What is the most stupid thing the Government has ever said. One item per post please. I will start

Originally posted by FlyersFan
Stupidest things said in the government ....
"As president I will _____________" Fill in the blank with whatever.
Each time someone says this on the POTUS campaign trail .. you know it won't happen.


BTW .. EXCELLENT THREAD!!

It'll probably end up being the longest thread ATS has ever had!

I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE! But it's the fact that its not a negative or a doom n gloom thread that makes it so special

Originally posted by new_here
And finally...

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... uh... uhh... we won't get fooled again."

(yup... another Bushism)

Looks like you combined half of a Bush-ism with some lyrics from The Who, friend! Nice!

Lima-1, out.

"YYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Originally posted by OperationIraqiFailure

Originally posted by new_here
And finally...

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... uh... uhh... we won't get fooled again."

(yup... another Bushism)

Looks like you combined half of a Bush-ism with some lyrics from The Who, friend! Nice!

Lima-1, out.

"YYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Oh no... he did it all by himself...

"JUST SAY NO!"
Nancy Reagan 1984?

"Everyone needs to pay their Fair Share" ??????????

Well what is it? They will never tell what is enough any person should pay in taxes, they say the rich who invest in corporations to build businesses and the rich who own facilities that employ employees should pay their fair share, but no one knows what that fair share is. So what is it? Is is 30% 40% 50% 90%, what is it?

And why shouldnt everyone across the board pay their fair share? People at or below the poverty line are not paying taxes, after they get their tax refund checks, even welfare people get these now too, the amount of money they get back from the government is drastically more than they ever paid in by payroll deductions etc.

Then they confuse the argument by including famous rich who do not work 9-5 jobs punching a time clock, they invest millions at a time to earn back millions over the long run, and usually pay about 15% of earnings, the media goes crazy after them, but not explaining to the stupid viewers the money they earn back on investments is not absolute, they could lose it all and get nothing back. But all the stupid viewers who are on the time clocks are guaranteed their salary no matter if the company is earning a profit for that week or not.

My conclusion is that the only Fair Share is the Fair Tax. No more payroll deductions from anyone punching a time clock, no more net vs gross pay, your entire gross pay is what you take to the bank. And the investors stay right where they are at 15%. Then the entire taxes for the nation is exactly the sales tax of whereever everyone happens to shop. walmart shoppers pay walmart type taxes, the rich pay rich luxury taxes where they shop. And everyone gets paid to them from the government the yearly amount they would pay out for food clothing etc, by the Pre-tax adjustment of the Fair Tax. And the IRS gets abolished, gutted to the core, they would never be able to audit any individual except for criminal proceedings, and all of the 16,000 IRS Agents who have been hired to enforce the Obama-Care mandate will be out of work there, looking for other employment without harassing citizens.

So before you rant and ravers take this comment by me apart piece by piece with all your infinite knowledge, answer this one basic question in one sentence please.

WHAT IS A PERSONS FAIR SHARE THEY SHOULD PAY! AT WHAT POINT DOES IT END! WHEN IS IT EVER ENOUGH!

we are not in a depression

Originally posted by RoScoLaz
"There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.
There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know.”

—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

I actually think that is a good one, which part of it would you disagree with?

"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."
Tony Blair quote

"We will not close any bases that are not needed." -- Les Aspin, secretary of defense

IDK if this has already been posted but haven't seen it yet...

"I can almost see Russia from my yard" Sarah Palin. God bless her. (Yes I really like the lady)
2nd line

“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.”

Newt Gingrich said during a speech in the city of Cocoa, on Florida’s Space Coast, in January 2012.

That was his answer to stimulating the economy BTW Moon bases...

"It isn't pollution that is hurting the environment,
it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
-Dan Quayle

Forgot this classic


"I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running the government." -- Frances "Sissy" Farenthold, Texas state representative, Democrat

"Mission Accomplished"

"Potatoe"
-Dan Quayle

"The money will trickle down"

The entire 9-11 Commission Report.

Originally posted by nighthawk1954
"Potatoe"
-Dan Quayle

So thats where keith lemon got it from !

yeh how about

"the war on drugs "

You guys gotta stop picking on Bush. Either he isn't that smart to lie well or he really doesn't like to lie. His mess ups are really easy to see, I don't think that's bad, at least we could tell when he was telling a fib. I actually kind of like Bush, he'd fit right in at deer camp. Wouldn't want to have his vice president at camp though, enough people get hurt in the woods already.

“In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals, like in your country." – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, referring to the USA while addressing Columbia University. Pretty classic.