Daily Wit and Wisdom

[kcshocker11]

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
Kinky Friedman

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.
Kinky Friedman

The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
Kinky Friedman

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[SB Shock]

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. –P.J. O’Rourke,

[kcshocker11]

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
Walter Cronkite

8)

[kcshocker11]

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
Jerry Rubin

8)

[SB Shock]

After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: pay as you go, no new deficit spending. Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.

http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=http%3A//www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/050107.php

[1979Shocker]

After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: pay as you go, no new deficit spending. Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.

http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/framese...ess/050107.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO

[SB Shock]

After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: pay as you go, no new deficit spending. Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.

http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/framese...ess/050107.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO

What is your point?

[1979Shocker]

After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: pay as you go, no new deficit spending. Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.

http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/framese...ess/050107.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO

What is your point?

Pay as you go. Also known as PAYGO. Read the wiki article in the link.

[kcshocker11]

A library is a hospital for the mind.
~ Anonymous ~

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[ISASO]

...the barrier between America’s chronically poor and the American dream is the welfare state socialism which was supposed to be our answer to poverty.

As a young woman I was on welfare myself. I saw from inside the perverse and destructive culture it created. A dehumanized culture of dependence and irresponsibility that encourages behavior exactly the opposite of what a successful life demands.

The result speaks for itself. Fifty years and a trillion plus dollars in spending after President Johnson announced the War on Poverty, poverty rates are unchanged.

- Star Parker

8)

[SB Shock]

After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: pay as you go, no new deficit spending. Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.

http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/framese...ess/050107.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO

What is your point?

Pay as you go. Also known as PAYGO. Read the wiki article in the link.

Well, I still don't understand what you are trying to communicate here beside you must be trying to point out that the democrats manipulated it so they could have a talking point of saying they "pay as they go" while actually never doing it and running up the two largest budget deficits in our country history. :good:

[1979Shocker]

I took it as saying that both sides tried to find ways to get around pay as you go, and when it expired, spending started shooting up and hasn't stopped.

[SB Shock]

I took it as saying that both sides tried to find ways to get around pay as you go, and when it expired, spending started shooting up and hasn't stopped.

Okay, we will just call you a Nancy Lover, Nancy for short.

[SB Shock]

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. – Friedrich Nietzsche

[Maggie]

I took it as saying that both sides tried to find ways to get around pay as you go, and when it expired, spending started shooting up and hasn't stopped.

Get around it? Getting around PAYGO “rules” is the easy part.

PAYGO is a farce. Because, PAYGO exempts all discretionary spending (at least 40 percent of the budget, I believe). It exempts the automatic annual growth of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, which obviously threatens Washington’s long-run solvency. It exempts the endless stream of emergency “stimulus” bills. The few places it does apply, Congress waives the law. PAYGO is designed to serve more as a talking point than as a tool for deficit reduction or spending restraint or a balanced budget. It is a meaningless budget trick used to create a façade of fiscal responsibility.

I suppose I should contribute a quote to the thread (now that I have gone off topic). Here it goes:

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Joseph Sobran