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 18, 2015

What is wrong with this picture?: Food Stamps at Whole Foods

Gwyneth the Waif Starving on Food Stamps
Born out of touch with reality to fund raise and snack out of touch with reality. Destined to starve if ever forced to live in a real world. m/r

Gwyneth Paltrow Fails the SNAP Challenge | The American Spectator



By Emily Zanotti on 4.17.15 


I know you were all waiting with bated breath to find out if Gwyneth finished her food stamp challenge after spending her "weekly allowance" of $29 in SNAP funds on the ingredients for guacamole, some eggs and seven - seriously, seven - limes.

Well, I'm sorry to say that poor Gwyneth, saddled as she is with the burden of caring for all of us little people, was not able to successfully navigate a single week of eating like an ordinary human being. After posting the photo of what she'd used her $29 to purchase (which, I suspect was just the first $29 worth of items on her extensive Whole Foods, delivered-in grocery program) on Thursday, she cheated almost immediately, attending two pricey fundraisers, one of which saw her chowing down on couture food truck cuisine from famed LA chef Roy Choi.

Gwyneth Paltrow got off food stamps, then promptly went back to extravagant meals — including an $85-per-person gourmet barbecue dinner and a Beverly Hills affair hosted by David and Victoria Beckham, in the same night.

Paltrow last week took a charity challenge to spend $29 a week on food, as if she were on food stamps. On Thursday she tweeted, “This is what $29 gets you at the grocery store.” By Tuesday, she was attending an $85-per-person pop-up dinner hosted by “Iron Man” director Jon Favreau, chef Roy Choi, barbecue god Aaron Franklin and others.
That was just the first meal of the two on Tuesday evening. …

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