Jim Wheeler
BS, USNA, Annapolis, 1959; MSA, The Geo. Washington U., 1975; Submariner, Commander, USN, 1959 - 1981; Aerospace battery engineer & mgr., 1981 - 1999; Political affiliation: Staunchly Democratic, converted after the GOP receded from its Eisenhower roots.
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
---Friedreich Nietzsche
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"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
-- William Blake, A MemorableFancy
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I love to doubt as well as know."
--Dante Alighieri
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
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"We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know."
-- W. H. Auden
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"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
-- Wiliam Blake, The Argument
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"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."
-- Herman Melville, US novelist & sailor (1819 - 1891)
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"It’s better to believe in what you know than to know what you believe in."
-- HL Gaskins
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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” – Epicurus circa 300 BCE Search
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Tag Archives: economics
On Money
Money is something we take for granted, but economics is complicated and it’s not as intuitive as it seems. I’m no economist, my background is engineering, but since I’ve been blogging on politics I’ve realized that misconceptions about money and … Continue reading
Major Economic Oops!
Who was right and who was wrong about the Great Recession and how to deal with it, Republicans or Democrats? Henry Blodget has an opinion on that, an opinion buttressed with facts. Blodget is a former senior equity research analyst … Continue reading
The Dismal Truth
Economics, the “dismal science”, is at the heart of our national political distress these days. Each party has its version of what is right, but is either one what is best? It isn’t, I know it isn’t, and on my … Continue reading
Ready For A Little Test?
A classmate of mine recently sent me a link to an interesting and fairly short “civic literacy” test. It is sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a conservative educational non-profit organization founded by, among others, William F. Buckley. It’s … Continue reading
Said The Tortoise to the Hare
Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks? Last fall I got tired of listing to my iPod playlist while working out at the Y and learned to download pod-casts to listen to. My favorites include Car Talk, Garrison Keillor, … Continue reading
What Role, Government?
When human beings were hunter-gatherers living in small tribes, life was simple. There was no need for the concept of money and possessions were limited to what one could carry – tools, weapons, animal skins, maybe some crockery. This state … Continue reading
A Chicken Solution
Economics has dominated the Joplin Globe blogs and other media lately, especially since the debt-ceiling crisis. The debt crisis is not over, of course. The Congressional SuperCommittee consists of partisan hardliners for the most part and is unlikely to come … Continue reading
What’s It All About?
My current study interest is economics, so here is an economics question for you. Is there “good” economic activity as opposed to “bad”? Does the quality of economic activity matter? As the “wealthiest” nation in the world, are we getting … Continue reading
Flip That Bank!
In political blogging about the Great Recession it is a common thread to find someone or something to blame. Amidst all the mud-slinging and counter-arguing the easiest thing for the beleaguered voter to do is to blame the president. He … Continue reading
American Dream, Dismal Science
Economics is sometimes called “The Dismal Science”, and for good reason. One president, Harry S Truman, kept getting evasive and contradictory advice from an economist who kept offering alternatives with his advice. After almost every assertion the professor would then … Continue reading