There are only two ways socialized health care can save money:
1) lower availability and quality of care
2) offer the same quality of care for less money through innovation and efficiencies delivered like magic by the Federal bureaucracy.
There are actually a few other options that can happen. Some of them are more likely to happen too.
Right now, the government takes a rolling account of medical costs in different areas, creates an average and a payable amount based on that. When they take control they can just lower the amounts and force nurses, doctors, to take less of the pie, cause hospitals to close down decreasing overhead, and redirect many of the medical research grants to cover expenses.
Alternatively, they could outlaw private insurance coverage and force people into the public system or pay out of pocket then mandate the maximum pay a doctor or nurse or staff can make then limit the maximum profits they can make if they participate in the public system. This right here is how they get around insufficient medicare payments currently. If they accept government medicare-medicaid payments, they have to fit their bill within a list prices they figured for procedure and the area your in. You then have to waive any overages if your bill is more without justification.
That is one reason why medical costs are so expensive. Hospitals, doctors, and everyone in between found out long ago that if the uninsured regular costs were as high as possible, the averages would go up. Most insurance companies also attempt to use this list of approved payments in order to negotiate their costs. I know a guy who broke his ankle recently. They need to install pins to fix it. His original hospital bill was over $15,000. When they found out there was no chance in hell of him ever paying it, they adjusted it to just under $3,000 if he agreed to making payments of a certain amount per month.
It's a racket, one that Obama's wife (and presumably Obama himself) knows all about. When he was a state senator, a hospital created a job position making a over a hundred grand a year in hopes to get Obama's support on some grant money for the hospital to treat the poor. When he became senator, her salary nearly tripled. After it came through, the hospital started rejecting the least profitable patients from it's emergency room care. Of course that job has since been eliminated now that she is the fashion first lady. Most first ladies strive to be more but I guess she didn't have to do much at the old job but stay married to Barrak and keep him happy enough to help the hospital out in free money.
BTW, this administration has a way at hiding the intent of what they are doing. Take the recent GM buyout for instance. They were claiming that everyone should buy a new fuel efficient car and evern pondered the idea of a government payment for the trade in of your older less efficient car. Then the recession hit, the lending crisis, and not to many people can afford a new car right now. So they blamed GM's and Chrysler's woes on building Big SUVs which people were buying instead of the more fuel efficient offering that they still sell today. Now they are going through bankruptcy, the government under Obama's control, purchased controlling interest, they are closing a lot of shops down and guess which ones were the first to be cut, the ones which make replacement parts for older cars and the less efficient newer ones. Now aftermarket vendors make replacement parts too, but less of them on the shelf with little financing availible for expanding operations means they will start costing more as they get rarer. All the sudden, Poof, it's cheaper to buy a new
How is he different from the mumbling cowboy that Bush was? Have you ever heard him speak without a teleprompter? I have and there isn't much difference. Hell, Even Biden made a remark about Obama being lost when the wind at some speech in Colorado blew the teleprompter over and broke it. When Bush read from the screen, he sounded pretty good too.
Well, as I mentioned, I walked to school a year earlier without a parent too. Of course I was with other people and the grade schools, even to this day still have crossing guards. But we are forgetting that we had several advantages. One is that we lived within walking distance to school, many people don't and their 5 or 6 year olds have to ride the bus. Two, we knew where we were at and where to get help is needed. We weren't far from home which both aided in our comfort as well as our parents, and finally, there was a point of destination that we actually arrived at. Imagine your parent's state of mind if the school called them a half hour after you should have been there asking why you weren't at school. Now imagine the state of mind when the bus shows up, your only 6, and your not on it. When they call the school thinking maybe you missed the bus to tell them they are on your way to pick you up to find out that none of the students are left at the school.
We should also not forget that the reasoning behind this isn't because the guy doesn't trust the kid to go outside and play. This isn't a normal situation where everything is as it should be. This is a situation where the plan failed. And worse, the failure was outside his control. Imagine that you had kids that age (5-6). Now imagine that you left them in my care and when you came back, I had absolutely no clue whatsoever at all where your kid was, who he was with, what he was doing, if he was alright, hurt, sick, being molested, or anything. We have to spend an hour or so looking for him. Now would you be questioning my ability to keep your kids safe and consider never leaving him with me again? I would hope so, but what do you do when I am the school and you are compelled by law to give your kid to me for 5 days a week. What would you do?
