The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.
This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.
Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.
We have revenue coming in. We can pay our interest payments. And then we can prioritize what government programs that have been given to the American people that are unsustainable promises that have been made by reckless politicians that can't possib...
The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote. The reason it's bad is because we have people who believe that by making government bigger by keeping people on unemployment chec...
If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.
I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.
Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!
