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• Bill Bennett informs us that we owe everything we have to “earning power”: our own and that of others. He reminds us that half of the American population doesn’t work at all. Seems that the rest of us are breaking our backs just to reach the same level where the indigent are, who are enjoying the results of our labors.

• I drink only one cup of coffee in the morning. The reality of the days of my life produced by that one cup is enough for me.

• It seems funny to me that all of us are so highly critical of life, and yet we’d rather be alive than dead.

• It seems to me that life is built on opposites: day and night, rich and poor, fat and thin, Republicans and Democrats, dumb and smart, mean and amicable, happy and sad. By the time you finally figure this all out and find your proper place in the scheme of things, you’re not alive anymore — you’re the opposite.

• Mort Zuckerman, who should know, says we are truthfully at 18 percent unemployment. This is a scary fact. No president has ever been re-elected with unemployment at more than 9 percent. Hooray!