Community Blog: Ralph Shnelvar

Minimum Wage

I urge the Gentle reader to read http://www.dailycamera.com/guestopinion/ci_14059029
A poster, btm1001, wrote:

“And since the new minimum wage means employers will hire the most skilled applicants first, teens find they are left out in the cold.”
So prior to the new minimum wage, employers hired the least skilled applicants first?
It’s the economy stupid! In ALL recessions, teenager unemployment [...]

The odds of getting AIDS

Let me state the obvious: AIDS is a tragedy. Millions of people a year die from this disease.
Let me state the obvious: people die in car accidents and motorcycle accidents. People die skiing, too.
When someone dies unexpectedly, it is a loss to their loved ones. Nearly all who are reading this have experienced [...]

On terrorizing slaves

In response to a letter published in the LTE of the Camera on 2009-09-15.
PAUL DOUGAN : “And if you want to stop further Nat Turners, being harsher with the enslaved won`t help. You need to abolish slavery.”
There are two solutions to the problem. More terror or freedom.
The Roman Empire had Spartacus. He terrorized far far [...]

On going to college

Back in the early 1970’s, I had worked on this very same issue: Is a college education worth getting? I was a programmer working with an econometrician trying to decide this.
In fact, Milton Friedman reported (incorrectly) that a college education was NOT worth the investment in forgone income plus the huge additional cost. The reason [...]

Older Blogs

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