The Beginning of a New Era

Barack Hussein Obama II is now the 44th President of the United States of America.

December 21, 2012

A day of reckoning?  End of days?  Apocalypse?
Who knows, but I must say that I am intrigued by these ridiculous ideas.  I am not a believer in such outrageous claims, but I am curious about certain elements of this future prediction.  
Here are some of the interesting future predictions that all point to that date [...]

We need to have more kids!

Just so you will understand, the numbers represent fertility rates.  The replacement rate for fertility is 2.1.  
I thought about getting all scientific on you, but I don’t have time to do all the research (I don’t even have time to not use contractions).  However, I want to discuss something of dire importance to our [...]

The Economic Metaphor

 
 
 
USA = Kids
Europe & Japan = Needy friends
China & Arabs = Parents
Rest of the World = Our roommates
Let me oversimplify this economic disaster for a little second.  I wrote a long discourse on this mess a few months ago, but now that more light has shed on the liquidity issues it is a little more [...]

The 35 Hour Work Week…probably not coming to a city near you anytime soon

I’ve always been a hard worker.  I attribute it to my upbringing.   If I didn’t get all the weeds the first time then I got an ass whipping, another round of weeding, and another “project”, as my father so endearingly called those weekend projects that occasionally kept me out of neighborhood football games.  So I watched [...]

The Economic Future

What happens today was decided yesterday.
That is the story of economies around the world. 
What happens today is blamed on people in charge today.
That is a truth of the ignorant masses.