It’s Monday, August 3rd, 2015…and here’s The Gouge!<\/b><\/p>\n
First up,<\/strong>\u00a0a<\/strong>s contributors Jeff Foutch and Bill Meisen so accurately observed…<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>…it’s not that Debbie <em>can’t<\/em> answer the question, she <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">won’t<\/span><\/em>; because there <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>IS<\/em><\/span> no difference between a Socialist and a modern Dimocrat, be they Sanders, Clinton, Warren, or O’Money. \u00a0And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>THAT<\/em><\/span>, friends, The Obamao’s devastating depredations notwithstanding,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>STILL<\/em><\/span> doesn’t play in Peoria!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of the worst plague visited upon America since Lyndon Baines Johnson…<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2015\/08\/02\/unreal-gun-used-in-garland-terror-attack-sold-through-operation-fast-and-furious-n2033510\">Gun Used in Terror Attack on Mohammed Cartoon Contest Sold Through Operation Fast and Furious<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-holder-deceived-nation-fast-furious-mexican-violence-b-politics-1367623193.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-holder-deceived-nation-fast-furious-mexican-violence-b-politics-1367623193-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"obama-holder-deceived-nation-fast-furious-mexican-violence-b-politics-1367623193\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-holder-deceived-nation-fast-furious-mexican-violence-b-politics-1367623193-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-holder-deceived-nation-fast-furious-mexican-violence-b-politics-1367623193-600x617.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-holder-deceived-nation-fast-furious-mexican-violence-b-politics-1367623193.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We’re shocked…<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shocked<\/em><\/span>…the Obamao’s Administration would play a part in the murder of Americans:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/border-patrol-agent-brian-terry-u-s-ambassador-chris-stevens-both-killed-by-barack-obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/border-patrol-agent-brian-terry-u-s-ambassador-chris-stevens-both-killed-by-barack-obama.jpg\" alt=\"border-patrol-agent-brian-terry-u-s-ambassador-chris-stevens-both-killed-by-barack-obama\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/border-patrol-agent-brian-terry-u-s-ambassador-chris-stevens-both-killed-by-barack-obama.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/border-patrol-agent-brian-terry-u-s-ambassador-chris-stevens-both-killed-by-barack-obama-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not to mention the inevitable fallout of his pernicious policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item of Progressive prevarication, as Katie Pavlich reports at\u00a0<em>Townhall.com<\/em>…<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2015\/07\/31\/we-now-know-where-lois-lerners-harddrive-was-destroyed-n2033071\">We Now Know Where Lois Lerner’s Emails and Backup Tapes Were Destroyed<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ObamaLerner.1-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ObamaLerner.1-11.jpg\" alt=\"ObamaLerner.1-11\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ObamaLerner.1-11.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ObamaLerner.1-11-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">“There have been dozens of questions surrounding the disappearance of emails belonging to former IRS official Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the IRS targeting scandal. Some of Lerner’s emails have been recovered, after IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said under oath they were lost forever. 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of West Virginia and Kentucky.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/myworkhereisdone14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/myworkhereisdone14.jpg\" alt=\"myworkhereisdone\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/myworkhereisdone14.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/myworkhereisdone14-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Yet still the they cling to the claim their policies will <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">reduce energy costs<\/span><\/em> while <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>improving grid reliability<\/em><\/span>; you know…similar to the impact of Obamacare on your health insurance rates and quality of medical care!!! \u00a0So how does this square with their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>own estimation<\/em><\/span> the increased CO2 standards will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>raise<\/em><\/span> electricity rates a minimum of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>4.9%<\/em><\/span> by 2020…not to mention <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>closing<\/em><\/span> every non-conforming coal-fired plant <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in the country<\/em><\/span>?!? \u00a0Yeah…that ought to work!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, though by their own under-estimations Team Tick-Tock forecasts their emissions limits will cost consumer $8.8 billion a year by 2030, in exchange, the biggest liars in U.S. history assure Americans they will experience significantly fewer extreme weather patterns and asthma attacks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XierBpLGgwQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the words of the immortal Frank Gorshin, riddle us this, Obamaman: since new, more efficient plants have been replacing older ones since 2005, and have supposedly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reduced CO2 emissions by some 13% to date<\/em><\/span>…has America experienced a commensurate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>decrease<\/em><\/span> in “extreme weather patterns and escalating health problems like asthma?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We didn’t think so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, courtesy of <em>Townhall.com<\/em>, John Hawkins recounts the wisdom of a man possessed of more wisdom and common sense in his little finger than Barry Obama in his oversized ears…or his wife’s bloated backside:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In Honor of His 103rd Birthday, Here Are The 20 Best Quotes From The Late, Great Milton Friedman<\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RWsx1X8PV_A\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yesterday would have been the 103<sup>rd<\/sup>birthday of Milton Friedman, who was one of the most brilliant economists of the last century. In honor of Friedman, here are his 20 best quotes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">20)<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> \u201cA society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">19) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cBecause we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery. The nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the Western world stand out as striking exceptions to the general trend of historical development. