For once, I agree with Nanny Bloomberg.   Tradesmen seldom want for work. A trade or craft is, once learned, something that can be of great practical use in everyday life.   As the "demand" for a college degree increases, the cost of that degree goes up while its value actually goes DOWN. BA and BS degrees ar...more

That's right, MSN, keep trying to marinate us so that we will be more willing to surrender to the scythe of totalitarianism.   Capitalism is in fact the MOST MORAL of all Economic systems, in that people get out of it what they put into it.....GENERALLY. There are always exceptions: The Kennedys and John Kerry com...more

About 10 years ago, I started receiving a mailing every couple of months showing houses in my town that had been sold and what they had been sold for. My friends and I used to drive around looking at the houses and LAUGH OUT LOUD about what people were paying for these homes. So if three normal middle-class guys could ...more

And I'll bet you think Karl Marx and good ol' Vlad Lenin are the cat's pajamas, dontcha, komrade?

Phlemming, Phlemming, Phlemming....if you think what we have in this country NOW is Capitalism, you are VERY wrong.   Government intervention INTO the Free Market, adding a third (and sometimes fourth!) participant into what should be a 2-party transaction, is what is driving up prices for labor and materials, tha...more

1)-An entitlement mentality 2)-Sloth 3)-Avarice 4)-Envy 5)-Poor Math Skills 6)-Gullibility 7)-Impatience 8)-Boredom 9)-"Live for Today" Attitude 10)-Voting for Politicians with the characteristics listed above

"When Medicare’s Part A was launched in 1965, it was projected to cost $9 billion by 1990, but ended up costing $67 billion. When Medicare’s home-care benefit was added in 1988, it was projected to cost $4 billion in 1993, but ended up costing $10 billion. It’s the same for Medicaid. When that program’s special hospi...more

Numbnuts....the market is up because of 1)-Devalued dollar caused by rampant printing of unbacked currency (inflation) and 2)-Putrid returns on bonds and other "safe" investment vehicles. If you want to make more than a penny on $100 invested, the stock market is just about the only place to go.   Oh....and isn't "...more

Just about every S_itcom on TV relies on sexual innuendo, outright blatant sex jokes, and potty humor. "How I Met Your Mother" is painfully unfunny. Every character on that show could croak and I wouldn't know the difference.   The only worthwhile comedy I've seen since "Everybody Loves Raymond" is "The Neighbors',...more