The postal service has found us and a
lot of mail came here yesterday including: two golf magazines, the last to
copies of Christian Century, Time, and those things that Doreen
enjoys. I always like getting my copy of Christian
Century and immediately turn to the “Century Marks” section which always
has nifty quotes and often interesting poll survey information. Here are some
that caught my eye this time:
One bit was on nuns versus corporations.
Apparently this one order of nuns buy the minimum amount of stock needed to
make resolutions are stockholders meetings. There they push for reining in
executive pay, corporate transparency and concern for the poor. Apparently it
works as some corporate exes flew their helicopter to the convent so they could
meet with them privately; and hopefully not at their stockholder meetings. Atta
go nuns!
Data: Obama’s health care reform
would be paid for my increasing taxes on investment and those making more than
a million per year, meaning the top 400 tax payers would pay an additional 11
million annually; don’t worry, they can afford it.
More data: it costs $37,000 a year to go to
Princeton University. It costs $44,000 per year to house an inmate at the New Jersey
State Prison in Trenton. High education between 1987 and 2007 increased 21%,
correctional spending went up 127%.
Great quote as a spoof on the
Serenity Prayer by cartoonist Brian McFadden: “God, grant us the austerity to
defund America back into recession, courage to ignore basic economics, and
wisdom to know everything we do we can be reversed by a future Congress before
it takes effect.”
And finally this informative graph:
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