Except that's wrong. Agriculture certainly isn't being sent overseas, (you can't send the land overseas) it's one of America's biggest successes with tens of billions in trade surplusses.
And manufacturing? The US is easily the world's largest manufacturing nation with incredible productivity compared to other nations.
Compared to other government programs, Social Security is perhaps the best and most fully funded of the lot. It's still running a surplus based on payroll taxes, and any adjustments needed to continue this situation indefinitely are projected to be rather minor. It isn't really part of the overall Federal budget at all, as a matter of fact. And if you cut benefits are you going to cut payroll taxes? How is that going make a difference to the rest of the budget?
Medicare though is a basket case. It is going to have to be drastically reworked in order to not drag the nation into a black pit.
The Articles of Confederation defined a position "President of the United States, in Congress Assembled". When the Articles were adopted he automatically was given that position.
When you talk about sharing the pain, realize that part of the reason for that large deficit is the rate of taxation as a percentage of GDP is at historic lows.
Simply reverting that rate to historical averages would cut the deficit in half. In fact increasing the US tax rate to what Canadians pay would wipe out the deficit completely.
Ultimately the resolution for this is going to require both reductions in benefits as well as increases in taxes.
Anything else would not represent in sharing the pain equitably.
The statement that nobody knows what's in it is flat out stupid.
Of course people know what's in it, and in fact that information is disclosed during the permitting process to the various state agencies, and is published on their web sites.
A simple Google search would turn up this information.
Human nature is derived from the structure of the human brain and mind. Natural laws define in fact what human nature is, and thus what human rights should be.
The idea that hydraulic fracturing is new is a ridiculous invention of mainstream media journalists who are completely uninformed on the topic. It's been used for at least 60 years and on over a million wells world-wide. It was first used in 1949 in Oklahoma and Texas.
The depth at which this fracturing technique is actually used is far below any aquifers; the only cases of contamination that have occurred are due leakage from well bore casings and well blowouts, not from the fracturing of rocks. These types of incidents while serious and do need remediation in no way threaten a water supply.
"Human rights should be confined to life, liberty, and essentials that we would all agree on."
I definitely would have a problem with that. In fact the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution precisely for the reason that the Founders were concerned about the "tyranny of the majority" resulting in the limitation of rights by the voting population. The States, at the time the Constitution was written did after all permit slavery. And we have all seen opinion polls where voters were shown one of the first ten amendments, and the opinion was that this was far too liberal.
Human rights derive from Natural Law. Any system that does not as its basic tenant recognise this and prohibit government from encroaching on this rights regardless of popular opinion will, in the long run, fail. And I mean an expansive list, not some thinly constructed set of rights.
The Constitution was a good first step towards that goal. Hopefully as human society and the philosophy of government further evolves we shall see even stronger incarnations of these principles.
You are wrong. Vaccine immunity is a statistical thing rather than an absolute. A typical vaccine might fully immunize about 80% of the recipients of the vaccine. Others might have weaker immunity or none at all. This means by not immunizing you not only endanger yourself but the people who have had the vaccine and not obtained full immunity.
The immunity of the population is cumulative as function of the total number of people immunized and the efficacy of the vaccine.
This is why laws requiring everyone that doesn't have a compelling medical reason for getting the vaccination are justified.
Your not American are you? It's inconceivable that anyone born in America could be so sarcasm-clueless and publish a completely nekulturny diatribe such as yours.
The fact is that there are several other countries that still use the old Imperial units in everyday language either by tradition or because of the every day convenience. Generally it's done this way throughout the old British Empire. Go to England and order a half-liter of beer and you'll get laughed out of the pub. In Canada when a child is born his birth weight and length is still given to the parents in inches and pounds.
I've always said this whole metric system has been a farce from the get go. First the unit of length is based on a fraction of the circumference of the earth, only measured WRONG, and now we get that the reference mass has been changing with time putting the amount of kippers in a kilogram in doubt.
I say we just scrap the whole thing and go to a more humanistic system based on things like the length of a man's stride etc. since obviously getting something accurate is just right out.
Well the evolutionary psychologists have some theories that human psychology has evolved in such a way as to predispose it to be susceptible to religion.
