“There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.” LongWarJobsAmericaLeftTermTaxesOfficePercentGainsRateLong TermEldersCapital Gains Author:Andrew Tobias
“There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which had much better been left to another Government agency or the Congress to attain. The country could have had lower interest rates without sacrificing anything else.” Has BeensEndsCountryGovernmentPoliticsLeftInterestEconomySacrificeGainsRaisedRateCongressAgencyLiberalismReservesFederal ReserveInterest RateGovernment Agencies Author:Wright Patman
“What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.” WayLeftBehindsRateInevitableMediocrityDepressingLeft BehindDeservingSecond Rate Book:Letters of Ellen Glasgow Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
“It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.” MenWayGivingFactsHelpingPastValuesLeftWishDecisionSituationVisionDrawsRateConclusionExpertsLogicalAssistantsAdministratorsSecond RateVisions Of The FuturePresent Situation Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett
“My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might just as well look you up this morning.” IfsMenGivingWellsLooksLongUseMightLastsNightLeftOpinionMorningAirSonOughtGiving UpAuthorityPicksClaimsBreathsRateHandleBreadMy SonStolenNever Giving UpLast NightLoan Author:Halldór Laxness
“Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.” TwoCountryEnoughLeftMillionsMaterialsAmountBirthWastePercentAreasEnvironmentalRateCancerIllnessProductionsCanadaRegionsPollutionDefectsHighwaysTransMeterMiningUraniumBirth DefectsUranium MiningSaskatchewanRadioactive Waste Author:Winona LaDuke