This'n'That; November 25th [Policitics;Quotations]

It's The Economy, Stupid!! Remember the "Slick Willie" mantra.......? well it's gonna apply for YEARS!! I found some quotes from some famous folks that apply in today's economic turmoil. If these folks of the "geezer" classification had it figured out so many years ago, why can't today's American and global leaders? Do they not understand that if they have no knowledge of past failings, they are destined to repeat them? "Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury." "[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers." Herbert Hoover [1874-1964], 31st U.S. President [1929-1933] "The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919], 26th U.S. President [1901-1909] "Agriculture,manufacture[r]s,commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise." Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826], 3rd U.S. President [1801-1809]-1st annual message to Congress, Dec 8,1801. "You must pay at last your own debt. If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more." Ralph Waldo Emmerson [1803-1882], American essayist, poet, philosopher. "The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961], American author. Til Nex'time..............