Whether or not you call it a religious gene or not - that's a different issue.
Personally I think a little bit of education could overcome this handicap and set people on the track towards a much more useful set of beliefs.
Poppycock. The average age of the Science Nobel Prize recipients at the time they made their breakthrough is in the mid to late thirties with an age spread of 23 years. I happen to have had a master's adviser who won the the Nobel in chemistry for work he started in his late sixties. Some fields have periods of high levels of productivity as long as 50 years.
You are absolutely right. GS is doing US investors a favor on this one. Think of it as revenge for some of the Chinese stock scams like reverse mergers that are going on right now. And of course those scrumptious OTCBB IPOs.
Crikey.
Folks, remember that just because their economy is going great guns doesn't mean you have to buy any old shady Chinese stock. The real way to make hay off this is to find solid US companies subject to the reasonably good regulation of developed market regulation that are doing well in China.
The US has a very legitimate sovereign concern regarding gathering any information it can on the leakage of state secrets. If that includes the use of subpoena to gain that information from US sources OR use of other methods i.e. espionage to gather it outside the US they are justified in doing so.
EU privacy laws are not binding on the US or on information stored in the US, they have no jurisdiction. By acting to hold a private company responsible for the actions of a sovereign power they are behaving like asses.
If the EU wishes to fight this they are perfectly capable of doing so through diplomatic channels. I have no problem with that. Sanctioning Twitter in the EU for obeying laws in the US is stupid. Twitter has no ability to affect the situation.
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Corporations are in fact private individuals under the law, and have many of the same rights as individuals.
There are a lot of reasons for this - the legal necessity for contracts to be enforceable, freedom of association and so forth.
Except that's wrong. Agriculture certainly isn't being sent overseas, (you can't send the land overseas) it's one of America's biggest successes with tens of billions in trade surplusses.
And manufacturing? The US is easily the world's largest manufacturing nation with incredible productivity compared to other nations.
Compared to other government programs, Social Security is perhaps the best and most fully funded of the lot. It's still running a surplus based on payroll taxes, and any adjustments needed to continue this situation indefinitely are projected to be rather minor. It isn't really part of the overall Federal budget at all, as a matter of fact. And if you cut benefits are you going to cut payroll taxes? How is that going make a difference to the rest of the budget?
Medicare though is a basket case. It is going to have to be drastically reworked in order to not drag the nation into a black pit.
The last couple of years the revenue as percentage of tax has been under 15%.
http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/i-detaxes.htm
The Articles of Confederation defined a position "President of the United States, in Congress Assembled". When the Articles were adopted he automatically was given that position.
Samuel Huntington was First.
When you talk about sharing the pain, realize that part of the reason for that large deficit is the rate of taxation as a percentage of GDP is at historic lows.
Simply reverting that rate to historical averages would cut the deficit in half. In fact increasing the US tax rate to what Canadians pay would wipe out the deficit completely.
Ultimately the resolution for this is going to require both reductions in benefits as well as increases in taxes.
Anything else would not represent in sharing the pain equitably.
Washington wasn't the first President.
http://www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/history/samhuntington.htm
Origin is good, but I'd pick the Principia.
The statement that nobody knows what's in it is flat out stupid.
Of course people know what's in it, and in fact that information is disclosed during the permitting process to the various state agencies, and is published on their web sites.
A simple Google search would turn up this information.
Excuse me, but are you saying that injecting oil into oil wells is a huge environmental threat?
Exactly how is that?
Human nature is derived from the structure of the human brain and mind. Natural laws define in fact what human nature is, and thus what human rights should be.
The idea that hydraulic fracturing is new is a ridiculous invention of mainstream media journalists who are completely uninformed on the topic. It's been used for at least 60 years and on over a million wells world-wide. It was first used in 1949 in Oklahoma and Texas.
The depth at which this fracturing technique is actually used is far below any aquifers; the only cases of contamination that have occurred are due leakage from well bore casings and well blowouts, not from the fracturing of rocks. These types of incidents while serious and do need remediation in no way threaten a water supply.
http://www.spe.org/jpt/print/archives/2010/12/10Hydraulic.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing
"Human rights should be confined to life, liberty, and essentials that we would all agree on."