Regardless of the cause, this still means you can't just build tons of nuclear plants and expect them to supply all the power you'll ever need: you're limited by the cooling capacity of your local waterways. This was my point to those who think nuclear power is the answer to everything; it's not that simple.
To an extent. The plants in question are older and didn't include enough cooling towers in their design because the river was right there.
You can actually build the cooling needed into the design without using the rivers except maybe to replenish some evaporated water. It takes more land, more building materials and will drive the over all costs up, but it seems to be headed that way anyways.
It sounds like the power company needs to design in some more safeguards against this kind of thing. Home generators are nothing new, as you noted in your story (which occurred a quarter-century ago).
They have. My friend is still a line man, well he supervises a crew of about 100 linemen but he worked as one until that position opened up. I guess now they run grounds from the poles to isolate the service areas and cut breakers switched a pole back. (that alone would have protected him) They also use a new types of rubber gloves, jackets, and rubber boots that are more effective then the older stuff at blocking energy arcs plus they are mandatory which at the time of his accident, it was just a good idea. Here is some info on the newer standards. It has some of the older ones there but they have been modified a but since then too.
But when I'm thinking of rooftop solar power, I really think there's a lot more gain to be had by large companies with large office buildings, shopping malls, places with big parking lots, etc. installing very large arrays of solar panels on their rooftops. Here, not only would the benefits be much greater due to economies of scale, but you wouldn't have to worry about DIYers. Plus, commercial/industrial users are much greater users of daytime power than residential users, so it would make more sense for them to generate part of their own power, right where they're going to use it.
Your probably right to the extent. The current efficiencies of solar sort of jack the costs up quite a bit making it more of a promotional/public image scenario. I get the idea that solar is free once your past the costs of the equipment and installation but this costs can still be more then grid power itself over the life time. If someone is willing to accept that costs, then more power to them. Where I have a problem is when it seems to be mandated which ultimately ends up being a tax on the products and services being sold.
Now don't get me wrong, I am a user of solar power right now. I use it on an outbuilding to charge a battery for a well pump to water livestock when the spring goes dry, and I use some cells to charge batteries to operate the electric gate openers. The costs of going solar made total sense compared to getting electricity out there. I even built a solar furnace that attaches to the side of one barn so I don't have to heat it in the winter. My cousin and I are working on a device that splits the light coming into a solar cell into the different frequencies then applies filters to them in order to "shape" the radiation to make some solar cells more efficient. It's a simple concept but so far, the increases in efficiency don't equate to the costs of implementation.
I just don't think photovoltaic solar is the answer or cost effective at this time. However, I do think some modifications to a solar water heater, a h2o2 generator, and a pneumatic motor coupled to a generator head could have the possibility of creating much more energy in the same space and could also be used in place of a fuel cell for an electric car. The storage issues are worked out as well without
Hmm..."I" knew enough to get home. Yes..I've been lost due to something like this too as a kid. It was a long time ago, but, I think I found a store, borrowed the phone to call my parents. I was about 9-10 at the time I think.
9-10 is realistically quite a bit older then 5 and 6 in which I was mentioning. You certainly should be able to address the situation and come to a conclusion at that age. However, with a 6 year old, would you trust them crossing the busiest street in your town unsupervised? Would you rely on a 5-7 year old to wake you up from your nap in an hour or you will lose your job? I would say it depends on the kid but in general, no to both questions. I asked those questions because that is something you could reasonably assume a 9-10 year old could handle. The similarities is in the wherewithal the kid will have when stranded alone in an unfamiliar place. Parent tell their kids, if they get separates, go to the front of the store and ask someone wearing a shirt like that one to help you, yet almost every day or close to it, someone somewhere finds a kid in a corner or under a cloths rack of a stare crying because when they realize they were alone and separated, even though they have been to the store many times and are familiar with it, when they ignore what they were told and realize they can't find mommy or daddy, the break down. It's inherent to some degree.
