thought for the day

...Pursue the things you love doing, then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you. - Maya Angelou

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The things that are easy to do are also easy not to do. - Jim Rohn RIP (September 17, 1930 - December 5, 2009)

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"Sometimes things got so tough that I did not want to pay the price individually, but there was no price that I wouldn't pay for the group, so I would go the distance." 'Mean' Joe Greene, Pittsburgh Steeler, Football HOF

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step - so watch your step. Jeffrey R. Holland

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“We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free” Ronald Reagan

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"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual -- or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country." --Samuel Adams (thanks June)

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The rich invest their money and spend what's left; the poor spend their money and invest what's left. --- Jim Rohn

Buy American

From the Associated Press:

TOKYO – Toyota is recalling 1.53 million Lexus, Avalon and other models, mostly in the U.S. and Japan, for brake fluid and fuel pump problems, the latest in a string of quality problems for the world's No. 1 automaker.

Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will call back for repairs about 740,000 cars in the U.S. and 599,000 in Japan. The remainder are in Europe and other markets around the world.

Over the past year, Toyota has recalled more than 10 million cars and trucks worldwide for a variety of problems, from faulty gas pedals and floor mats that can trap accelerators, to braking problems in its Prius hybrid. In August, Toyota called back 1.33 million Corolla sedans and Matrix hatchbacks in the U.S. and Canada because their engines may stall.

The majority of vehicles this time around need to be fixed for a problem with the brake master cylinder, which could lead to weaker braking power, said spokesman Paul Nolasco in Tokyo

thought for the day

The United States is a city set upon a hill. Ronald Reagan

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"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt

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People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be. — Harvey MacKay, Author and Business Owner

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"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress" Ronald Reagan

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The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. - Steven Wright

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Attack your problems with the fury of a hurricane. William Randolph Hearst

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A person who is wrapped up in himself is overdressed.

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"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort" Herm Albright

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

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If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. - Steven Wright

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"The thoughts of youth are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors that oft make brilliant the sky; but the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon then to steer his course." from The Richest Man In Babylon by George S. Clason

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You cannot step in the same stream twice. Hericlitus

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It's not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs ~ Valclav Havel

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Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. ~ anonymous

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Hold your loved ones close, tell them you love them, for if tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today! ~ anonymous

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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. - Jim Rohn

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.--Benjamin E. Mays

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean

Coach John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010)

Any follower of the ‘thought for the day’ will certainly know my admiration for Coach John Wooden. I have shared many of his quotes - most of which came from books he has written or books about him. I remember those wonderful basketball teams of the past. I remember the amazing success.

After I met Coach Wooden, I realized how he was so much more that a basketball coach. His life story unfolded to me in the many books by and about him that I have read since then.
Two of my favorites are linked here: Wooden favorite number one Wooden favorite number two

If there ever was anyone who should be emulated in this day and age, who should be a hero, it was Coach John Wooden.

RIP.

May your 2010 be a 10!
Tom

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He was a coach when coaching meant something else, long before the job became a pathway to riches and fame. A coach when student athletes were really students, and the thought of making millions of dollars rolling out basketballs in the gym seemed preposterous.

A coach when it meant more to mold the lives of young men than to proclaim his own greatness. A coach who offered a new life lesson to his charges almost every day.

"Learn as if you were going to live forever," he would tell his players. "Live as if you were going to die tomorrow."

John Wooden didn't live forever. His tomorrow finally came Friday, when he quietly passed away just months before his 100th birthday.

The end came, fittingly enough, on the same UCLA campus where he tutored a player then known as Lew Alcindor. The same place he seemingly couldn't lose with Bill Walton. The place where he dispensed wisdom that his players remembered long after they had forgotten the X's and O's.

"What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player," he would say.

His players listened. How could they not when the man giving advice lived by the same code? He was born on a farm in Indiana without running water or electricity, and his values were as solid as the land his parents worked. He lived into a time he could never have imagined, but nothing changed.

