Do the math

Well, let’s see. We’ve spent $160,000,000,000 of the stimulus so far to save or create 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 jobs for a year. So 160,000,000,000 divided by 1,000,000 or 1,500,000 works out to somewhere between $160,000 to $106,000 for each job while at the same time losing 7,000,000 jobs in the economy. Where are we going with this?

Survey: Slow recovery creating pessimism

Another asinine survey. The headline shouldn’t be “slow recovery” it should be no recovery. That’s what has people worried. Especially when we watch these idiots push for tax increases, and huge new entitlements when we can’t pay for the boondoggles we have. It is a government out of control run by people elected out of the failed states of Illinois, California, and New York. They are bringing us all the great programs that made their states so successful.

Fall Break in Colorado and Utah

The scenery is just amazing.

Utah in Arches National Park on the way home.

 

A thought provoking essay

“It is not the fault of the teachers – they work only too hard already. The combined folly of a civilization that has forgotten its own roots is forcing them to shore up the tottering weight of an educational structure that is built on sand. They are doing for their pupils the work which the pupils themselves ought to do. For the sole end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.”

The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers (1947)

Fall has finally arrived

One of Vicki’s high school classmates had his car in a show today over in Carefree so we stopped by to take a look. Apparently Jeff decided to upgrade his Ferrari to a Lamborghini. He opened it up for us ….. nice car. Says he takes it out once a week for 50 to 100 miles.

 

There were quite a few cars I have never seen before so here are some pics.

 

The orange one was a Cord and the Maroon one a who knows, but it has a chain drive.

The best one was the prototype of the Government Motors “Public Option”. It’s the one we will all be required to choose (but if you like your present car don’t worry you can keep it if you can afford the registration). It’s somewhere between a SUV and a golf cart. The rear seats can be removed for those of you who wish you still had your pickup.

After the show we had lunch at Harrold’s , burgers with a chaser of Moose Drool.