FOGLIFTING: January 2008

January 07, 2008

FOREIGN AID - NOT AS MUCH AS YOU THINK

Headline today in StratFor, a strategic information newsletter: "United States will increase economic assistance to Jordan by 48% in 2008." That's barely anything, when you consider that this costs you the Average Taxpayer $2.38 per year.

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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."
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"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