Tag:Quotes
Mary Ellen Jordan Quote
“I have decided I am only allowed to complain about the weather in one season. I choose Winter.” – Mary Ellen Jordan
From a conversation regarding an on-site meeting last week when the temperature was in the mid-nineties and Mary Ellen was dressed for a forthcoming presentation meeting.
Mary Ellen is Principal Architect with Scearce Rudisel Architects in Warsaw, Indiana.
Abraham Lincoln Quote on Thomas Jefferson
“Jefferson had the coolness, forecast and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that today and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny.” – Abraham Lincoln
From an essay by John W. Whitehead of The Rutherford Institute. The article can be found here.
Continuing Tough Times in Construction
“The struggling economy is causing both nonresidential and residential construction to continue to slump, with the exception of a handful of stimulus-impacted segments such as highway/street and conservation/development.”
—ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu
Regalia Quote
“…the CBO data shows that since 1979, not only have the income tax shares of the lower four quintiles continued to drop, but the lowest quintile has been in the negative since 1987, and the second lowest has been negative since 2002. This means that the lowest 40% have not been paying any federal income tax but have, instead, been getting subsidized by the government through such incentives as refundable tax credits.”
From Dr. Martin Regalia: Econ 101, Tax Facts: Where the $ Comes From in Free Enterprise, April 2010
Paul Ryan Quote
“While exact and precise measures cannot be made, there are estimates that in 2004, 20 percent of households in the U.S. were receiving about 75 percent of their income from the federal government, and that another 20 percent were receiving nearly 40 percent. All in all, about 60 percent of American households were receiving more government benefits and services, measured in dollars, than they were paying back in taxes. President Obama’s first budget alone raises this level of ‘net dependency’ to 70 percent.”
Paul Ryan is in his sixth term as a member of Congress, representing Wisconsin’s First Congressional District. He is ranking member of the House Budget Committee and a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee. This quote was taken from an article in the February 2010 issue of Imprimis.
