagery, flag-burning, murder and mayhem, among other peaceful acts of nonviolence... Ann Coulter, journalist - Feb 2006..  NOTE: 'click' here to see the entire article published (you're gonna love this)
  
• This one comes under heading "Canadian politics" - Never believe anything your government says until it has been officially denied..
  
• Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself ... Mark Twain
  
• 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
  
• A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul... George Bernard Shaw
  
• 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
  
• Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner... James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
  
• 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 Univ.
  
• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys... P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
  
• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else... Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
  
• 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)
  
• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts... Will Rogers
  
• If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free... P.J. O'Rourke
  
• 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)
  
• 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.)
  
• No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session... Mark Twain (1866)
  
• Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it... Ronio. 2005
  
• The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other... Ronald Reagan
  
• 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
  
• The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin... Mark Twain
  
• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools... Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
  
• There is no distinctly native American criminal class - save Congress... Mark Twain
  
• What this country needs are more unemployed politicians... Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
  
• A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have... Thomas Jefferson
  
• "I'm from the Goverment and I'm here to 'help' you"... ananymous - 1960
  
• QUOTE OF THE YEAR... "INCOME TAXES are a fee for working and a penalty for success"