“Of all the contrivances devised for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes him with paper money.”
-Daniel Webster
# # # # #
QUOTE: Paper money
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Leave a Comment » | 
Quotes | Tagged: Quotes | 
Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
QUOTE: Gooferment spending
Friday, September 11, 2009“When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it.
When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on.
When a man spends someone else’s money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn’t care at all how much he spends.
And when a man spends someone else’s money on someone else, he doesn’t care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that’s government for you.”
—-Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman
# # # # #
Leave a Comment » | Quotes | Tagged: Gooferment, Quotes | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
QUOTE: Attributed to Ben Franklin?
Friday, September 4, 2009“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
— Benjamin Franklin?
# # # # #
Leave a Comment » | Quotes | Tagged: economic freedom, Quotes | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
QUOTE: Babe Ruth
Tuesday, September 1, 2009Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, “It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.”
Babe Ruth
# # # # #
Leave a Comment » | Quotes | Tagged: Quotes | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
QUOTE: Getting better?
Friday, August 21, 2009‘Everyday in every way, I am getting better and better’ (Emile Coue).
# # # # #
2 Comments | Quotes | Tagged: INSPIRATIONAL, Quotes | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
QUOTE: If you like public housing you will love public health care
Wednesday, July 15, 2009*** begin quote ***
George Newman in the Wall Street Journal today does a good job with some health care reform myths. I especially like this perspective on a “public” plan:
“We need a public plan to keep the private plans honest.”
But then why stop there? Eating is even more important than health care, so shouldn’t we have government-run supermarkets “to keep the private ones honest”? After all, supermarkets clearly put profits ahead of feeding people. And we can’t run around naked, so we should have government-run clothing stores to keep the private ones honest. And shelter is just as important, so we should start public housing to keep private builders honest. Oops, we already have that. And that is exactly the point. Think of everything you know about public housing, the image the term conjures up in your mind. If you like public housing you will love public health care.
*** end quote ***
I LOVE it!
# # # # #
Leave a Comment » | Quotes | Tagged: Quotes | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
QUOTE: You need the government to walk!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009“The government is great at breaking your leg, handing you a crutch, and saying ‘You see, without me you couldn’t walk.’”
—- Harry Browne, the former Libertarian Party candidate for president
# # # # #
Leave a Comment » | Quotes | Tagged: Gooferment, Quotes | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
QUOTE: Suitable for our congresscritters, politicians, and bureaucrats
Thursday, June 25, 2009Grass mud horse n. Wildly popular on YouTube, this mythical, alpaca-like creature was conjured by Chinese citizens to protest Internet censorship. Though the grass mud horse looks innocent, its Chinese name—Cao Ni Ma—sounds like “fuck your mother” in Mandarin.
—Jonathon Keats
# – # – #
For some reason, listening to the President on Healthcare, Barney Frank on Bill O’Reilly, and all the other people who want to tell us all what to do, this seems strangely appropriate!
# # # # #
Leave a Comment » | Quotes | Tagged: INNOVATION, Quotes | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
QUOTE: Solzhenitsyn on desparation
Tuesday, June 9, 2009“You can only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.”
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
# # # # #
Leave a Comment » | Quotes | Tagged: Quotes, Revolt | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
QUOTE: Simon Cowell says blunt honesty best
Saturday, May 2, 2009“Four or five people have made a career. Out of the 4 million people that have auditioned for American Idol. I don’t see how telling some one, who is terrible, that they are good is helpful.”
— Simon Cowell on the Mark Simone radio show
# # # # #
Leave a Comment » | Quotes | Tagged: honesty, Quotes | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
Reinke Faces Life 
You must be logged in to post a comment.