REALLY CLOSE NOW

It is 32 degrees in Urbana , Indiana and 57 (+25) in Palm Harbor, Florida, at 6:27 a.m. Patrick got up with me and went back to bed with Junior. Beav is on the couch watching TV.

Beat Junior again at table tennis.

Junior started extensive work on the plumbing in the basement last night-ripped out all the old supply lines from the well.

FROM THE OLD INBOX:

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a

shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.

***John Adams

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If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the

newspaper you are misinformed.

***Mark Twain

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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress ...

But then I repeat myself.

***Mark Twain

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I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a

man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

***Winston Churchill

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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the

support of Paul.

***George Bernard Shaw (So true!!!!!)

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A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man,

which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

***G Gordon Liddy

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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep

voting on what to have for dinner.

***James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

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Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people

in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

***Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and

car keys to teenage boys.

***P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors

to live at the expense of everybody else.

***Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

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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 (1986)

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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

***Will Rogers

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If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it

costs when it's free!

***P.J. O'Rourke

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money

as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

***Voltaire (1764) (Oh yes)

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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics

won't take an interest in you!

***Pericles (430 B.C.)

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No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in

session.

***Mark Twain (1866 )

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Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.

***Anon

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The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite

at one end and no responsibility at the other.

***Ronald Reagan

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

***Winston Churchill

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the

taxidermist leaves the skin.

***Mark Twain

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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill

the world with fools.

***Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

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There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.

***Mark Twain

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What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

***Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong

enough to take everything you have.

***Thomas Jefferson

GO GATORS