I know that I am no friend of public schools, but I think I have a critique a lot of people won’t find difficult to agree with: public schools have messed up priorities.

Frequent subjects include advanced math, art, music, science, and other subjects many people barely use throughout their lifetimes. Since public school has us from the approximate ages of five through eighteen, they can be doing better things with our time than teaching us how to dissect frogs.

They could be teaching us skills.

Your job stinks. At least that’s what most of you are saying according to a report that says just 45% of people are satisfied with their jobs. If you’re counting, that’s down from 61.1% in 1987, when this particular survey started.

So what’s up? I’m guessing that with today’s technology, jobs don’t stink any more than they did in 1987, and in all likelihood have gotten better.

Since I’m self-employed now, it astonishes me when liberals talk about the evils of the profit motive, and generally makes me believe that most people who talk about how evil profit is have never been able to earn one for themselves.

In the health care debate, some people say that a person’s health is too important to leave to profit-seeking businesses and should instead be left to the government. But in many areas of my life in which companies provide me with goods and services in the search for a profit, I am very satisfied with the results. Isn’t health care too important to not leave to the profit-seekers?

If you thought the financial crisis of 2008 was bad, get ready for real collapse. The world – partially driven by America’s Keynesian failures – is propping itself up on debt. The United States, already $12 trillion in debt, still has some $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities for social security and medicare (money it WILL owe), and the baby boomer generation is getting ready to retire.

If that doesn’t spell disaster to you, you probably went to public school.

BPN has never been a place for investment advice, considering I’m not much of an investor and don’t have a lot of good stuff to tell you. But I’m so confident that silver is a great investment right now that I’m going to make an exception and tell you now, on November 17th, 2009, that you should buy up silver.

The current price? $18.42 per troy ounce, if I’m reading the market quotes correctly – but definitely around $18 per ounce. If you believe what I believe, you’d know: silver is dirt cheap.

College isn’t meant for everybody, but many people today act like it is. It’s part of our national past-time; college is portrayed in TV and movies as the next inevitable step after high school on everyone’s journey to adulthood. It’s a place for people to meet their future spouses, to make lifelong friends, for nerds to find their identity.

Ultimately, college is like anything else: right for some people, wrong for others. Right for people who know what they want to do and need a degree to do it; wrong for just about everyone else.

One of the things (among many) that bugs me about liberalism is that many of the essential arguments liberals make are rooted in poor or disempowering assumptions. So I thought I’d go through some of these assumptions to try and explain this.

A recent Forbes article ranks the best states to do business in, and the state I do business in – Wisconsin – is ranked 48th.
Ouch.
The rankings are based on six factors: business costs, labor, regulatory environment, economic climate, growth prospects, and quality of life.
Wisconsin ranked 11th on the quality of life ranking, but is weighed down by two rankings in particular:

45th-ranking for “growth prospects”. According to Forbes, the growth prospects factor “Reflects projected job, income and gross state product growth as well as business openings/closings and venture capital …

I fixed the economic crisis.
You see, recently, I dug through the old BipolarNation.com Library of Alexandria and wanted to see how I reacted to the crisis.  And you know what?  I came through with messages of hope, as you can see in my Nov. 11 2008 article “How to Survive Any Economic Crisis.”
Wrote I:
I don’t think today’s economic crisis will turn much worse
And as it turns out, that little bit of confidence was enough to turn this whole thing around.  After that point, Americans started producing more, saving more, and, …

I’m not really sure what will come of this, but I have a feeling it will be bad for Chrysler.
As anyone who owns a company that hires union workers knows, unions are like the opposite of King Midas: everything they touch turns to dog doo. Now that the UAW is getting a 55% ownership stake in Chrysler, I’m not sure I can predict anything but imminent and total disaster.
The United Auto Workers union’s retiree health-care fund will own 55 percent of Chrysler LLC in exchange for cutting in …