Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.
Friday, May 03, 2019
As a Country, We're Idiots
In 1953 I was 12 and there were roughly 150 million in the country. Now I'm 78 and there are something over 300 million in the country. The IRS today has roughly the same number of auditors as in 1953. See this ProPublica piece. In real dollars our GDP has increased six times since 1953.
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