Nice review of Collapse sent to me
Sputtering Economy Sends Dow Plunging 266 Points
So they pass the debt deal to save the economy, and… ~Bob.
Bumper Sticker
I saw a great “Defeat the House RINOs” bumper sticker. Unfortunately, it was on Nancy Pelosi’s car. ~Bob.
Misleading Words: Part II by Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: If there were a contest for the most misleading words used in politics, "poverty" should be one of the leading contenders for that title. Each of us may have his own idea of what poverty means -- especially those of us who grew up in poverty. But what poverty means politically and in the media is whatever the people who collect statistics choose to define as poverty. This is not just a question of semantics. The whole future of the welfare state depends on how poverty is defined. "The poor" are the human shields behind whom advocates of ever bigger spending for ever bigger government advance toward their goal. If poverty meant what most people think of as poverty -- people "ill-clad, ill-housed, and ill-nourished," in Franklin D. Roosevelt's phrase -- there would not be nearly enough people in poverty today to justify the vastly expanded powers and runaway spending of the federal government. … But the political left hates means tests. If government programs were confined to people who were genuinely poor in some meaningful sense, that would shrink the welfare state to a fraction of its current size. The left would lose their human shields.
