Category: Politics
All it Takes is a Little More Money
You’ve probably encountered someone who said, “our education system would improve if we only spent a little more money…” Well, here is a great chart I found at Coyote Blog. It shows the spending per pupil versus the math and
The Law of ‘Green’ Unintended Consequences
Engineers always exclaim that there is no silver bullet… just a portfolio of trade-offs. Well, for the eco-freaks, there is a new study that concludes that windmills in California are killing many birds… Oh my, it’s not just a Kennedy
Wisdom from the Bar
Luke ”The Drifter” says: “We Americans got so tired of being thought of as dumbasses by the rest of the world that we went to the polls last November and removed all doubt.” Hat tip to Todd Imwalle
Czars and Engineers
Here is a story from a senior level Chrysler person … via Slick Monday morning I attended a breakfast meeting where the speaker/guest was David E. Cole, Chairman of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), an Engineer with 40+ years
Photo from the Kennedy Funeral
From Mark Clower…
What is Happening to Our Country?
The path the O’bama adminstration is taking our country is obscene… Victor Davis Hanson provides an eloquent commentary: The president believes that a select group of affluent, highly educated technocrats … can direct our lives far better than we can
O’bama’s Approval Ratings
Hat tip to Ronn
Milton Friedman on Socialized Medicine
Milty made these comments back in 1978… His insights are still germane. If he were alive today, he would be the biggest opponent of O’bamacare. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPADFNKDhGM[/youtube] 9 min 37 sec Additional commentary from Milton about the rising cost of health care.