Archive for August, 2009

Contraction Needed

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Continuous expansion is not healthy for any economic system.  Over-expansion will cause the needed contraction to be more severe than otherwise needed.  The current policy of "bubble" economics has been delaying the inevitable.  Further delay could facilitate a collapse just as it did in Rome's final days.  Contraction allows the ...

Christ and the Geological Periods

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Christ and the Geological Periods There are uncertainties associated in any discussion of geological periods. The most obvious uncertainty is that there were no observers during these geological periods to report their findings. Thus, the existence of geological periods cannot be validated by direct observation. ...

Public Servants fly high

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

There are many times in our lives that each of us has to eat our own words.  The U.S. Congress seems to be inciting a riot among the constituents.  At a time when true unemployment exceeds 16%, and most of us are tightening our belts, the U.S. Congress is spending ...

Economic Suicide

Friday, August 7th, 2009

The new healthcare bill will be the defining moment of the United States.  If this bill is passed it will be the straw to break the camel's economic back.  The cost of healthcare will further deepen our trillion dollar deficits.  China is the largest creditor and will not tolerate our ...

The 3rd “R”… ‘rithmetic

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

The fundamentals of education historically have been Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic, known as the 3 R's.  We have been conditioned to believe that growth is always good, the one exception being "weight".  Most of us do not want to grow our weight anymore and would enjoy a decline in weight.  ...