Archive for January, 2010

College Graduates Can’t Get Jobs

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

The Baltimore Sun reports on unemployment among recent college graduates. Anecdotally, I am hearing the  same reports in Lower Merion.  “For 20-to-24-year-olds, the jobless rate went up four-tenths of a percentage point to a whopping 16 percent in November, even as unemployment nationally dipped to 10 percent from 10.2 percent. And ...

The Big Government Statist Solution

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Big Government Socialism is sold because it is “ free money”to a constituency that seems willing to be dependent on government and another constituency who gets rich from government. The Forgotten Taxpayer, the tax producer, has close to one third of what he or she earns by work or investment, ...

Compare Performance and Money: LMSD to RSD

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="245" caption="reading graph"][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="280" caption="math graph"][/caption] Radnor School District  spends substantially less than Lower Merion School District and performs better. The Lower Merion School District Learning Curve Bends Down Lower Merion School District spends more per pupil than any school district in the State and yet results ...

Winning Principle of the Next Election

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

 The trend is toward limiting government. I think the concept of Constitutional Limited Government, Economic Freedom, Individual Autonomy and Accountability is making a comeback. VOTER CONTACT VOTER CONTACT VOTER CONTACT is what is necessary to win elections. Communication builds Community. Ideas and Ideals Unite and Energize. The country is in ...

The Rise of Mr. Ponzi

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Despair, Inc. is a terrific web site to bring us back to cold hard reality. This sounds like an interesting book. It would be good to know the mind of the original Ponzi to know the minds of those running our government. Charles Ponzi and his successors probably know more ...