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Saturday, January 28. 2012

Political QQQ


"My idea was to bribe the working classes, or shall I say, to win them over, to regard the state as a social institution existing for their sake and interested in their welfare.”


Otto von Bismarck (h/t Socialism = Bribery = Welfare State)
Posted by Bird Dog in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 12:24 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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"Socialism = Bribery = Welfare State"

Where else have I seen/heard that before? Oh, right. The planks of obama's election platform. Just mix in the fear and yer good to go.

I've been following the GOP 'debates' and am interested in how Florida works out. I'm also aware that, all in all, they are just posturing but I'm truly concerned for my good neighbours "so o' the 49th'.

November is not that far away.
#1 Garry on 2012-01-28 12:42 (Reply)
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
#2 Jephnol (Link) on 2012-01-28 12:46 (Reply)
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville
#3 Jephnol (Link) on 2012-01-28 12:47 (Reply)

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