Bilderberg Issues

The 58th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sitges, Spain 3 - 6 June 2010. The Conference will deal mainly with Financial Reform, Security, Cyber Technology, Energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, World Food Problem, Global Cooling, Social Networking, Medical Science, EU-US relations.

Bilderberg Press Release (2010)

Government Waste

It could also be argued that governments have repeatedly followed Keynes's tongue-in-cheek advice to pour money down a hole in the ground, and that the amount of money wasted in this way, if properly invested, might by now have pulled the entire world out of poverty. 

Hunter Lewis (2009, Where Keynes Went Wrong)

Personal Responsibility and Voting

Not one of all the ten millions of voters who helped to place [a person] in power would have dared to do so if he had known that he was to be held personally responsible before any just tribunal for the acts of those for whom he voted

Lysander Spooner (1886,  A Letter to Grover Cleveland)

Taking the Bait

 As long as Republicans say they are pro-life, support endless wars in Muslim countries, and compare themselves to the evil Democrats instead of some worthwhile standard, the majority of conservative Christians take the bait, only to be disappointed yet again when the election is over.

 Laurence Vance (2010)

Chestnuts

Let the British get their own chestnuts out of the fire

~1940 (American Isolationist or Non-Interventionist Phrase, according to Gore Vidal)

Purcashing Votes

Our politicians do not purchase votes, they advocate "social" programs.  It comes to the same thing.

Frank Chodorov (1959, The Rise & Fall of Society)