#ny

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#anything #bailout #bill #billion #budget

The issue here revolves around the "right to be different (Mattos 1994:16). People have difficulty living harmoniously with those who are different. Because of this, they discriminate against anyone who has any distinctive characteristic whether of belief, religion, language, thought or color. ~ Valmor Da Silva p. 124 in Reading Other-Wise ↗

— Gerald O. West

#diversity #harmony #religion

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#cash #construction #eager #federal #fill

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#babies #birth #buy #definition #every

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#believe #dead #death #fears #i

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#doth #him #lay #man #many

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. ↗

— Jane Austen

#anyone #sore #than #throats #worse

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. ↗