"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." "
--- Upton Sinclair

"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, 231 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."
--- Cicero, 55 BCE

Quote of the Day:
"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

"Financially stupid people are America's most toxic asset."
--- Jason Kelly

"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

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert,
in five years there'd be a shortage of sand."
--- Milton Friedman

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
--- Winston Churchill