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THERE HAS TO BE A WAY TO MAKE MONEY FROM THESE LOSERS

OK, let's put our heads together on this one. Help me out here. I'm trying to find out how to make money on lazy people.  This country is so full of people who don't want to work. They don't want any personal responsibility.  They don't want to extend one bit of work past what is absolutely necessary to make sure that they are kept fed and safe from the weather.  They're interested only in instant gratification and will never spend more than just a few precious seconds planning more than a few minutes ... hours at the most ... into the future.  They're the last to clock in at 8:30 in the morning, and the first ones to hit the door when the whistle blows at 5:00 in the afternoon.  They know their job descriptions all-too-well and will never voluntarily perform any function at work that is not clearly defined as being theirs to perform.  They have an extremely strong belief in their rights, and a weak sense of personal responsibility.  They look for excuses to stay out of work on Mondays, and leaf early on Fridays.  They're everywhere, and there must be some way to make money from them. 

Please ... help me come up with the proper money-making scheme that takes advantage of the useless and needless out there.

Wait!  This just in! There is already a class of people out there making money from this crowd.  A class of people I don't particlarly want to join.

They're called politicians.

Never mind.

WARNING!  HUGE BUDGET DEFICIT!

The latest estimate is that it could be just under $500 billion dollars.

Give me an honest answer here.  Considering your own household budget, which would you rather have:  A deficit equal to 5% of your annual budget, or one equal to 3% of that budget?

Now, another question.  Which deficit would you rather have:  A $3000 annual deficit or one equal to $5000?  You're going to take the $3000 deficit, right?  So far, so good.

Now ... the third question.  Just a little more complicated.  Which would you rather have:  A $3,000 deficit with an annual operating budget of $10,000; or a $5,000 deficit with an annual operating budget of $50,000.  Whoops!  Now you're going to take the larger dollar amount, right?  If you chose the smaller deficit amount they there is a strong probability that you were educated in government schools.  The $3,000 deficit in our example represents a 30% budget deficit, while the $5,000 deficit equals a 10% deficit.  It would be a lot easier to increase your productivity by 10% to cover that $5,000 deficit than it would be to boost your personal economy by 30% to take care of that smaller $3,000 total.

Now, what did we learn here.  We earned that the important figure regarding budget relates to it's percentage of the total budget rather than its dollar amount. 

Don't you wish your kid had someone like me teaching them basic economics?

TOO BAD MORE PEOPLE CAN'T READ THIS

And our thanks to Townhall.com for bringing it to our attention today.  Someone who calls himself "ransom" has a blog on the Internet.  Last week he took some friends on a tour of D.C. and happened by the Lincoln Memorial just as some speakers were recognizing the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.  Here are some of ransom's thoughts after that encounter:

"I don't disagree that many black Americans remain oppressed, but I would argue that their oppressors are activist leaders within their own community. Some of them perpetuate victimization by ridiculing young black students who do their homework and strive for excellence in school (i.e., acting white). For some, success is only exalted when it is earned in sports, music or within the DNC. However, if a black American succeeds in other areas--like becoming Secretary of State, Supreme Court Justice, National Security Advisor--(s)he is kicked out of the "black American" club having their membership revoked. To these extremists, "black" and "victim" are the same---so if you don't act like a victim, then you can't be black. Black leaders have done in 40 years what white people could not do in 400: to make black Americans accept inferior status."

Talk about hitting the nail on the head. 

NOT A REAL GOOD DAY IN HISTORY

It was on this day in 1894 that Congress passed a little goody named the "Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act."  This act contained a provision for a graduated, progressive income tax.  This occurred about 46 years after such a tax was called for in Marx' "Communist Manifesto."  This first attempt at a progressive income tax was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.  We'll actually call that Supreme Court decision a good moment.  The real bad moment came about 20 years later when the Congress presented the American people with a Constitutional amendment authorizing Marx and Engel's favorite tax.  I think you know the rest of the story.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

President Bush says that there will be "no retreat" from Iraq.  I guess he just hasn't been listening to Howard Dean.

But while Bush is saying that American will not retreat in Iraq, are "journalists" doing all that they can to put a negative spin on every aspect of the Iraqi story. 

Walter Cronkite can say that "most of us reporters are liberal," but still the left will babble on about how the right-wing has taken over the news media. 

By any measure, the Google Internet search engine is amazing.  Nothing comes close.  Today's edition of USA Today tells you how this amazing Internet phenomenon began when two Stanford students rented a room in some lady's house.

Tony Blankley says that Americans are the most impatient people in the world.  He writes that impatience may have served Americans reasonably well in the past, but it could be the death of America now. Blankley says that Beating Saddam's army was not the end of the war, it was merely the beginning.  You really should take the time to read this column.  You'll particularly enjoy his rant on the impatience of the media.

Charles Krauthammer says that the United States needs to lean hard on its allies to give us a helping hand in the Middle East. 

A male stripper was beaten after failing to live up to the expectations of the bride at a bachelorette party.  And just who administered the beating to the aforesaid male stripper?  Why, that would be the blahelorette's mom.

What do you think of the idea of a state being free to set up an official state religion?  Georgia might be officially Baptist.  Perhaps New York could be the Jewish State.  California could go Wiccan.  Alan Keys says that the case that this may just possibly be legal under our Constitution.

Can you believe this?  Hyper-leftist Democrat John Conyers from Michigan is trying to tell the Attorney General that he shouldn't be allowed to make speeches defending The Patriot Act.  Conyers seems to think that Ashcroft's speeches need to be "authorized," (censored?) by Congress.

Now here's a huge surprise.  Sit down, you don't need to hear this standing up.  Organized labor; you know, those folks who protect $100,000 a year prison guards in California ... organized labor is going to support Cruz Bustamante in the California recall mess.  Man, who would have thunk it?

Howard Dean, the extreme left-wing tax-and-spend liberal now leading the Democratic presidential pack, is about to set some amazing fundraising totals.  He's second only to Bill Clinton.  The New York Times bemoans the lack of blacks at the Dean rallies and categorizes his supporters as mainly "Birkenstock liberals."  Remember, Hitlary is watching, and is ready to step in to save the party.  By the way, Dean never served in Vietnam.

Former New York Mayor Ed Koch is endorsing Bush for reelection next year.  He says Bush must be rewarded for his support of Israel.

Have you ever wondered just what drives the so-called "anti-Globalism" movement?  It's not all that difficult to figure out.  It's really just anti-Americanism with a different label.

This week a teacher's union president in Florida confessed to a massive looting of teacher union funds.  Michele Malkin calls this man, Pat Tornillo, the "Ken Lay of the left."  The New York Times buried the story on page A16.  Remember, the teacher's unions are the most powerful unions in the country.  You don't really think the liberal media is going to highlight corruption in the most powerful union in the country, do you?

Is the Taliban making a comeback in Afghanistan? 

My buddy Capt. Herb Emory should love this one.  This feature article in today's Wall Street Journal says that NASCAR is changing the culture of America.

NEALZ LINKS FOR NUZE

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Washington Post
Real Clear Politics
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