“the American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.” MenHas BeensWarFightingCostMen And WomenRemainsTinyIsolatedAgain And AgainOngoingCiviliansComplacencyFractionsActualityDeploying Book:Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power Source: Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
“New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This is potentially the most pernicious feature of the president's budget, because it would cement a permanent voting majority with no stake in controlling the cost of general government.” GovernmentPresidentCostTaxesRaisesMajorityCreditIncomePermanentBudgetsFeaturesVotingStakesTaxpayersFractionsIncome TaxCementPernicious Author:Michael J. Boskin
“Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.” WaySpaceFeetCostSlaveConnectedActiveBoatStationsTradingVirginiaTransportFractionsRailColumbusTradersMontgomerySlave Trade Author:Bryan Stevenson
“They're [[harmaceuticals companies] just making a killing out of people's death. And they're benefiting by people's suffering. And I find that obscene. I find it ridiculous in this day and age, that that would happen. And it took President Clinton to go to rogue pharmaceutical companies to copy the antiretroviral drugs for a fraction of the cost.” PeopleHappensAgeSufferingPresidentCompanyCostDrugClintonKillingRidiculousCopiesThis DayFractionsRoguesObscenePharmaceuticalPresident ClintonPharmaceutical Companies Author:Elton John
“Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.” ProblemCrazyCommunicationInternetCostWasteNewsPlantNewspapersInstantPrintTruckFractionsObsoleteOld YouElectronic CommunicationSolid WasteWaste Disposal Author:Ted Turner