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Title: Sweeping Budget Cuts
Post by: Gaspar on May 03, 2010, 03:45:17 PM
Title: Re: Sweeping Budget Cuts
Post by: heironymouspasparagus on May 03, 2010, 08:07:20 PM
Boy, ain't it the truth.  But I guess it could be worse... we could still be increasing discretionary at 20 to 25% per year...for decades.

Have you read any more of Thoreau than that one quote?
Just curious.


Title: Re: Sweeping Budget Cuts
Post by: Gaspar on May 04, 2010, 08:49:13 AM
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on May 03, 2010, 08:07:20 PM
Boy, ain't it the truth.  But I guess it could be worse... we could still be increasing discretionary at 20 to 25% per year...for decades.

Have you read any more of Thoreau than that one quote?
Just curious.



Certanly ;)

That government is best which governs least.
Title: Re: Sweeping Budget Cuts
Post by: heironymouspasparagus on May 04, 2010, 01:01:19 PM
More specifically; any full works?
I am in the middle of "Life Without Principle" again.  One of several in a journal I bought years ago and read again from time to time.

Here is a link;

http://www.transcendentalists.com/thoreau_works.htm
Title: Re: Sweeping Budget Cuts
Post by: RecycleMichael on May 04, 2010, 01:15:02 PM
I once camped at Walden Pond.
Title: Re: Sweeping Budget Cuts
Post by: Gaspar on May 04, 2010, 01:29:42 PM
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on May 04, 2010, 01:01:19 PM
More specifically; any full works?
I am in the middle of "Life Without Principle" again.  One of several in a journal I bought years ago and read again from time to time.

Here is a link;

http://www.transcendentalists.com/thoreau_works.htm


Not for a long time (since '92). 

Thanks for the link.
Title: Re: Sweeping Budget Cuts
Post by: Red Arrow on May 04, 2010, 06:15:10 PM
I read Doonesbury.
Title: Re: Sweeping Budget Cuts
Post by: heironymouspasparagus on May 04, 2010, 07:27:21 PM
Me too.  Notice how the World keeps it away from the rest of the comics.  Just one of the reasons I don't bother with that pitiful excuse for a newspaper.  Oh, except for the Sunday coupons....

Free books!!!  All the classics and best books of the world!!

www.gutenberg.org is great too.