Words to live by.

This week is the real last official full working week for Kentucky's General Assembly. In view of its working deliberations, especially concerning the drafting of the state budget, with interest groups clamoring for special favors, that may BALLOON the state government, we leave all interested parties (but with hope in the Senate) with these words (of wisdom) to live by:

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have."

- Thomas Jefferson

And, in view of last Friday's Good Friday, and yesterday's Easter, we leave you with these additional words of wisdom:

"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if
without it?"

-- Benjamin Franklin (to Thomas Paine, Date Unknown)

Reference: Original Intent, Barton (297); original The Works of
Benjamin Franklin, Sparks, ed., vol. 10 (281-282)