Cliche-Ridden

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1.  It’s not what you know but who you know.  That’s why our country is such a mess right now—people were advanced because it was who they knew, not what they knew. Our future will  demand that it be you know  or this economic ship will sink like the Titanic.

2.  If the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem becomes a nail.  This one we equate with the Internet.  A computer is just a tool and somethings will never change—meaning we still need to socialize with other people and gain knowledge through all kinds of platforms (books, magazines, hand-outs, newspapers,  magazines, people-to-people, etc.). You can’t fix anything with a computer, like your toilet, car, stove , electricity outage, putting out a fire, arresting the bad guys, defending the country, fixing a bum knee.

3.  You can’t fix stupid.  Dedicated to closed-minded individuals of all stripes who never question their own thought and act like they know it all.

4.  Mind over matter.  Some people interpret twist this as, if you don’t mind, then it doesnt matter, to excuse insensitivity.   Unfortunately this services the ignorant as well as those promoting the mental strength to endure.

5.  Here’s one right from the front pages:  Let’s starve government, it’s the enemy.  Except when your state is full of wild fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, or earthquakes.  Then suddenly the guv (read, Corbett of PA, Christie of N.J. and Perry of Texas et al.) has his/her hand out for federal “bail-out” funds.  Oops.

6.  Government doesn’t produce any jobs.  Tell that to politicians (oops!), police, soldiers, firefighters, teachers, government workers, infrastructure workers, universities, et al.

7.  It’s not a revenue problem, it’s a spending problem.  Actually it’s both.  If the gov’t doesn’t spend any money, our society would come to a screeching halt and the corporate class would not pick up the slack (see:  2008 financial meltdown and beyond).

8.  Don’t tax the rich because they jobs.  No, they invest their money wherever that investment will make a buck.  Right now, in China, India and Brazil.

9.  It’s all the government’s fault.  Then why should taxpayers elect and subsidize these to destroy our government saboteurs, including rewarding them fabu health care policiies, pensions and other perks the rest of us would kill for.

10.  The poor are lazy and don’t want to work.  For the first time since the War on Poverty in the 1960s, adult working poor  (usually more than one job) living under the poverty line outrank children.

11.  Artists are lazy and don’t want to work.  If an artist doesn’t produce, they’re not an artist.  Most other people wouldn’t dare expose their thoughts and feelings for public scrutiny and critique in this mean world.

12.  Drought watch declared in early August—boy do we need rain!

13.  You can’t judge a book by its cover.  People are like books:  You don’t know the whole story unless you read ‘em.

14.  No good deed goes unpunished.  Wanna bet?

15.  What goes around comes around.  Yeah, in a perfect world.

16.  Only the strong survive.  Bullies are the sign of a weak person.

17.  Sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you.  Reputation, credibility and integrity.  People are assassinated with words every second of every day.  Look at internet bullying.

18.  A penny saved is a penny  is a penny earned.  Not with these interest rates.

19.  Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.  Seems like the sadists and masochists are trumping the good people on this one.

20.  Art Works!  Can’t find anything wrong with dat one!