It isn't rocket science...I didn't grow up super sheltered, so there was no need to panic or fear in me. Unless you are raised to panic and be scared of everything, when a situation presents itself, you're not likely to freak out, IMHO.
Your talking about an entirely different age group here. At 9-10 years old, you are pretty much responsible enough to not lose a cell phone, or the key to your bike lock, or whatever. But what is even worse, even if the kid does know what to do, the parrent can't be sure they will do it because kids that young (5 and 6 years old) aren't normally left to fend for themselves. At 9-10 years old, you are less then 3 years away from being able to legally babysit the first grader getting lost in most areas (12 years old in mine). But you have to remember, at 9-10 years old, you were most likely in 4th or 5th grade, that means there are at least 4 grade younger then you (k-3) who will not have the understanding and knowledge that you had.
Heck I was used to being on my own...when Mom took me to the big shopping malls in Dallas when growing up...I'd say I'd meet her at "X" at a set time...and off I'd go on my own around the mall, looking at the skateboard shop, reading books in the book stores, toy stores...etc
I don't think your putting things into the proper perspective. If you were reading books in the book store, your probably either quite a bit older then the kindergartner, first, or second grader who is still learning the alphabet and how to read words larger then 2 syllables, or you are unique and was advanced for your age and your experience doesn't really apply to the rest of the world.
I was used to be let on my own at a fairly young age. The meet times were pretty short when young, but, as I got older and more trustworthy, we'd sometimes split most all day, and even if I wanted to find her early, I knew mostly which stores and which departments she'd be in if I wanted to find her.
The only age you have given is almost twice as old as the youngest who could be lost by the schools. It's all fine and all if you roamed free at 4 and five years old, most likely you were under someone's supervision at that age, even if it wasn't your parents. When you are older, I totally agree, but I would consider it child endangerment if someone was letting a 5 year old wonder around unsupervised at a mall running from shop to shop for hours on end. A 5 year old who would be in school, does not posses the pr
Well, suppose the teacher does get them on the right bus but the kid, sally johnson responds when the driver is looking for sally jones. Now there are possibly two kids getting off at the wrong spot and if they are young enough, they might just listen to the bus driver when he says this is where you get off.
First, the school lost the kid, presumably by letting her off at the wrong stop or putting her on the wrong bus. In my area, letting 6 year kids off the bus at the wrong stops happened about 30 times last year. Of those thirty times, the child reported that it wasn't their place and the drivers was convinced it was and ordered the kid off 4 or 5 times.
Now when this happens, several things are different from you playing in the neighborhood and calling your parents every couple hours. First, they aren't in their neighborhood. They are somewhere completely different and foreign to them, most likely beyond a safe walking distance (street crossings, traffic, bad neighborhoods, and so on) for someone that age. Second, they are by themselves, not with a neighbor playing, they are all alone looking for their home. Finally, there is no fucking phone for them to use even if they do remember their phone number.
And don't give me the bullshit that every kid should know their address and phone number by the time they get into school. It's irrelevant because they most likely won't have the money to hit a payphone or the knowledge to reverse the charges, and even if they did while somehow being able to reach the numbers in the phone booth designed for adults and not 5 and 6 year old kids, they don't know where in the hell they are so you still need a way to find them. In a panic, emergency, or stress situations, most normal people not trained to handle the situation will make a critical mistake. Even with training, people still make mistakes and I'm talking about competent adults, not 6 year old kids.
Your simply equating two entirely different situations. And if your young kid went missing while coming home from school and you wasn't concerned about it, then I will suggest that you shouldn't be a parent at all. But just in case you are concerned when you child comes up missing, do you want to spend 5 hours looking for her or 5 minutes to figure out where you need to go and fifteen minutes to find her?
Actually, the carrot and stick is an analogy concerning an ass. The ass or donkey does what you want by manipulating a reward (in this case, a carrot) where as the ass is known to become more stubborn when you beat it.
Take the same principles, alter it to adjust to a child, and you have positive reinforcement training without calling them asses.
