2 Socialists and a secret handshake!

[cuda]

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

 

[Ratickle]

It may have actually been him. Unlike Cat, I go by memory, and not just cut and pasted. I'm SURE I read it was BF, but I didn't bother to verify my sources.

I always do if I'm quoting something I heard or if I read it on the internet.

 

[Pachanga]

It's not that the team wasn't good enough, it's that over half of the voters in the election were only voting to get themselves bigger handouts with little, or no, effort put into earning those handouts.


You do realize that's a racist statement, don't you?

How the H*ll can you call that a racist statement?

 

[Pachanga]

Nice try but I'm not buying what you're selling. White people have always looked at blacks as being lazy, good-for-nothing loafers with their hands out begging for a handout. Your post is a classic example of that view.

Damn...you sound like the one who is racist with a BIG chip on his shoulder.

 

[Ratickle]

The following statement, or variations thereof, is often attributed to Thomas Jefferson:

"A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have...."

We have never found such a statement in Jefferson's writings. As far as we know, this statement actually originates with Gerald R. Ford, who said, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have," in an address to a joint session of Congress on August 12, 1974.[1]

Footnotes
↑ Suzy Platt, ed., Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1989), 140. Available online at http://www.bartleby.com/73/714.html.


It's been attributed to many, but was later in the history of our nation.

 

[cuda]

The following statement, or variations thereof, is often attributed to Thomas Jefferson:

"A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have...."

We have never found such a statement in Jefferson's writings. As far as we know, this statement actually originates with Gerald R. Ford, who said, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have," in an address to a joint session of Congress on August 12, 1974.[1]

Footnotes
↑ Suzy Platt, ed., Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1989), 140. Available online at http://www.bartleby.com/73/714.html.


It's been attributed to many, but was later in the history of our nation.

I didn't doubt you when you said it was Ford. The other most of the other quotes I used were by HL Menken if you need to verify them.

 

[Ratickle]

I didn't doubt you when you said it was Ford. The other most of the other quotes I used were by HL Menken if you need to verify them.

I just figured if you questioned it, others would too so I double checked myself.