Tag Archives: Economy
Teachers are more fun than real people.
A person would have to be crazy to devote themselves to teaching students who do not value them, be berated by parents who want them to lighten up on school workload and complexity, while reporting to bureaucrats who will not support them except when lying about their motives contrary to their work agreement. I for one am thankful that such insanity exists.
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How much worse do we have to pollute the environment before we do something?
When you increase the cost of doing something, you get less of it. A regulation on production has compliance costs, which makes less regulated locations more competitive and attractive to industry. When such regulations involve pollution, regulating industry away from the regulation, increases pollution. Continue reading
You would think they should be saying thank you!
President Obama and President Mubarak have a lot in common. Americans also have some things in common with the Egyptian people. We will likely have more in common in the coming years. The question is, will we go to meet them, or will they come to meet us? Continue reading
WTF, Beer and Toilet Subsidies?
In-vest-ment noun \in-ves(t)-mənt\ – the outlay of money usually for income or profit. Much political discussion involves terms and phrases used in ways contrary to their definition. The cynical call it spin. President Obama says he wants to “invest” in … Continue reading
Lead us Mr. President, even if you must run to the cliff ahead of us.
If you like the new insurance arrangement enacted by our elected officials, then you are happy. If not, then not. But there is one thing that is undeniable, the United States of America is at a cross roads predicted 235 … Continue reading
Taking my Tonka truck and go’in home
Think for a minute about Kindergarten. Imagine the teacher asks her class of 30 students to bring in a stuffed animal to play with. If they would like, they can bring more than one. Imagine that the next day, 5 … Continue reading
Have it both ways.
I watched a man who labels himself as an economist who said that the only hope we have to create jobs is a “massive” (his word) government spending at least two times that of the previous “stimulus”. I ask this: … Continue reading