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Old 08-22-2009, 10:18 PM   #61
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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.
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Old 08-22-2009, 10:22 PM   #62
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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.
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Old 08-24-2009, 01:37 PM   #63
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The wealthy don't get wealthy because they managed to sneak themselves a bigger piece of pie. Most wealthy get wealthy because they find or build a bigger pie.
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.
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Old 08-24-2009, 11:39 PM   #64
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Old 08-25-2009, 10:06 AM   #65
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War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is the art of conquering at home; the object of it is an increase of revenue; and as revenue cannot be increased without taxes, a pretense must be made for expenditure. In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
Thomas Paine (my favourite 18th century writer and thinker)
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Old 09-01-2009, 07:47 PM   #66
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Old 01-26-2011, 07:11 PM   #67
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Lawrence O'Donnell last night asking a political aide how it felt to be inside the First Lady's box.
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Old 01-26-2011, 08:09 PM   #68
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Old 02-09-2011, 11:36 AM   #69
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Old 02-11-2011, 10:37 AM   #70
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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
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Old 02-12-2011, 04:05 PM   #71
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The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions. -Miyamoto Musashi
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Old 02-13-2011, 05:10 AM   #72
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Miyamoto Musashi is now a chain of cheap but fairly good diners throughout Japan. I ate there often.
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Old 02-13-2011, 06:07 AM   #73
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Cannibalism?!
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Old 02-13-2011, 07:45 AM   #74
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"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."

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Old 09-26-2012, 11:22 AM   #75
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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.
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