Quote of the Day!

[Ichiban]

George Will gets it right from time to time.
And, no, I do not read Newsweek.
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/high-speed-to-insolvency.html

Remarkably widespread derision has greeted the Obama administration’s damn-the-arithmetic-full-speed-ahead proposal to spend $53 billion more (after the $8 billion in stimulus money and $2.4 billion in enticements to 23 states) in the next six years pursuant to the president’s loopy goal of giving “80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail.” “Access” and “high-speed” to be defined later.
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To progressives, the best thing about railroads is that people riding them are not in automobiles, which are subversive of the deference on which progressivism depends. Automobiles go hither and yon, wherever and whenever the driver desires, without timetables. Automobiles encourage people to think they—unsupervised, untutored, and unscripted—are masters of their fates. The automobile encourages people in delusions of adequacy, which make them resistant to government by experts who know what choices people should make.

Time was, the progressive cry was “Workers of the world unite!” or “Power to the people!” Now it is less resonant: “All aboard!”

[Timothy]

George is a pretty bright fella.  You may not agree with him every time but he's generally on the right side of an issue.

[PegLeg45]

A Utah man lied to authorities and said he was an illegal immigrant so he could get deported to Mexico and evade time behind bars.
Now THERE'S a tourism slogan: "Mexico - still beats jail." ~ Fred Thompson

[Solus]

A Utah man lied to authorities and said he was an illegal immigrant so he could get deported to Mexico and evade time behind bars.
Now THERE'S a tourism slogan: "Mexico - still beats jail." ~ Fred Thompson

That is funny.....   the deportation will be blocked by the feds and they guy will end up with a free education, welfare and SS for life.

[Solus]

Not a quote from today...but one worth thinking about today.   From Thomas Jefferson

"Yes, we did produce a near perfect Republic, but will they keep it? Or will they in their enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of their freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

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