free enterprise: Jay's Tuesday Free Enterprise Quote
- 05/03/10 11:49 PM
A LESSON FROM CONGRESSMAN DAVY CROCKETT One fine day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support - it afforded the speakers a fine opportunity for display than from the necessity of convincing anybody, for it seemed to me that everybody favored it. The Speaker was just about to put the question, when Crockett arose. Everybody expected, of course, that he was going to make one of his characteristic speeches in support of the bill. He … (6 comments)
free enterprise: Jay's Tuesday Free Enterprise Quote
- 04/26/10 11:12 PM
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." Gerald Ford, Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (12 August 1974)
And when totally broke Greece tries to pull back on only some of the "goodies" expected by its populace, they riot and throw their fits. And they are brok-er... Is that foretelling where we are headed in this country?
"Government funding combined with university tenure leads to the distortion of science and bad public policy." Dr. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation Well, we are sure seeing that now! And even more when other monsters lift their heads - Cap and Tax for one. A news article the other day had scientists "looking for global heat loss," because things just aren't as hot as they should be. Where did the global warming go? Well, that's an easy one...
Whether the receiver of such bailouts is a government, business enterprise, or individual, a bailout becomes an addiction that must be fed and then fed more. And what happens when the addicts stop getting the drugs? Just look at Greece - and see our future.
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