Of course, other thermal plants (coal, oil, etc.) do the same. I might be overstating the problem, but I do recall an incident a year or two ago where two nuclear plants (out of three along a river) in Tennessee shut down during peak usage in the summer because their river was too hot. And Tennessee is a place where water is rather plentiful, unlike, for instance, Arizona where we have a big nuclear plant a little outside Phoenix.
The river was too hot because of the lack of water, not the nuclear power. When you dump heat into a river, it is almost instantly and completely transported away from the site. The volume of water mixing with it is also more then the discharge so it won't be a complete 1-1 transference.
Anyways, a drought in the area caused the river's water levels to drop so low that the sun was heating it up to dangerous temps on it's own. The call to shut the plants down was made because the water levels was too low and the current too slow to carry the heat away. This wasn't a situation where the power plants heated the water too much.
Plants along the Ohio River had to create contingency plans over the same scenario because throughout the summer the water levels were starting to get low there too.
Everyone's been connected to the same grid for about 100 years now, and we haven't had problems with neighbors frying each others' electric systems. We already have lots of people with grid-connected generation equipment, and there's no problems. As long as the equipment is certified, I can't imagine any problems. This is a problem easily solved by simply using quality equipment that looks for any problems with the grid-connected power and disconnects in that event.
This is something that has been a problem in the past. In most states, electric companies have had to employ feedback isolation units to protect pole workers and the line men have special safety procedure they have to employ before servicing an outage, and laws have been passed requiring generators and non-grid power sources to be totally isolated from the mains when in use. Most modern generators have circuit breakers built into them that will trip if the back feed into the grid because of the power drain.
About 25 years ago, good friend of mine (a line man for AEP) was knocked out of a bucket and fell 16 foot to the ground breaking his leg, arm, collar bone, and ribs plus suffered from burns over 15% of his body from a shock caused by someone plugging a generator into dryer outlet to feed the house without disconnecting the mains. The guy happened to be "fixing" the generator by bypassing the built in circuit breakers because they kept blowing, and achieved the successful fix about the same time he was reconnecting the downed lines. The power interrupters where pulled but the jolt blew a transformer and caused the electricity to jump the safety precautions that were normal at the time.
The problem and concern is the DIY people who don't spend the money on a qualified electrician to connect the units or don't maintain them properly or modify the systems somehow (putting larger units in place of rated equipment) because of lack of money, knowledge, or whatever reason. It's a real concern when "everybody" has it.
I think he was looking for the VMware argument over jails and so on. Consolidating lightly used services probably means getting rid of 5 dual core zeon power edge server and running virtual machines on one while duplicating them on another for availability. I don't think he meant loading five different versions of accounting applications on the same server OS.
Windows 2000 was never intended to be a "general user" or "home user" platform and it's original launch date was intended to be in 97 or 98. When the NT 5 beta 2 was released, Microsoft was finally hammering home the notion that Windows NT 5.0 was being designed solely for businesses, not for individual users at home. Microsoft's Jim Allchin spoke of releases that would follow NT 5.0, such as NT 5.1 "Asteroid" and NT 6.0 "Neptune," which would feature a consumer edition. Post-NT 5.0, Windows would receive a maintenance-free user interface and a unified Web/Win32 API. "NT everywhere" was the theme of the show. (of course NT 5 is windows 2000)
In line with the Asteroid release containing a consumer edition, it was something like service pack one or two in windows 2000 before some of the more major problems with consumer level access was addressed.
Windows ME however was the original 98 to NT transition plan that Gates was talking of back in 1998. It's release was behind then rushed too. XP was the first planned and first implemented consumer lever transition to the NT style Kernel. The NT numerical names would have been windows 2000 as NT 5.0, Windows XP as 5.1, and Vista or the 2008 server as NT 6.0.
There was a rumor that MS was going to combine the best of windows CE with ME to create a consumer level NT platform but it was scrapped as marketing feared the slogan would become windows "CE ME NT": hard as a rock and dumb as a brick. Anyways, in the middle there, MS did come out with the windows "really good edition". This version was one of my favorites and you can even run a demo of it on that site.
OK, I see your point now. If they screw up, they make the screw up physically resemble one of those other scenarios to deflect suspicion. That seems plausible and probably effective.
