…from the greatest President of the 20th century, Ronald Reagan.
“The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.”
“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!”
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Jason Trommetter“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” ~George Washington
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…if I have any left.
If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter get through a press conference, you would have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own.
If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan‘s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
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A lot of the old media players are calling Tea Partiers racists because their anger didn’t boil over until Obama was elected President. Network “reporters” at CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, etc. point to the spendthrift ways of the Bush administration and ask why didn’t they complain when Bush was in the Whitehouse? My original answer was that Obama is spending even more money than Bush, at a faster rate.
Then I realized that wasn’t it at all. Tea Parties wouldn’t happen without the internet and social media. Prior to 2008 hardly anybody used social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) to get out their message and organize their campaign volunteers. Obama changed all that. He ran the most social media savvy Presidential campaign to date. He even went so far as to announce his Veep choice via TXT message and Twitter.
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