Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi, quoted in E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. ~Mahatma Gandhi
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks. ~Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ~Author Unknown
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. ~Eric Hoffer
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ~Vernon Howard
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. ~Mad Magazine
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger
Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. ~Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. ~Elwyn Brooks White
I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world. ~Adriano Tilgher
There must be more to life than having everything! ~Maurice Sendak
Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion. ~Ambrose Bierce
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. ~Author Unknown
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~Unknown
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ~Edward Abbey
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. ~Kin Hubbard
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. ~Richard Bach
Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised. ~Adriano Tilgher
Who covets more, is evermore a slave. ~Robert Herrick
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one. ~Paul Heyne
11.24.2008
11.21.2008
Obama wants to axe DST!!!
Our pres-elect would like to get rid of daylight savings time and I think that would be amazing!!! Getting out of work at five and riding home in the dark sucks. While he's getting rid of useless, archaic and annoying policies, maybe he can throw out the electoral college!
Sac Bike News
Sac police trying to identify man injured critically in bike/car collision this morning. Another man gets life in prison for killing cyclist while stealing his bike. Depressing much?
11.17.2008
11.11.2008
11.07.2008
Top ten cars to avoid on the road
List here. It's funny 'cause it's true. I'm going to have to add to that list: cabs, rental cars, toyota vans and rental trucks.
11.04.2008
11.03.2008
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