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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.

P. J. O'Rourke

Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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Fight Inanimate never Object
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Give Money People Poverty Rid
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Restaurant Review Start Student
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Except Love never Unfaithful Wife
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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Act Enough Government Idea Pay People Whole
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
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Classroom Problem Public School Underfund Union
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Annoyance Conundrum Necessary Politics
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Economic Globalization Marketplace Open Simply World
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Government Illegal Product Sell

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