“Always take the offensive. The defensive isn’t worth a damn.” Huey Long Posted on July 13, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.” John Kenneth Galbraith Posted on July 9, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“It’s time to shelve the envy and avarice and call stimulus what it is – borrowing money to prop up the status quo.” Pat Haney Posted on July 6, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“I haven’t failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” Thomas Edison Posted on July 5, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“A people who expect to be ignorant and free expect what never was, and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson Posted on June 29, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The weak grow strong through effrontery. The strong grow weak through inhibitions.” Henry Kissinger Posted on June 28, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“You must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.” Richard Feynman Posted on June 27, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Unless the President acknowledges that capitalism has made us the greatest, most successful nation in the world and repudiates socialism as the system that has brought Europe its current mess, he can’t expect many level-headed Americans to vote for him.” Martin Michaelis Posted on June 26, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“I don’t know what success is, but I know what failure is. Failure is trying to please everybody.” Sammy Davis Posted on June 25, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The days when lawmakers could give to some Americans without shortchanging others are over; the politics of deciding who loses what, when and how, is upon us. Neither party yet fully understands the implications of this shift.” Jay Cost Posted on June 21, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results!” Steve Jobs Posted on June 20, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The wisdom of the few may be the light of mankind, but the interests of the few are not the interests of mankind.” James Harrington Posted on June 19, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“A lot of money doesn’t make anyone more often right. It just makes them harder to correct.” Malcolm Forbes Posted on June 18, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Printing pieces of paper doesn’t grow the economy; increased risk taking does.” Edward Conard Posted on June 15, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Persistant people begin their success where others end in failure.” Edward Eggleton Posted on June 13, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“There has been a Democratic majority in California for basically the past 40 years, and during that time the union demands, the public employees pension requirements, and the entitlement mentality have brought California to its knees – and people still vote Democratic, which is really voting for a reduced standard of living, a reduction in services, and higher taxes and fees.” Don Bennett Posted on June 12, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“You can’t be a member of the club and disregard the rules.” Heribert Dieter, German Financial Expert Posted on June 11, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.” J. Joubert Posted on June 8, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.” Neal Boortz Posted on June 7, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“One can argue that bailouts and other discretionary interventions were needed during the panic of the fall of 2008, and perhaps they prevented a more serious panic. But that is like saying that the person who set fire to your house should be exonerated because he helped put out the fire and saved a few rooms.” John B. Taylor Posted on June 6, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The rewards are great if one succeeds, but the rewards are great only because so few succeed.” Og Mandino Posted on June 5, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Don’t try to be smarter than the problem. In the 1920’s, United Fruit and Cumayel Fruit were trying to acquire the same fertile property for bananas that straddled the border of Honduras and Guatemala. The land seemed to have two rightful owners, one in each country. While United Fruit hired lawyers and planned to spend years commissioning studies, Cumayel simply purchased the land twice, once from each owner. Sam Zemurray Posted on June 4, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Contrary to President Obama’s claim, skill at profit maximization does translate directly into skill at governing the economy. Failure to understand this simplest and most basic point is probably itself enough to disqualify someone from the presidency when economic issues are paramount.” Paul H. Rubin Posted on June 1, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“There is nothing undignified about spending less than you earn. It’s a fabulous way to live. When you spend less than you earn, you have some to save. And to give away, too. When you spend less than you earn, you are not dependent on credit to get by. it is a very good thing.” Mary Hunt Posted on May 31, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Not spending more than you collect – it’s astonishing that this simple fact leads to such debates.” Angela Merkel Posted on May 30, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.” Jay Leno Posted on May 24, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Politicians are people who, when they see the light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy more tunnel.” John Quinton Posted on May 23, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“An attitude continues to grow in America that is being reflected in public policy, which heaps disdain on the creative and successful. It’s this cultural disrespect and antagonism toward those at the top that does a disservice to creative people who might better lives in a way that makes money. It kills the spirit of American dreaming – who is going to aspire to be despised?” Maura Pennington Posted on May 22, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand.; they listen with the intent to reply.” Stephen R. Covey Posted on May 21, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Don’t listen to what politicians say…look at how they voted while in office. The speech of a politician is a script written for the audience to which he is speaking. It will change from audience to audience. His voting record proves who he really is.” John Hagee Posted on May 18, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Tell me what you know. Tell me what you don’t know. Then tell me what you think. Always distinguish which is which.” Colin Powell Posted on May 17, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“How do you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway…The Sun Also Rises Posted on May 16, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The problem is not that individuals, businesses and governments borrowed too much money; the problem is, they wasted too much borrowed money.” Jay Prag Posted on May 15, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Anyone, rich or poor, who earns his money honestly has the right to use it as he wishes. No one else has a moral claim on it. Seizing or limiting another person’s wealth because he is judged to have too much is not social justice but exploitation.” Edwin A. Locke Posted on May 14, 2012 by tmottet Reply
