"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Same Old Song and Dance
Submitted by Christopher Lempa on Sat, 2008-02-09 16:00
"All presidential budgets are ideological wish lists, passed only if the president's party holds both houses of Congress, and even then, little of that legislation makes it into the law books. They are political instruments rife with platitudes and sycophantic melodies."
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