The championships seemed to come as an annual rite of spring. There were 10 of them in all, an accomplishment so staggering that no other college coach will ever come close. The other statistics blurred together over time, but they won't be matched either.

Still, it wasn't the 88-game winning streak, the four 30-0 seasons or even the 38 straight NCAA tournament wins that defined the humble Midwesterner who ended up at UCLA almost by accident.

He had the best players. They came because of him, and they came in spite of him. Playing for Wooden, you see, was never easy. He was the boss, practices were brutal, and things were always done in his meticulous way. The players who bought in would one day become his lifetime friends. Those who didn't would never understand.

The first practice of every season began not with a midnight slam dunk contest, but a demonstration by Wooden on the proper way to put on shoes and socks. Wrinkles in the socks could lead to blisters, he explained, and blisters could lead to losing.

The fundamentals never went out of style, and Wooden never changed his approach. His players learned, and they grew. He taught them how to win, but he also taught them bigger things, like his belief that a life not lived for others is a life not lived well. He wouldn't accept less than their best effort both on and off the court, and that's
usually what he got.

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability," Wooden would warn them.

Walton was one of those with ability, and tons of it. The redhead was one of the greatest college players ever and the bedrock of the UCLA team in the early '70s that won the 88 straight.

Walton was also very much an individual in a time of individualism. One day, during a break in the season, he showed up at practice with a wild, red beard, ready to play for a coach who didn't allow facial hair.

"It's my right," he told Wooden.

"That's good, Bill," Wooden replied. "I admire people who have strong beliefs and stick by them. We're going to miss you."

The beard, of course, went. And although Walton finally graduated and moved on, his friendship with his coach grew by the year.

It's been 35 years since Wooden watched his Bruins cut down the nets down one last time, then walked away while still at his peak. Yes, he was the "Wizard of Westwood" -- but he never made more than $32,500 and for years he mopped the floor himself before practice.

He never begrudged the coaches of today the millions they make, but making money wasn't why he got into coaching in the first place. He became a legend because of what his players did on the court, but to Wooden the victories were merely a byproduct of the life lessons that always came first.

Indeed, Wooden did what he preached, living his life for others. His style was authoritarian, but his players graduated and the messages sank in a lot more than they missed the mark. He encouraged them to take chances, urged them to be all they could be.

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything," he would tell them. "I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

Wooden didn't make many. He lived an impeccable life, devoid of scandal, still so in love with his wife, Nell, in the years after she died that he would write her a letter each month just as he had done while she was alive.

As word got out about his final hospitalization, students who hadn't even been born the last time he worked a game rallied on the UCLA campus in tribute. Words of tribute, meanwhile, began flowing the moment his death was announced.

But the words that matter most are the ones his players still remember. The same words they've passed on to their children and their children's children.

"Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you," he told them.

As hard as it is to imagine, John Wooden is gone. His dreams, however, live on.

(The above article was written by Tim Dahlberg who is an Associated Press Sports Columnist dated June 5, 2010)

thought for the day

Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other the road to greatness and meaning. But the contrast between the two destinations is as the night is to the day. Which road will you choose? Steven R. Covey

John Wooden

“I had a very clear request of those I taught: give me complete commitment and total effort. An individual who is willing to deliver those two powerful assets to your team is a prized player whether he’s seven foot two or two foot seven. Many times I reminded those I coached, ‘I don’t care how tall you are. I care how tall you play.’” John Wooden The Essential Wooden RIP

thought for the day

Never forget that 'stressed' spelled backwards is 'desserts'

Who is on the road with you and what are they doing?

Non-scientific(?) but accurate study of driving/cell phone habits.

May 26th. 6 PM Orange county. Feeder street to major 4 lane street.

100 drivers observed.

8 were talking on cell phones while holding them in their hands.
1 lady was putting on her eye liner.

So, as you are driving around remember that eight percent of the cars going by or around you are using their cell phones NOT hands-free (as required by law). And one percent are distracted by makeup application.

Also…….remember that 50 percent of all drivers have Two-Digit IQs.

Yeah, I am feeling safe out there!!!

