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

Thursday, October 20, 2011

He does Not Go Far Enough! The Ron Paul Plan: Kill 5 Agencies, Cut $1 Trillion

That could be a $1,000,000,000,000 savings, year after year! Even if it is half that, it would compound the savings every year instead of taking it and creating greater compounded debt.
He should also eliminate EPA and FDA. These two other wastes they call agencies, especially the subjective and over-empowered regulatory mess called the EPA. The only thing it is protecting now is its own bloated bureaucracy! Government FAT is the first priority to go on a diet!

The Ron Paul Plan: Kill 5 Agencies, Cut $1 Trillion - US Business News - CNBC
Tuesday, 18 Oct 2011 By: Jeff Cox

Ron Paul's plan to slash $1 trillion in federal spending begins and ends at the government bureaucracies he says are most responsible for the mess....

"We are in the midst of the worst debt crisis ever in all of history, so I cannot see how we can get out of this by increasing the debt around the world," Paul said in a CNBC interview. "Nobody has proposed any cuts and I don't know how in the world you can get out of the problem of too much spending and too-big government by not cutting anything."

Specifically, he wants to eliminate the departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Interior and Education.

... -read on at links

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