This crisis is neither the result of a normal turn of the business cycle nor an accident of history. We arrived at this point as a result of an era of profound irresponsibility that engulfed both private and public institutions from some of our largest companies’ executive suites to the seats of power in Washington, [...]
Obama said to McCain during Monday’s fiscal summit:
“And one of the promising things is I think Secretary Gates shares our concern and he recognizes that simply adding more and more does not necessarily mean better and better…” “…Those two things are not — they don’t always move in parallel tracks, and we’ve got to think [...]
Looks like some state governments are reducing your access to a barber. Regulations have combined cosmetology (cosmotology?) and barber boards (are there really state sanctioned boards for these?), forcing barbers to learn and provide things they will never need. Who’s joke is this?
A perfectly respectable vocation now gets cluttered with onerous regulation that creates ridiculous [...]