“There are simple answers – there just are not easy ones.” Ronald Reagan Posted on January 12, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Why would someone spend their money with you? Why would somebody work for you? Why would society allow you to operate in their defined geography? Why would somebody invest their money with you?” S. J. Palmisano Posted on January 11, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“It’s easy to become a dictator. First, reward a coterie of devoted followers who know they are easily replaced; then tax everyone else highly, so that the basic needs must come from the state.” Alastair Smith Posted on January 9, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Overregulation? Before the Clean Water Act of 1972, I monitored the family’s water supply on a small island in the Pacific Northwest for $125 a year. As the regulations grew to remove all risk, the costs rose to above $25,000 a year. The water remains unchanged.” Hal Hunt, M.D. Posted on January 6, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“The Washington establishment believes that if you have the freedom to keep what you earn and take care of yourself, you won’t do it. They want to do it for you – and they’ve been trying for the past 70 years. But we’ve learned that government can’t do it either.” Ron Paul Posted on January 5, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” — Groucho Marx — Posted on January 4, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“We make our annual good resolutions on New Year’s day and begin paving hell with them as usual the following week.” Mark Twain Posted on January 3, 2012 by tmottet Reply
“Attorney General Eric Holder claims that showing an ID for voting is a revival of minority disenfranchisement. This is beyond absurd. There seems to be no difficulty in our elderly, disabled or poor getting ID cards that allow them to get Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps. Why doesn’t he raise his same complaints for these federal benefit programs?” H. P. Lasky Posted on December 30, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“President Obama’s place in American politics rests entirely with what the job brings to him and not what he brings to it.” Jonah Goldberg Posted on December 28, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without having a clear idea of what you’re trying to achieve.” Steve Jobs Posted on December 27, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Temporary tax changes don’t lead to permanent changes in consumer, taxpayer or business behavior.” Milton Friedman Posted on December 26, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Balanced budget amendments, debt-reduction targets, spending-cut triggers and personal financial penalties for politicians are all mechanisms to work around political-system failure. Career politicians who survive and prosper by parceling out government dollars will keep buying votes as long as we keep electing them.” Eric Stewart Posted on December 23, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“A dysfunctional organization is one that cannot do what it says it wants to do, even though it is clearly capable of doing it. This Congress is clearly dysfunctional.” Los Angeles Times Posted on December 22, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“We laugh at honor, and are surprised to find traitors in our midst.” C.S. Lewis Posted on December 21, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Whether it’s the food we eat, the light bulbs we use, the mileage of the car we buy, the decision to gamble on the Internet, or with whom we choose to be intimate – government stay out of our lives!’ John Piccininni Posted on December 20, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” Henry Ford Posted on December 19, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous.” Thomas Aquinas Posted on December 16, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The proper role of government is protecting the rights and person of individuals. The federal government has expanded so far beyond this proper role that our society is scarcely recognizable as a free one. We get tens of thousands of pages of new regulations per year.” Rick Jacobs Posted on December 15, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The trademark of the Democratic Party is the triumph of compassion over arithmetic.” Michael Smith Posted on December 14, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“People should have to opt out of automatic payroll savings plans instead of opt in.” Daniel Kahneman Posted on December 13, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“New and improved does not necessarily mean better.” JPM Posted on December 12, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Inaction is a decision too – and ordinarily not a good one.” Tim Maurer Posted on December 9, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“If China is willing to undervalue its currency, and in the process provide approximately $100 billion of foreign aid annually to American consumers and businesses, what’s the problem? A $100 billion gift every year from the Chinese people to the American people. Why should we complain? Mark J. Perry Posted on December 8, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Recessions always destroy wealth and small business incomes at the top. Perhaps those who obsess over income shares should welcome stock market crashes and deep recessions because such calamities invariably reduce “inequality.” Of course, the same recessions also increase poverty and unemployment.” Alan J. Reynolds Posted on December 7, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Real growth comes from unleashing human potential by creating market based incentives and reducing regulatory barriers.” H. N. Gowda Posted on December 6, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Calling out millionaires and billionaires as the culprits in this economic saga is disingenuous and ultimately self-defeating. Those 1 percent are not an avaricious “them” but in reality the most entrepreneurial of “us”. If we had more of them and fewer grandstanding politicians, we would all be better off.” Bradley Schiller Posted on December 5, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you.” Tom Waits Posted on December 1, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Diversification is protection against ignorance, it makes little sense for those who know what they’re doing.” Warren Buffett Posted on November 30, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“He had a knack for making coincidences happen.” Irving Davidson Posted on November 29, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Money is freedom. The less I spend, the more I save, the more choices I have.” E. Harris Posted on November 28, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Republicans don’t hate government, but they’re alive to what human beings are tempted and even inclined to do with government power, which is abuse it. And so they want that power limited. It’s not really that complicated.” Peggy Noonan Posted on November 23, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Academics and politicians having spent their entire working lives signing the back of a paycheck instead of the front, cannot fathom the need for simplicity of the tax code.” Joe Boccuzzi Posted on November 22, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“We have a treaty with Taiwan that we’ll protect them if they’re invaded by the Chinese. There’s only one problem with that: We’ve got to borrow the money from China to do it.” Erskine Bowles Posted on November 21, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity. There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” Thomas Sowell Posted on November 18, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“What is our mission? Who is our customer? What does the customer value? What are our results? What is our plan? Peter Drucker Posted on November 17, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“This country was built on a very simple idea: We all aren’t here yet. With more people and more ways of looking at the world, we will have better