“This is not a sick system, Mr. President, nor is it a rigged system. Let’s not sow distrust in our democratic institutions,” Flake tweeted.
More at: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3...-rigged-system
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My God, I laughed so hard reading that, I almost peed myself.
I feel so much better now.
Are they still bitching about his campaign rhetoric?
What democratic institution would that be?
Originally Posted by Andrew Ryan
Awfully defensive isn't he? That's what a sick and rigged politician would say.
I just want objectivity on this forum and will point out flawed sources or points of view at my leisure.
If a cancerous tumor could speak, it would probably try to tell you that it is healthy tissue.
Oh, wait. It just did ...
“This is not a sick system, Mr. President, nor is it a rigged system. Let’s not sow distrust in our democratic institutions,” Flake tweeted.
The Bastiat Collection · FREE PDF · FREE EPUB · PAPER Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
- "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
-- The Law (p. 54)- "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Government (p. 99)- "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
-- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)- "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
-- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)· tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito ·
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