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Political freedom in this instance clearly came along with the free market and the development of capitalist institutions<\/em><\/span><em>.<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>So also did political freedom in the golden age of Greece and in the early days of the Roman era<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">18) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cIt is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. <em>If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promised a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Then it really is an impossible thing<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">17) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cSo that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">16) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>“When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction<\/em><\/span>\u2026”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">15) <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">“The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly – whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who is eager to sell to him. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Alternative sources of supply protect the consumer far more effectively than all the Ralph Naders of the world<\/em><\/span>.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">14) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>“Two major arguments are offered for introducing socialized medicine in the United States: first, that medical costs are beyond the means of most Americans; second that socialization will somehow reduce costs. <em>The second can be dismissed out of hand — <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at least until someone can find some example of an activity that is conducted more economically by the government than private enterprise<\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">As to the first, the people of the country must pay the costs one way or the other; the only question is whether they pay them directly on their own behalf, or indirectly through the mediation of government bureaucrats who will subtract a substantial slice for their own salaries and expenses<\/span><\/em>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">13) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>“<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program<\/em><\/span>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">12) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>“The supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If all we want are jobs, we can create any number – for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. <em>Our real objective is not just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">jobs<\/span> but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">productive jobs<\/span> – <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">jobs that will mean more goods and services to consume<\/span><\/em>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">11) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>“<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible<\/em><\/span>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">10) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>“There is all the difference in the world, however, between two kinds of assistance through government that seem superficially similar: first, 90 percent of us agreeing to impose taxes on ourselves in order to help the bottom 10 percent, and second, 80 percent voting to impose taxes on the top 10 percent to help the bottom 10 percent – William Graham Sumner’s famous example of B and C decided what D shall do for A. <em>The first may be wise or unwise, an effective or ineffective way to help the disadvantaged – <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but it is consistent with belief in both equality of opportunity and liberty<\/span>. The second seeks equality of outcome <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and is entirely antithetical to liberty<\/span><\/em>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">9) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>“When the United States was formed in 1776, it took 19 people on the farm to produce enough food for 20 people. So most of the people had to spend their time and efforts on growing food. Today, it’s down to 1% or 2% to produce that food. Now just consider the vast amount of supposed unemployment that was produced by that. But there wasn’t really any unemployment produced. <em>What happened was that people who had formerly been tied up working in agriculture were freed by technological developments and improvements to do something else. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That enabled us to have a better standard of living and a more extensive range of products<\/span><\/em>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">8) <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tentacles and get bad results elsewhere<\/em><\/span>.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">7)\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cWe economists don’t know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. <em>If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">just pass a law that retailers can’t sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound<\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Instantly you’ll have a tomato shortage<\/span><\/em>. It’s the same with oil or gas.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">6) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cThe great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">5)<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong> “Workers paying taxes today can derive no assurance from trust funds that they will receive benefits from when they retire. Any assurance derives solely from the willingness of future taxpayers to impose taxes on themselves to pay for benefits that present taxpayers are promising themselves. This one sided ‘compact between the generations,\u2019 foisted on generations that cannot give their consent, is a very different thing from a ‘trust fund.’ It is more like a chain letter.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">4)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> “There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you\u2019re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I\u2019m not so careful about the content of the present, but I\u2019m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else\u2019s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else\u2019s money on myself, then I\u2019m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else\u2019s money on somebody else. <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And if I spend somebody else\u2019s money on somebody else, I\u2019m not concerned about how much it is, and I\u2019m not concerned about what I get<\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And that\u2019s government<\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And that\u2019s close to 40% of our national income<\/span><\/em>.”\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(And THAT was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>THEN<\/em><\/span>!!!)