I definitely would have a problem with that. In fact the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution precisely for the reason that the Founders were concerned about the "tyranny of the majority" resulting in the limitation of rights by the voting population. The States, at the time the Constitution was written did after all permit slavery. And we have all seen opinion polls where voters were shown one of the first ten amendments, and the opinion was that this was far too liberal.
Human rights derive from Natural Law. Any system that does not as its basic tenant recognise this and prohibit government from encroaching on this rights regardless of popular opinion will, in the long run, fail. And I mean an expansive list, not some thinly constructed set of rights.
The Constitution was a good first step towards that goal. Hopefully as human society and the philosophy of government further evolves we shall see even stronger incarnations of these principles.
You are wrong. Vaccine immunity is a statistical thing rather than an absolute. A typical vaccine might fully immunize about 80% of the recipients of the vaccine. Others might have weaker immunity or none at all. This means by not immunizing you not only endanger yourself but the people who have had the vaccine and not obtained full immunity.
The immunity of the population is cumulative as function of the total number of people immunized and the efficacy of the vaccine.
This is why laws requiring everyone that doesn't have a compelling medical reason for getting the vaccination are justified.
They'll confiscate Apple.com and put an end to this nonsense.
Your not American are you? It's inconceivable that anyone born in America could be so sarcasm-clueless and publish a completely nekulturny diatribe such as yours.
The fact is that there are several other countries that still use the old Imperial units in everyday language either by tradition or because of the every day convenience. Generally it's done this way throughout the old British Empire. Go to England and order a half-liter of beer and you'll get laughed out of the pub. In Canada when a child is born his birth weight and length is still given to the parents in inches and pounds.
So stuff it right up old chap.
I've always said this whole metric system has been a farce from the get go. First the unit of length is based on a fraction of the circumference of the earth, only measured WRONG, and now we get that the reference mass has been changing with time putting the amount of kippers in a kilogram in doubt.
I say we just scrap the whole thing and go to a more humanistic system based on things like the length of a man's stride etc. since obviously getting something accurate is just right out.
This is NOT dimensional analysis, sorry.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_%CF%80_theorem
Well the evolutionary psychologists have some theories that human psychology has evolved in such a way as to predispose it to be susceptible to religion.
Whether or not you call it a religious gene or not - that's a different issue.
Personally I think a little bit of education could overcome this handicap and set people on the track towards a much more useful set of beliefs.
IMAX 2D is nice - the quality projection and sound equipment give a much better entertainment experience than the typical theater.
3D - I haven't seen anything yet that wowed me, and that includes Avatar 3D on IMAX.
In a recession everyone cuts back on their marketing budgets.
The WTF was that they weren't using https in the first place.
Poppycock. The average age of the Science Nobel Prize recipients at the time they made their breakthrough is in the mid to late thirties with an age spread of 23 years. I happen to have had a master's adviser who won the the Nobel in chemistry for work he started in his late sixties. Some fields have periods of high levels of productivity as long as 50 years.
http://www.cesaremarchetti.org/archive/electronic/prodage.pdf
This talk about performance vs age is ageist crap not borne out by the actual facts at all.
You are absolutely right. GS is doing US investors a favor on this one. Think of it as revenge for some of the Chinese stock scams like reverse mergers that are going on right now. And of course those scrumptious OTCBB IPOs.
Crikey.
Folks, remember that just because their economy is going great guns doesn't mean you have to buy any old shady Chinese stock. The real way to make hay off this is to find solid US companies subject to the reasonably good regulation of developed market regulation that are doing well in China.
The US has a very legitimate sovereign concern regarding gathering any information it can on the leakage of state secrets. If that includes the use of subpoena to gain that information from US sources OR use of other methods i.e. espionage to gather it outside the US they are justified in doing so.
EU privacy laws are not binding on the US or on information stored in the US, they have no jurisdiction. By acting to hold a private company responsible for the actions of a sovereign power they are behaving like asses.
If the EU wishes to fight this they are perfectly capable of doing so through diplomatic channels. I have no problem with that. Sanctioning Twitter in the EU for obeying laws in the US is stupid. Twitter has no ability to affect the situation.