Interests:
Bantering, good discussions, quality music, cooking, health & nutrition awareness/veganism, world issues, english, work ethics, capitalism, clothing, history, facts and statistics, pragmatism

Activities:
Walks, sports, running, bikeriding, tennis

Favorite Quotes:
"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other" -- Voltaire "It is not strange... to mistake change for progress." -- Millard Fillmore

“To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, ‘the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, & the fruits acquired by it.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State." -- Bertrand de Jouvenel

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin Franklin