May your 2010 be a 10! And safe!

Being Prepared for the Coming Tough Times

Being Prepared for the Coming Tough Times
Bob Uda, PhD (ABD)


For savings accounts, when the stock market crashes and depositors make a rush on the banks to withdraw all of their money, the bank will close/lock their doors, and the late folks will not get any of their money. The Obama government will confiscate all of their money. For social security, the forecast is that the Social Security funds will be depleted in seven years. Hence, there will be no more social security checks after the economic collapse. The following list is how to prepare financially other than debt.

Do any combination of the following:

• Get totally out of debt.
• Operate on a budget.
• Work and earn money to your dying day.
• Get a fireproof safe to keep all of your valuables locked up. Save your money in your home safe.
• Don’t take on large purchases unless absolutely necessary.
• Convert up to 25% of your liquid assets into precious metals (gold and silver). However, this may become risky as the Obama government will confiscate all recently purchased gold owned by private citizens. This was done by FDR during the depression. Keep your gold in old/numismatic gold coins.
• Purchase insurances (home, car, life, disaster, liability, etc.). For life insurance, buy only term insurance and get as much of it as you can.
• Balance out your liquid assets among stocks, bonds, mutual funds, precious metals, and art objects. In other words, don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.
• Stock your cupboards with nonperishable foodstuffs. Rotate the usage of your food.
• Build up a year’s supply of food, clothing, fuel, and water. When there is no money or food on store shelves, you will be able to barter with your supply. Remember, when there is a rush on stores, all of the food on store shelves will be gone within three days with no replenishment possible.
• Never let your automobiles to go below ¼-tank of gas. Always have enough gas to get you to a safe haven.
• Obtain firearms and ammunition. Keep other weapons (knives, etc.).
• Grow and maintain a good vegetable garden. Plant fruit trees in your yard. Raise edible animals (fowl, rabbits, etc.).
• Learn how to get back to the earth by developing hunting, fishing, and foraging skills for edible fauna and flora.
• Develop new skills. Improve your education/knowledge. Learn about accounting, finance, economics, etc.). Be a lifelong learner. Study daily.
• Keep up daily with what’s going on in the world. Watch Fox News and listen to conservative talk radio. Listen to/watch the Glenn Beck Show daily.
• Read conservative online publications. You get only lies and disinformation from the mainstream media, which is now called the lame-stream or fringe media.
• Buy a good battery operated or hand-cranked radio to keep up with the news during major manmade or natural disasters/emergencies.
• Get a ham radio, become a certified operator, and learn how to use the ham radio.
• Own a cell phone.
• Maintain a good supply of flashlights, fresh batteries, matches, and candles.
• Prepare a 72-hour kit (one each for your car and home).
• Buy good first-aid kits for your home and car.
• Keep in good physical health with proper diet, exercise, and sleep. Keep/use a good supply of multiple vitamins, Omega-III fish oil tablets, prescription drugs, etc.
• Update your will and keep it current.
• Keep connected on the Internet with dependable family and friends.
• Join your Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and participate in its training programs and activities. Become qualified in basic first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
• Be constantly alert and vigilant.

If you do all of those things listed above that is appropriate for you, you will be able to deal with any economic crash, terrorist attacks, and/or all major natural/manmade disasters. Be prepared to help and assist those who didn't bother to get prepared. Good luck!


Remember: 86% of all couples age 65 and older will need nursing type care in their lifetime. This can have the most devastating effect on your retirement portfolio. With costs running over $6000 a month for care (average care term is just under three years) the need for Long Term Care insurance has never been more critical.

thought for the day

If the grass is greener somewhere else, water your own grass. Dr. Laura

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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ...Albert Einstein

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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. - Steven Wright

Stock may plunge big-time

According to an article on moneynews.com the worst is yet to come.

