"Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program" (fwd)

[Fred Shapiro]

I am posting this message for Barry Popik.

Fred Shapiro


LASTS LONGER + TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT PROGRAM--12 Google hits, 3 Google
Groups hits PERMANENT + TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT PROGRAM--875 Google hits, 260
Google Groups hits + FRIEDMAN--829 Google hits, 228 Google Groups hits
Sunrise, Sunset + REAGAN--92 Google hits, 15 Google Groups hits


Today's NEW YORK SUN attributed this quotation to Ronald Reagan. As usual,
the SUN is probably wrong.

If I write in, it won't be published. You know how these things work.
Hell, I wrote in to the GLOBE AND MAIL and told them that "the Big Apple"
doesn't come from whores. Nothing. My whole life is like this.

This quotation has been listed as one of the most important that Bartlett
left out. But is "permanent" really "lasts longer," and is the author
really Milton Friedman? And when?

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We were reminded of President Reagan's old aphorism, "There is nothing so
permanent as a temporary government program," when we learned that Mayor
Bloomberg may have to break his promises to New York taxpayers. "The
personal income tax is going to sunset on schedule," Mr. Bloomberg told
New Yorkers in his January 2004 State of the City address. "The sales tax
surcharge will also be phased out as scheduled."


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"Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program."
-August 8, 1992

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A sampling of quotes that conservative editor Adam Meyerson says should
have been included in Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations":

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program." - Milton
Friedman.

"You spend a billion here and a billion there. Sooner or later it adds up
to real money." - Everett Dirksen.

"Let us beware that while they (Soviet rulers) preach the supremacy of the
state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its
eventual domination over all the peoples of the earth, they are the focus
of evil in the modern world. ... I urge you to beware the temptation ...
to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of any evil
empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby
remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil."
- Ronald Reagan.

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it
stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan.

"They have the usual socialist disease; they have run out of other
people's money." - Margaret Thatcher.

"When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the
San Francisco Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet
allies, they blame United States policies of 100 years ago. But then they
always blame America first." - Jeane Kirkpatrick.

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to
take it all away." - Barry Goldwater.

(GOOGLE GROUPS) Re: Get Back on Welfare Where You Belong! ... As Milton
Friedman reminds us, "There is nothing so permanent as a temporary
government program." Anyway, forcing people together (particularly in a
way which ...  talk.politics.misc - Apr 26, 1992 by Chris Struble - View
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