In the Good Old Days

There's a reason that people called them the roaring twenties. They were too drunk to see the bad old thirties coming. I don't know how we're going to refer to the nineties, but most people were too high to see the current decade coming. George W. Bush said in the liked article that he didn't want to be seen as another Herbert Hoover. I can guarantee that nobody will. Herbert Hoover was a brilliant economist who had served as Secretary of the Treasury. George W. Bush was elected Governor of Texas because his dad had been president once.

Skip ahead to their reactions to crisis. When the stock market fell to hell on Black Tuesday, Herbert Hoover said that the economy would correct itself and wanted to let the free market do its thing. When George W. Bush saw the stock market implode after September 11, 2001, he sent troops without going to war. If he would have gone to war he could have mobilized the entire economy towards the war effort like every other president has in war time so that the economy would improve during the fighting, but Georgey wouldn't know that because he's dumb. Then, seven years later, when the economy had gotten even worse, he decided to print $700 billion dollars and give it away because he doesn't know how inflation, exchange rates, or the basic principles of supply and demand work.

George W. Bush would be lucky to be remembered even close to Herbert Hoover because most people credit Herbert Hoover with getting stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time. George is just stupid.

Silence is golden

Okay guys. I know I have been away for a bit. I am coming back with a very important bang. Today I want you all to realize that whether you like it or not, the government works against you by default. I am not going to rant or put out a diatribe. I only want you to watch this and also watch the less interesting part 2. This video could possibly save your freedom or at least thousands in fines. So I wont say anything else but PLEASE WATCH THIS. Thank You.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865

Who Plays What?

Condaleeza Rice gave a piano recital for the Queen of England.  Did you know she could play?  I didn't.  I think it's pretty cool.  She played Brahms Op. 34.  I didn't know what it sounded like so I am posting the video so you can listen to the third movement if you don't know it and would like to hear what she played.

Look Who's Talking

 When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as  Europe . 

 The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. 

 It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. 

  I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

 My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. 

 No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. 

 The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. 

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

 To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered..'

I received an email with the above-listed quotes.  I thought about using them in different blogs, but then I thought, "Why not just post them?"  Here is the game.  Guess who said them.  You have heard similar sayings out of many, including both of the authors of this blog.  You might be surprised who said these things.  The answer will be posted on Tuesday, December 9th.