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">3) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it… <em>gives people what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">they<\/span> want instead of what a particular group <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thinks<\/span> they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ought<\/span> to want<\/em>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself<\/span>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2) <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand<\/em><\/span>.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cI do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side…<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMclr-080215-recoveries-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMclr-080215-recoveries-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg\" alt=\"RAMclr-080215-recoveries-IBD-COLOR-FINAL\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMclr-080215-recoveries-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMclr-080215-recoveries-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/payn_c13396520150731120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/payn_c13396520150731120100.jpg\" alt=\"payn_c13396520150731120100\" width=\"462\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/payn_c13396520150731120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/payn_c13396520150731120100-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMaclr-073115-jail-IBD-COLO_800.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMaclr-073115-jail-IBD-COLO_800.png\" alt=\"RAMaclr-073115-jail-IBD-COLO_800\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMaclr-073115-jail-IBD-COLO_800.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMaclr-073115-jail-IBD-COLO_800-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSig-Aug-30-Inhumanity20150730082210.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSig-Aug-30-Inhumanity20150730082210.jpg\" alt=\"DSig-Aug 30-Inhumanity20150730082210\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSig-Aug-30-Inhumanity20150730082210.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSig-Aug-30-Inhumanity20150730082210-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sbr073015dAPR20150730084515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sbr073015dAPR20150730084515.jpg\" alt=\"sbr073015dAPR20150730084515\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sbr073015dAPR20150730084515.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sbr073015dAPR20150730084515-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bg073015dAPR20150730024516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bg073015dAPR20150730024516.jpg\" alt=\"bg073015dAPR20150730024516\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bg073015dAPR20150730024516.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bg073015dAPR20150730024516-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lb0730cd20150729033724.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lb0730cd20150729033724.jpg\" alt=\"lb0730cd20150729033724\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lb0730cd20150729033724.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lb0730cd20150729033724-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-1.jpeg\" alt=\"download (1)\" width=\"492\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-1.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-1-300x271.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32518\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpeg\" alt=\"download (2)\" width=\"492\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2-300x289.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download.png\" alt=\"download\" width=\"500\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download.png 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-300x288.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, in <em>News of the Bizarre<\/em>, coming soon to a socialized Obamacare facility near you:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2015\/07\/31\/woman-wakes-from-hysterectomy-to-find-front-teeth-missing\/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork\" class=\"broken_link\">Woman wakes from hysterectomy to find front teeth missing<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2AF5BC1200000578-0-image-a-32_1438256067141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2AF5BC1200000578-0-image-a-32_1438256067141.jpg\" alt=\"2AF5BC1200000578-0-image-a-32_1438256067141\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2AF5BC1200000578-0-image-a-32_1438256067141.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2AF5BC1200000578-0-image-a-32_1438256067141-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">“<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>A woman in the UK who underwent a hysterectomy said she woke from surgery to find her doctor had removed two of her front teeth.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u201cI woke up from an operation with two teeth missing, and I cannot believe that I still have not been able to get a straight answer from the hospital,\u201d Clare Jones, 47, of Newcastle-under-Lyme told Metro.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">…<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Doctors allegedly could not account for her additional missing teeth…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/readyforthejob.jpg\" alt=\"readyforthejob\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>…<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">which has now led to an investigation<\/span><\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah…like Fast & Furious, the IRS, Benghazi, etc., etc., etc. ad infinitum ad nauseam!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>One brief administrative note: as Tuesday marks the 36th anniversary of our betrothal to TLJ, in the interests of marital bliss, we’ll be taking Wednesday off. \u00a0Catch you on Friday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It’s Monday, August 3rd, 2015…and here’s The Gouge! 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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>…it’s not that Debbie <em>can’t<\/em> answer the question, she <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">won’t<\/span><\/em>; because there <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>IS<\/em><\/span> no difference between a Socialist and a modern Dimocrat, be they Sanders, Clinton, Warren, or O’Money. \u00a0And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>THAT<\/em><\/span>, friends, The Obamao’s devastating depredations notwithstanding,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>STILL<\/em><\/span> doesn’t play in Peoria!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of the worst plague visited upon America since Lyndon Baines Johnson…<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2015\/08\/02\/unreal-gun-used-in-garland-terror-attack-sold-through-operation-fast-and-furious-n2033510\">Gun Used in Terror Attack on Mohammed Cartoon Contest Sold Through Operation Fast and Furious<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-holder-deceived-nation-fast-furious-mexican-violence-b-politics-1367623193.