nearing 1000

Views on my MySpace blog. I'm in the upstairs lab today, but Kate's not in, so I have to go back downstairs at 5:30. Had the concert last night. It went ok, rather long and tiring, because we didn't have an intermission. Messed up some stuff, Dr. Morrow did his usual of making a change during the concert...basically changing us in formation on a song we've never done in that formation, and having us do side-to-side steps in Kpanlongo. got very dizzy in that song, I'm surprised I didn't pass out. *sigh*...what am I going to do this evening?

The next two years will be interesting, in a political sense. Democrats have the House and will probably get the Senate. Despite bipartisan talk from Nancy Pelosi, I seriously doubt that she will be able to control the Democratic party and get them to work with the President...which means that nothing is likely to get accomplished in the next two years. I'm in favor of a lot of the issues that Democrats are going to be pushing, except for the raising of minimum wage to $7.25 per hour. Why do that? In the long run, the only thing that it will accomplish is further devaluing the American dollar. How will that happen? Companies will do two things when forced to pay their workers more money: one, they will lay off workers, because they can't afford to pay them, and two, in order to avoid laying off too many people, they will raise the prices of their products. It is this last one that essentially nullifies the effect of raising the minimum wage...sure, you have more money to spend, but everything will cost more. Hold the minimum wage where it is, and even if companies decide to raise their prices in the short term, the prices will come back down once their profits start to sink because people can't afford their products.

Anyways, so says some economists. I'm done ranting now. Wow, time is flying...only an hour and a half left. That's awesome.