Three contractors bid on the White House fence. One is from Chicago, another from Kentucky, and the third is from New Orleans.
All three go with a White House official to examine the fence.
The New Orleans contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil.
“Well,” he says, “I figure the job will run about $9,000. That’s $4,000 for materials, $4,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me.”
The Kentucky contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, “I can do this job for $7,000. That’s $3,000 for materials, $3,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me.”
The Chicago contractor doesn’t measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, “$27,000.”
The official, incredulous, says, “You didn’t even measure like the other guys. How did you come up with such a high figure?”
The Chicago contractor whispers back, “$10,000 for me, $10,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Kentucky to fix the fence.”
“Done!” replies the government official.
And that, my friends, is how the Government Stimulus plan worked.
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the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski
Well washed and combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. - Francis Galton
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers
Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman
Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. - Robin Williams
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton
Bob War: (Southern) A sharp, twisted cable. Usage: 'Boy, stay away from that bob war fence.' - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get it. - Arthur Brisbane
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson
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Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro
It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett
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The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin
Finance functions lose the potential to steer their organizations to success when they defer performance management to other functions. - Jack Alexander
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov
There will be no whitewash at the White House. - Richard M Nixon
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski
Well washed and combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. - Francis Galton
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers
Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman
Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. - Robin Williams
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton
Bob War: (Southern) A sharp, twisted cable. Usage: 'Boy, stay away from that bob war fence.' - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get it. - Arthur Brisbane
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan
Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro
It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett
We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner
My girlfriend wants me to stain the new wooden fence in her backyard. So I'm going to eat spaghetti over it for a few weeks. - Rick Lantern
The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin
Finance functions lose the potential to steer their organizations to success when they defer performance management to other functions. - Jack Alexander
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge
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