Why do governments lie?

Governments lie. ...If they told people the truth, they wouldn't last very long. --Historian Howard Zinn.

The legislature vs. your life, liberty & property.

"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session." --NY Surrogate Judge Gideon J. Tucker, 1866

Do YOU have it wrong?

"It's not Democrats vs. Republicans you nits, it's the Democrats and the Republicans vs. you." --L. Reichard White, October 22, 2013, 13:39:46

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THE barrier - - -

Only one thing stands in the way of the denizens of D.C. solving the problems they've caused: Math. --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, October 15, 2013 9:22 AM

Trouncing Rube - - -

The idiots have created a health care contraption that makes Rube Goldberg look like a Swiss watchmaker. --L. Reichard White, October 6, 2013, 07:30:58

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Who dunnit?

Remember folks, when the stuff hits the fan, it wasn't your friends, neighbors, family or other citizens that caused the problems, it was The Government. --L. Reichard White, Monday, September 30, 2013 5:15 AM

What is "National Security?"

"A specious concept that allows a government to introduce and enforce a continuous series of ever increasingly totalitarian diktats in order to erode personal freedoms under the guise of an 'outside' threat." --Darren 'BigD' Groves

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Austerity - - -

"Austerity" = "You get to spend your money instead of the government spending it for you." --L. Reichard White, Sunday, August 04, 2013 8:27 PM

Time for Plan B?

The Constitution & Bill of Rights applies only to and limits government, those who are elected and swear an oath to uphold them, and those they hire to help them to do that job.  Unfortunately, we-the-people trusted those documents, the oaths, and the honesty of politicians to abide by those limits.  Clearly, that didn't work. -L. Reichard White, June 12, 2013, 13:20:27

IMPORTANT MESSAGE!!

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL ANTI-USA GROUPS -- YOU KNOW, Al'Qaeda, Iran, Venezuela most Moselm countries and all well-meaning folks everywhere: 

DO NOT GIVE THE FAILING GOVERNMENT IN WASHINGTON DC THE AUTOMATIC SUPPORT IT GETS WHEN "WE THE PEOPLE" ARE ATTACKED!! Switch off that back-pack nuke you've smuggled into the country, call off your anthrax plans -- even back off on those scary cyber attacks. 

Just step back and let Washington D.C. continue destroying itself. 

Thanks!

Looting mechanism?

Mainly, governments are looting mechanisms -- mainly they loot their "citizens." --L. Reichard White, Monday, February 11, 2013 1:51 PM

Are YOU in the majority?

"...the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Jan. 9-13 among 1,502 adults, finds that 53% think that the federal government threatens their own personal rights and freedoms" Majority Says the Federal Government Threatens Their Personal Rights | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

RELATED: UNCOMMON SENSE: The REAL Fear Factor 

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Your greatest danger?

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. --NY Judge Gideon J. Tucker, 1866

Politicians -- before and after?

So let me get this straight: As everyone knows, politicians lie to get elected, but once they take office, you trust them? --L. Reichard White, Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:48 AM

Just not up to the job

There are periods in history when curmudgeonly behavior isn't up to the task at hand.  Now, for example. --L. Reichard White, November 30, 2012, 08:36:54

Why politics sucks

You can't count on political solutions because politicians don't have anything to win or lose till the next election. --L. Reichard White, August 22, 2012, 07:47:10

The OTHER "Trickle-down" theory

The "trickle-down" theory is that if you reduce taxes on the rich, that money will "trickle down" in the form of jobs to the less rich.  The OTHER "trickle-down" theory is that if you give that tax money to the government, it will "trickle down" to the less rich.  --L. Reichard White, Monday, August 20, 2012 3:45 AM

Futility 101

Elections are where the 99% reelect the 1%. --Dave Kruger

When is mass murder better?

Why is it that we think it's perfectly normal (preferable even) for Presidential candidates to ask for guidance from god, but immediately dismiss it when a serial killer (or terrorist) claims god told him to do it. Why is it a sign of sanity when a president gets god's okay before killing thousands in a war, but a sign of insanity when an ordinary person does it before killing her children? --Dave Krueger, Wednesday, April 11, 2012

REALpolitik

Politics: The art of stealing credit for things you didn't do and probably interfered with.  --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, April 03, 2012 9:01 AM