By the Way
JOKE OF THE WEEK, 6 Jun 2016
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
Having email is like coming home from a long day at the office and finding 70 people in the kitchen waiting to talk with you.
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When President Nixon proposed voluntary restraints on wage and price increases to fight inflation, John Kenneth Galbraith mocked, “I hope the next step will be voluntary taxes. I will be the first not to pay them.”
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John Kenneth Galbraith called Reaganomics “horse and sparrow economics”: If you feed enough oats to the horses, some of it will be dropped on the roads for the sparrows.
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