[kenberg]

Reading about the latest scheme involving 800 billion, I started wondering how some famous quotes might be updated or appliede:

Ev Dirksen: A hundred billion here and a hundred billion there and pretty soon we are talking about real money.

Richard Nixon: I am not an investment banker.

John Kennedy: Ask not what your banker can do for you, ask what you can do for your banker.


Harry Truman: The buck stops here, not that a buck is worth anything anymore. (Yes, I know it was a different sort of buck.)


Franklin Roosevelt: We have nothing to fear but fear itself, and this scares the crap out of me.

Teddy Roosevelt: President Bush means well, he just means well feebly (Substitute Bush->Taft to get the historical quote).

Herbert Hoover: It's deja vu all over again.

Calvin Coolidge (Silent Cal):.............

Mark Twain needs no updating: Dear Reader, imagine that you are a senator and imagine that you are an idiot. But then I repeat myself.

[barmar]

A foolish government and its money are soon parted.

[Winstonm]

I used to be a Rebublican - they drove me to drink - that is the one thing I am indebted to them for. - W.C. Fields

Thou Shalt Not Steal (Small) - Yaweh

We all share this small planet - owners and sharecroppers - and we all breath the same air - John Kennedy

I have always relied on the borrowing of strangers - Uncle Sam Dubois

[ASkolnick]

My favorite Mark Twain quote is the opposite of progress is Congress.

[Al_U_Card]

And here I thought congress was when both sides get screwed...