Become a NeoLib!

I recently discovered that a handful of people other than Jack Mercer actually stop in from time to time to read my humble blog. Although this is now the second post I've penned after claiming to go on hiatus, I assure you the break is real (for this blog anyway).

I wanted to direct all of my two or three readers to NeoLibs, a blog that is contributed to by more people and updated more frequently than this one. Pretty much all of the stuff I'll say from now on will be there.

Thanks for reading!

The Mind-Numbing Cost

Here's a quick thought for us all:

The most conservative estimate I have seen yet for the cost of the war in Iraq is $750 billion. Keep in mind two things when digesting this number: it is literally the most conservative I have seen (some analysts have suggested it will cost us $2 trillion!) and it does NOT take into account human lives lost - it is simply a monetary measure.

Now think about the rising cost of a college education. I think it's safe to say the more people in our country that attend college the better, and everyone loves a scholarship. If the government paid 100% tuition AND room & board for a TOP TIER college such as, say, HARVARD, it would cost roughly $30,000 per year per student.

That means that we could have spent this money on providing 6,250,000 kids with FULL FOUR YEAR SCHOLARSHIPS TO HARVARD (or any other $30k university). That's six and a quarter MILLION all inclusive scholarships.

Even if you're a strong proponent of this war, you have to admit its outcome is questionable. That's the nicest thing I can say about it, personally. Our government "of the people" could have sent the entire states of Mississippi and Louisiana to Harvard for free. Instead we have Iraq.