Can you say quadrillion?

July 27, 2012
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Can you say quadrillion?   You better get use to it. Showing my age, when a 1 trillion dollar budget was sent congress Jan 6, 1987,  I remember thinking  holy crap.  Trillion? Really? Sure I heard that number used before but that’s a sci fi number, that’s a Carl Sagan number an outer space number.   That’s a number that should not…

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You didn’t build that.

July 26, 2012
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“You didn’t build that”.   Just for a moment, forget the immediate reaction and controversy over the exact wording.  What if he really did mean roads and bridges instead of the business that benefit from them.  Beyond the hubbub, what was his point? Let me, a simple man, try to follow what he was talking about.   Pull…

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Taxation Without Representation – what about the Children?

July 18, 2012
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What about the Children? Kids under 18 should be getting mad, and to the untold unborn should get mad once they are born and are old enough to figure this out. Children are being taxed without any representation.  For many, they will get zero benefit from the taxes they will have to pay since the money…

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Why did the chicken cross the road?

July 18, 2012
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Because that’s all you need to do now to get a welfare check.  (testing humor cat)

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In a country well governed

July 18, 2012
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In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.    Confucius

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Anyone can become American

July 18, 2012
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America is unique in many ways.    Anyone can become American.   Try to move to France and become French, or move to Germany and become German.   It don’t work…  more to come.

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