Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before.

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.