Dick Morris – former Clinton advisor refers to Obama’s tax raise for the top 5% of taxpayers… “The only room on the ship we are shutting down is the engine room.” Posted on May 11, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.” Nikita Khrushchev Posted on May 10, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Until politicians are willing to tell voters the truth, and until voters are willing to listen to realistic plans to restore fiscal sustainability, making progress on the budget front will be difficult indeed.” Ken Rogoff Posted on May 9, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The past few generations have no idea how wealth is created; how scarce resources are allocated by capitalism; or why successful risk taking, investment, and sacrifice must generate above-average rewards. Herein lies the source of most of our ills – political, economic, social, moral.” Donald Moore Posted on May 3, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” Theodore Roosevelt Posted on May 2, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Anyone that that never loses doesn’t do much playing.” Amarillo Slim Posted on May 2, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“I’m always clueless. It’s better for me. Less stress.” Santi White Posted on April 30, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The strength of our country is our economy. The strength of our economy is our citizenry. And the strength of our citizens is their character and good judgment.” Kevin Warsh Posted on April 11, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.” Jerry Garcia Posted on April 10, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Both the ObamaCare individual mandate and Obama’s no tax promise for 97% of all Americans are symptoms of modern liberalism’s core defect: chronic disingenuousness about its agenda’s costs and how those costs will be paid.” William Voegeli Posted on April 9, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years, she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” Calvin Trillin Posted on April 6, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The one question never to ask a bureaucrat is…WHY?” Mark Schweber Posted on April 5, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America ‘s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006 Posted on April 4, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Marxist ideology in the way it was conceived no longer corresponds to reality.” Pope Benedict XVI Posted on April 3, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“If I were the devil I’d take from those, and who have, and give to those who wanted until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. What do you bet I could get whole states to promote gambling as the way to get rich? I would question against extremes and hard work, and Patriotism, and moral conduct. I would convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging more fun, that what you see on the TV is the way to be. And thus I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In other words, if I were to devil I’d keep on doing on what he’s doing.” Paul Harvey, 1965 Posted on April 2, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” James Madison Posted on March 29, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Aside from all the other arguments against ObamaCare; doesn’t the “individual mandate” violate contract law which for hundreds of years has said a contract has to between two parties who voluntarily agree, without duress, etc, etc. Of course, that didn’t stop this administration from canceling the banks and bond holders secured rights in the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies.” JPM Posted on March 28, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“When you get a whole country thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augurs ill for the future.” Henry Ford Posted on March 27, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change.” Henry Ford Posted on March 26, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The tax system we have now is a 20th – century tax system, whose purpose was to pay for what government bought. And bought and bought. Voters should recognize that with the Ryan-Camp tax plan now joined to the consensus of presidential challengers, the U.S. has one chance this year and next to rejoin the real world, not some 60 year old dream world.” Dan Henninger Posted on March 23, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“There is no limit to human ingenuity in finding new ways to go broke.” Michael Morris Posted on March 22, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Repeat success is more difficult than success.” Dr. Don Wilson Posted on March 21, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” Mark Twain Posted on March 20, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“In history, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet someone planned it.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt Posted on March 19, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.” Mark Twain Posted on March 17, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.” Harry S. Truman Posted on March 15, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Many Americans fear the federal fiscal train wreck will turn us into Greece. But, barring change, they need look no farther than California to see what this future portends. Relying on ever higher taxes to fund payments to an outsized population of benefit recipients is a recipe for exporting prosperity.” Michael J. Boskin Posted on March 14, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are lacking in the latter.” Malcolm Gladwell Posted on March 13, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Anything is possible IF you don’t know what you are talking about.” Unknown Posted on March 12, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The Senate can’t agree to cross the street. Iran has done more to bring us together than anything in the world.” Senator Lindsey Graham Posted on March 8, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Rely not on the likelihood of the enemies not coming but on our own readiness to receive him” SunTsu Posted on March 7, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“For 200+ years, pessimists have had all the headlines – even though optimists have far more often been right. There is immense vested interest in pessimism. Dare to be an optimist!” Matt Ridley Posted on March 6, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.” Will Rogers Posted on March 5, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The president’s proposed new budget has three noteworthy characteristics: continuing unfunded entitlements to the middle class, run-away deficits to be repaid in the undefined future, and immense tax increases on the entrepreneurial class.” Arthur C. Brooks Posted on March 2, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The expert as expert, a bookish sort of consulting what is already known, cannot by his nature learn anything new, because then he wouldn’t be an expert.” D. McCloskey Posted on March 1, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“There is a fine difference between vision and hallucination. Other people have to see your vision and get behind it, or you’re wasting everyone’s time.” Keith Reemtsma Posted on February 29, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are out numbered by the people that vote for a living.” Thomas Sowell Posted on February 28, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry Thoreau Posted on February 27, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Why does the media bolster President Obama’s rhetoric: “the rich”? Would it not be more appropriate to say “the successful”, or “those who work harder”? H.B. McFadden Posted on February 24, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The Greek citizens/voters are the problem, and so are the politicians they elected who lied to them. They failed to pay attention and believed a free lunch really did exist.” Andy Wood Posted on February 23, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” U.S. Supreme Court, 2007 Posted on February 22, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“My choice in early life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.” Harry Truman Posted on February 21, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Nothing that happens this November will bring an apocalypse. America had 43 presidents before this one and will have many more after the end of this one. Decades hence, it will look like most others, a pebble in the river of American history.” George Will Posted on February 20, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.” George S. Patton Jr. Posted on February 17, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Pick the most conservative Presidential candidate capable of winning.” W.F. Buckley Posted on February 16, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The person who built his mountain cabin last year is an environmentalist. The person who wants to build one this year is a developer.” U.S. Forest Service Posted on February 15, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The ills of society are seen as ultimately an intellectual and moral problem, for which intellectuals are especially equipped to provide answers, by virtue of their greater knowledge and insight, as well as their not having vested economic interests to bias them in favor of the existing order and still the voice of conscience.” Thomas Sowell Posted on February 13, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“It’s frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what’s going on.” Amos Tversky Posted on February 11, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“If you fixate on the worst case scenario, and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.” Michael J. Fox Posted on February 9, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Prior to the Internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table.” Clay Shirky Posted on February 8, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore; it’s too crowded.” Yogi Berra Posted on February 7, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The cautious seldom err or write great poetry.” Fortune Cookie Posted on February 3, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“In 2010, California welfare recipients withdrew $1.8 billion from casino ATM’s using their cards, state officials acknowledged to the Los Angeles Times.” Steve Tetreault Posted on February 2, 2012 by tmottet Reply
” Debt added under first 43 U.S. Presidents 1789-2008: $10.0 Trillion. Debt added by President Obama so far in three years: $ 5.5 Trillion.” CBO Posted on February 1, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money — only for wanting to keep your own money.” Joseph Sobran Posted on January 31, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“We have two classes of forecasters: Those who don’t know – and those who don’t know they don’t know.” John Kenneth Galbraith Posted on January 30, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“There is a big difference between probability and outcome. Probable things fail to happen – and improbable things happen – all the time.” Bruce Newberg Posted on January 27, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” Thomas Sowell Posted on January 26, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Not every human problem deserves a law.” California Governor Jerry Brown Posted on January 20, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The Evil Environmental Killer Keystone Pipeline from Alberta…How many miles of pipelines already exist in the U.S.? Answer, 2,300,000+ miles. When was the last significant leak? Enough said.” Unknown Posted on January 19, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“We have only two real problems in America. First is a lack of leadership at all levels of government. Second is an entitlement mentality at all socioeconomic levels. The federal and state governments were never tasked with an anti-povery mission; this is socialism by any other name. They have created a monster that is consuming more and more of our limited resources. It will destroy the working population. We need acceptance of responsibility and accountability for our actions, not blaming everyone else for your problems.” M.T. Bailey Posted on January 17, 2012 by tmottet Reply
What is Poverty in the United States today? There are over 70 federal means-tested programs that provide cash, food, housing, medical care and social services to poor and low income persons. Over $714 billion in 2008. The typical poor household, as defined by the government census, has a car, air conditioning, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD, VCR, an Xbox or PlayStation. In the kitchen, a refrigerator, oven-stove, microwave, washer-dryer, cordless phone and coffee maker. 43% own their own homes which are in good repair and in fact have more living space than the average (non-poor) European. By its own reporting, the typical poor family was not ever hungry (94%), was able to obtain medical care when needed (87%), and had sufficient funds during the past year to meet all essential needs. Poverty remains an issue of serious social concern, but exaggeration and misinformation obscure the nature, extent, and causes of real material deprivation, thereby hampering the development of well-targeted, effective programs to reduce the problem. R. Rector and R. Sheffield, The Heritage Foundation Posted on January 16, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Only invest in companies so good that even idiots can run them, because sooner than later they will be.” Warren Buffett Posted on January 13, 2012 by tmottet Reply
