A government big enough to give you everything you want

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

 

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Harrumph!  Just looked at the debt clock http://www.usdebtclock.org/  Maybe you should too!

I think that we are up to 90% of GDP.  Greece is at 115% of GDP.  And we through the IMF, are lending them money.  Everybody ready for the ‘double dip’.  My next bumper sticker will read “Change It Back”

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence.  Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked, 'Account overdrawn.'

Ayn Rand

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority  always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public  treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal  policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

Alexander Tyler 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

Thomas Jefferson