{"id":2538,"date":"2009-09-07T21:12:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T02:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2009-09-08T09:05:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:05:24","slug":"speaking-of-the-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of the School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. 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 congress.<br \/>\nJohn Adams<\/p>\n<p>2. If you don&#8217;t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.<br \/>\nMark Twain<\/p>\n<p>3. A government, which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of Paul.<br \/>\n George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n<p>4. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.<br \/>\nP.J. O&#8217;Rourke, Civil Libertarian<\/p>\n<p>5. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.<br \/>\nFrederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)<\/p>\n<p>6. I don&#8217;t make jokes.  I just watch the government and report the facts.<br \/>\nWill Rogers<\/p>\n<p>7.  Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn&#8217;t mean politics won&#8217;t take an interest in you.<br \/>\nPericles (430 B.C.)<\/p>\n<p>8. The government is like a baby&#8217;s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end, and no    responsibility at the other.<br \/>\nRonald Reagan <\/p>\n<p>9.  The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.<br \/>\nMark Twain<\/p>\n<p>10. What this country needs are more unemployed  politicians.<br \/>\nEdward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}