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Thought For the Day: We Have the Right To Give Away As Much of Our Own Money As We Please In Charity; But As Members of Congress We Have No Right To Appropriate A Dollar of the Public Money
“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Study of Money, Above All Other Fields In Economics, Is One In Which Complexity Is Used To Disguise Truth Or To Evade Truth, Not To Reveal It
“The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.” – John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)
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Tagged Above All Other, Complexity, Disguise, Economics, Evade, Money, Not Reveal, Study, Thought For the Day, Truth
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First Principles: If Congress Can Do Whatever In Their Discretion…Government Is No Longer A Limited One, Possessing Enumerated Powers, But an Indefinite One
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.” – James … Continue reading
First Principles: I Cannot Undertake To Lay My Finger On That Article of the Constitution Which Granted A Right To Congress of Expending, On Objects of Benevolence, the Money of Their Constituents…”
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents…” – James Madison
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Tagged Article, Benevolence, Congress, Constituents, Constitution, Expending, First Principles, Granted A Right, James Madison, Money, My Finger, Objects, Undertake
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In the Sweetness of Money
In the Sweetness of Moneyby Michael DoyleThe band leader says, “One, two..”And the band knows what to doEspecially slick with his brand new shoesFilled as he is with his particular viewsStepping it up to make it betterIn the harmony of … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Luck, Band, Band Leader, Better, Can't Tell A Fool Nothing, Chart, Crooked Smile, Dance, Desire, Devil, Face, Found, From the Heart, Funny, Harmony, Headlines, Heritage, History, Leftovers, Level, Leverage, Ma Rainey, Misonstrue, Money, Moves, Nailing, New Shoes, Particular, Patent Leather, Piper's Price, Poetry and Poems, Reverent, Right, Sake, Selling Souls, Selling Voice, Set On Fire, Simple, Solid Choice, Something, Sound, Stew, Stomp, Strung Up, Sweetness, Sweetness of Money, Temple, Tight, Whispered Tales, Wicked Ways
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First Principles: The Principle of Spending Money To Be Paid By Posterity, Under the Name of Funding, Is But Swindling Futurity On A Large Scale
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Tagged By Posterity, First Principles, Funding, Future, Large Scale, Money, Name, Paid, Principle, Spending, Swindle, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Never Suppose That In Any Possible Situation, Or Under Any Circumstances, It Is Best For You To Do A Dishonorable Thing, However Slightly So It May Appear To You
“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you … Continue reading
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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Principle of Spending Money To Be Paid By Posterity, Under the Name of Funding, Is But Swindling Futurity On A Large Scale
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816) When we take money from others without good return, we are swindling them. … Continue reading
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