COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America . ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It’s 9%. COSTELLO: That many people are out of work? ABBOTT: No, that’s 16%. COSTELLO: You just said 9%. ABBOTT: 9% Unemployed. COSTELLO: Right 9% out of work. ABBOTT: No, that’s 16%. COSTELLO: Okay, so it’s 16% unemployed.…
Monthly Archives: September 2012
David Legates, Paul Driessen
Our SimCity government
Governments treat us like Sim-citizens: with fewer rights for us and no accountability for them By Paul Driessen and David Legates Back in 1983, during the information processing Cretaceous Period, Maxis developed a new genre of educational, yet entertaining computer games. The latest version will be released next year. SimCity allows players to build virtual…
Government Circus, Jim Pugh
Rep. Dan Knodl Awarded for Job Creation Votes
WMC Bestows “Working for Wisconsin Award By Jim Pugh MADISON – Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) recently honored Representative Dan Knodl with the prestigious Working for Wisconsin Award at Mahuta Tool Corporation in Germantown. The award is given to legislators who stand up for jobs and improve the state’s business climate by voting 75 percent…
Dan Knodl, Government Circus
Wisconsin: A Laboratory of Democracy
By Dan Knodl Since its founding, Wisconsin has served as a launching pad for some of the most important ideas in American politics. The Republican Party, founded in Ripon, Wis., in 1854, served as the political home to radical abolitionists who believed that “free labor, free land, and free men” could not exist in the…
Mary Kay Barton
New York State’s money – road to nowhere
IDAs are “shifting the burden of taxation onto local residents and small businesses” By Mary Kay Barton Local, state, and federal political favors have created an artificial and unsustainable industry: industrial wind power. Voters in every state need to understand what is going on in New York, so that the same things don’t happen to…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT
The Week That Was September 8th, 2012 Quote of the Week The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so. Ralph Waldo Emerson. [H/t Willie Soon & William Briggs] ******************************* Number of the Week The other 97 to 98% ******************************* This Week By Ken…