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-holder-deceived-nation-fast-furious-mexican-violence-b-politics-1367623193-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"obama-holder-deceived-nation-fast-furious-mexican-violence-b-politics-1367623193\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-holder-deceived-nation-fast-furious-mexican-violence-b-politics-1367623193-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-holder-deceived-nation-fast-furious-mexican-violence-b-politics-1367623193-600x617.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-holder-deceived-nation-fast-furious-mexican-violence-b-politics-1367623193.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We’re shocked…<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shocked<\/em><\/span>…the Obamao’s Administration would play a part in the murder of Americans:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/border-patrol-agent-brian-terry-u-s-ambassador-chris-stevens-both-killed-by-barack-obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/border-patrol-agent-brian-terry-u-s-ambassador-chris-stevens-both-killed-by-barack-obama.jpg\" alt=\"border-patrol-agent-brian-terry-u-s-ambassador-chris-stevens-both-killed-by-barack-obama\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/border-patrol-agent-brian-terry-u-s-ambassador-chris-stevens-both-killed-by-barack-obama.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/border-patrol-agent-brian-terry-u-s-ambassador-chris-stevens-both-killed-by-barack-obama-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not to mention the inevitable fallout of his pernicious policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item of Progressive prevarication, as Katie Pavlich reports at\u00a0<em>Townhall.com<\/em>…<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2015\/07\/31\/we-now-know-where-lois-lerners-harddrive-was-destroyed-n2033071\">We Now Know Where Lois Lerner’s Emails and Backup Tapes Were Destroyed<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ObamaLerner.1-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ObamaLerner.1-11.jpg\" alt=\"ObamaLerner.1-11\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ObamaLerner.1-11.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ObamaLerner.1-11-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">“There have been dozens of questions surrounding the disappearance of emails belonging to former IRS official Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the IRS targeting scandal. Some of Lerner’s emails have been recovered, after IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said under oath they were lost forever. 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set to announce steeper emissions cuts from US power plants<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cartoon-epa_rules.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cartoon-epa_rules.jpg\" alt=\"cartoon-epa_rules\" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cartoon-epa_rules.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cartoon-epa_rules-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">“President Barack Obama will impose steeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country than previously expected, senior administration officials said Sunday, in what the president called the most significant step the U.S. has ever taken to fight global warming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Obama administration is expected to finalize the rule at a White House event on Monday, a year after proposing unprecedented carbon dioxide limits. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Obama, in a video posted on Facebook, said the limits were backed up by decades of data and facts showing that without tough action, the world will face<em> more extreme weather <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> escalating health problems like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">asthma<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">“Climate change is not a problem for another generation,” Obama said. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">“<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Not anymore<\/em><\/span>.”<\/span><\/span><\/strong>…”<\/p>\n<p><strong>For <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>once<\/em><\/span> this lying piece of Socialist sh*t is telling the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>truth<\/em><\/span>; he actually\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> trying to make the junk science of climate change a problem for this generation. \u00a0Just ask…<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/KING-C-War-on-Coal20140603070101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/KING-C-War-on-Coal20140603070101.jpg\" alt=\"KING-C-War on Coal20140603070101\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/KING-C-War-on-Coal20140603070101.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/KING-C-War-on-Coal20140603070101-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>…the good citizens of West Virginia and Kentucky.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/myworkhereisdone14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/myworkhereisdone14.jpg\" alt=\"myworkhereisdone\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/myworkhereisdone14.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/myworkhereisdone14-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Yet still the they cling to the claim their policies will <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">reduce energy costs<\/span><\/em> while <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>improving grid reliability<\/em><\/span>; you know…similar to the impact of Obamacare on your health insurance rates and quality of medical care!!! \u00a0So how does this square with their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>own estimation<\/em><\/span> the increased CO2 standards will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>raise<\/em><\/span> electricity rates a minimum of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>4.9%<\/em><\/span> by 2020…not to mention <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>closing<\/em><\/span> every non-conforming coal-fired plant <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in the country<\/em><\/span>?!? \u00a0Yeah…that ought to work!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, though by their own under-estimations Team Tick-Tock forecasts their emissions limits will cost consumer $8.8 billion a year by 2030, in exchange, the biggest liars in U.S. history assure Americans they will experience significantly fewer extreme weather patterns and asthma attacks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XierBpLGgwQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the words of the immortal Frank Gorshin, riddle us this, Obamaman: since new, more efficient plants have been replacing older ones since 2005, and have supposedly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reduced CO2 emissions by some 13% to date<\/em><\/span>…has America experienced a commensurate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>decrease<\/em><\/span> in “extreme weather patterns and escalating health problems like asthma?