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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.

P. J. O'Rourke

It’s better to make fun of yourself because you’ve always got someone around to make fun of, and they can’t sue you.
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Always Better Fun Make Someone Sure You
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that’s the point.
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Know People Pont Poor Purpose Real Welfare
Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Anticatalist Children Convince Example Occupy Thank Wall
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Balck Believe Country Despite People Vehemently
There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Horizon Many Toledo Tree
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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Bright Feel Good Government Look Quit Side
The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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Again Budget Control Government Much Over
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Country Factor Put Room Themselves Two
When you’re a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, ‘Gee, I wouldn’t want to be doing that.’ They’re on your side.
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Correspondent Do Person Reader Say That Want
Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Fact Failure Forces Huge Industrial People Revolution
I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Country Favor Invasion Mush
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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Carry Country Crow Exile Extermination Law Passage Perpetuation Savery
We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.
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Behind Bench Election House Official Seat Senate Chair Whole
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Hope Ideology Imptent Journalism Joy Luxuniate Politics
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Bad Family Love Messy Pattern Wallpaper
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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Animal Children Eat Exception Human Purpose

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