The New Syria
and North Korea
and Russia
"Failed Country"
Memorial Quotation:

"Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits."
--- Edward M. Kennedy

"All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them. "The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 238 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff."

"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection."
--- Warren Buffett

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
--- Mark Twain

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
--- Taylor Caldwell, 1965

"Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured...but not everyone must prove they are a citizen."

"Every time Congress makes a joke, it's a law ... and every time they make a law, it's a joke."
--- Will Rogers

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
--- Margaret Thatcher

"There is one and only one social responsibility of business--to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud."
--- Milton Friedman, 1970

"There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted."
--- Schopenhauer

"When is it legal for a group of people to do something that is illegal for one person to do?"
Answer me that question, and I'll already know where you stand on many other issues....
--- Tom Skelton, 2003

"Oil is a commodity.
Saying oil companies control the price of oil is like saying farmers control the price of wheat."
--- Rick Miller

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them,

...that is the beginning of the end of a nation.
--- Anonymous?