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Jul 3, 2009 America lost another 467,000 jobs in the month of June --- bringing unemployment to nine-and-a-half percent, highest in 26 years.

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Jul 3, 2009 Whenever a commentator, analyst, consultant, or expert who regularly holds forth on radio, television, or the Internet is referred to as a "pundit" --- the word is usually meant to be a pejorative.

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Jul 3, 2009 In these worrisome times, when life seems to be one damn thing after another, it's worth remembering what songs have been telling us, for years now...

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Jul 3, 2009 The economy being what it is today, to put it mildly, there hasn't been a whole lot of good news lately. But here's some good news on a different front --- from a study about American teenagers, commissioned by The Partnership for a Drug-Free America.

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Jun 24, 2009 We keep hearing about how America's 78 million Baby Boomers are about retire, but don't be so sure. When a recent survey asked the question, "Would you consider yourself very confident that you'll have enough money to retire comfortably?" --- only 13% of the workers surveyed said "Yes."

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Pretty Good

There once was a pretty good student.
Who sat in a pretty good class
And was taught by a pretty good teacher.
Who always let pretty good pass.

He wasn't terrific at reading;
He wasn't a whiz-bang at math;
But for him education was leading
Straight down a pretty good path.

He didn't find school too exciting,
But he wanted to do pretty well.
And he did have some trouble with writing,
And nobody had taught him to spell.

When doing arithmetic problems,
Pretty good was regarded as fine;
Five and five needn't always add up to be ten.
A pretty good answer was nine.

The pretty good student was happy
With the standards that were in effect.
And nobody thought it was sappy
If his answers were not quite correct.

The pretty good class that he sat in
Was part of a pretty good school.
And the student was not an exception;
On the contrary, he was the rule.

The pretty good school that he went to
Was right there in a pretty good town.
And nobody there ever noticed
He could not tell a verb from a noun.

The pretty good student, in fact, was
A part of a pretty good mob,
And the first time he knew what he lacked was
When he looked for a pretty good job.

It was then, when he sought a position,
He discovered that life can be tough,
And he soon had a sneaky suspicion
Pretty good might not be good enough.

The pretty good town in our story
Was part of a pretty good state
Which had pretty good aspirations
and prayed for a pretty good fate.

There was once a pretty good nation.
Pretty proud of the greatness it had.
But which learned much too late.
If you want to be great,
Pretty good is, in fact, pretty bad.

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