Kevin Drum, blogging at Mother Jones, comes up with a great idea to help solve medicare’s cost problem:
So Medicare stays roughly the same, but every time you receive medical care you also get a bill. You don’t have to pay it, though. It’s just there for accounting purposes. When you die, the bill […]
Archive for May, 2011
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May26th2011
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A must watch.
May25th2011
I’ll be in the Phoenix area tomorrow and Tuesday night through Thursday morning of next week…if any bloggers would like to meet up, send me a personal email.
May23rd2011
BusinessWeek reports:
Wages are going up even without the government’s prodding. The development of China’s west has turned interior cities such as Chongqing into production centers that compete for labor with coastal factories. The pay of the migrant laborers who fuel China’s export industry rose by 40 percent in 2010, according […]
May16th2011
“I find it maddening how many upper middle class parents energetically “support public education” against the depredations of vouchers and other reforms, while moving their own children into better school districts or better programs. Especially parents in Manhattan and a few areas of Brooklyn who proudly note that their experience shows […]
May9th2011
“Given the austerity mood in the press, the administration is emphasizing the monetary savings involved in this, but that’s actually just a small piece of the potential gains. At the end of the day, by far the biggest problem with having the federal government own a warehouse it’s not using is […]
May7th2011
The Leftist View Of The World
Published by in Education, ModernPolitics, Personal and Vouchers. 6 CommentsReaders of my blog, especially those who comment frequently, know my good friend Jon. He’s a recent convert to the left and believes in it passionately. A common theme of his world view, and those on the left in general, is the tug of war between the rich and the poor. The powerful and the non-powerful. […]
May5th2011
“8. Bin Laden was assassinated. He was not. First of all, he was the leader of a para-statal organization that had declared war on the United States. If the US could have stormed Hitler’s bunker and taken him out, it would not have been an assassination, any more than being able to take out an enemy […]
May4th2011
In case you missed it:
Raul Castro was named first secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party on Tuesday, with his aging brother Fidel not included in the leadership for the first time since the party’s creation 46 years ago….
The Congress also approved 300 economic proposals, though details have still not emerged. Apparently included in the measures was a […]
May2nd2011
” Whatever their customs and traditions, even the most modern polities often find themselves yearning, like the Israelites of old, for a kinglike authority. And the existence of a largely-powerless royal family can be a useful hedge against the perpetual temptation to invest ordinary politicians with quasi-royal powers, and then (almost […]
