If we wanted to eliminate the national debt: Reduce tax breaks for the wealthy (repeal Bush/Tя☭mp tax cuts), remove Social Security tax ceiling; remove loopholes for corporations, reduce wasteful spending by military, stop underfunding the IRS. Understand the GQP is trying to weaken the government.

“The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.” - Montesquieu

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged." - William O. Douglas

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exist." - Hannah Arendt

”Remind yourself that the world is what we make it, and that to the making of it each one of us can contribute something. This thought makes hope possible: and in this hope, though life will still be painful, it will be no longer purposeless.”— Bertrand Russell

Two aliens are up in space looking down on earth. One says to the other: "I see humans have computer guided nuclear missles." "Ah, an emerging intelligence?" says the other. "I don't think so. All the weapons are pointed at themselves."

“I never quite understood why we have to let religion and politics and things like that stand in the way of just being good human beings.” - Dolly Parton, 2022 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Award Recipient

“Zuckerberg's announcement that Facebook and Instagram will soon cease fact-checking is such a stellar model of villainous doublespeak that George Orwell would have thought it was a bit much.” - Amanda Marcotte
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“If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your own path”. -Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

“There are men everywhere who would sell out humanity for their own personal profit. There are stupid and emotional masses everywhere who can be found to follow them, given a few slogans and some nice uniforms.”—Bella Fromm, Blood & Banquets

“Instead of buying your children the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught.” - Bruce Lee

"The Tao of heaven is to take from those who have too much
and give to those who do not have enough.
Man's way is different.
He takes from those who do not have enough
to give to those who already have too much."

Lao Tsu

I could see the white man did not care for each other the way that our people did…They would take everything from each other if they could...some…had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all. This could not be better than the old ways of my people. ~Black Elk

“Love me with a feeling, or I got to find someone who will.”

“The elders were wise. They knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.” - Chief Luther Standing Bear