I guess that is not much different from here. I think I am beginning to understand. Thanks for your understanding as I try to understand.

There are a lot of very wealthy youngsters at my university (the girlfriend of one of the Princes was a student a year above me). They pay the same £3.k a year tuition fees that I pay. The only difference is that they probably didn't apply for a loan to pay it and they would only be entitled to the mimimum maintenance loan.

And sometimes they cheat their workers and customers to make their piece of the pie.

Let's not get all dewey-eyed over the rich. Most rich are rich because their parents were rich and the initial money gave them leverage. It is not a level playing field.

BTW, don't assume that this post means I favor punitive taxing of the rich. But I suspect that the rich are not taxed as much as the middle class due to having a lot more options in loopholes and tax shelters.

From the poem Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day by Delmore Schwartz.

Thomas Paine (my favourite 18th century writer and thinker)

Pamela Brewer

Lawrence O'Donnell last night asking a political aide how it felt to be inside the First Lady's box.

Spock

Time takes time - which sucks but there you go.
-- Brianna

My family toast:

I wish to myself
that I could talk to myself
As I knew him just one year ago
I'd tell him alot
That would help him alot
About the things he'd aught to know

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions. -Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi is now a chain of cheap but fairly good diners throughout Japan. I ate there often.

Cannibalism?!

"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

George Eliot

Perfect quote for work:


Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

--Napoleon Bonaparte

I made a sign. I hung it up. On the inside of my cubey. ;)