18 September 2008

The Puffin Papers

"In order to be a good liberal you have to believe... that there were no charities before welfare... that there was no art before federal funding... that taxes are too low - but ATM fees are too high... that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding... that there is no such thing as a "sovereign citizen" - in fact, there is no such thing as "inalienable rights," only permissions from government..."
Read it all.

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RELATED: Honestly... the dog ate my cerebral cortex
"The old line on imprudent debt went something like: If you owe the bank a thousand dollars, you have a problem; if you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank has a problem."

"We seem to have casually accepted the extension of the paradigm: If the bank loans you a million dollars, the bank has a problem. If the bank loans you a billion dollars, the US government has a problem."
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