In my latest National Post column I suggest adding all the debt and interest payments government has piled on you onto your personal financial plan and see how bad things get.
"Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it."
Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) in Duck Soup (this line is widely quoted including online but usually inaccurately, including the child being 5)
"a mind, as H.G. Wells observed of the President [Franklin Roosevelt], 'appallingly open,' open indeed at both ends, through which all sorts of half-baked ideas flow…"
John T. Flynn, Country Squire in the White House, excerpted in S.I. Hayakawa Language in Thought and Action
"What President Bush will need is an agenda that catches fire without blowing up."
National Review Dec. 18, 2000 [if the comment had a specified author I failed to write it down]
In my latest Looniepolitics column I say the Elections Ontario handbook that completely misstates how our government works is a worrying sign of rot in our government.
"Whether, in the great transfer of estates, injustice had or had not been committed, was immaterial. That transfer, just or unjust, had taken place so long ago, that to reverse it would be to unfix the foundations of society. There must be a time of limitation to all rights. After thirty-five years of actual possession, and after twenty-five years of possession solemnly guaranteed by statute, after innumerable leases and releases, mortgages and devises, it was too late to search for flaws in titles."
Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England (regarding Ireland, and arguing that James II could have put the issue to rest by confirming current owners in their title while taxing them heavily enough to pay decent compensation to the dispossessed)
In a column in Farmer's Forum I say reelecting the Wynne Liberals would amount to pinning a "Kick me" sign on ourselves.
In my latest National Post column I say the federal Liberals are acting like fools on carbon taxes... unless (to borrow a Goon Show gag) they're not acting.