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State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pension payments, and then pay for services. What we don't know is whether that order will be enforced. And ultimately, the busted state is going to be looking to the federal government for a bailout. Think Greece, but on a much bigger scale.

~Eugene Fama

Topics: Bailout Bigger Busted Constitutions Debt Enforced Federal Federal Government First Going Government Greece Know Looking Make Much Order Pay Payments Pension Provide Scale Service Services State Then Think Ultimately Whether Will

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The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Any Balances Becoming Branch Checks Checks And Balances Created Distrust Federal Federal Government Founders Government Had Power Powerful Prevent Strong Too

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Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others.

~Franklin Raines

Topics: About Affect Doctors Dollar Every Federal Federal Government Going Government Hospitals Now Other Others People Providers Real Real People Reductions Side Talk Well

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We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.

~Franklin Raines

Topics: Economy Federal Federal Government Government Growing Our Over Percent Private Same Same Time Shrinking Size Time

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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

~Gary Bauer

Topics: Always American Better Both Dependent Embrace Federal Federal Government Founders Government Idea Love Millions More Ought Our Power Return Small Small Government Time

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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

~Gary Coleman

Topics: About Absolutely Almost Any Eyes Federal Federal Government Government Impossible Over Pull Scam See Through Wool I Can

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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.

~Gavin Newsom

Topics: Anything Back Been Father Federal Federal Government Government Gun Hook Inability Mesmerized Safety Sandy Sat Since

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Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.

~George Allen

Topics: American Became Culmination Day Disconnected Election Election Day Federal Federal Government Government Priorities Resentment Saw Toward Values Years

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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: Believe Democrats Enemy Federal Federal Government Government Our Partner

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The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.

~George Packer

Topics: America Amount Corporate Corporate America Disgust Federal Federal Government Government Influence Limited Occupy Occupy Wall Street Over Party Politics Real Shared Similarities Street Tea Tea Party Usual Wall Wall Street

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