Stock may plunge big-time, so investors should get out of the market, says Richard Russell, editor of the Dow Theory Letters. The important indicators are the Dow Jones industrial average and the Dow Jones transportation average, he wrote in a note to subscribers. “If the two averages violate their May 7 lows, I see a major crash as the outcome,” Russell said, according to Bloomberg. “Get out of stocks now (except for gold related shares), and I don’t give a damn whether you have paper losses or paper profits.” “If I read the stock market correctly, it’s telling me that there is a surprise ahead,” Russell wrote. “And that surprise will be a reversal to the downside for the economy, plus a collection of other troubles ahead.”

Russell, 85, has put out his newsletter every three weeks for 52 years.

The market started signaling trouble in early April, when the number of stocks reaching 52-week highs began slipping and the number of falling stocks began to exceed rising ones, Russell says.

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To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done. --Richard G. Scott

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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams. Yiddish proverb

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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read. - Jim Rohn

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Failures are divided into two classes - those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought. --John Charles Sak

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There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. (thanks Chris)

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“When you discover that you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.” - a Sioux Indian saying

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The ultimate reason for having trials and afflictions is to entice you to become the person it takes to overcome them. Cheryl States

Home Depot is Hiring!

Bloomberg’s Chris Burritt reports that Home Depot is adding employees for the first time in four years, citing chair and CEO Frank Blake in an interview.

Blake declined to say how many workers home depot will add, but Burritt notes the company, with 317,000 employees, has laid off workers in each of the last three years.

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The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown

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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect. Sam Ewing

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Did you ever notice: When you put the 2 words 'The' and 'IRS' together it spells 'Theirs...'

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"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" John Wooden

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A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. Humphrey Bogart

thought for opening day

The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game; it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. James Earl Jones as Terrance Mann in Field of Dreams

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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper. - Brian Tracy

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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.--Zig Zigler

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If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen. Richard M. DeVoss

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As a leader you have to praise, lavish praise. Like flowers flourish on water, people flourish on praise Sir Richard Branson (thanks Jacqueline)

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Optimism is a matter of mental habit. You can learn to practice the habit of optimism and thereby greatly enhance your chances of achieving success. Or you can drive yourself into the pit of pessimism and failure. - Napoleon Hill

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If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.--Zig Ziglar

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. - Jim Rohn

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Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.--Gary Ryan Blair

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The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it. - Steven Wright

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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. -- Max Lucado

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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.--Ralph Vaull Starr

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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.

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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.--Ursula K. LeGuin

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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. - Edward Thorndike

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You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.--Alvin Toffler

What's up with U.S. Income taxes?

Backdoor taxes to hit middle class

By Terri Cullen Mon Feb 1, 4:09 pm ET

NEW YORK (Reuters.com) --The Obama administration's plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.

In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year -- effectively a tax hike by stealth.

While the administration is focusing its proposal on eliminating tax breaks for individuals who earn $250,000 a year or more, middle-class families will face a slew of these backdoor increases.

The targeted tax provisions were enacted under the Bush administration's Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Among other things, the law lowered individual tax rates, slashed taxes on capital gains and dividends, and steadily scaled back the estate tax to zero in 2010.

If the provisions are allowed to expire on December 31, the top-tier personal income tax rate will rise to 39.6 percent from 35 percent. But lower-income families will pay more as well: the 25 percent tax bracket will revert back to 28 percent; the 28 percent bracket will increase to 31 percent; and the 33 percent bracket will increase to 36 percent. The special 10 percent bracket is eliminated.

Investors will pay more on their earnings next year as well, with the tax on dividends jumping to 39.6 percent from 15 percent and the capital-gains tax increasing to 20 percent from 15 percent. The estate tax is eliminated this year, but it will return in 2011 -- though there has been talk about reinstating the death tax sooner.

Millions of middle-class households already may be facing higher taxes in 2010 because Congress has failed to extend tax breaks that expired on January 1, most notably a "patch" that limited the impact of the alternative minimum tax. The AMT, initially designed to prevent the very rich from avoiding income taxes, was never indexed for inflation. Now the tax is affecting millions of middle-income households, but lawmakers have been reluctant to repeal it because it has become a key source of revenue.

