And once again a conservative demonstrates why conservative a person who is averse to change and holds to traditional values and attitudes, typically in relation to politics. comes so close to stupid --- unwilling or unable to learn new stuff. The graph on declining labor participation rates. Gee - Do you think that it could have anything to do with the fact that our country is getting older and people are retiring? Or maybe the fact that todays jobs require more than a high school education so more people are going to college. Note that both of these trends were predicted by those evil "elites" as far back as the late 90's. there are a lot of jobs available that pay north of 50K a year, but they require a triple digit IQ backed by secondary education. Something I doubt that Mr. Picciott has. Course I could be wrong. You can have a mensa level IQ and a college degree, like the Scientists at NASA who destroyed two space shuttles, and still be remarkably stupid.