- Some of the party officials were surprised by the figure that The Average Taxpayer in Fulton County annually pays $3000 to the county, $3000 to the state and sends $19,000 to Washington. I will elaborate on this in further posts.
- Thursday, Sep 13, Channel 2 will have a live broadcast from Grady Hospital regarding Grady's financial woes. Grady is losing $8 million per month...
My Favorite Quotes
- "There's a three-word lexicon to explain ---: need, greed and compassion. 'Need' means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means protecting your own money. And 'Compassion' means politicians facilitating the transfer."
?: - "Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
William James: - "Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."
William James: - "To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly."
William James: - "There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."
William James: - "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
William James: - "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
William James: - "Don't sweat the petty things, or was it 'don't pet the sweaty things'? I've forgotten and I'm drunk."
Oscar Wilde: Humor - "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Thomas Jefferson: Politics - "If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side."
Orson Scott Card: Politics
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Bush's 2007 Budget per average taxpayer
- $6,010: Medicare & Medicaid
- $3,970: Social Security
- $3,940: Defense
- $3,340: Other non-defense spending
- $1,710: Net interest payments
Illuminating sites
Fog Lifting Favorites
Albert Einstein: Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Dave Kusek: The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution
- Robert K. Massie: Peter the Great
George Gilder: Wealth and Poverty (Ics Series in Self-Governance)
George Gilder: Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution In Economics And Technology
Natan Sharansky: The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
