The president is about to introduce a highway bill designed to “save a million jobs”… Not, alas,  a highway bill designed to “save a million highways”… My friends, there’s a distinct difference… The former implies that were it not for the 9+% unemployment rate, there’d be no need to spend billions on highways…  And were [...]

This stuff has to be politically inspired… Article in Today’s NY Times: Where Pay for Chief Execs Tops the Company Tax Burden… At least 25 top United States companies paid more to their chief executives in 2010 than they did to the federal government in taxes, according to a study released on Wednesday. You don’t [...]

The MSN Money headline this morning reads; Irene, The Stimulus Package? Hurricane Irene was a devastating storm, but it may end up giving the economy a much-needed boost. I am forever amazed at how such fallacy survives in the face of common sense… If you struggle with this one, read on: Picture the cartoon: A [...]

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0.85 people, on average, earning $47,000 per year, dot each square mile of the United States…  850 Rwandans, earning $1,200 per year, squeeze into each square mile of their Sub-Saharan home…  What would you think if I told you there was a country where the average number of citizens per square mile are piled 18,000+ [...]