If I was still in school and my teacher asked us to tell him/her the 7 facts I learned from this reading of this weekends edition of “The Wall Street Journal” and the questions they left me this is how (below) I would respond. .
(1) The statistics might say that people are spending more monies on restaurants then home cooking but those statistics don’t take into account purchases from Wall Mart and other larger retailers. It makes me wonder how many others stats are faulty and if so what’s the point of listening to them?
(2) Cross Fit Training is becoming a more popular way of working out. I wonder if they offer this form of training at my gym?
(3) Bill & Hillary Clinton have earned $25 million in speakers fees this year. What do those who paid these fees expect in return from the Clinton’s for their extremely generous pay days?
(4) China is the holder of more U.S debt then any other nation but a month ago Japan claimed that prize. How much of our debt is owed to foreign entities and how does that sway our foreign policy decisions?
(5) NYCHA is missing 100,000 of it’s supplies with a little or no control of 100 million more of it’s assets, according to an audit report. Who is in charge of controlling these assets and will they be held responsible for the fall out this report brings?
(6) There are more children growing up in poverty then in the year 2000. How will the media and the Presidential candidates address this truly troubling statistic?
(7) You will be more successful if you embrace your anxiety and channel it into energy then try to quiet it down according to several studies. Will we as a society learn from this report or will we continue to try to prevent ourselves from seeing the benefit of all our emotions?