George Rebane

Hit to Gov Newsom and the state’s Democrats for finally figuring out the homeless problem.  By spending $24B (supposedly) on California’s homeless, that then increased their numbers by 20% to over 180,000 according to HUD data, the Democrats have shown that taxpayers need only pay about $800,000 to add each additional person to our homeless rolls.  And to reward such clever solutions to increasing our homeless problem (already at 2 out of 3 in the country), in their wisdom by passing Prop 50, California voters will again faithfully re-elect even more Democrats to their established one-party sinecures.  With such a crop of resident geniuses, we count our blessings. https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/01/hud-pit-count-2024/

Feds to pay for AI training of employees.  This new program is supposed to reduce the likelihood of rampant systemic unemployment that is waiting in the wings.  Where it misses the boat is that the only feasible training accessible to most is to learn how to compose an AI prompt.  But the contents of a prompt that elicits a useful response must be based on deep knowledge about the requirements for the desired task that the AI will satisfy.  Not all lower level employees have such deep knowledge.  And that is the reason that they become redundant when, say, their manager with such deep knowledge can write the prompt that will do their work, and thereby increase his own productivity.  Bottom line, AI survivors will have to have higher levels of intellect and knowledge than lower level workers.