tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post253233606525225767..comments2024-03-28T00:18:25.641-07:00Comments on Calafia Beach Pundit: A wise and frugal governmentScott Grannishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028519647946868684noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-31515541194419651462016-06-11T04:55:17.934-07:002016-06-11T04:55:17.934-07:00The relentless commitment to destroy our Republic....The relentless commitment to destroy our Republic.<br /><br />http://freebeacon.com/issues/2-14-trillion-government-collects-record-high-taxes-first-8-months-fy-2016/<br /><br />Since 1970, personal income tax revenues have increased 17 fold !!!!!!!!!<br /><br />https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/A074RC1Q027SBEA<br /><br />Frozen, America is great but not perfect.<br /><br />Hanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05183141792723754273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-24873819805853803492016-06-09T19:54:42.250-07:002016-06-09T19:54:42.250-07:00Frozen: WTF does the Northern states insisting th...Frozen: WTF does the Northern states insisting that blacks wouldn't count as full voters have to do with Jefferson's statement on good government?? Everything in Jefferson's statement was right then, and still is. It is a timeless truth.Johnny Bee Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06836875640973245734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-48829653615730593312016-06-09T15:45:57.262-07:002016-06-09T15:45:57.262-07:00Unfortunately we seem to be at this point these da...Unfortunately we seem to be at this point these days:<br /><br />"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." -- Alexis de Tocqueville<br /><br />No one will ever accuse the modern-day Congress of being "wise and frugal" with taxpayer dollars. They seem intent on enriching themselves, their Jim Dosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10577497075474456684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-26731618208484703442016-06-09T12:34:53.478-07:002016-06-09T12:34:53.478-07:00"As I think back over the years, I have been ..."As I think back over the years, I have been guided by four principles for decision making. First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision, as a consequence, is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly, we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but on how they were made.<br /><br />Thinking Hardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11528747799967719972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-1390330456945612242016-06-09T08:15:16.585-07:002016-06-09T08:15:16.585-07:00I don't know, once you start thinking that eve...I don't know, once you start thinking that everything that was "right" in 1801 should be right today...you end up in strange places! Like a black man is 2/3 of a white man, or that only property owners can vote, and that women cannot vote...Frozen in the Northhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04901959687094626879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-38023072676025243322016-06-09T04:55:31.499-07:002016-06-09T04:55:31.499-07:00Jefferson was an enigma. While committed to "...Jefferson was an enigma. While committed to "limited government", he oversaw a huge expenditure with the Louisiana Purchase ( a brilliant piece of negotiation as we purchased a huge chunk of real estate from France for $.04 an acre and thus avoided war with the overextended but truculent Napoleon). He was also himself an undisciplined profligate spender amassing some $10M in debt at hisstevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07387986994469835875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-18633009179642793852016-06-08T21:35:43.947-07:002016-06-08T21:35:43.947-07:00Amen.Amen.Benjamin Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14001038338873263877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6616959642391988608.post-896923025384788762016-06-08T20:16:20.079-07:002016-06-08T20:16:20.079-07:00Sublime.Sublime.Johnny Bee Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06836875640973245734noreply@blogger.com