Without annual legislation to renew the patch this year, the AMT could affect an estimated 25 million taxpayers with incomes as low as $33,750 (or $45,000 for joint filers). Even if the patch is extended to last year's levels, the tax will hit American families that can hardly be considered wealthy -- the AMT exemption for 2009 was $46,700 for singles and $70,950 for married couples filing jointly.

Middle-class families also will find fewer tax breaks available to them in 2010 if other popular tax provisions are allowed to expire. Among them:

* Taxpayers who itemize will lose the option to deduct state sales-tax payments instead of state and local income taxes;

* The $250 teacher tax credit for classroom supplies;

* The tax deduction for up to $4,000 of college tuition and expenses;

* Individuals who don't itemize will no longer be able to increase their standard deduction by up to $1,000 for property taxes paid;

* The first $2,400 of unemployment benefits are taxable, in 2009 that amount was tax-free.

Auto Industry News...

Toyota’s recent troubles have worsened. The company has recalled millions of cars in the United States, Europe and China because of potentially faulty accelerator pedals. They have tried to assure customers that it could fix the problem by inserting a metal bar into the pedal’s mechanism. A snag also emerged with the braking system on its Prius model. The cost of the recall is estimated at $2 billion.
There was a sharp drop in Toyota’s sales in the United States in January. This proved to be a blessing for other carmakers, particularly for Ford, which saw sales rise by 24% in January compared with a year earlier. Ford recently reported a $2.7 billion annual profit, its first since 2005.

thought for the day

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.- Lois McMaster Bujold

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People who say life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile... Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project... Always have something ahead of you to "look forward to"--to work for and to hope for.--Maxwell Maltz

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I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun. Eddie Albert

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It's not what you gather, but what you scatter, that tells what kind of life you have lived! (thanks Thomas)

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Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day, teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

Thought for the day

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. Robert Half

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. - Albert Einstein

Thought for the day

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. Charles Kettering (thanks Robert)

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99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. - Steven Wright

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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself. Dale Carnegie

Unemployment

According to The Economist American employers shed 85,000 jobs in December confounding hopes that job losses may be bottoming out. A revision to November’s figure recorded a rise of 4,000 jobs for the month, the first increase in almost two years. America’s unemployment rate remained steady at 10%, as more people dropped out of the workforce. How do they take into account the millions of people out there who are employed but only working 15 to 30 hours a week?

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -Martin Luther King Jr.

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Don't be the subject of change. Be the Catalyst for change. Faraz Ahmed Siddiqui

Concluding my tribute to Jim Rohn (September 17, 1930 - December 5, 2009)

Today concludes my tribute to Jim Rohn. The following ‘thought’ was the one I used for #100 many years ago and I wanted to use it again for #1000. I am sure that Jim’s wisdom will find its way here again in the future. He was a great man and a big influence in my life.

Do not doubt yourself, for where doubt resides, confidence cannot. Do not neglect yourself, for with neglect comes loss. Do not imagine yourself to be less than you are, nor more than you are, but seek always to become all of which you are capable. Do not allow yourself to become arrogant or discourteous, for both are characteristics adopted by those who seek to cover their weaknesses. Do not spend time regretting the past, but invest that time wisely by preparing a better future. You are a fertile seed of the creator of all things, destined not to lie dormant, but to spring forth from the soil called life, and grow upward toward the unlimited horizons - overcoming all obstacles in the process. It is your destiny to tap your talents and to achieve all that of which you believe yourself to be worthy.…to love more, anticipate more, overcome more, plan more, attract more, and to enjoy more than you ever dreamed possible. Such is the standard of life awaiting your mental decision and outstretched hand. You are deserving - you are becoming - and you shall succeed. Jim Rohn - The Seasons of Life


These are my exact sentiments for each of you!


May your 2010 be a 10!

Continuing Jim Rohn Tribute

There are those who will laugh at those who read useful books, and yet there is little difference between those who cannot read and those who will not read - the result of both is ignorance. Jim Rohn - The Seasons of Life

Continued tribute to Jim Rohn

I used to say, 'I sure hope things will change.' Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. -- Jim Rohn