In The Mail Today
Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future by Ben J. Wattenberg.As Spock would say, and without a trace of irony, "Fascinating."
Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future by Ben J. Wattenberg.
Professor Reynolds has some backstage snaps of Sarah Palin at the Tea Party Convention.There are two ways economists measure the number of jobs, the establishment survey that asks about 370,000 employers how many people they are employing and the household survey that asks about 110,000 people each month whether they are working....If my snippets are too brief, read the whole thing.
The problem is that the two surveys have reached different estimates, with the household survey showing a significantly greater drop in the number of jobs than the establishment survey. And it turns out that there might be a simple reason for that.... ...the Bureau makes an assumption that the jobs created at new companies is about equal to the jobs lost at companies that go out of business.
Unfortunately, that assumption hasn't worked during the current recession. Firms have been going out of business and news ones haven't sprung up to take their place.
This illustration is from The Bell Curve by Charles Murray, p. 46.Would it be too much to ask you to place the question of whether we want light rail in Forest Grove on the November ballot? With all the problems it brings and with its exorbitant price tag, I think it should be the people of Forest Grove -- and not you alone -- to decide if we want this boondoggle.-- the Polish Immigrant
Before you start spending our money -- and make no mistake, the money Obama is printing is still our money -- can you first fix all the broken sidewalks in the Old Town?
Don't you know or refuse to accept that light rail is the least efficient mode of transportation? The traffic congestion never improves because the rail doesn't go where people want to go. More importantly, this thing is just insanely expensive. You could build another TV highway, put several buses on it and still have some money left to fix the street in front of my house. There is a huge pothole that fills with water whenever it rains; I've been complaining about it for 10 years now but nobody cares. I guess the problem is too pedestrian for you.
If you want to erect another monument to government arrogance and your own vanity, here is an idea. Pave the rails over, paint some stripes and, look, there is a bike lane; you can even call it after yourself. How about Truaxway? You will solve two problems: you will take crazy cyclists off the TV Highway and forever bury the temptation for the ruling class to flush our money down the rail.
Jim Treacher... got Kerrigan'd be the Secret Service last night. They used to say "beware the black helicopters" but because of Barry's unholy deficits they can't afford them and are now using black SUVs. Keep your head on a swivel, people!I don't LOL lightly, but I'm ROFL.
UPDATE: Now they're saying it wasn't Secret Service but rather State Department Security. Translation: Hillary going for a drug-induced joyride with her face out the window like a Labrador.
Thanks to local blogger My Back Pages who found this at the Guardian. They, in turn, found all their numbers at the OMB.Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't IndexOK, that's The Onion, but they have an uncanny way of predicting the future.
Executives at Google, the rapidly growing online-search company that promises to "organize the world's information," announced Monday the latest step in their expansion effort: a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it is unable to index.
"Our users want the world to be as simple, clean, and accessible as the Google home page itself," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a press conference held in their corporate offices. "Soon, it will be."