We need a fair tax structure.

Posted: 5th April 2009 by Christopher Saikes in Current Affairs, Politics
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In anticipation of the economic crisis and the possibility of losing my job, I closed one of my IRAs that I had opened only 5 months earlier. I used the money to pay off my credit cards because the company I work is having real trouble keeping the doors open.  This decision cost me almost half of the total amount in taxes.  I already paid taxes on this money when I earned it.

Due to the work slowdown I already earned less in 08 than I did in 07.  By January my other IRA lost 75% of its value, but I will never get to deduct that from my taxes.  That account had not fully recovered from the 2001 stock market meltdown. 

This is not a fair structure if you are not in the millionare’s club.  If you owe over 36 thousand you can get away with paying as little as 4 thousand by negotiating with the IRS.  Who thought up this little cluster of luck?

One Giant Leap, Backwards?

Posted: 4th April 2009 by Mike Trent in Current Affairs, Politics, Science, Space, Technology
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Three parachutes open with the capsule swaying slowly below, barely seen against the canvas of the vibrant cloudless blue sky.  Astronauts returning to earth head toward a splash down into the Pacific Ocean.  Helicopters buzz around the floating city that is the aircraft carrier.   All standing on the deck cheering, having waited in breathless anticipation for the hero’s return from the moon.

Fusion. The “Holy Grail” of physics.

Posted: 28th March 2009 by Mike Trent in Science, Technology
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The promise of fusion has been long coming.  Billions of dollars have been spent worldwide in the hot pursuit of the process that burns inside our Sun and the rest of the stars in our galaxy.  The projects and the science behind this quest have been as large as the hopes of mankind.  Governments and Universities have designed gigantic, expensive, energy hungry devices to bring the dream of fusion into existence using brute force.

From Chaos, Balance?

Posted: 21st March 2009 by Christopher Saikes in Religion & Philosophy
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Life can be complicated.  Often we have a path or a dream that we want to follow or certain expectations in life.  None of these things are possible if you don’t know your center.  The saying that life is what you make it is true, but truer is that you are what you see yourself as, you define your own life and the world is as you see it.
I have heard is stated that if you want your life to change that you have to dream a new dream.  My belief is if you want your life to change, you have to see yourself differently and believe that point of view.  No one makes you what you are, happy, sad, lonely, healthy, sickly or successful.  Choose your own definition and live as if that story is the true you.

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