Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"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." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Saturday, April 9, 2011

We know we are better than you! Norton will keep whole staff on duty during shutdown

Norton will keep whole staff on duty during shutdown - D.C. Wire - The Washington Post

As federal employees around Washington and across the country try to figure out whether they’ll be deemed “essential” if the government shuts down Friday night, aides to Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) now know for certain — they’ll be working.

Technically, only congressional employees deemed vital to lawmakers’ performing their constitutional responsibilities are supposed to stay on duty during a shutdown, with the rest sent home without pay. But members of Congress — and delegates — have wide lattitude in determining which of their staffers are essential, and Norton informed her aides Thursday that all of them deserve that label.

“The burden and the responsibilities of the staff that represent the District of Columbia are always greater than for other districts,” Norton said in a press release. “We represent a district that has no senators and only one member of Congress. With our local government also facing a shutdown, we cannot abandon our constituents, who may need us now more than ever. We hope that federal employees who have been deemed essential will be paid retroactively, although there is certainly no guarantee.”

Read more at above link.

Pompous ass!

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