Thursday, May 22, 2003

A link I found on Dan Gilmore's page. Never trust this administration! When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a "break" requires -- now or down the line -- that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party. Supporters of making dividends tax-free like to paint critics as promoters of class warfare. The fact is, however, that their proposal promotes class welfare. For my class. The writer is chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a diversified holding company, and a director of The Washington Post Co., which has an investment in Berkshire Hathaway. 9:52:59 PM

Unemployment is 7.7% here in Washington State. Vulcan Ventures (Paul Allen) just layed off 100 IT professionals. My personal IT Professional, Lynnette was layed off 3 weeks ago. The constructrion company she worked for is not doing well after 40 years they haven't changed threir work habits, go figure. One county in eastern Washington has 17% unemployment, here in King County, Seattle-Bellevue, the unemployment rate is about 6.6%. WSDOT staff at the construction level is staffed at the lowest level in years. We have an additional 5 cent per gallon gas tax to work with now, that increase, the first since 1990, will just about maintain the status quo. 6:08:10 AM

Win3K The SCSI CD-ROM did not want to assocaite with Win3K, we finally learned how to do it to it. Delete current Initio Dirvers, go to control panel, reinstall CD-ROM, just like normal. This morning a fork decided to temporarily visit another universe, looked around and it was gone, got another fork and it reappeared. Hmm. Ever had one of those days. Stuff just is not where one just put it, disappears, then you turn around and it's back. 5:56:34 AM