Foot Notes

I've started accumulating a bank balance (there seems to be a few benefits from this job thing) and I think it's finally time to give up the checking account's incredible zero interest. So I'm looking at the options...enough complexity to make me wonder if I should have minored in accounting rather than computer science.^*

You have the stocks and mutual funds which benefit as various companies grow. Then you have the bonds and treasury bills which tend to move opposite the stocks. Bonds have a high return when stocks are down, and stocks are profitable when bonds aren't (assuming bonds are ever profitable). Maybe that's why politicians create anti-business regulation; got to keep those government securities competitive.

Or should it be the other way around--low interest rates on bonds so it's less of a issue to borrow more? Whatever, politics doesn't make sense from the very beginning. We have republicans who want the government to deal in social issues, but also support reducing government so it couldn't do so. Then the democrats love to increase the scope of government but also raise issues on human rights.^**

Which would bring up another question, except that I've already filled the remainder of the page with clarifications.^*****

^*The answer is "Yes." We've had several applicants where I work and none of the computer science graduates have made a good impression. I'm a computer engineer and can not only solve the interview problem, but can solve it in a half-dozen languages and could have solved it in high school.

^**Though I admit that the last four years haven't see much reduction in government by republicans, and I can't recall when I last heard a democrat support individual writes. I think I'm voting psychopathic weirdo next year.^***

^***No I don't mean Ron Paul.^****

^****Nor Al Gore either.

^****Sorry, I need to buy time to polish a few pieces.