gsvol
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"In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America
by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist
Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when
the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in
1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine
times greater than the average per capita income in the
rest of the world. An individual American could make
more money than 93 percent of the other people on
the planet and still be considered poor."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
"There is no virtue in compulsory government charity,
and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who
portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he
wants to expand the government's charitable programs
is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with
other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who
takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that
he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to
his head."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
And because I don't agree with it, PP feels (along with
others) obligated to make daily personal attacks against
me.
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable,
as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-
disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a
philosphy of sniveling brats."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
"These were people who believed everything about the
Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their
own toilet paper."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
"The morning meal was served in traditional socialist
fashion - very slowly, with the courses out of order so
that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and
the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check.
However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had
ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
"You can't get good chinese takeout in China and Cuban
cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know
about communism."
- P.J. O'Rourke
"Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton
administration is putting a high-powered coporate
lawyer -- Hillary -- in charge of making it cheaper.
(This is what I always do when I want to spend less
money -- hire a lawyer from Yale.) If you think health
care is expensive now, wait until you see what it
costs when it's free."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
"To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world
where everything is designed by the post office, even
the sleaze."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
"The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the
mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as
stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you
don't go there they shoot you."
- P.J. O'Rourke
"When government does, occasionally, work, it works
in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily
manipulated by people who have money and power
already. This is why government benefits usually go
to people who don't need benefits from government.
Government may make some environmental
improvements, but these will be improvements for rich
bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember
that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at
Kentucky Fried Chicken."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
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