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Post by acptulsa on Jul 13, 2016 20:12:15 GMT -8
All there is to politics is trading. That's why politics is not as good as it was years ago. They don't have as many old-time horse traders in there. These we got are just amateurs. They're crude with their trades. There really is no finesse.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jul 14, 2016 19:36:11 GMT -8
'Tax relief, farm relief, flood relief, dam relief--none of these things have been settled, but they are getting them in shape for consideration at the next session of Congress with the hope that those needing relief will perhaps have conveniently died in the meantime.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jul 14, 2016 19:37:21 GMT -8
'We just as well become reconciled to the fact that the old politician is with us "even unto death".'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jul 14, 2016 19:38:06 GMT -8
'You could keep politics clean if you could figure out some way so your government never hired anyone.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 13:27:37 GMT -8
'Democrats take the whole thing as a joke. Republicans take it serious but run it like a joke.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 13:29:10 GMT -8
"Papers say, 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 13:37:39 GMT -8
'Put a United States Senator with two or more people and there ain't any power on Earth that can keep him from making a speech.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 17:35:20 GMT -8
'Just raid the national treasury enough and you will soon be referred to as a statesman.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 17:36:12 GMT -8
'George Washington was a politician and a gentleman. That's a rare combination.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 17:37:42 GMT -8
'Let this country get hungry and they are going to eat, no matter what happens to budgets, income taxes or Wall Street. Washington musn't forget who rules when it comes to a showdown.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 17:38:27 GMT -8
'Remember, write your Congressman. Even if he can't read, write him.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 18:39:56 GMT -8
'A few years ago we were so afraid that the poor people was liable to take a drink. Now we've fixed it so they can't even get something to eat.'--Will Rogers
Is that why they maintain these goofy and ineffective prohibitions? So every time they crash the economy, they can distract us from the problems they made for us by ending one of the prohibitions? Why else would they suddenly let states legalize weed after they created this mess in 2008?
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 15, 2017 12:23:27 GMT -8
Speaking of Alphabet Agency bureaucracies...
'Never was a country in the throes of more capital letters than the old U.S.A., but we still haven't sent out the S.O.S.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 15, 2017 12:24:33 GMT -8
'If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 15, 2017 12:26:14 GMT -8
'The American people will vote dry as long as they are able to stagger to the polls.'--Will Rogers
Hw else can you prevent something from being taxed and regulated but to keep it illegal?
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