The U.S. Congress, both houses, is at least 95% corrupt and why on earth do we keep reelecting this motly crew.We, the voters, must share the blame for this state of affairs as long as we keep voting for the likes of Pelosi, Reed , Franks, and the rest.

Perhaps the Tea Parties are the beginning of the rebellion needed to get back our country. Naturally, all the lib maggots in Washington and their useful idiots in the press are trying to destroy the Tea's by ,surprise, playing the old reliable race card. We all know that you can't oppose Obama unless you're a racist.

The current crowd in Washington is fast turning "The American Dream" into a nightmare.

The folk in the Tea Parties are a great example of not accepting evil and are actively opposing it.

J and Mike said it better than I ever could.

Also Sandra, there is no tooth fairy and I hope this information doesn't cause you too much grief.

Sandra, I bet you still believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

My personal favorite is when some politician is trying to get some crazy spending bill passed by saying " the people demand this", and ,of course, the "people" never heard of it much less "demanded it. Here's a little limerick I came up with. "Obama said health care for all, Though the bill was enough to appall, Now let it be noted, That Congress has voted, And they all have to go in the fall".

Another example was employed by Tricky Dick Nixon in 1970 when he stoked up the so called War on Drugs and established the infamous DEA. The results are in. Jails filled to overflowing with non violent "criminals", law enforcement corrupted, more street crime, drugs easily available to children,private property seized,and all this at a cost of over $70 billion per year to the U.S. taxpayer. See LEAP.cc for details.

Sandras' reply was typical knee-jerk liberal speak and had nothing to do with the quote. Government does't generate economic growth, it restricts it and Nancy, Reed,Obama and the gang know this. Killing our economy and building a lovely socialist Amerika is what the are doing.

Government bureaus not only last forever but always get bigger. Nixon set up the Department of Energy as a few people to advise him onenergy, oil, gas, and coal I guess. This bureau now has risen to thousands of employees and a billion dollar budget, or more, and I fail to see that it has done any good whatsoever except to furnish a few thousand bureaucrats a job at our expense.

As Washington said, "Government is not reason, it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servent and a fearful master".

Right on, J Carlton.

Anon summed it up perfectly.

Our liberal press does report some news, but it's main function at this time is to make the current fascist bunch inside the beltway look good, no matter how rotten they are.

To prove this quote, look no farther than Washington, D.C.

Anonymous, a "fore" is fine if you are playing golf and I'm not sure how a person "speeks". Try four and speaks.

J Carlton has summed it up.

The "Cash for Clunkers" program was a huge sucess in one respect as it got 95% of the pro Obama bumper stickers off the road.

As to "order" the term "Law and Order" comes to mind. In 1969 when Nixon was running for president he was concerned about drugs and law and order. He drastically increased the so called war on drugs, set up the DEA and increased the number of drug agents by about a hundred fold at a cost of about $70 billion per year of taxpayer money. The results are in on this unwinnable war. Corrupted law enforcement agencies and judges, more crime in our streets, jails full of non-violent people, drugs cheaper and more available to children, and a host of other problems plagueing our nation, and our politicians haven't the guts to stop it. Check out LEAP.cc for more information on this horror known as The War on Drugs.

I suspect that the thousands of political prisoners in Castros' Cuba would wholeheartedly agree with this quote.

I'll go along with Mike on this one.

This quote doesn't just "ring true", it is exactly true. It has nothing to do with "slavery" or "denying any human being the basic quality of life such as food, housing and health care". No one wants to deny anyone these items but it ain't the governments job to provide them, or rather it shouldn be.

We do not worship inefficiency except when it comes to government bureaus. The above quote is correct. As to efficient government, Adolph Hitler sure enough had a VERY efficient one much to the sorrow of millions of people.

You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, and that's usually enough.