Neat way to look at it....

Where as I went through life with the 'practical education' route, one of my good friends from High School went the more the 'Formal Education' route: Bachelor's Degree in Statistics and Psychology, Doctorate in Psychology/Applied Statistics, and then did some post-doctoral research before finally settling in as an Associate Professor at a fairly well respected private school in Hell  Ohio. 

Not just educated, he is also smart(which is not always a given when dealing with the formally educated).  Despite all this, he also enjoys professional wrestling and skydiving.  Crazy.  I also give him props for doing the right thing in most elections, and voting for who he believes in, and not just the 'lesser of two evils, even if some years that has meant he voted Green Party before seeing the Libertarian Light recently.

Having established the baseline, I also thank him for this gem that he posted on facebook earlier today, which made our budget situation about 17 times easier to understand than I ever would have been able to:

Putting the current federal budget agreement into context. This would be the equivalent of a family who earns $50,000, but spends $62,700 a year and has racked up $316,200 dollars in debt, agreeing to reduce their annual spending by a grand total of: $680! Yay Government! Way to go.

Thanks Professor!