"The national debt is totally unlike a family……" — Matt Taibbi
"The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely."
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108 Quotes by Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi has 108 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens…
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The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old…
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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…
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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…
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism.…
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At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
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More Budget Quotes
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After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you…
— Michele Bachmann
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If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore…
— Robert Ballard
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Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney…
— Joe Biden
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However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition…
— Tim Bishop
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What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What…
— Lewis Black
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The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
— Michael Bloomberg
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Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to…
— John Boehner
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It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
— George W. Bush
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You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting…
— Nicolas Cage
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I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators…
— Herman Cain
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My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal…
— Herman Cain
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In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a…
— David Cameron
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