ROGER SIMON ON AMERICA: The View from the Juror Assembly Room. “The postponement line is shorter than I have ever seen it. Why postpone when you have nothing else to do? And jurors here are paid fifteen dollars a day plus thirty-four cents a mile transportation reimbursement. These days that’s a good job. If David Stockman is to be believed — and I’m not one to doubt him — that’s where we’re all headed.”