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This is a great video showing the utter madness of the current bailouts occurring in Europe. See below.
Some quotes on debt:
- “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 B.C.
- “There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises. To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable. Sir, in my opinion, it would be hazarding the public faith in a manner contrary to every idea of prudence.” – James Madison
- “A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.” – G. Gordon Liddy
- “…either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation.” – Henry Hazlitt
- “No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.” – George Washington
Herman Van Rompuy’s comment that the “Eurozone crisis is over” and Europe had “turned the corner economically” sounds a lot like Neville Chamberlain’s “I believe it is peace for our time.”
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Those are great quotes, our founders knew how important it was to keep our debts paid of but somewhere along the way we got sidetracked and lost our way. We will be fallowing Eutope if we don’t get serious very soon.