Found these wise words about the state of the world and politics.....:)

[pamsback]

The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound.
Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book,
and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."
Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BCE

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Irving Fisher, 1929

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy.
Anonymous drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.

It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson, speaking of the Equal Rights Amendment Mar. 22, 1930

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage;from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency;from dependency back again to bondage.
Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian

Politics is supposed be the second oldest profession.
I have come to realise that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
          Ronald Reagan

Kind of gives you a perspective doesn't it? LOL The more things change the more they stay the same!

[Catwoman]

There truly is nothing new under the sun...Thank you for reminding me about that...You are always great at bringing perspective...I've missed having you here! 

[pamsback]

 

[pamsback]

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
                                        Paul Valery 1871-1945

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680)

[Wilma]

Boy, is that last one ever true.