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/* Prove It slide-down Explanations */
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$('div.'+$(this).attr('rel')).slideToggle('fast');
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$(".tweet-text, #dtd-tweets li").each(function(z) {
$(this).html(prototype.string.autolink($(this).text()));
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$("#vote").click(function() {
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url: "utilities/getPoll.cfm",
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/* Random quotes feature */
function showRandQuote() {
var arr = new Array(1);
arr.push("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”
— Herbert Hoover
");
arr.push("I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt.”
— Thomas Jefferson
");
arr.push("Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ‘If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?’”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
");
arr.push("We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.”
— Thomas Jefferson
");
arr.push("As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.”
— George Washington,
Farewell Address
");
arr.push("Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
— Aesop
");
arr.push("The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced.”
— Cicero,
Roman statesman
");
arr.push("Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
— William Cobbett,
English journalist,
18th century
");
arr.push("Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy.”
— John C. Danforth,
Former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to the United Nations
");
arr.push("Don’t let your mouth write no check that your tail can’t cash.”
— Bo Diddley
");
arr.push("A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.”
— Everett Dirksen,
former Senator (R-IL)
");
arr.push("I, however, place … public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”
— Thomas Jefferson
");
arr.push("That’s what a Congressman or a Senator is for — to see that too much money don’t accumulate in the national Treasury.”
— Will Rogers
");
arr.push("Can we, who man the ship of state, deny it is somewhat out of control?”
— President Ronald Reagan
");
arr.push("I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.”
— Alan Greenspan
");
arr.push("The fact is, we’ll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.”
— President Ronald Reagan
");
arr.push("Debt is the slavery of the free.”
— Publilius Syrus,
former slave, writer,
1st century AD
");
arr.push("A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.”
— Publilius Syrus,
former slave, writer,
1st century AD
");
arr.push("Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.”
— Henry Wheeler Shaw,
humorist,
19th century
");
arr.push("Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.”
— Wendell Phillips,
American abolitionist
");
arr.push("Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
— Samuel Johnson,
18th century English author
");
arr.push("Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt … not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.”
— George Washington
");
arr.push("Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.”
— Ogden Nash,
poet
");
arr.push("Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.”
— Rutherford B. Hayes
");
arr.push(" This is about the future of our country, our kids and grandkids.”
— David M. Walker,
former Comptroller General of the United States
");
arr.push("Our financial condition is worse than advertized. We need to act. We need to act soon because time working against us.”
— David M. Walker,
former Comptroller General
of the United States
");
arr.push("I would argue that the most serious threat to the United States is not someone hiding in a cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan, but our own fiscal irresponsibility.”
— David M. Walker,
former Comptroller General
of the United States
");
arr.push("We suffer from a fiscal cancer, it is growing within us, and if we do not treat it, it could have catastrophic consequences for our country.”
— David M. Walker,
former Comptroller General
of the United States
");
arr.push("With respect to the fiscal crisis looming out there in the future, we’ll see whether a democracy can deal with an obvious problem that’s going to be present in not too many years. And the earlier we take action to deal with it, the better.”
— Paul Volcker,
former Federal Reserve Chairman
");
arr.push("For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children’s future for the temporary convenience of the present.”
— President Ronald Reagan
");
arr.push("We’ve got a very big problem staring us in the face.”
— Alice Rivlin,
Founding Director,
Congressional Budget Office
");
arr.push("Fiscally, we are in uncharted territory.”
— Warren Buffett,
billionaire,
August 19, 2009
");
arr.push("How we spend the public’s money should reflect what is important to us in our country.”
— Nancy Pelosi,
(CA-D) 2006
");
arr.push("But the long-term deficit and debt that we have accumulated is unsustainable. We can’t keep on just borrowing from China, or borrowing from other countries… at some point they’re just going to get tired of buying our debt.”
— President Obama,
May 14, 2009
");
arr.push("… [W]e have to pay interest on that debt. And that means that we’re mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”
— President Obama,
May 14, 2009
");
arr.push("Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.”
— Benjamin Franklin
");
arr.push("Debt is the worst poverty.”
— Thomas Fuller,
16th century English historian
");
arr.push("Who goes a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.”
— Thomas Tusser,
15th century English poet and farmer
");
arr.push("Our debt is getting so out of control and our deficits are getting so high, that if we, as a nation, tried to enter the European Union, […] we couldn’t get in.”
— Senator Judd Gregg
(NH-R)
");
arr.push("The national debt is out of control.”
— Senator Judd Gregg
(NH-R)
");
arr.push("We cannot live in the present only. Human beings cannot survive unless they create provision for the future.”
— Alan Greenspan,
former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
");
arr.push("The nation is hurtling toward a budgetary doomsday…”
— David Stockman
Fmr. Director of the Office of Management and Budget
");
var idx = Math.floor(Math.random() * arr.length-2);
if (arr[idx+1] === undefined) {
document.write("Fiscally, we are in uncharted territory.”
— Warren Buffett,
billionaire,
August 19, 2009
");
} else {
document.write(arr[idx+1]);
}
}
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$('#alertArea').fadeIn('fast');
}
function hideAlert() {
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}
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prototype.string = {};
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}
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tweet = tweet.replace(/(@)(\w+)/g, "$1$2");
}
return tweet;
};