I have been on this planet a long time and I have been hearing that phrase ever since I was a kid.
I hear it sometimes many times a day, from everyone who thinks about running for Town Council up to and including the President of the United States.
“We need clean and affordable energy.”
Let me tell [...]
Two years ago we lost our dog of 13 years. We have always had a dog but after the last I felt that I did not want to buy another puppy.
A puppy takes a lot of care. You must feed it, make sure it has water, take it for walks, play with it, teach it [...]
Fiscal Irresponsibility
“Do I need it?”
“Will I use it?”
“Can I afford it?”
That is how I have managed my life’s finances.
There are obviously times during one’s life when we buy things that we don’t really need but those are what makes life fun. These are the frivolous items that we buy or the trips that we take [...]
One last comment.
If everyone seems to know that corn biofuel costs more to produce than the equivalent energy available from gasoline, that it requires fertilizers that pollute water, that by displacing wheat production it is causing all food prices to increase, why is corn production being subsidized?
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Every now and then someone comes along who has broad insight and the knowledge to back up his statements. Ben Stein is a writer, an actor, an attorney and a professor but above all, an economist.
When I read something by Ben Stein I feel that it is not simply someone’s opinion but information that has [...]
