Criminal Government is Not New

From Ken Burman:

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that  one useless man is a shame,  two is a law firm and three or more is a government. 
  John  Adams
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.  
   Mark  Twain
Suppose you were an idiot.  And suppose you were a member of government.  But then I repeat myself. 
   Mark Twain
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into  prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the  handle. 
    Winston Churchill
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
   George Bernard Shaw
Foreign aid might be defined as a  transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
   Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
Giving money and power to  government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
     P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
      Frederic Bastiat, French economist (1801-1850)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the  government and report the facts. 
    Will Rogers
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
      P.J. O'Rourke
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.  
      Voltaire (1764)
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
       Pericles (430  B.C.)
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
      Mark Twain   (1866)
Talk is cheap ... except when government does it.
       Anonymous
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the  other.
      Ronald Reagan
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
      Mark Twain
There is no distinctly Native American  criminal class...save government.  
      Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
      Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
A  government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.  
      Thomas Jefferson
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
      Aesop 

Save these epigrams and return to them.  Any era and location has the same story: collectivism becomes a way to steal. We had a good republic for a little while which saved us; now, we are branded cattle. 

It really is time to withdraw from the concept of government.  It is easy to do and not necessary. Just stop feeding it and remove all connections.  Don't buy things with a tax on them; especially drive as little as possible. Starve the beast.  The beast will turn on us to find more  money, but don't have any available. Indeed, take money from the beast when it offers it to you for your vote.

Of course, then vote against ALL professional politicians.  All of them. Party is irrelevant.  

This is better than refusing to vote as the oligarchy could care less. So, take out the puppets in the short term.

A good project is to organize friends in your area and take out local sycophants. Your votes will have great weight and all change must come from the bottom.