“We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.” IfsWorldWellsHomeNationsPayBoysReturnPoliticianTaxesDebtMore Money Author:Will Rogers
“The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.” PeopleIfsYearsChildrenLittlesSaidCountryStatesHomeGovernmentForceUnitedCommonPayCompanyUnited StatesMastersPoliticianSlaveDebtStatisticsLoanMonopolySharks Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease
“Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. ... The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy.” WantProblemGovernmentStepsPolicyExamplePoliticianEconomicsClaimsRateAffairFinancialCreditDebtExpensesTaxpayersMortgagePunditsCreditorsBailCrunchGovernment PolicyBorrowersForeclosureMarket FailureFinancial ProblemsCredit Crunch Author:Walter E. Williams
“Debt, weve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.” LightFireToo MuchPoliticianPicksCrisisCreditDebtConsumersAgencyIngredientsVillainBankersRatingYour FavoriteRegulatorsOverzealous Author:Andrew Ross Sorkin
“Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.” ShouldOrderSocialSecurityPoliticianBenefitsDebtAddressesSocial SecuritySkepticalNational Debt Author:Hank Johnson
“We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!” WorldWarRealImagineThis WorldTearsTaughtCitizensPoliticianWeaponsFellowsPrisonDebtAbsenceNuclearCellsImagine ThatNuclear WeaponsBrutalCurrencyPredatorNational DebtPrison Cells Author:Stefan Molyneux
“To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.” GovernmentWinningPayPlansGenerationsPoliticianCostEuropeElectionLeavingDebtSpendingEndlessCoveredTaxpayersGovernment SpendingCovered Up Author:David Malpass
“Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress.” BelieveWishPoliticianCongressDebtAdministrationDisappointedApprovalRatingHubrisApproval Rating Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency, and our creditors' willingness to preserve its status. By buying up dollars and loaning them back to us through Treasury debt, productive countries give American politicians cart blanche to play Santa Claus.” WorldGivingCountryPlayGovernmentRolesEconomicPoliticianUniqueDollarsDebtOilFactorsPrimariesPreservesBuyingProductiveWillingnessCurrencyReservesSnakesSantaSanta ClausTreasuryCartsCreditorsBlanche Author:Peter Schiff
“As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall Street. It's the growing federal debt (and weakening dollar) being enacted by those Washington politicians - the ones who want to protect us from Wall Street.” WantHas BeensEconomyGrowingRiskStreetsWallPoliticianProtectRemainsDollarsDebtFinanceWeakening Author:Tony Blankley
“I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire. You could say, very concerned about our younger generation that does not have the jobs they need to get themselves out of the debt that they're in. And have the full weight of the climate crisis exploding on them - on their watch.” NeedsDoeJobsMotherWatchesFireGenerationsPoliticianTrainingConcernedDoctorsWeightCrisisClimateDebtMedicalPhysiciansYounger GenerationExplodingMedical Doctor Author:Jill Stein
“As much as politicians, any politicians, Democrat or Republican, are saying they're trying to help the schools, it's hard because our country is in debt. I would like to do something for the inner-city schools because that's our future, and education is very important in helping our country continue to progress and not regress.” TryingImportantCountryHardHelpingSchoolCitiesProgressPoliticianRepublicanDemocratDebtOur CountryOur FutureInner CityInner City Schools Author:Ansel Elgort
“If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.” IfsPoliticalFoundPoliticsPoliticianPromiseTaxesDinnerDebtSpendingMissionaryConstituentsCannibal Author:H. L. Mencken