We're NOT in a depression
“...take actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership.”
“This is the end of an era,” said Paul, “we can’t reinflate the bubble….if we think that we can reinflate this bubble by artificially creating credit out of thin air and calling it capital, believe me we don’t have a prayer of solving these problems - we have a total misunderstanding of what credit is versus capital.”
“Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent.”
"I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum."
"Some recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades."
"They used to joke during the Reagan years that the highest-ranking woman in the administration was Rosy Scenario," said Nariman Behravesh, the chief economist at IHS Global Insight, a major private forecasting firm, who called the Obama administration's forecasts ‘way too optimistic.’ “We may be seeing a return of Rosy Scenario."
Believe in freedom instead of government and... you're nuts?
So, am I crazy? Yes... like a fox!
“The plan also contains a contentious proposal to raise hundreds of billions
of dollars by auctioning off permits to exceed carbon emissions caps, which
Obama wants to impose on users of fossil fuels to address global warming.”
"The housing authority has two years waiting lists, and we need something more than the vehicle and the parks to go to. We need our own kitchen and our own bathroom. Please help."
“We will rebuild, we will recover and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.”
“Join me in doing whatever proves necessary, because we cannot consign our nation to an open-ended recession.”
“Let there be no doubt: Health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait and it will not wait another year.”
1) Increase taxes, possibly drastically.
2) Increase spending.
3) Increase the size and scope of the Federal government.
"The president, on Tuesday night, promised to both lower taxes and
raise taxes. He promised to both reduce spending and increase it. He promised to
expand education while simultaneously claiming that education begins in the
home. He promised to bail out homeowners – "responsible" ones – while insisting
that Americans take responsibility for living beyond our means and making bad
choices."
ALGOP CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT ON VERDICT IN THE SUE SCHMITZ FRAUD TRIAL
Birmingham – Rep. Mike Hubbard (R – Auburn), Chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, on Tuesday issued the following statement in response to guilty verdicts on seven fraud charges in the federal trial of Rep. Sue Schmitz (D – Toney). Schmitz was found guilty on charges related to accepting more than $177,000 in salary from a federally-funded job in the two-year college system for which she did little or no documented work:
“This verdict is further evidence that the waste, fraud and abuse running rampant in our two-year college system for so long is finally being decisively addressed. The two-year college system is meant to prepare Alabama’s next generation of workers for jobs in the 21st Century economy and not as a haven of bogus jobs and suspect salary supplements for corrupt politicians.
Prosecutors should continue turning over every rock and exposing every shady deal in the two-year college probe so that taxpayers may finally rest assured the dollars they send to Montgomery are no longer being abused. As legislators continue to fall like dominoes, I am even more convinced that double-dipping by public officials breeds corruption and promotes fraud, and it must be stopped immediately.”
"It will require doing all we can to get exploding deficits under control as our economy begins to recover."
“I will never support something that takes away our state's ability to set our own rules and regulations for unemployment."
"To come out and offer us twice as much if we agree to the federal philosophy, that really is like a bribe. We're not going to give up Alabama's responsibility and authority to determine what our own business interests and employee benefits are going to be."
“If governors don't step up to the plate to help people who are hurting in our states, then the Legislatures have a right to apply for the money and I can assure you we're going to get every dollar we can to help Alabamians," State Senator Roger Bedford (D-Russellville) said Sunday.
“In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute,” Putin said during a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”
“I would not be for nationalizing. I think government's not good at making these decisions as to who gets loans and how this happens.”
Feb 2009, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY)
"The will to achieve is not sufficient. Some things should not be achieved."
N.R.-Korsakov
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
The late Dr. Adrian Rogers , 1931 to 2005
“In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”
Jan 2009, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."
Ayn Rand
"The election was supposed to bring 'change,' but I was hoping for more than the letter after the President's name, the positivity of the media coverage, and the hypoallergenic qualities of the White House puppy. President Obama didn't get us into this situation, but so far he's doubling down on the same spending philosophy that did. Common sense tells us that new debt is not the cure for old debt. No matter what the slogans say, that won't change in 100 days or 100 years."---------------------------------------------------------
Glenn Beck
“A little state control wouldn't hurt anybody.”
Feb 2009, California State Attorney General Jerry Brown
“Guess what this liberal would be all about. This liberal will be about socializing, would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.”
Feb 2009, Rep Maxine Waters (D), to bank executives
“I would not take off the idea of nationalizing the banks,”
Feb 2009, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
"The family planning services reduce cost. One of the elements of this package is assistance to the states. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government." – Jan 2009, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D)---------------------------------------------------------
“We have to give up this illusion that it’s about you and me. We have to accept, sort of blindly, the notion that we have to do this for the sake of the nation. Whether you’re lucky and get aid or you already lost your home and you’re screwed, we’re all in this together.”
Alyssa Katz, author of “Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us”
"Don't think we're not keeping score, brother." -- Obama to Rep. Peter DeFazio, after the Democratic congressman voted against the stimulus bill.
"A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government. Democratic efforts to reduce the resulting problems ought not be rejected in freedom's name."
Cass Sunstein, 2009 nominee to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
“We’re not professional educators,” he said. “We don’t really know what an educator is supposed to do.”
Doug Martinson, the president of the Huntsville City School Board
“This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.”
"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe and guarantee a longer recession, a less robust recovery, and a more uncertain future."
“A little state control wouldn't hurt anybody.”
“I don't think that's a fair description of what's going on and it has a tinge of paranoia connected to it."
“A country that is supposedly free must have dissent."
"You really need a stable stream of revenue, and that really means trading a cent of sales tax for an equal amount of ad-valorum tax, cause that's a steady stream and you know you're gonna get it year in and year out."
"Taxes: He said the city should reduce the sales tax rate and replace that revenue by proportionately increasing the property tax, which would be a more stable revenue source."
"You can't get corporate jets, you can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer's dime," Obama said.
"Mr. President, I understand the enormous burden you carry in dealing with the worst economy since the Great Depression," Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman wrote in a letter to the President. "I also understand the need for accountability, but your comments are harmful to the meetings and convention industry as a whole and Las Vegas specifically."
“If in good times you were told you weren't going to get a bonus, what part of your job would you not do? I mean, if you weren't getting a bonus, would you like leave early on Wednesday? Or would you take longer lunches? Would you bypass a certain class of investors?” {cut} “Why do you need to be bribed to have your interests aligned with the people who are paying your salary?”
“They have to convince people that they’ve learned enough from the mistakes they’ve made so that we can work together going forward with them not in the driver’s seat, but inevitably playing a role so we can fix things.”
