Europe is talking about "Departugal, Nexit, Chechout, etc

[Vondutch]

Originally Posted by rose88

you missed France ...

I think this ....xit thing is ridiculous

France = Fixit

[War Beagle]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

The more exits the better. People should want more control over their own destiny and less in the hands of the self serving criminals, politicians, bankers, ( but I repeat myself).

Agreed. Ideal governance occurs at a relatively local level. The larger and more centralized an organization is, the more likely it is to run roughshod over liberties. In Europe, this means the nation-state. In the US, it is the state.

[tangelag]

Originally Posted by Vondutch

France = Fixit

I actually thought of a different vowel...

[Redshadowz]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

The more exits the better. People should want more control over their own destiny and less in the hands of the self serving criminals, politicians, bankers, ( but I repeat myself).

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." - Mark Twain


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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."

"If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it."

"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."

"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."

"There are two kinds of patriotism -- monarchical patriotism and republican patriotism. In the one case the government and the king may rightfully furnish you their notions of patriotism; in the other, neither the government nor the entire nation is privileged to dictate to any individual what the form of his patriotism shall be. The gospel of the monarchical patriotism is: "The King can do no wrong." We have adopted it with all its servility, with an unimportant change in the wording: "Our country, right or wrong!" We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had:-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism."

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

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"Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries."

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

"To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing."