Speak UP!!

Keep speaking common sense! Because when common sense is quiet, common non-sense takes over. --L. Reichard White, April 27, 2011, 01:54:17

Why you were hired - - -

A note to politicians: You weren't hired to get re-elected, you were hired to do what's right for your employers, "we the people."  --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:10 AM

The bad-guys: It's not who you think - - -

Remember, it's not the people who are paid to run it who are evil, stupid and incompetent, it's the system, the machine, itself. --L. Reichard White, Saturday, April 23, 2011 5:20 AM

A complete reversal of fortune?

"We used to pay off the mortgage and leave our kids the farm, now we mortgage the farm and leave our kids the payments." --The unknown truth-teller

The KEY economic insight - - -

"Money" obeys The Law of Supply and Demand. --L. Reichard White, Wednesday, April 20, 2011 7:50 AM

Dear Uncle --- by the way - - -

Dear Uncle Sam, why did you borrow $14.3 trillion instead of paying cash? --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:17 AM

By the way, what are you going to do about the estimated $65 trillion Medicare for our older folks is going to cost you? 

Rocket scientists - - -

"Attacking Iraq because of 9-11 would be like the U.S. attacking Mexico because of Pearl Harbor."  --White House terrorism adviser Richard Clark

"...the U.S. invaded a country [Iraq] that did not threaten us, had not attacked us and did not want war with us, to disarm it of weapons we have since discovered it did not have." --Patrick J. Buchanan, "Where The Right Went Wrong," quoted in --The Only Way to Make Your Vote Count

You can't handle the truth - - -

"Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied." --Arthur Miller (and thanks to Agente Snow)

What's "ours?"

"It's just fine if you call it 'our country,' but if you insist on calling it 'our government,' you haven't been paying attention." --L. Reichard White, April 16, 2011

Their Calculator doesn't go all the way to the top

The way the U.S. banker/government axis calculates unemployment, if things got so bad everyone gave up looking for work, the unemployment rate would be 0%.  No, I'm NOT making that up.  --L. Reichard White, Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:11 AM

Fair weather advocate -- or are you serious?

"Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons." --Ron Paul

Fringe benefit

If you learn how to win elections, afterwards, you can do pretty much whatever you want for at least the next four years. --L. Reichard White, Monday, April 04, 2011 5:46 AM