When I started reading The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, I did a quick search on “Dust Bowl” for a little background information on the subject…
Hard Times (November 30, 2011)
Posted in Books, Climate, Government, and Poverty
Category: Government
Buy a House to Make a Home
Posted in Government, Inflation, and Investing
Over almost 52 years of marriage, my wife and I have rented eight and purchased eight residences. So we have considerable experience with both renting…
No Satisfaction? (1/4/2013)
Posted in Government, and Management
I thought of the Rolling Stones song in connection with my probably developing reputation as a permanent malcontent, never happy with the way things are,…
Quality, System Dynamics, Romney, Trump, and Clinton
Posted in Government, Management, and Politicians
Originally Posted 8/25/2012 – Additional Introduction Added 8/7/2016) Below is a post I did during the last presidential campaign explaining why I supported Mr. Romney…
Excise Taxes, Lobbying, and Our Future
Posted in Deficits, Government, National Debt, and Taxes
Worrying about how we fund federal spending, I noticed that in 1960, federal excise tax revenue funded 11.6% of federal spending, but, in 2015, it…
KRM’s (Key Result Measures) and Improvement Plan for the USA (Revised 5/15/2015 Post)
Posted in Economics, and Government
We are heavily entangled with, both supporting and depending on, two very large entities that we hope and pray are too large to fail. Unfortunately,…
(Originally Posted 2/13/2014) TQM, Total Quality Management, was a 1980’s, 1990’s buzzword that, as all buzzwords eventually do, has pretty much vanished from the language…
War On Poverty in America Lost
Posted in Government, and Poverty
Poverty is a problem in America. I’ve seen it in volunteer work and in the faces of people on the streets. With Home Works of…
Gerrymandering By Cropping
Posted in Government
If you have experience posting photos on some websites, you know that the photos have to be a certain size and shape and have received…