What Was I Going To Say?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 17th, 2009 4:40 am by HL
What Was I Going To Say?
The Daily Telegraph brings welcome news — “Old age begins at 27 as mental powers start to decline, scientists find.” It seems that the University of Virginia conducted mental acuity tests on 2,000 adults over the course of seven years. The results: Your steel-trap brain is at its best around the age of 22. By the time 27 rolls around, you’ve already begun to depreciate. Those of us who are well past 27 can smile smugly as the younger set takes in the fact of its relative senescence. A 30-year-old may feel pretty immune to the ravages of time, but aha! we now know that he or she is taking just a smidge longer to factor those square roots than someone fresh from college.
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President Obama pledged to create 3.5 million new jobs by 2010. He has also repeatedly emphasized accountability and measuring his presidency by results. The President’s jobs promise means total employment should be at least 138.6 million by 2010. Unfortunately, though, his policies will more likely decrease employment than reach his target. The Growing Jobs Deficit Perhaps reflecting his focus on accountability, President Obama’s jobs target was chosen carefully. The original target, set earlier in the fall of 2008, was 2.5 million jobs, but as employment fell by 1 million at the end of 2008, the President increased the employment target by 1 million in December 2008 to 3.5 million.
