Ignorance is costly.  A good college education doesn't just provide you with a degree, it teaches you to be a critical thinker and how to do research.  It can help you in numerous ways throughout your life.  That said, college kids have often been sold a bill of goods.  They're told that a degree will automatically get...more

The recession never went away where I live.   Unemployment is 25% in the valley where I live (population 100,000).  That's not a typo, it's 25%.  The region's unemployment is "officially" 14%, but that's not the truth, because huge numbers of illegals are not being included in those figures, and they are here compe...more

I "get" the tongue-in-cheek tone of this piece.  However, making a reference to the tough economic times our country is in - at the same time encouraging people to ditch their practical pumps for trendy, and often very expensive shoes, is tacky, to say the least.