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The source for that data is the World Bank

>If you could get a boring 9-5 with a big business, be treated with respect, get paid well, have health insurance and a pension, more people would go with that.

In my experience, this is what working for "big business" is like, given that you're skilled at something.

the OP is full of shit, read this : http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/11/10/start-ups-an...

The Tax Haven That's Stealing From Your Government

"Statements like that, by the way, scare the hell out of me. They can be used to justify almost anything. Like how we’re all racists. I wonder if Kapor could argue that he himself is rational and objective, even though no one else is."

Yes, we are. That study Kapor refers to is actually really good, groundbreaking science. You should probably read it.

Just because you're a racist doesn't make you a Bad Person (since we're all racists and we can't ALL be Bad), it means you need to come to terms with it and look more critically as your decisions that might have been influenced by our society to discriminate unfairly.

I'm sorry to be rude, but this article was written by someone who not only won't take responsibility for making potentially racist comments, but won't even reconsider whether the comments are racist or not.

Also, from the way he writes about it, I highly doubt Arrington has been exposed to the great colonial (racist) history of "Entrepreneurship".

That graph in the OP is dishonest. Here's the actual data that wasn't cherry picked (and taken directly from the same data source as the OP, using the excel file provided by the US government and charted in excel):

http://i.imgur.com/YTFMo.png

Here are the tables from the report, if you'd like to do your own analysis: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/2010menu_tables.asp

Can you really compare Economic models to Physics models without discussing the simplifications necessary to create an Economic model?

Any AGPL webmail clients like gmail? I prefer Free Software to Open Source

First of all, isn't pinning the Chinese currency to the US dollar against WTO rules?

It is important to note that in order to pin the Chinese currency to the US dollar, China must regularly print more and more money, and then they buy US debt with it.

Considering that 10-year US bonds are at staggeringly low interest rates (1.91% as I write this), they're basically giving us free money every time they do this. Why aren't we spending more federally on job programs to get people employed (and/or trained for employment)? Oh yeah, because >socialism<.