The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back … - Mitch Daniels

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But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her. I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.

Mitch Daniels

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

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Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

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If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy. '

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When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on. '

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Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

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Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

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