First Blog

Setting sail. On the great galley of life, most of the young graduates end up rowing for scraps, all the while hearing the joy and pageantry drifting down from the top deck. ------------ Dear Mr. Mayor, If your policies are stupid, If your bigotry is stupid, If your decrees are stupid, If your ideas on education are stupid, Then you just might be s**d. The good news is you rank in about the middle of hopefuls for the next Presidential election.   ------------ Socialism? Conservativism? Each system has good points and bad.   However, both systems have their greatest troubles with human greed, for money and/or power. The Noisy Classes . Socialists like Bernie Sanders don’t care about any factors aside from the more stuff paradigm. Not really practical, they have no plans beyond the great give.  Abject conservatives place all responsibility on individuals, come hell or high water. Business is supreme. ------------ Free. Will Americans ever learn that f

Both Sanders and Clinton have promoted several new programs from free college tuition to health care for all illegal immigrants.  Some sound good.  Some believe the time has come for such government benefits, services, or beneficence, or whatever you want to call them.   Yet both agree there must be a pathway to funding such really expensive programs. Both believe we should tax the filthy rich, and who's not for them paying more.  After all, their proportional wealth has increased dramatically in the last decade or two. So, with their programs and tax plans in hand they push their give-aways hoping for your vote. NOTE.  Before going on, let's ask.  Where are you?  If you're reading this, your probably neither filthy rich nor filthy poor.  You're in the middle.  You pay taxes, and likely a lot of them.  But you surely would enjoy those multimillionaires and billionaires paying more. Suppose either is elected.  Suppose they implement their programs. Suppose they pus