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We didn’t think so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, courtesy of <em>Townhall.com<\/em>, John Hawkins recounts the wisdom of a man possessed of more wisdom and common sense in his little finger than Barry Obama in his oversized ears…or his wife’s bloated backside:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In Honor of His 103rd Birthday, Here Are The 20 Best Quotes From The Late, Great Milton Friedman<\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RWsx1X8PV_A\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yesterday would have been the 103<sup>rd<\/sup>birthday of Milton Friedman, who was one of the most brilliant economists of the last century. In honor of Friedman, here are his 20 best quotes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">20)<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> \u201cA society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">19) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cBecause we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery. The nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the Western world stand out as striking exceptions to the general trend of historical development. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Political freedom in this instance clearly came along with the free market and the development of capitalist institutions<\/em><\/span><em>.<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>So also did political freedom in the golden age of Greece and in the early days of the Roman era<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">18) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cIt is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. <em>If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promised a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Then it really is an impossible thing<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">17) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cSo that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">16) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>“When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction<\/em><\/span>\u2026”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">15) <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">“The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly – whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who is eager to sell to him. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Alternative sources of supply protect the consumer far more effectively than all the Ralph Naders of the world<\/em><\/span>.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">14) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>“Two major arguments are offered for introducing socialized medicine in the United States: first, that medical costs are beyond the means of most Americans; second that socialization will somehow reduce costs. <em>The second can be dismissed out of hand — <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at least until someone can find some example of an activity that is conducted more economically by the government than private enterprise<\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">As to the first, the people of the country must pay the costs one way or the other; the only question is whether they pay them directly on their own behalf, or indirectly through the mediation of government bureaucrats who will subtract a substantial slice for their own salaries and expenses<\/span><\/em>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">13) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>“<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program<\/em><\/span>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">12) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>“The supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If all we want are jobs, we can create any number – for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. <em>Our real objective is not just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">jobs<\/span> but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">productive jobs<\/span> – <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">jobs that will mean more goods and services to consume<\/span><\/em>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">11) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>“<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible<\/em><\/span>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">10) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>“There is all the difference in the world, however, between two kinds of assistance through government that seem superficially similar: first, 90 percent of us agreeing to impose taxes on ourselves in order to help the bottom 10 percent, and second, 80 percent voting to impose taxes on the top 10 percent to help the bottom 10 percent – William Graham Sumner’s famous example of B and C decided what D shall do for A. <em>The first may be wise or unwise, an effective or ineffective way to help the disadvantaged – <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but it is consistent with belief in both equality of opportunity and liberty<\/span>. The second seeks equality of outcome <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and is entirely antithetical to liberty<\/span><\/em>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">9) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>“When the United States was formed in 1776, it took 19 people on the farm to produce enough food for 20 people. So most of the people had to spend their time and efforts on growing food. Today, it’s down to 1% or 2% to produce that food. Now just consider the vast amount of supposed unemployment that was produced by that. But there wasn’t really any unemployment produced. <em>What happened was that people who had formerly been tied up working in agriculture were freed by technological developments and improvements to do something else. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That enabled us to have a better standard of living and a more extensive range of products<\/span><\/em>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">8) <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tentacles and get bad results elsewhere<\/em><\/span>.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">7)\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cWe economists don’t know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. <em>If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">just pass a law that retailers can’t sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound<\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Instantly you’ll have a tomato shortage<\/span><\/em>. It’s the same with oil or gas.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">6) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cThe great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">5)<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong> “Workers paying taxes today can derive no assurance from trust funds that they will receive benefits from when they retire. Any assurance derives solely from the willingness of future taxpayers to impose taxes on themselves to pay for benefits that present taxpayers are promising themselves. This one sided ‘compact between the generations,\u2019 foisted on generations that cannot give their consent, is a very different thing from a ‘trust fund.’ It is more like a chain letter.