Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
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Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
quote by Bernard Devoto
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There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.
quote by Ralph Merkle
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I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
quote by Jock Sturges
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
quote by Edith Sitwell
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I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.
quote by Steven Soderbergh
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It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found to be generally true that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon --so long as there is no answer to it-- gives claws to the weak.
quote by George Orwell
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
quote by Randall Terry
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It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
quote by F.M. Young
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The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.
quote by Gerd von Rundstedt
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There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
quote by Arthur C. Brooks
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Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
quote by Jared Sparks
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Could I Be Incompetent?
Could I be incompetent?
No.
But I will admit,
I can be stupid, ignorant and foolish...
When making incorrect decisions.
With a hopeful learning from them,
If I take the time to comprehend what I've done.
But incompetent?
No.
No, I am not.
And I am sure if I had been,
Someone who's opinion I accept...
And has shown to me their admiration,
Would have already brought that to my attention.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Societal Solution
Is there a societal solution
To my loneliness?
After all, society has caused the situation.
I am friendly enough I guess,
But people are too scared and under duress
To repond to my friendliness.
Do we form societies
Because we are not dieties?
Are we inherently crude?
Or inherently good?
I do not care about society's trends,
As long I can make friends!
poem by Lonely People Champion
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The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion — it is an evil government.
quote by Eric Hoffer
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New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.
Election Year, Your Chance To Have Your Say
The Government has proved to be
corrupt and inefficient.
Prepared to act dishonestly
To everybody’s detriment.
Bar far the favoured few of course.
Who think they are above the law
They cheat and lie without remorse.
In their greed for even more.
Ill gotten gains to salt away
In some tax haven based offshore.
Although they say crime doesn’t pay
It can do if you make the law.
We must defeat them legally.
Expose their crimes to public view
Investigate them thoroughly
And punish them where it is due.
We must restore the old values
The values that our forebears knew.
It’s not a task we can refuse.
What must be done that we will do.
Out with old in with the new.
Elect men of integrity.
Get rid of the dishonest crew.
This is our opportunity.
The systems rotten to the core
And must be scrapped to start anew.
Go back to what we had before
Make honesty the prime virtue.
Don’t give your vote too easily
Think very hard and then decide.
Consider very carefully.
Now is the time to turn the tide.
Erase pork barrel politics.
We must derail the gravy train.
You can’t teach old dogs new tricks.
So throw them out and start again.
poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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Stigma as enigma
Man has assigned to woman
The infidelity as the crown of stigma.
Woman has resigned to that task
And remains to man an enigma.
04.10.2004
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.
quote by Martin Van Buren
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Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
quote by Theodor Adorno
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