“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville
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Ummmm, yeah, but I was told that I was a seething racist who hated poor people when I pointed out (‘lo those many years ago) that Frannie Mae and Freddie Mac defied all of the laws of economics and common sense.
Alexis de Tocqueville never could have predicted that America would get so Oprah-stupid in such a short time. In fact, I’ll bet that the exact same principles that caused the recent collapse will be the underpinnings of the philosophies of at least 90% of the people elected in MA come November.
Is that better?
It’s exactly what heralded the end of Massachusetts. Here’s hoping that the rest of the country doesn’t fall into the same trap.
But come on….we NEED all this money from you to make you safer! Now hand it over, or I’ll taze you and there isn’t a thing you can do about it.