Drifting through life

Here is a longish quote from the book I am currently reading, Heat Rises by Richard Castle. "This is what my life has come to. Numbers. First they criticize my stats, telling me to step it up, pay my rent. Now they're sending me these." The Captain lifted the thick spreadsheet off his blotter and let it drop with unmasked contempt.  "Target numbers. Micromanaging me. Telling me how many Class C violations to write up this week for blocking sidewalks and littering. Class B summonses too. Let's see...." He ran his finger along a row. "They want eight seat belt violations and six cell phone tickets. Not five, not seven. Six. I don't make my numbers, they do a number on me. So what's my choice, fluff my books? Do I tell the uniforms not to take certain robbery or assault reports so the stats don't work against me? If it doesn't get written down, it never happened. What do you know, a crime drop in the twentieth."   (precinct) That ...

here's a line from the book I'm currently reading: "They sat low in saggy seats and the cab crashed and bounced like the wheels were square." That would be a heck of a ride, I hope they weren't going too far. another few lines: " He believed hunger kept him sharp. He believed it stimulated creativity in the brain. Another old evolutionary legacy. If you're hungry, you work out a smarter way to get the next woolly mammoth, today, not tomorrow." The book? Never Go Back.   A Jack Reacher story by Lee Child. And now for something entirely different .....a quote by Winston Churchill that I read a few weeks back in a post by Susan Swiderski, who writes at  I Think; Therefore, I Yam "We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle" - Winston Churchill Does this mean that our governments should NOT fill their coffers by taxing the life ou...