Rodent Regatta

Take a look at this list of seemingly unrelated topics:

• Read Atlas Shrugged
• The legal and healthcare industries appear to be two of the few that are continuing to prosper, yet by being overlawyered and over-medicated, these two costs have higher growth rates than any other costs that individuals and businesses face.
• Read the Seven Deadly Diseases cited by W. Edwards Deming
• We have a minimum wage in this country that will place minimum wage earners below the poverty line, yet we have bureaucrats calling for an escalation of the minimum wage.
• Healthy self-interest battles egocentric greed at every turn. Someone pointed out that from 1980 to 2001, the average working persons pay rose 74 percent, while CEO compensation climbed by 1,884 percent, and this is a ”free market” economy.
• We’re shipping jobs and manufacturing offshore at unprecedented rates, yet we are unwilling to alter the ”systemic economic friction” that makes it virtually impossible for an American business to find any alternative to outsourcing.
• Parts of San Francisco are selling gasoline for $3.00 a gallon, yet we are buying SUV’s at unprecedented rates.
• Everyone is told to become a part of the information or knowledge economy, but so many of those jobs are moving offshore as well. On the other hand, we’re told to learn a trade to begin Protecting Your Livelihood. It’s sound advice if you ask me.
• Worst of all, we’re about to hold another race for the Presidency of the United States between two career politicians who see ”government” as the solution to rather than the source of each of these problems.