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">4)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> “There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you\u2019re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I\u2019m not so careful about the content of the present, but I\u2019m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else\u2019s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else\u2019s money on myself, then I\u2019m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else\u2019s money on somebody else. <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And if I spend somebody else\u2019s money on somebody else, I\u2019m not concerned about how much it is, and I\u2019m not concerned about what I get<\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And that\u2019s government<\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And that\u2019s close to 40% of our national income<\/span><\/em>.”\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(And THAT was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>THEN<\/em><\/span>!!!)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">3) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it… <em>gives people what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">they<\/span> want instead of what a particular group <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thinks<\/span> they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ought<\/span> to want<\/em>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself<\/span>.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2) <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand<\/em><\/span>.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cI do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side…<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMclr-080215-recoveries-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMclr-080215-recoveries-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg\" alt=\"RAMclr-080215-recoveries-IBD-COLOR-FINAL\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMclr-080215-recoveries-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMclr-080215-recoveries-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/payn_c13396520150731120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/payn_c13396520150731120100.jpg\" alt=\"payn_c13396520150731120100\" width=\"462\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/payn_c13396520150731120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/payn_c13396520150731120100-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMaclr-073115-jail-IBD-COLO_800.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMaclr-073115-jail-IBD-COLO_800.png\" alt=\"RAMaclr-073115-jail-IBD-COLO_800\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMaclr-073115-jail-IBD-COLO_800.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RAMaclr-073115-jail-IBD-COLO_800-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSig-Aug-30-Inhumanity20150730082210.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSig-Aug-30-Inhumanity20150730082210.jpg\" alt=\"DSig-Aug 30-Inhumanity20150730082210\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSig-Aug-30-Inhumanity20150730082210.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSig-Aug-30-Inhumanity20150730082210-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sbr073015dAPR20150730084515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sbr073015dAPR20150730084515.jpg\" alt=\"sbr073015dAPR20150730084515\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sbr073015dAPR20150730084515.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sbr073015dAPR20150730084515-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bg073015dAPR20150730024516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bg073015dAPR20150730024516.jpg\" alt=\"bg073015dAPR20150730024516\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bg073015dAPR20150730024516.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bg073015dAPR20150730024516-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lb0730cd20150729033724.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lb0730cd20150729033724.jpg\" alt=\"lb0730cd20150729033724\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lb0730cd20150729033724.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/lb0730cd20150729033724-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-1.jpeg\" alt=\"download (1)\" width=\"492\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-1.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-1-300x271.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32518\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpeg\" alt=\"download (2)\" width=\"492\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2-300x289.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download.png\" alt=\"download\" width=\"500\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download.png 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-300x288.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, in <em>News of the Bizarre<\/em>, coming soon to a socialized Obamacare facility near you:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2015\/07\/31\/woman-wakes-from-hysterectomy-to-find-front-teeth-missing\/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork\" class=\"broken_link\">Woman wakes from hysterectomy to find front teeth missing<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2AF5BC1200000578-0-image-a-32_1438256067141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2AF5BC1200000578-0-image-a-32_1438256067141.jpg\" alt=\"2AF5BC1200000578-0-image-a-32_1438256067141\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2AF5BC1200000578-0-image-a-32_1438256067141.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2AF5BC1200000578-0-image-a-32_1438256067141-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">“<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>A woman in the UK who underwent a hysterectomy said she woke from surgery to find her doctor had removed two of her front teeth.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u201cI woke up from an operation with two teeth missing, and I cannot believe that I still have not been able to get a straight answer from the hospital,\u201d Clare Jones, 47, of Newcastle-under-Lyme told Metro.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">…<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Doctors allegedly could not account for her additional missing teeth…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/readyforthejob.jpg\" alt=\"readyforthejob\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>…<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">which has now led to an investigation<\/span><\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah…like Fast & Furious, the IRS, Benghazi, etc., etc., etc. ad infinitum ad nauseam!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>One brief administrative note: as Tuesday marks the 36th anniversary of our betrothal to TLJ, in the interests of marital bliss, we’ll be taking Wednesday off. \u00a0Catch you on Friday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It’s Monday, August 3rd, 2015…and here’s The Gouge! First up,\u00a0as contributors Jeff Foutch and Bill Meisen so accurately observed… …it’s not that Debbie can’t answer the question, she won’t; because there IS no difference between a Socialist and a modern Dimocrat, be they Sanders, Clinton, Warren, or O’Money. \u00a0And THAT, friends, The Obamao’s devastating depredations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32567,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32566\/revisions\/32567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}