The premise is that we are good at finding problems but sometimes that paralyzes us.  What we really need to do is look for bright spots and copy that.

Dozens of experts had analyzed the situation in Vietnam, agonizing over the problems — the water supply, the sanitation, the poverty, the ignorance. They’d written position papers and research documents and development plans. But they hadn’t changed a thing.

Six months after Sternin’s visit to the Vietnamese village, 65% of the kids were better nourished — and they stayed that way. Later, when researchers from Emory University’s School of Public Health came to Vietnam to gather independent data, they found that even children who hadn’t been born when Sternin left the village were as healthy as the kids Sternin had reached directly. That provided proof that the changes had stuck.

H.R. 390:

To prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive act or practice, the promotion, marketing, and advertising of any post-season NCAA Division I football game as a national championship game unless such game is the culmination of a fair and equitable playoff system.

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the competitions involve and affect inter state commerce and are therefore within Congress’s constitutional authority to regulate;

So much for limited government. Way to go Joe!

George Will column yesterday.

See it here also.

Give me 850 billion dollars and I can give 17 million people $50,000. Yet the current plan is going to create or SAVE a paltry 4 million jobs.

I don’t feel very stimulated.

UPDATE: $790,000,000,000 / 300,000,000 = $2,633

How about this? Give every citizen $2,600.
If you take out those under 18 you could give all adult citizens $3,400 (of course some people under 18 have jobs and you could probably include them with a small reduction in the check each person would receive).

Lisa and I really enjoyed a brisk walk while it snowed yesterday.

The brisk walk was followed by a snowball fight, then I decided to build a snowman.

So now all I need to do is get some coal, a corncob pipe and a magical silk hat, right?

That's ok, I just wanted to go inside, sit by the fire, snuggle up with Lisa , read a book, and drink hot chocolate. I really don't mind that it fell, really I don't.

So just how much money is $1,000,000,000,000.  Well if it were seconds it would be before people were reading and writing.  That’s right a trillion seconds ago was before the Roman Empire or the Chinese dynasties.