As the father of four children, two of them who already attend public school part time, I am deeply concerned about the state of education in our country.
Despite massive spending on education in the United States, our kids are falling farther behind their international peers. The Federal government became heavily involved in education in 1980 with the creation of the Department of Education and since then student performance has dropped.… read more “Education or Indoctrination?”
People through the history of the human species, millions of years, had children early and often as their bodies could until they either aged out or died. People have a strong biological urge to have sex that the brain is not able to override. This evolved because people who did not want sex did not have children and their genes were not passed on.… read more “People”
Standard practice now by doctors and hospitals is to massively overbill for services. I had a physical done at Confluence Health a few months ago and my insurance company and I were billed $1,400 for that half hour visit. Even figuring out what they had billed us was challenging as they separated the charges out into multiple bills and different line items on each bill that did not actually say what services were supposedly rendered.… read more “Doctors and Hospitals Hide Overbillings”
Proposal for future fires in cities like Los Angeles:
LA ran out of water to fight the fire at a critical time. The issue was that it does not make sense to build a fresh water system capable of running hundreds of fire hydrants all at the same time.
Solution: set up an emergency system that can pump ocean or lake water up into the city mains.… read more “Proposal for future city firestorms”
Henry Ford had the best insight into charity: real charity is work you do yourself or money you give directly to people affected or by doing work that makes the whole world better. Fake charity is giving it to orgs that never want to actually solve the underlying issue or everyone loses their job.
Few people are shown the enormous downsides of too much government regulation. It’s hard to see on your own. Every industry uses special interest lobbying (like the taxi industry did trying to block ride sharing) and usually gets laws passed that harm consumers and benefit themselves. The biggest example is the American Medical Association, which says they will limit the number of new doctors each year for your “safety”, but in reality only do it to increase wages for their members.… read more “Government regulation”