The Good Guy Can't Even Kill a Man ~15' Away Strapped to a Chair

 The Guardian reported that SC Department of Corrections had a botched execution.  The firing squad missed their target.  Goddamn it!  

These shooters were "good guys" that were trained.  Purportedly they are expert marksmen (or markswomen, even better, markspeople).

Why does are society have this infatuation with an instrument of destruction?

I just do not understand.

Why don't we have an infatuation for human capital development (HCD)?  I know, it costs money and not all of it is well spent.  Neither is marketing dollars, but it is necessary.

If we focused on HCD, I suspect we would have better problems with which to handle and less to worry about killing someone.

The Signal is A G E

 The two sides of the debt coin are low revenue and high expenses. 

 

Last week I shared information that the long-term year over year (y/y) decline in corporate tax receipts has contributed to our nation’s ballooning debt balance, now at over $36 trillion per usdebtclock.org.

 

This week I share the other main cause to our debt; it may surprise you, then again maybe not.  Please see the following charts.  

• The first chart shows expenses whether discretionary or mandatory and which area.

• The second chart shows these expenses grouped together to help tease out the signal.

• The third chart adds an element, which is the signal.

• The fourth chart shows another way to view the expenses, which can be used to help you determine the area our government should focus its attention to contain costs that will surely continue to grow.

 

I will soon share the expense area on which we should focus, and it is not majoring in minors that discretionary expenses represent.

 

Lastly and most importantly, are our financial managers (those that we sent to Washington DC) to make financial decisions on our behalf looking at & presenting our revenues, expenses, and current financial position in this manner?  If you were a member of a Board of Directors for a non-profit, would you not look at it in this manner?  I think you would.  If not, then please share with us how we should look it.