P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you.
O'Rourke, P. J. The CEO of the Sofa. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001.
Rodriquez was an indigenous Indian who came to power with the startling victory of Evo Morales, also an Indian in a country where the Indians comprise the majority of the population but have had virtually no political power and been discriminated against by Bolivian governments since the country became independent of Spain. Many whites feared the new elective revolution fearing that the Indian’s in government would turn the tables and do exactly what they had done in distributing the nation’s limited wealth—namely direct it primarily to the whites and elites to the relative exclusion of the Indians. Rodriguez claimed that the intention of their administration was otherwise.
Referring to the Public School System:
60 years later George Orwell would use the last line in his famous Animal Farm --- See {625338} .
He was one of those arguing for tha nation to award every American 15 pounds upon reaxhing the age of 18, This would allow the young man (it is not clear that this applied to females as well) to buy a basic start in life. A houirse, a gun, and the ability to buy a small plot of land. The proposal got lost in the events of the Revolution. The ancient middle age Jews had a custom whereby when a young man reached the age of 13, and could demonstrate that he was literate, and familiar with the Torah (1st 5 Books of the Old Testament which was for them the "law", he would be given gifts by his relatives and often the comminithy or congregation as a whole, so taht he had the wherewithall to start an adult life. Many of the founding fathers were very familiar with the Ancient Jewish Republic and some adopted a version of this.]
Patrick Jake O'Rourke is an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Since 2011, he has been a columnist at The Daily Beast.
