Category Archives: Business
Coming To Their Senses On High-Speed Rail
Even in California? It’s certainly insane to think the state can afford it, but then, this is the state that has voted to destroy its economy with crazy emissions rules, and then doubled down on it. So, we’ll see.
The Unintended Consequences Of ObamaCare
Yes, I’m as shocked as you are to discover that a massive bill that no one had a chance to read before it was passed has some.
We are ruled by idiots. Or at least, we were.
Saving Us From Ourselves
You know, when they were casting Atlas Shrugged, they should have seen if Henry Waxman would do a cameo. He’d be a perfect fit.
Tiny Cuts
The cuts represent less than 2 percent of the total budget, less than 4 percent of the deficit, and less than 5 percent of discretionary spending, which rose in real terms by 75 percent from 2000 to 2010 and by about 9 percent in each of the last two fiscal years. If the House-approved reductions would be “the largest one-year cuts in history,” as the folks at Every Child Matters say, that is a sad commentary not on Republican cold-heartedness but on the fiscal incontinence of both parties.
They squeal like stuck pigs at pinpricks.
Space Policy, Explained…
On Firing Schoolteachers
The benefits:
I doubt that the lowest possible turnover rate is compatible with the best possible education. Turnover has costs, but it also has benefits: fresh blood, lower burnout rates, and an incentive for teachers to keep performing. The whole idea of hiring someone in their early twenties and employing them forever seems like an unhealthy organizational structure to me–in the military and old-school law firms as well as teaching, though the military and law firms do more to weed out the number along the way. It breeds an organization that is insular–resistant to new ideas, suspicious of outsiders, resentful of its nominal clients. We should be looking for ways to make teaching more open to part-timers and people in second, third, or eighth career cycles, and to make it easier for teachers to move around between schools and districts, and between teaching and other industries.
It will never happen, though, as long as the NEA retains its power, because it’s never about the children with them. And it’s another good argument against public-employee unions.
Eerie Coincidence?
Or launch sabotage? My thoughts on whether someone can’t handle the truth about climate change.
How The Public-Employee Unions…
…are destroying California.
High-Speed Rail Troubles
…in China. I’m shocked, shocked.