Government Frugality
The President ordered the cabinet to cut a whopping $100 million from the $3.5 trillion federal budget! I'm so...
Category: Politics
Code Words
Our comfortable middle class world is full of caring groups that want to for instance: stop genocide in Darfur without...
Why Government Can’t Run a Business
There is a great article by John Steele Gordon in this mornings Wall Street Journal titled Why Government Can't Run a...
The Federal Budget Explained
There is a great explanation of President Obama's budget on YouTube It uses pennies. This is my attempt to embed...
Does History Repeat?
I got this cartoon from Joe S. It appeared in the Chicago Tribune on 4/21/1934. It is a dire warning about the...
“Free Choice” is an Opportunity
Employers dread the "Employee Free Choice Act." They say it will make it possible to coerce workers into publicly...
More Perspective
The book Kings of Capital and Knights of Labor Was printed in 1886. The Preface begins: What are these three...
Simon on Octomom
Why do people think that it is egregious that a woman chose to have 14 children? They don't. What they are angry...
The Harvest
In the Spring time when you plant you can predict a bumper crop. In the Summer working in the field you can daydream...
Positive Thinking About the Economy
Most of what you hear about the economy is negative so this entry is to remind you that it is not as bad as the news...
