George Rebane

The MSM (aka mainstream media), God love ‘em, but what are we going to do with them?  Russ Steele on NC Media Watch keeps us up to date (I had to bag the nearby image from his link) with MSM developments, especially as it involves our local media.  My modest contribution here is from a correspondent who points us to a short piece ‘When newspapers are gone, what will you miss?’

From a report on NPR, another correspondent confirms that “the top jobs all involve mathematics and some aspect of science. In fact, the guest, representing Jobs.com, says their survey shows that the top job is a mathematician, and nine out of the top ten involve math and science.  Some of the top jobs are actuary (#2), accountant, statistician, biologist, and software engineer.”  I leave it to you to contemplate on what kinds of students our schools pump out.

But not to worry, at latest count our government will now create new jobs by the millions.  And about 20% of the most recently promised 4,000,000 new jobs will be for government workers.  You can bet your bippy (remember bippies?) that none of these newly minted 800,000 civil servants will be proficient in the any of the skills required for top jobs in the private sector.  And like all good Pauls expecting their wages from Peter, they will be permanently ensconced in the Democratic Party’s voting block.  However, they will be perfectly suited – recall your last experience at a government counter – to monitor the rest of us to make sure that we keep on the straight and ever narrower, as mandated by the new laws and regulations coming down the pike.

One of my favorite economists and columnists is Walter Williams.  He has a very short brief here on the current financial mess cum recession (cum depression?).  RR readers are familiar with my long-standing attitude toward TARP and the ensuing bailouts which may now come at us like a herd of turtles – TARP2, TARP3, … .  It will be hard keeping track of the trillions scheduled for air drops across the country and into the several states.  I recall reading somewhere that when asked what the government should do in such a situation, Ludwig von Mises replied, “Nothing … sooner!”