David Ross, one of the last living liberals

Republican budget and taxation principles:

Poor people have too much income.
Rich people have too little income.

Paraphrasing Jared Bernstein as seen on the Huffington Post

My own philosophy on taxes:

Those who benefit from the economic system fostered by our government should pay taxes to support that government.
Those who benefit disproportionately should pay disproportionately.
Those who disproportionately benefit the greatest should disproportionately pay the greatest.

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Inflation: 4.2%

Change in browser user base for Internet Explorer since March 2003: −67.8%

According to the advertisements on television, heartburn is a major illness requiring immediate treatment. However, there appear to be more treatments sold than the foods that cause heartburn.

Of course, none of the advertisements indicate the least expensive treatment: a piece of ginger. Yes, eating a piece of ginger can give immediate relief from heartburn at far less cost than any advertised pills. I have created a chart with price comparisons.

I prefer candied ginger. I just chew it up and swallow, and then I take a drink of water. It is the cheapest heartburn cure per dose in the chart, about one-fifth of the cost of Tums (the second cheapest). Others might prefer Japanese-style pickled ginger or fresh ginger root. Ginger ale will also work, but it requires drinking a really large amount.

News stories about politicians' sexual escapades raised the question in my mind:

Community Service

Profession

Computer software engineer specializing in requirements analysis and testing. Advocate of software life-cycle methods that minimize errors and prevent budget overruns, schedule slips, and dissatisfied end-users through up-front analysis, ongoing reviews, and formal verification. Proficient with software for platforms including stand-alone main-frames, desktop PCs, and client-server networks. Experienced in technical management and, for small organizations, top-level management.

Expertise includes:

Requirements Analysis: Consult directly with customers to ensure that software requirements reflect their needs. Prepare specifications that contain verifiable requirements.
Software Verification: Develop tests to determine correctness, implementation of requirements, and integration of both commercial off-the-shelf and custom software.
Mathematical Analysis: Apply numerical analysis and statistics to the design and study of scheduling systems and physical systems.

Professional Activities

Published research: "Pseudo-random number generators for a calculator", Communications of the ACM, volume 38 number 1 (January 1995), pages 122-124.
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1966-2003.
Reviewer of computer literature for the monthly Computing Reviews, 1993-2003.

Hobbies

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Stamp collecting

Gardening

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Listening to classical music

Surfing the Internet

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When I turn on the faucet, water comes out. At night, the street lights come on. Our streets are swept, and our joint school and public library continues to operate. Both children and adults enjoy themselves in our community's parks. Our public schools are as good as any other schools — public or private — in California. Deputy Sheriffs patrolling our streets and judges in our courtrooms keep our community's crime rate very low in a county with one of the lowest crime rates in the nation. Mail is delivered six days each week. In Oak Park, government is working; it is not our enemy.

David E. Ross

Oak Park, California 91377

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