If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.

Hey, I really hope things are getting better, and it has nothing to do with
who I think should be holding elected office.

There are a lot of issues that IMHO aren't getting the attention they
deserve because most people would like to believe things are getting better.

There's something of the "now watch my hands" feel to using economics to
sweep social issues under the rug. It would also be convenient if policy making
could be confined to econometrics alone.

Adding $1.54 billion per day to the national debt, 44 million US ciitizens
without HC insurance, retail sales fueled by high interest credit cards,
housing sales propped up by almost negative interest rates, rising aggregate
poverty rate, yadda yadaa... little things like that shouldn't bother me.

One can argue ratios and percentages and easily forget that the discussion
is how peoples' lives are being effected by policy decisions. Not that this
is "true-to-life" but if the top 1 percent of wage earners incomes rise 5%
and the bottom 40% of wage earners incomes fall by 10%, it sure wouldn't
surprise me if median household incomes didn't rise....

The average CEO now make how many HUNDREDS of times more than the average
worker?