Subsidizing Quotes

I`m not going to give you those I-was-a-poor-boy-and-I-pulled-myself-up-by-my-bootstraps-stories, but I`ve gone without a meal or two in my lifetime, and I still don`t expect the government to turn over any of its territory to me. Hard times aren`t something I can blame my fellow citizens for. Years ago, I didn`t have all the opportunities, either. But you can`t whine and bellyache `cause somebody else got a good break and you didn`t, like these Indians are. We`ll all be on a reservation soon if the socialists keep subsidizing groups like them with our tax money.

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.

I`m flatly opposed to that, ... I`m already subsidizing everybody in the state who has homeowners protection (through caps on homestead assessments) . . . If this goes through, my taxes will be paying for those who don`t.