Margaret Thatcher's Best Quotes

"No one would remember the good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well."

 "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families."

 "There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything.…No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do."

 "You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear."

 "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."

Number of bank-branches in U.S. and China.

U.S. banks have 93,000  branches , according to AlixPartners, a New York  consulting firm—the lowest tally since 2007.

The firm expects the figure to drop to 80,000  over the next decade, putting the total closer in line with 2000 levels.

China Merchants Bank,  the country's fifth largest bank by market value, has 400 branches  and sub-branches in more than 30 cities around China.

Manufacturing in the United States, China and South Korea

Manufacturing in the United States is about $1.6 trillion, or 12 percent  of our Gross Domestic Product.

Manufacturing’s share of GDP declined  from 28.3 percent in 1953 to a low of 11.2  percent in 2009.

Manufacturing in  China generates 32% Gross Domestic Product and 27.5% in South Korea.

The number of people receiving food stamps in U.S.

The number of people receiving food stamps in U.S.:

 47,791,996 or 15% of the population

 57,658 or 8% of the population in North Dakota

 

 

672,339 or 23% of the population in Mississippi

The most important industry of the United States

The most important industry of the United States

154 million America's total workforce in April 2009

17,209,300 Number of workers in the health care and social services sector in Feb. 2013

The Largest Hospital in America:

New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center (New York City)

It has  4,777 Employees on LinkedIn

Average salary : 48,833

Average salary in the U.S.: $28,567

How many people in the US hold two full time jobs with no benefits?

How many people in the US hold two full time jobs with no benefits? 

13.205.000 million people hold two full time jobs with no benefits in the U.S.

Roads and bridges

Roads and bridges should never be built unless their financing, construction and operation is all purely private.