I hate April 1st. My main source of information is the internet, and today the net is filled with so much misinformation in the name of good humor that it's impossible to trust anything. I still haven't done my taxes yet. I forgot all about them after my trip to Chicago. Guess I'll work on it either today or tomorrow night. I really hate doing them. I guess I could get them done by someone, but I've always done them myself. It's not very hard, it's just long and tedious to do. Kind of like homework that if done right results in getting money back. I always get a refund from the US and end up owing state. Don't ask me how that works, it's just the way it is. The thing that reminded me about the taxes was the fact that our royalty bonus checks came yesterday and the government stole half my money. I think I'd feel better about it if I had some say in where the money from my taxes went -- I'd keep my money away from funding the military and probably put it all into things like education, the space program and environmental protection. Of course, the problem is that there are enough people out there who wouldn't know or care about where to put their contributions.
Here's an interesting forward I received yesterday:
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look
something like the following:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in sub-standard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education become glaringly apparent.
The following is also something to ponder: If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
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