Great truths
• “A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” George Bernard Shaw
• “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
• “No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” Mark Twain (1866)
• “The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.” Ronald Reagan
• “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
To sum it up:
1. One cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. One cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!
Can you think of a reason for not sharing this?
Neither could I.
Christine Olson
Deerwood
Comments (4)
Add commentChristine got another chain e-mail, and couldn't
"think of a reason for not sharing" these so-called "Great Truths". Oh happy day, oh lucky us. When I get these emails (which I promptly delete), they usually come with a promise of great riches or threats of peril for passing (or not passing) them along. Maybe that's why Christine can't help herself?
Anyway, let's play her "truth" game for a minute, and pass along some alternative quotes of "great truths":
"And he will answer, 'I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.' Matthew 25:45 (Holy Bible)
or, from a less lofty source:
"I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”
― Christopher Hitchens
or the ever-quotable Harry Truman:
“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”
Okay, game over.
Apparently the Dispatch now accepts chain emails or pages from famousquotes.com in the place of original letters? Last week they failed to edit (for accuracy) Christine Olson's letter parroting an old, debunked chain email about Australian gun laws, and now this? If Christine can't stop herself from submitting these lazy excuses for LTE's, can't the Dispatch at least exercise a little editorial muscle? Don't they have some minimum standards requiring (1) original material, written by the author, and 2) factual accuracy? Or have they given up caring even a tiny tiddly-wink about the integrity of their editorial page? When her next letter arrives in a few days, pretend you have an editorial staff, BDD, and use that mighty red pen.
Final "great truth" for the day:
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - Homer Simpson
bubba
LOL now everytime I see you're posts I am going to think of you as Marge!!
OFB: Good one! Does that make you Sideshow Bob's Dad?
By the way, Marge dyes her hair with Blue Dye #56; I'm Blue Dye #57! Have a good one! I'm off to spend some money at an antiques auction. WWMB (What Would Marge Buy?)?!? Maybe a hot-pink vinyl 'ole beautician's chair, with the big, honkin' hood hairdryer, big enough for her beehive blue-"do".
Marge or bubba
Where do you live? Across the pond?