tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post6080194711736720576..comments2023-11-29T01:47:52.439-07:00Comments on clarity2010: Servants and mastersRelax Maxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-20313555130830808602010-11-17T22:10:01.104-07:002010-11-17T22:10:01.104-07:00And thank you, Ozandreamer, for your visit here as...And thank you, Ozandreamer, for your visit here as well. I think what you say is very true.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-85772804761891496962010-11-17T22:08:44.660-07:002010-11-17T22:08:44.660-07:00Greg: Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate your...Greg: Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate your visit!<br /><br />Jeff: I don't say they shouldn't be paid at all. Just less than important people like soldiers. Heck, I would pay them to stay home. :)<br /><br />Soubriquet: I love that dictionary! I don't suppose I can get my hands on a copy. Dr. Johnson sounds even more harsh than me. :)<br /><br />Descartes: That would be a welcome switch. I have a book by Asimov that consists of nothing but about 250 pages of facts that he had collected and found interesting. I still dig it out and reread it.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-84954942165344834312010-11-17T09:22:18.635-07:002010-11-17T09:22:18.635-07:00I'm looking forward to the days Issac Asimov p...I'm looking forward to the days Issac Asimov prediced when highly moral and public service minded robotos run the government.Descarteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00066336477465694768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-18987602153431497712010-11-17T07:46:24.545-07:002010-11-17T07:46:24.545-07:00Back in 1755, Dr. Samuel Johnson published his gre...Back in 1755, Dr. Samuel Johnson published his great dictionary of the English language.<br />It was the first really comprehensive attempt to produce such a thing, and Johnson's definitions, or, as he calls them 'explanations', are a delight to read.<br />For "Excise" he says "excise:a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." <br />And "Pension: an allowance made to any one without an equivalent.In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country."<br /><br />250 years later, the same still holds true. <br /><br />Ironically, those same people against whom Johnson directed the sharp edge of his wit, afforded him a lifetime pension, in recognition of his work. The good doctor promptly bristled, demanded to know for what purpose he was being bought. <br />He was assred that the pension came with no strings attached, it was not to ensure his plaudits in the future, it was in recognition of his work already published, the dictionary.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-66685909681476432372010-11-15T16:53:57.934-07:002010-11-15T16:53:57.934-07:00Take money making out of our government... maybe t...Take money making out of our government... maybe then we will have people who want to sever for the greater good of man, rather than to get rich and powerful.<br /><br />Love it.Jeff Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00667419764890599092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-38646375468028027712010-11-15T04:12:46.989-07:002010-11-15T04:12:46.989-07:00I wished I made that much..Like your idea about co...I wished I made that much..Like your idea about congress, maybe they should only get paid when everyone's employed, and the budgets balanced. Until them give them a cot and a meal. <br /><br /> Maybe then they'd stop bickering..Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16040588288272247628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-90062487794922760142010-11-14T14:28:59.031-07:002010-11-14T14:28:59.031-07:00I like it when people agree with me. I think I wil...I like it when people agree with me. I think I will just keep it simple from now on.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-63260068763915724662010-11-13T09:04:57.511-07:002010-11-13T09:04:57.511-07:00Aren't you doing the pigs a disservice by usin...Aren't you doing the pigs a disservice by using them as an illustration?Sheila @ A Postcard a Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09140046386364588303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-19723951782473216602010-11-13T01:43:39.373-07:002010-11-13T01:43:39.373-07:00Wow! Parliamentarians making good while others suf...Wow! Parliamentarians making good while others suffer? Who would have thought....?Adullamitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-58784014227146765872010-11-12T19:40:36.165-07:002010-11-12T19:40:36.165-07:00Our Congress has established itself as something f...Our Congress has established itself as something forbidden by our Constitution --- an Aristocracy.<br /><br />They can make laws for us "ordinary" citizens, while exempting themselves from those laws.<br /><br />I'd like to start with the requirement that any increase in pay for the Legislative branch be approved in a plebicite at the next congressional election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-73002632488817115822010-11-12T17:10:42.549-07:002010-11-12T17:10:42.549-07:00Agreed on all counts. I think that's a fine id...Agreed on all counts. I think that's a fine idea.Stephanie Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.com