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  • Economics the Hard Way
    23 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    My father used to lament the poor mathematical performance of his children, “They struggle to get a C in math, yet they always know to the penny how much allowance they are due.” It was true enough and goes straight to the heart of the problem with numbers. We have a fundamental disconnect with the numbers that don’t affect us directly. The cheering crowd on the National Mall Tuesday, estimated to be one million plus, was truly an amazing (…)

  • Message in a Bottle
    19 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    I’m too angry to sleep, too weary to hope. I’m too old for optimism and too young to stop fighting. I’d hit someone if only I knew who; I’d march if only I knew where to go. I support the new President and think that he will bring a new vitality to the nation, but my age and anger tells me that vitality is a show business term. That trickle down never reaches us, and political spin is just so much wind passed into our faces.
    I have seen tax cuts for the rich passed (…)

  • We Poke Along
    12 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    In May of 1935, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7034 establishing the Works Projects Administration. The WPA replaced the Federal Emergency Relief Agency. You see, they didn’t have any cut-and-dried answers, they were in new territory and kept trying things until they got it right. The WPA only existed for eight years, but over the course of its life it employed a total of 8,500,000 people.
    Republicans called it a bastion for (…)

  • Happy Idiot
    9 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    Gee, I wish I could be a happy idiot. Just think, then nothing to worry about except whether Tom Cruise and his wife are going to have another baby or not. Gosh, life would be swell; it makes you wonder why Steinbeck wrote all those depressing stories about poor people. How could anyone sit through Hemingway’s story about an old fisherman and a fish when they could have been reading about who Clark Gable was dating?
    It really makes you wonder about this world, (…)

  • Connecting the Dots
    8 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    It seems I can’t even watch TV news anymore, it just makes me too angry, the cluelessness of the government. I voted for change, not a slight alteration but for change. I sit here in this tiny berg of Powder Springs and I ask myself, “Why is it that I can see these things and these highly-paid experts and analysts don’t?”
    I see an economy coming apart at the seams and the politicians of both parties are talking about it as if it’s some (…)

  • Money Owes No Allegiance
    6 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) — "The engines that have lifted the U.S. economy out of every recession since World War II will be of little help this time around.
    Inventory rebuilding, household spending, home construction and payroll growth — the forces that powered, to a greater or lesser extent, each recovery since 1945 — may remain missing for much of 2009. A glut of unsold properties may keep housing depressed, while shriveled savings will (…)

  • The CIA Wouldn’t Lie to Us, Would They?
    5 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    I guess that all depends on who they’re talking to; they lie to suit their purpose and tell the truth when it fits their needs. If you were to ask a government official, “Are UFO’s real?” they would smile a paternalistic smile and maybe even roll their eyes a little and say, “No Virginia, UFO’s aren’t real.”
    Then this same government would publish a FEMA manual of procedures for firefighters on what to do if they encounter an (…)

  • Dumbocracy
    3 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dumbocracy By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    "You don’t have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate,” Senator Mark Pryor once said. If ever there was one word of truth emitting from the halls of congress, this was it. I’ve heard it said that democracy works best in small groups, but you couldn’t prove it by me. With my family of four in tow I would take them out to dinner using the democratic model by which we would decide on pizza. Then the discussion would begin on (…)

  • God is With Us
    1 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    God is With Us By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    Tom Lehrer, one of the first satirical, political song writers, once penned a song entitled “National Brotherhood Week.” The song went, “Oh, the black folks hate the white folks and the white folks hate the black folks and the Indians hate the Mexicans and everybody hates the Jews." Funny, because it is was so true.
    But then as now, to confound cause and purpose with religion and race discolors the argument and cheapens the (…)

  • All Right, But Just This Once.
    24 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    All Right, But Just This Once. By David Glenn Cox
    Years ago there was a “Far Side” cartoon with an angry lynch mob in front of an old, Western jail. The sheriff was addressing the mob, “Now you boys know that I can’t just turn him over to you without a fair trial. Well, all right, but just this once.”
    That pretty much covers my feelings towards Mr. Madoff. I’m all for law and order, but this admitted criminal, who used trust to defraud his victims, will now use the legal system to (…)