Thought for the Day

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 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, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

-Dr. Adrian Rogers

Thought for the Day

Human beings are going to make mistakes, whether in the market or in the government. The difference is that survival in the market requires recognizing mistakes and changing course before you go bankrupt. But survival in politics requires denying mistakes and sticking with the policies you advocated while blaming others for the bad results.

-Thomas Sowell

Democrats love taxes and now I know why!

I have often wondered why anyone would vote for a politician who plans to take money out of their pockets and give it to someone else. I totally understand why lose who depend on the government for their livelihood (welfare recipients, government contractors that want to get a lucrative contract, etc.) but I have been mystified by the fact that otherwise seemingly normal people would vote for Democrats. With the nomination of people to serve in the Obama administration, I totally understand what is going on now! Democrats love high taxes because they to not pay them! First it was the Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner who cheats on his taxes and now Obama's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, former Senator Tom Daschle, has been come forward as a tax evader. Paying taxes is for us little people but if you are an elite Democrat, apparently you are above the law and certainly above paying taxes! This makes me think of a quote by Alexis de Tocqueville from his book On Democracy in America.

"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."