Archive for May 9th, 2007
Given that number, it is a wonder that the American economy is still afloat. When you add the billions spent on corporate welfare, the picture is bleak. Just some food for thought while contemplating the $25 million + subsidy to Bass Pro.
Bill Clinton once declared, “The era of big government is over.” Both Republicans and Democrats applauded.
What a joke.
Government grew under Clinton, and grew even faster under his successor. Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.
So says a study by economist Gary Shilling. Shilling, a Springfield, N.J., consultant and forecaster, says the portion of Americans feeding substantially at the public trough stands at 52.6 percent. In 2000, it was 49.4. It seems unbelievable that in 1950, only 28.3 percent of Americans lived off the taxpayers. Shilling projects 60 percent by 2040.
Read the rest: Townhall.com::The Public Trough Is Bigger Than Ever::By John Stossel
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I haven’t posted since last Friday because life has taken an unexpected, sudden turn. I landed a new, very good job that required me to move from North Buffalo to Amherst. I’m still very close to North Buffalo and that is where my heart lies. The reason for the move is the job included a nice 3 bedroom home with all utilities paid, including cable and Internet.
I learned of the opening for this job on Sunday, April 29 and interviewed on Tuesday, May 1. I was offered the job during the interview and accepted on Wednesday, May 2. I started moving on Friday, May 4 and finished the majority of my moving yesterday. I was blessed with the nice stretch of weather, moving in the rain sucks and I’m extremely glad I didn’t have that problem.
The gorgeous weather today, in the 80’s, gave me the perfect opportunity to test out my central air conditioning and it worked like a charm.
One of the consequences of everything changing this quickly is that I didn’t have a chance to update email changes. Anyone who is a regular read can email me at [michael dot rebmann @ gmail.com]. I’ve decided not to use any more @verizon.net or @rr.com type addresses. I’ve been using gmail part time for a while now and am very happy with their service. One of my main requirements for email is that the service is compatible with Outlook, and gmail is.
Speaking of changes, I have used Verizon DSL for quite a while and now find myself using Roadrunner through Time-Warner. Overall, I believe that Verizon provides a superior broadband service, however, it is not available in this part of Amherst yet. I didn’t have a chance to use FIOS from Verizon, that is something I was looking forward to, cable internet would be totally blown away by FIOS. My biggest complaint with cable internet is that the upload speeds are about half of what you can get with DSL. Even though the cable internet downloads are usually faster, the slower upload will slow down your overall web surfing. The slower uploads are particularly painful when uploading large photos to a site such as Flickr.
That just about covers my short absence from posting and as I recover from moving an working I will be getting back to a regular posting routine. Thanks for reading!
