American Economy

The President today asked every American to commit to at least one year of post-high school pcollege or vocational training.     He said the government will do what it has to do to help, and (of course) rolled out yet another new website, www.opportunity.gov (on a side note, wouldn't it stink to be in the private sector of any of these businesses that the government keeps building new ... read more

This weekend a friend of mine took his son to California to look at colleges.    Hearing so much about how bad the economy is, he sent me an email saying that he was shocked that all of his flights were full, hotels were full in both LA and San Francisco, restaurants were full and a few of the admissions officers at the colleges they looked at reported applications were higher than last ... read more

$180 billion taxpayer dollars for the bailout of AIG?   Small change compared to the huge and growing cost of crime and incarceration in America.   Lost in the talk over the billions in extra spending proposed in the President's 2010 budget to cover various programs is anything about lowering the costs of a true drag on this country: the cost of crime. According to the Justice ... read more