ideas. Immigration (legal) is an added value to this country. It always has been.” Lawrence O’Donnell Posted on November 16, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” Luke 12:15 Posted on November 15, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you’ll inevitably get less of.” Adam Davidson Posted on November 14, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you…Jesus Christ and the American Soldier. One died for your soul and the other died for your freedom.” Tony Blair Posted on November 11, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” Thomas Jefferson Posted on November 10, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“No matter how hard you try, you can’t squeeze twelve pounds of poop out of a ten pound cat!” Alex Jacobs Posted on November 9, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” Ray Kroc Posted on November 4, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” Malcolm Gladwell Posted on November 3, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“It takes many good deeds to build a reputation and only one bad one to lose it.” Benjamin Franklin Posted on November 1, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein Posted on October 31, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“If you can’t charge for the soda, you’re going to charge more for the burger.” Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase Posted on October 28, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose the sight of the shore.” Christopher Columbus Posted on October 27, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.” Paul Harvey Posted on October 26, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The Greatest Secret in the World. Very simple: Use wisely your power of choice.” Og Mandino Posted on October 25, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Collecting diplomas won’t create jobs, starting businesses will.” Michael Ellsberg Posted on October 24, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“When you begin to think that having your government provide for you and make your decisions is ok, realize that you’ve also given up the freedom that goes with making your own choices.” J.L. Dinieri Posted on October 21, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.” Malcolm Muggeridge. It was in this spirit that Democrats wanted to believe in Obama-Care. Posted on October 20, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.” Lana Turner Posted on October 19, 2011 by tmottet Reply
JFK’S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60’s when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible. Rusk responded, “Does that include those who are buried here?” DeGaulle did not respond. Posted on October 18, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“You are rich if you have no pain in your body, and no pain in your mind.” Thomas Jefferson Posted on October 17, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The Occupy Wall Street Protestors have been sold a bill of goods. Reckless government required lending policies, not private greed, brought about the housing bubble and resulting financial crisis.” Peter J. Wallison Posted on October 14, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Asked what he would do with his half of the $1.5 million prize money, Christopher Sims (2011 Nobel Prize in Economics) said: First thing I’m going to do is keep it in cash for a while and think.” Posted on October 13, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Never trust someone who can’t eat a meal alone at their own kitchen table.” Ellen Barkin Posted on October 12, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Americans typically believe that happiness is an individual pursut; we bridle at other people setting limits on what’s “enough”; we enjoy wealth and want to keep as much of it as we can; we don’t like trading in our freedom for someone else’s idea of virtue, much less a fabricated concept of the collective good.” Brett Stephens Posted on October 11, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“This country is out of money. Poor people don’t have any, rich people do, and the middle class has always figured out how voting works.” Scott Adams Posted on October 10, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“You don’t get vast results with half-vast efforts!” Fran Tarkenton Posted on October 4, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“It’s just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.” Andy Rooney Posted on October 3, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Proposed laws and regulations should be put to a simple test: What will this do to encourage businesses and entrepreneurs to invest? What will it do for jobs?” Charles R. Schwab Posted on September 29, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” –British Prime Minister William Pitt (1759-1806) Posted on September 28, 2011 by tmottet 1
“If the government took every dime made by the wealthy about whom President Obama speaks, even if there were no side effects from such a draconian action, the dent in the national debt would be relatively insignificant. It is a spending, not taxing problem.” Edgar C. Keller Posted on September 27, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” Steve Jobs Posted on September 23, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The fault does not lie with just one faction – it is the fault of all. We the people have elected the most incompetent public officials in our history.” Fortune Magazine Posted on September 22, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Sometimes it is self-evident truths that cause the strongest reactions.” Takis Michas Posted on September 21, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Someone who leads by following is a follower. The leader is the person in front, taking the risk, setting forth the program. We have a President who has refused to do that.” Rudy Giuliani Posted on September 20, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The best thing government can do for America’s entrepreneurs is restore incentives to risk and invest, by keeping taxes low and regulation at bay. Or, Mr. Obama and the economics of the faculty lounge, where government takes from billionaires and corporate jet owners and channels it into green jobs, universal health care, and “smart growth.” William McGurn Posted on September 19, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work…I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started…and an enormous debt to boot!” Henry Morgenthau, Treasury Secretary, 1939 Posted on September 16, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The perfect car company: German Engineering, Japanese Manufacturing, American Marketing.” Lee Iacocca Posted on September 15, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Government logic: order people to dig with spoons instead of shovels because it will cause more people to be employed.” Milton Friedman Posted on September 14, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“How much will an unemployed person be expected to save as a result of Obama’s proposed tax cuts? Phillip Good Posted on September 13, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” Henry Ford Posted on September 12, 2011 by tmottet 1
“The fascinating thing to me is that the widespread faith in the potency of fiscal policy…rests on no evidence whatsoever. It’s based on pure assumption. The reason fiscal stimulus doesn’t work is that when the government obtains money to spend, it takes it from others who would have spent it anyway.” Milton Friedman Posted on September 9, 2011 by tmottet Reply
“The government has always been radically incompetent at imparting job skills or good work habits. Unfortunately, as long as politicians can profit from handing out jobs and paychecks, the waste and character damage will continue.” James Bovard Quote Posted on September 8, 2011 by tmottet 1
“The U.S. has a President who’s spent much of his term enacting a health care program so complicated that no one understands it , and who will more than likely enact a form of old-style state socialism if reelected.” Paul Johnson Posted on September 7, 2011 by tmottet Reply
