public math

My new job is going to be a virtual well spring of blog entries. If only to vent all this pent-up frustration.

Overheard from a legislative committee. A government share of 65% is more than the government share of 100%. My goodness. My four-year-old godson could do better.

Given it takes some inference to come up with that simply brilliant deduction, I am beginning to rethink my stand on requiring at least a college dergee for our elected officials. After all, the Civil Service requires eligibility.

I know it may be interpreted as a form of discrimination but education has always been our priority as a culture. Why not formalize that tenet in our leaders? Perhaps when we have elected officials who can think more for themselves we would not be so behind the Asian tigers. Where, of late, most of our gifted professionals are being forced to flee from this travesty.