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Taxing the Rich And Helping the Middle Class
ecthompsonmd May 19, 2012

Nick Hanauer, a rich venture capitalist, gave a simple TED talk, which has become an Internet sensation. To be honest, he really didn’t say anything that was earthshaking. But the fact that somebody who’s rich stood up and stated that the rich do not create jobs – Wow! It is not often that we see someone who simply speaks the truth. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the United States made investments in the middle class and the lower class and we all benefited from an unprecedented economic boom. We had prolonged prosperity from the 1950s throughout the 1970s. Then, we decided

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Last Lecture Professor Dies
ecthompsonmd July 25, 2008

Professor Randy Pausch was what a good college professor should be, making you think about things differently and questioning your beliefs. Pausch did that, and more. He made me think about death and life just a little differently. He will be missed. From MSNBC: Randy Pausch, a computer science professor whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, has died. He was 47. Pausch died early Friday at his home in Virginia, said Anne Watzman, a spokeswoman for Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh where he worked. Pausch and his family moved there last fall

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Errington C. Thompson, MD

Dr. Thompson is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats.

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