DO OUR KIDS HAVE IT AS GOOD AS WE DID?

Stephen Tumbas: “How does our daughter’s job offer of $33K per year compare to our first salary in 1972 of $10K?”

F Poor kid.  To match your 1972 $10,000, adjusted for inflation, she needs to be getting $52K.  Use this handy tool to see for yourself.  

Then again, she gets 152 cable channels and has GPS and a camera built into her iPhone.  It’s hard to measure true equivalence.

AN INCOME STOCK

I bought some CPNO at $30.45 yesterday.  I like the 7.5% yield.

WHY LIBERALS LOSE

Here’s a theory for why Southern Democrats do better winning the presidency than the Stevensons, Mondales, and Dukakises (Dukaki?), Gores and Kerrys.  (Hint: they fight back.) (Note: the writer has Vice President Gore having gone to Yale. Actually, it was Harvard.)