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"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government & I'm here to help." -Ronald Reagan

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,111 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government & I'm here to help." -Ronald Reagan >>



    Sometimes yes---other times no. When a FEMA representative gives a disaster victum a check, is he helping?

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  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,641 ✭✭✭
    Would we be better off if the government did nothing during the financial collapse.

    Don't know, but Trillions has been spent already on this. Let free market forces wipe out those banks in 08 which are just Zombie banks today. New banks would be established perhaps. Take that $4 Trillion and set up a nationalized bank and shore up the FDIC at least protecting personal savings? A lot of tthose Trillions in taxpayer money went overseas.
  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,266 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government & I'm here to help." -Ronald Reagan >>



    Sometimes yes---other times no. When a FEMA representative gives a disaster victum a check, is he helping? >>




    Sometimes yes, sometimes no. When FEMA funds are used to buy flat screen TVs and Jewelry.....you tell me. I know that's the exception rather than the rule, but it has happened and will happen again. I thing 'ole Ronald was referring to Big Brother in another way.
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  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,966 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Of course Reagan was right in the manner of which the comment was intended.

    No sane person is against government...but Reagan's insinuation of government being too big and trying to do everything for everybody is definitively spot on...and if anyone believes that the present administration wouldn't like to do everything for everybody who votes for them, then ya simply haven't been paying attention the past 2 1/2 years.
  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    there is a septic/sewer tank company that drives it's septic tank trucks around with a slogan on the back of their trucks.

    it says:

    "Warning! This truck may be full of politition's promises!" or something very close to that.

    they do great work BTW

  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,266 ✭✭✭
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    I saw one the other day on a honey wagon that could be the Congress and the Senate's new slogan......"#1 in the #2 business"
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,307 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government & I'm here to help." -Ronald Reagan >>



    I think that would be more terrifing today then back then.
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Would we be better off if the government did nothing during the financial collapse.

    Don't know, but Trillions has been spent already on this. Let free market forces wipe out those banks in 08 which are just Zombie banks today. New banks would be established perhaps. Take that $4 Trillion and set up a nationalized bank and shore up the FDIC at least protecting personal savings? A lot of those Trillions in taxpayer money went overseas. >>



    The govt was basically hands off during the 1921-1922 recession. The recovery occurred very quickly.
    Every recession since has been meddled with, making them longer and more severe.

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RR, along those lines: History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

    Thomas Jefferson.





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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,793 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My experience has been that most government employees want to do a good job. Unfortunately doing a good job is not a priority for those at the top of the food chain. After 35 years in the government system I found that most people at the top got to their position because they were good at saying what others wanted to hear and not so good at saying what others needed to hear. There is a level in every government agency where employees become "politicians" and forget that they are there to serve the public.

    Unfortunately I see the same thing with our senior military officers. If this were not true, the lives of their subordinates would be more important than the desires of politicians.

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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My experience has been that most government employees want to do a good job. Unfortunately doing a good job is not a priority for those at the top of the food chain. After 35 years in the government system I found that most people at the top got to their position because they were good at saying what others wanted to hear and not so good at saying what others needed to hear. There is a level in every government agency where employees become "politicians" and forget that they are there to serve the public.

    Unfortunately I see the same thing with our senior military officers. If this were not true, the lives of their subordinates would be more important than the desires of politicians. >>



    Good God...It's been like that since before the Greecian's .. just human nature I suspect & unlikely to change.
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  • fiveNdimefiveNdime Posts: 1,088 ✭✭
    he is not wrong.
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  • << <i>I saw one the other day on a honey wagon that could be the Congress and the Senate's new slogan......"#1 in the #2 business" >>



    The worst one I ever saw was "We haul milk on the weekends"
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    Yeah and then he made sure we'd be stuck with the biggest ever by the time he was done. Thanks Ronnie.............................NOT!


  • << <i>"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government & I'm here to help." -Ronald Reagan >>



    Reagan was a hypocrite, he was a strong labor man until he realized he could make more money as a shill for right wing interests. His affable personality was his one, and only asset.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government & I'm here to help." -Ronald Reagan >>



    Reagan was a hypocrite, he was a strong labor man until he realized he could make more money as a shill for right wing interests. His affable personality was his one, and only asset. >>



    Your comment reminds me of another Reagan one liner:

    'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.'
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
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