New Brushes
This entry was posted on 9/15/2011 10:34 PM and is filed under blather, Politics.
It's been so long since I've been up to Continental Clay I wasn't sure I remembered the way. The 35W bridge fell into the Mississippi river since my last trip over there. So things look a little bit different. But I found it.
The store was rearranged a tad and at first I was afraid they didn't carry the white sable brushes anymore, but of course they did. They simply have them over with all the glazes now, which makes perfect sense.
They were a little more expensive than they were five years ago but that's to be expected. They're still less than in an art supply store and they still hold their points three times longer than the same brushes by other companies. I have no idea why that should be but I bought six of them.
So this Solyndra bankruptcy is in the news. The question seems to be How instrumental was the White House in getting this non-starter of a company a half a billion in tax dollars?
The argument seems to be over whether or not the Obama administration is incompetent or corrupt. My question is how is the administration being incompetent better than corrupt??? These are the brain donors spending all the money our kids and grandkids will ever earn and you think I should be happy they're only INCOMPETENT??
I'm not happy.
Another odd argument I'm hearing out of Washington is that the recession is over. Really? It's over? zero new jobs, unemployment over 9 percent, gas within smelling distance of 4 bucks a gallon and no growth and that's what passes for recovery??
With recovery like this, who needs recession?
Or do they mean the recession is over because we've tipped right into depression?
Whatever they mean, the economy sucks and it's going to stay that way until the government stops trying to fix it.
Like Thomas Sowell, I think the economy is best left to it's own devices. A million people making a million decisions a day make better choices that any one person trying to direct what is essentially an enormous, unruly beast.
Like the tide, it ebbs and flows and only by trying to change things can we muck it up so bad.
Politicians trying to control the economy are like folks who build cities in the flood plain of a river. All the dams and levees in the world can't contain it when the rain won't stop. All you wind up doing is losing all your stuff, over and over.
"Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it" is one of those sayings that you ignore when you're young but by the time you're my age you've seen the same mistakes so many times it seems like a no brainer.
Do you think it's a coincidence that once the progressives took over the Universities, and instituted Colleges of Education, that history and economics stopped being taught in any useful way in our schools?
If our kids...heck, if my peers understood the Great Depression and the lead up to WWII, do you think we'd be in the place we find ourselves today?
I don't.
