Friday, April 30th, 2010

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3:18a	I sent a short wire to Van Helsing and to Arthur,... I sent a short wire to Van Helsing and to Arthur, telling them of the excellent result of the operationMy own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear offIt was dark when I was able to inquire about my zoophagous patientHe had been quite quiet for the past day and nightA telegram came from Van Helsing at Amsterdam whilst I was at dinner, suggesting that I should be at Hillingham tonight, as it might be well to be at hand, and stating that he was leaving by the night mail and would join me early in the morning-I was pretty tired and worn out when I got to HillinghamFor two nights I had hardly had a wink of sleep, and my brain was beginning to feel that numbness which marks cerebral exhaustionLucy was up and in cheerful spiritsWhen she shook hands with me she looked sharply in my face and said, "No sitting up tonight for youI am quite well againIndeed, I am, and if there is to be any sitting up, it is I who will sit up with you I would not argue the point, but went and had my supperLucy came with me, and, enlivened by her charming presence, I made an excellent meal, and had a couple of glasses of the more than excellent portThen Lucy took me upstairs, and showed me a room next her own, where a cozy fire was burningI shall leave this door open and my door tooYou can lie on the sofa for I know that nothing would induce any of you doctors to go to bed whilst there is a patient above the horizonIf I want anything I shall call out, and you can come to me at once I could not but acquiesce, for I was dog tired, and could not have sat up had I triedSo, on her renewing her promise to call me if she should want anything, I lay on the sofa, and forgot all about everything LUCY WESTENRA'S DIARY 9 September-I feel so happy tonightI have been so miserably weak, that to be able to think and move about is like feeling sunshine after a long spell of east wind out of a steel skySomehow Arthur feels very, very close to meI seem to feel his presence warm about meI suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he willsI know where my thoughts areIf only Arthur knew! My dear, my dear, your ears must tingle as you sleep, as mine do wakingOh, the blissful rest of last night! How I slept, with that dear, good DrAnd tonight I shall not fear to sleep, since he is close at hand and within callThank everybody for being so good to meThank God! Goodnight ArthurSEWARD'S DIARY 10 September-I was conscious of the Professor's hand on my head, and started awake all in a secondThat is one of the things that we learn in an asylum, at any rate "And how is our patient?" "Well, when I left her, or rather when she left me," I answered "Come, let us see," he saidAnd together we went into the room The blind was down, and I went over to raise it gently, whilst Van Helsing stepped, with his soft, cat-like tread, over to the bed As I raised the blind, and the morning sunlight flooded the room, I heard the Professor's low hiss of inspiration, and knowing its rarity, a deadly fear shot through my heartAs I passed over he moved back, and his exclamation of horror, "Gott in Himmel!" needed no enforcement from his agonized shop face (Comment on this)
11:24a	They do not play by the same set of rulesAs I've... They do not play by the same set of rulesAs I've stated, the rich already knew about corporations, which became popular in the days of sailing shipsThe rich created the corporation as a vehicle to limit their risk to the assets of each voyageThe rich put their money into a corporation to finance the voyageThe corporation would then hire a crew to sail to the New World to look for treasuresIf the ship was lost, the crew lost their lives, but the loss to the rich would be limited only to the money they invested for that particular voyageThe diagram that follows shows how the corporate structure sits outside your personal income statement and balance sheet How the Rich Play the Game Is reduced/diminished by expenses Assets ------------------------------------------------> Income (through personal corporation) It is the knowledge of the power of the legal structure tiffany and co necklace of the corporation that really gives the rich a vast advantage over the poor and the middle classHaving two fathers teaching me, one a socialist and the other a capitalist, I quickly began to realize that the philosophy of the capitalist made more financial sense to meIt seemed to me that the socialists ultimately penalized themselves, due to their lack of financial educationNo matter what the "Take from the rich" crowd came up with, the rich always found a way to outsmart themThat is how taxes were eventually levied on the middle classThe rich outsmarted the intellectuals, solely because they understood the power of money, a subject not taught in schools How did the rich outsmart the intellectuals? Once the "Take from the rich" tax was passed, cash started flowing into government coffersInitially, people were happyMoney was handed out to government workers and the richIt went to government workers in the gucci knockoff handbags form of jobs and pensionsIt went to the rich via their factories receiving government contractsThe government became a large pool of money, but the problem was the fiscal management of that moneyThere really is no recirculationIn other words, the government policy, if you were a government bureaucrat, was to avoid having excess moneyIf you failed to spend your allotted funding, you risked losing it in the next budget You would certainly not be recognized for being efficient Business people, on the other hand, are rewarded for having excess money and are recognized for their efficiency As this cycle of growing government spending continued, the demand for money increased and the "Tax the rich" idea was now being adjusted to include lower-income levels, down to the very people who voted it in, the poor and the middle class True capitalists used their financial knowledge to simply find a way to escapeThey headed chanel bags and wallets back to the protection of a corporationA corporation protects the richBut what many people who have never formed a corporation do not know is that a corporation is not really a thingA corporation is merely a file folder with some legal documents in it, sitting in some attorney's office registered with a state government agencyIt's not a big building with the name of the corporation on itIt's not a factory or a group of peopleA corporation is merely a legal document that creates a legal body without a soulThe wealth of the rich was once again protectedOnce again, the use of corporations became popular-once the permanent income laws were passed- because the income-tax rate of the corporation was less than the individual income-tax rates In addition, as described earlier, certain expenses could be paid with pre-tax dollars within the corporation This war between the haves and have-nots has been going on for louis vuitton replicas handbags hundreds of yearsIt is the "Take from the rich" crowd versus the richThe battle is waged whenever and wherever laws are madeThe battle will go on foreverThe problem is, the people who lose are the uninformedThe ones who get up every day and diligently go to work and pay taxesIf they only understood the way the rich play the game, they could play it tooThen, they would be on their way to their own financial independenceThis is why I cringe every time I hear a parent advise their children to go to school, so they can find a safe, secure jobAn employee with a safe, secure job, without financial aptitude, has no escape Average Americans today work five to six months for the government before they make enough to cover their taxesIn my opinion, that is a long timeThe harder you work, the more you pay the governmentThat is why I believe that the idea of "Take from the rich" backfired on the very people who voted it prada handbag (Comment on this)

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