Not true? He qualified it with "essential Liberty" and "temporary Safety". Perhaps, without the qualifiers, he knew it to be false statement, but I've never seen anything that would indicate that he didn't believe his own statement.

Well, from the very beginning of the article you linked to...

"The Budget of the United States Government often begins as the President's proposal to the U.S. Congress which recommends funding levels for the next fiscal year, beginning October 1. However, Congress is the body required by law to pass a budget annually and to submit the budget passed by both houses to the President for signature".

It's a proposal. "Submitting legislation" has the nuance of the submitters being the legal representatives to do so.

Khorosho. Znachit, chto mi "odin protsentnik"?

Probably this part...

...Though you did qualify it with...

...an important point, for sure. But this...

...sort of implies that "You know best, and you'll get even with them!", which diminishes the other arguments.

What he said!

true, true.

Fix Or Repair Daily

He traded gasoline for adrenalin.

I think that the bigger point that he is making is that virtually all people drive outside of the parameters of the of the EPA ests., and vehicles have different efficiencies at different velocities. F'rinstance, I get about 6mpg better mileage at 90mph than I do at 65 (27mpg vs 21).

As always, YMMV.

Chto ti govorish!

Absolutely.

I find that, for myself, I'm a decent mentor, but a terrible teacher. I'm not much for stuffing info into heads that may or may not want to absorb it, but if said trainee wants to come and watch and learn, great. But the trainee has to want it...I can't make the person "excited" about a subject.

I thought it was 'cause they got married and had their own kids.

Ok, gotta throw in the old classic...

How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

None, that's a hardware problem.

"To Serve Man"

I think you nailed it.