Issues
They Said It – Issue 86
“Today, we’re spending almost $800 billion on 92 federal antipoverty programs – and yet we have the highest poverty rate in a generation…” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
They Said It – Issue 85
The Kitzhaber scandal in Oregon demonstrates many obvious things: Single-party rule is intrinsically corrupting.
– Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. in Wall Street Journal on the Web
They Said It – Issue 84
“School is fair. Life is not. Just get used to it.”
– California Governor Gray Davis to students graduating from Columbia Law School.
They Said It – Issue 83
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
– Oscar Ameringer, Socialist author
They Said It – Issue 82
“…every percent of tax raised fewer dollars than we anticipated, requiring higher tax rates than we had hoped to fund this system.”
– Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin explaining the demise of his state’s single payer health insurance.
They Said It – Issue 81
“Tax credits have been essential to the economic viability of wind farms so far, but will not be needed within a few years.” – Christopher Flavin, now president emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute – 1984.
They Said It – Issue 80
“Don’t let anybody tell you that, you know, it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.”
– Hillary Clinton
They Said It – Issue 79
“We (the Democratic Party) will tax and tax, spend and spend, and elect, elect.”
– Harry Hopkins, advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Editors’ note: We guess that nothing has changed between then and now in Oregon
They Said It – Issue 78
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office
-Aesop
They Said It – Issue 77
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.”
– Clarence Darrow