Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
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The Air Force is launching a fleet of drone spy planes across American skies. These are data-gathering devices. They hold data for 90 days whenever they accidentally collect it over the USA. Why hold it at all? Legally, the Air Force is not supposed to snoop on citizens of the USA. But if they take [...]
Continue reading →The job market is rotten. College grads cannot get anything except fast food jobs. Meanwhile, they have $25,000 of debt. The Associated Press looked at the data published by the government. Kids with degres in science and engineering can get jobs. Median wages are down from 2000 in the liberal arts. Andrew Sum, director of [...]
Continue reading →We all know this is true. The law profession is glutted. Meanwhile, most graduate school students in engineering are temporary residents from foreign countries. A recent article in Business Week highlighted this. At all levels, the industry suffers from excess labor. The number of people with law licenses grew from 212,600 in 1950 to 1,225,000 [...]
Continue reading →How many people work for governments in the United States. Let’s look at the numbers. The usual estimate of the number of employees of the U.S. government is 2.8 million. The estimate is fake. This does not count military personnel. But most important, it does not count contract workers paid by the federal government. The [...]
Continue reading →Six years after home prices peaked in the USA, families are still trapped. It’s getting worse, month by month. They cannot sell their homes in order to take better-paying jobs. Think of the couple that bought a home in the Los Angeles suburb, La Puente. They paid $415,000. Then they took out a second mortgage. [...]
Continue reading →This article is a summary of the author’s book. I have not read the book, but it looks interesting. This list is worth considering. * * * * * * * * * * For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special [...]
Continue reading →In early February, Andrew Breitbart spoke about a March 1 surprise. A colleague posted this. Andrew Breitbart was one of the inspirations behind our consolidation of our multiple domain names into what has become Sinclair-News-LSNewsGroup. With the announcement of Andrew’s passing overnight we could not help recalling our conversation just 3 weeks ago in Washington, [...]
Continue reading →This is a cogent assessment of what lies ahead. Ignore this at your peril. This is from a college professor of chemistry. His message is different from what you might expect. It has been true of my career. _____________________________________________________ Let’s start with the three Laws of Future Employment. Law #1: People will get jobs doing things [...]
Continue reading →You don’t need New Year’s resolutions. You need a lifetime plan. This is simple to say but difficult to do. I came across a very good article on this. Being a mature man means knowing what you stand for and where you’re going in life. A man always has a plan, especially for something as important as [...]
Continue reading →Here are some guidelines from a man who has made a lot of money, written a lot of books, and who is more productive today than at any time in his life at age 69. 1. Make a business plan for your life. Your entire career is a business plan. You should make one early. [...]
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