25 October 2012 - Granite Grok

October 25, 2012

Notable Quote – George McGovern

“GOVERNMENT HAS BECOME so vast and impersonal,” the presidential challenger asserted, “that its interests diverge more and more from the interests of ordinary citizens. For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has …

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Data Point – Growth in Educational Staffing Has Far outpaced Student Enrollment

The last three or four years of my time on my hamlet’s budget Committee, I constantly harped on the School Board and Administration with this question: What is your ratio of indirect  to direct labor? In other words, how many (and the cost) were actually teaching students versus those that weren’t?  I saw that enrollments …

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Paul Ryan on Poverty

“The mindset behind this approach is that a nation should measure compassion by the size of the federal government and how much it spends….The problem is, starting in the 1960s, this top-down approach created and perpetuated a debilitating culture of dependency, wrecking families and communities.” “There’s a vast middle ground between the government and the …

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Party Of Science and Technology Hits Way-Back Machine For Benghazi Cover-Up

I still have an election 2010 bumper sticker on my car that say’s “Take Back America.”   Last week I saw a bumper sticker, clearly designed to counter that idea “Take American back where?” with a list of dates traveling into antiquity.  The left thinks they are the party of science, progress.  They tell themselves …

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