Did Nixon really invent inflation or was that Chip Wood?

   

 Playing devil's advocate/idiot; I will pose a question. Is it the president that defines the economy or is it the economy that defines a president. Was Ronald Reagan just at the right time or was it just the time was right for Ronald Reagan? Seems we have not really had quite the boom since he (Reagan) was in office. Though I do commend Bush (the younger one) in dealing with a problem that had no solution (9-11).  Just as there will be poor always, there will always be evil. You really can't declare war on evil. Of course then again, that is a lovely Pandora's box to define evil. I think the economy will ebb and flow with little help from the president. There is the issue of tax burden, which is about the only thing the president can do to change the economy. Even so, corporations and rich people make a lot of money, so do you even the tax burden with a set percentage, or do you give beaks to the higher earners? I mean any way you set it; wealthy people pay more. Is it just an ebb and flow with the president getting the credit or is the president deserving of that credit?

Ya gotta have fun, its not all business

I used to call this odd looking fruit "Martian brains" I don't know much about this fruit other than its actual name is "Osage Orange". As with all fruit bearing trees, the Osage Orange is the seed of the tree and conditions being of the conducive to germination, will sprout a new tree. 

I do recall an incident involving this strange looking fruit back in the day that I left the lawn industry to try my hand at "tree maintenance" (for lack of a better word to describe the career change) I was working at Madison Tree Service, I think seeing from the inside, to be a respected and top notch tree service. We (the crew) did like to have our cut up sessions and fun to pass the time. Having stayed on schedule with the chipper "feeding" and the climbers having completed their task, we had some down time. We were in a field lined with these Osage Orange Trees. Naturally, the "martian brains" were scattered here and about on the ground. With the chipper still running, we would toss one into the feed... the result was the chipper would spit the debris smack center of the tree trucks tail gate. Yes it was a mess and yes it did add a little extra work to our day (cleaning up the mess) But it was about the funniest thing to see.