Check out this Will Rogers quote:

[chknltl]

"Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it. " (WR.)

[freshwest]

1. Good one. (I can't find what he said about Republicans 'stealing with both hands,' it's scrubbed.

He was an icon from a simpler time with freer minds.

[ananda]

2. This one's pretty good.

WILL ROGERS, Never Met a Man I Didn't Like

As a young boy, I didn't know a Republican from a Democrat, only in one way: If some man or bunch of men rode up to the ranch to sit or stay all night, and my Father set me to watching 'em all the time they was there -- what they did and what they carried off -- I learned they were Republicans.

[ananda]

3. And this one.

WILL ROGERS, Never Met a Man I Didn't Like

The Republicans always looked bad three years out of four. But the year they look good is election year. A voter don't expect much. If you give him one good year he is satisfied.


Nowadays, do they ever look good?

[freshwest]

5. Thanks, ananda, those are both good! Saving to share later.

And this one from Occupy, good description:



And don't they get away with it every time. Most folks don't have very long attention spans, do they?

[barbtries]

4. the rich get richer,

the poor get poorer. my mother used to say that all the time (staunch republican she was though she lived through the depression). i've been saying it quite often since reagan was president. now i know where it came from. will rogers.

thanks!

[Kablooie]

6. Things never change.