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Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
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To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic…
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be…
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The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to…
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There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small…
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For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional…
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using…
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Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live…
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The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel…
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The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a…
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only…
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families…
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office,…
— Barack Obama
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The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.
— W. C. Sellar
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It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great…
— William Cobbett
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My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.
— George W. Bush
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No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is…
— Thomas Paine
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I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].
— Michele Bachmann
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In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . .…
— Bill Press
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Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of…
— Frank Chodorov
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Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had…
— Molly Ivins
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