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“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”
Professor Milton Friedman
Professor Milton Friedman
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." – P.J. O'Rourke
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." – Anon
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." – H.L. Mencken
"The power to tax is the power to destroy." – John Marshall
"The government was set to protect man from criminals – and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government." – Ayn Rand
"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin." – Mark Twain
No, actually I like all of them. Especially the one about the tax man.