Colleges as child molesters

Most Americans are aware of the football coach/child molester at Penn State.  Located in a part of Pennsylvania known as “Happy Valley”, Penn State provides favored Pennsylvanians with its own socialist empire.  One can be born, educated, employed, retired, and live in Penn State housing the whole time. No one wants to burst this very […]

Is college for dummies?

People go to college to learn.  If we can learn just as much without going to college, we shouldn’t.  Unless, we want to waste a lot of time and money. Everyone asks, with varying degrees of seriousness, “Is college for dummies?  Though more people, especially since the internet, answer “Yes.”, lots of people keep on going to college.  They choose to […]

A realistic measure of progress?

This sort of graph can be found in any number of places.  The numbers are so constant that some reliability may be reasonably assumed. Since 2008, over four million jobs have disappeared.  It’s easy to blame the Obama Administration for this, but other forces have contributed.  Fairness requires that we also consider automation as an […]

Conservatives are happier than liberals because they envy less..?

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We must love our neighbors, even if they’re thieves.

As the bubbles of more obvious uselessness are threatened with bursting, defenses go up.  Those in threatened bubbles hire professional opinion-influencers in the media bubble to let taxpayers and legislators know that “People need to be able to access our services!”, along with  “It’s not fair to deprive people of things they need!”  Jobs in the media bubble may be disguised […]

Bursting bubbles bring in higher tax revenue.

The United States is now so productive that unemployment no longer brings automatic poverty.  The unemployed are able to get two years of unemployment income.  That is augmented by food stamps, heating assistance, medical assistance, educational assistance, and a near-endless source of help in nearly every area of human need. The worst thing about unemployment […]

A sure-fire way to make money.

Recently, the nearby winner of a fifteen million dollar lottery prize had two auctions to turn some of what she’d bought with her winnings into ready cash.  The auctions were amazing.  Virtually new oriental rugs, purchased for several thousand dollars, sold for three to six hundred each.  Pieces of jewelry that sold for as much […]

Predictions. Televisions will be the size of eyeglasses, and wearable.

There are lots of concerns about the economy, especially in the United States and Europe.  There are few predictions. Here are some: 1.  Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy will continue to decline.  France and England will follow.  Soon, more Europeans will realize this basic:  “It is silly to have all these little, useless nations.  Each […]

The Church is here to save souls, not economic systems.

Lots of people are looking for alternatives to our economic system.  Some are in favor of governments printing more money.  Others want a gold standard.  Sizable groups want silver money.  Lots and lots of people want  lots and lots of things.  Vanity being what it is, most of them think, and will let people know […]

“Qui bono?”, “Who benefits?”

Every truth has at least one opposing lie.  In the theological sphere, the truth “There is a God” is opposed by the lie, “There is no God.”   In economics, the truth “There is no free lunch.” is countered by the lie, “Deficit spending will solve our economic problems.” We can watch the lies and truths being told […]