echebota
07-18-2010, 09:23 PM
I have been watching NBC series "Parks and recreations" and wanted to share with you my joy every time I see this character - Ron Swanson. He is an ideal Government employee and almost true liberiterian. I think he's a great asset for Liberty movement. For those not famalier with the show:
"America has a new champion of limited government and spending restraint. For six years straight, Ron Swanson, director of the City of Pawnee’s Parks and Recreation Department, brought his agency in under budget. He set citywide records by spending only 60 cents of his department’s discretionary fund.
Regrettably, Swanson is not running for Congress. Instead, he is leading the limited government fight as a fictional character on NBC’s primetime show “Parks and Recreation.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37824.html
Here are top quotes from Ron:
1) “I’ve been quite open about this around the office: I don’t want this parks department to build any parks, because I don’t believe in government. I think that all government is a waste of taxpayer money. My dream is to have the park system privatized and run entirely for profit by corporations, like Chuck E. Cheese. They have an impeccable business model. I would rather work for Chuck E. Cheese.”
2) “I got my first job when I was 9. Worked at a sheet metal factory. In two weeks, I was running the floor. Child labor laws are ruining this country.”
3) “My idea of a perfect government is one guy who sits in a small room at a desk, and the only thing he’s allowed to decide is who to nuke. The man is chosen based on some kind of IQ test, and maybe also a physical tournament, like a decathlon. And women are brought to him, maybe ... when he desires them.”
4) Ron: When I look at my palm I see a lady's mouth French kissing a dog. Is that normal?
Ann: Well, the pain medication I gave you is pretty strong. Donna uses it for menstrual cramps.
5) “The whole point of this country is if you want to eat garbage, balloon up to 600 pounds and die of a heart attack at 43, you can! You are free to do so. To me, that’s beautiful.”
6) His reaction when auditors came to cut jobs at his department and other city government: "What exactly will you be cutting? And how much of it, and can I watch you do it while eating pork cracklings?"
7) "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish, and you feed yourself. He's a grown man. Fishing's not that hard."
8) Mark is a city architect checking on code vialations in Ron's workshop in his house new addition. Mark: "You've got hazardous chemicals over here."
Ron: "Yeah, which only I am breathing. It's the same liberty that gives me the right to fart in my own car. Are you going to tell a man that he can't fart in his own car?"
9) about his ex-wife "Ron: Every time she laughs, an angel dies. Even telemarketers avoid her. Her birth was payback for the sins of man. But you know the worst thing about her?
Leslie: She works for the library.
Ron: She works for the library."
10) April: I had to wait until my dad fell asleep so I could steal his keys. you ready?
Ron: I was born ready. I'm Ron F*%king Swanson.
11) Ron: Those dates are arbitrary. They're like those expiration dates that the government forces companies to put on yogurt and medicine.
12) On employees of his department: “I would prefer that she ask me for my permission so I could say no. I like saying no. It lowers their enthusiasm.”
"America has a new champion of limited government and spending restraint. For six years straight, Ron Swanson, director of the City of Pawnee’s Parks and Recreation Department, brought his agency in under budget. He set citywide records by spending only 60 cents of his department’s discretionary fund.
Regrettably, Swanson is not running for Congress. Instead, he is leading the limited government fight as a fictional character on NBC’s primetime show “Parks and Recreation.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37824.html
Here are top quotes from Ron:
1) “I’ve been quite open about this around the office: I don’t want this parks department to build any parks, because I don’t believe in government. I think that all government is a waste of taxpayer money. My dream is to have the park system privatized and run entirely for profit by corporations, like Chuck E. Cheese. They have an impeccable business model. I would rather work for Chuck E. Cheese.”
2) “I got my first job when I was 9. Worked at a sheet metal factory. In two weeks, I was running the floor. Child labor laws are ruining this country.”
3) “My idea of a perfect government is one guy who sits in a small room at a desk, and the only thing he’s allowed to decide is who to nuke. The man is chosen based on some kind of IQ test, and maybe also a physical tournament, like a decathlon. And women are brought to him, maybe ... when he desires them.”
4) Ron: When I look at my palm I see a lady's mouth French kissing a dog. Is that normal?
Ann: Well, the pain medication I gave you is pretty strong. Donna uses it for menstrual cramps.
5) “The whole point of this country is if you want to eat garbage, balloon up to 600 pounds and die of a heart attack at 43, you can! You are free to do so. To me, that’s beautiful.”
6) His reaction when auditors came to cut jobs at his department and other city government: "What exactly will you be cutting? And how much of it, and can I watch you do it while eating pork cracklings?"
7) "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish, and you feed yourself. He's a grown man. Fishing's not that hard."
8) Mark is a city architect checking on code vialations in Ron's workshop in his house new addition. Mark: "You've got hazardous chemicals over here."
Ron: "Yeah, which only I am breathing. It's the same liberty that gives me the right to fart in my own car. Are you going to tell a man that he can't fart in his own car?"
9) about his ex-wife "Ron: Every time she laughs, an angel dies. Even telemarketers avoid her. Her birth was payback for the sins of man. But you know the worst thing about her?
Leslie: She works for the library.
Ron: She works for the library."
10) April: I had to wait until my dad fell asleep so I could steal his keys. you ready?
Ron: I was born ready. I'm Ron F*%king Swanson.
11) Ron: Those dates are arbitrary. They're like those expiration dates that the government forces companies to put on yogurt and medicine.
12) On employees of his department: “I would prefer that she ask me for my permission so I could say no. I like saying no. It lowers their enthusiasm.”