In my area, it's 1-800-dig or the Ohio Utilities Protection Service! .
I didn't find that out about it until after the scenario my friend had and I totally forgot about it when until you reminded me. I guess it is free to mark public utilities but private lines may end up costing. I'm required to give at least 48 hours (legal hours not including holidays, weekends and so on) notice before digging and if they fail to mark the lines, you can assume they have declared that they have no lines in the area. Or at least in my area.
OMG do you actually believe yourself? You have set up this fictional scenario that defies all truth, logic, and rapes the actual realities of history that played out in front of all of us, and above all, you believe your fallacious argument above any other truth while dismissing it as republican bullshit when your own evidence supports the very same conclusion. You sir are not only a partisan idiot, but a borderline case of Schizophrenia cause by your own ignorance and intention misconstruction of the facts and truth.
The Bush government constantly harassed the UN commission in charge of inspecting the WMDs in Iraq. Google Hans Blix and read his statements. They wanted the commission to find something that didn't exist and when reality gets in your delusions, fuck reality, isn't it?
Hans Blix was an anti war hack who's own statements countered the reports offered by the very team and program he chaired. Blix never declared Iraq to not have WMDs or banned weapons until after Powell used many of Blix's own reports to the UN in order to support an invasion which ended up resulting in UN resolution 1441 in 2002. If you want to bring Blix up, you might as well look at what he was saying officially in his UNMOVIC reports. You will find a stark contrast to what you believe and what he said in public to newspapers.
Here are a few excerpts from the February 2003 report that Blix claims to have personally submitted.
28. In its 7 December declaration and again in its semi-annual monitoring declaration, Iraq declared the development and production of two types of surfaceto- surface missiles, which, according to the data presented, were capable of surpassing the range limit imposed on Iraq by Security Council resolution 687 (1991) and had indeed done so in a number of tests. Iraq also declared the acquisition of a large number of surface-to-air missile engines for use, after appropriate modification, in the production of these missiles. This import violates the arms embargo established by the Council in paragraph 24 of resolution 687 (1991).
It has not yet proved possible to obtain interviews with Iraqi scientists, managers or others believed to have knowledge relevant to the disarmament tasks in circumstances that give satisfactory credibility.
During the period of time covered by the present report, Iraq could have made greater efforts to find any remaining proscribed items or provide credible evidence showing the absence of such items. The results in terms of disarmament have been very limited so far. The destruction of missiles, which is an important operation, has not yet begun. Iraq could have made full use of the declaration, which was submitted on 7 December. It is hard to understand why a number of the measures, which are now being taken, could not have been initiated earlier. If they had been taken earlier, they might have borne fruit by now. It is only by the middle of January and thereafter that Iraq has taken a number of steps, which have the potential of resulting either in the presentation for destruction of stocks or items that are proscribed or the presentation of relevant evidence solving long-standing unresolved disarmament issues.
As pointed out in their august 2001 report,
UNMOVIC has still not been able to carry out the mission in Iraq entrusted to it by the Security Council to address unresolved disarmament issues, in particular key remaining disarmament tasks, in the course of carrying out a reinforced system of ongoing monitoring and verification. The position so far of Iraq, expressed notably to the Secretary-General, is that it has fulfilled all requirements under section C of resolution 687 (1991) and that there is no ground for inspection.
Much progress has been achieved in the disarmament area in Iraq since 1991 and some remaining
I don't know if the guys name was harry potter or not. A signal wand is a flashlight type device with a cone over the end of it and they can hold lens filters on the very end of them. This one had a UV filter and was able to illuminate part of the coating around the cables allowing them to detect the wires in the trench with just a tiny portion showing through the dirt.
That's entirely possible. However, the recent cuts in the middle east actually was because of someone dragging an anchor. I would assume that when they screw up, they would initially not comment on it at all outside of "don't look at me, I didn't do anything to it".
There is the federal US government and the State governments inside the US. Then to a more limited extent with respect to sovereign immunity, the city, county and township governments within the states. The total would be difficult to calculate because of the different aspects of sovereign immunity and when it applies and doesn't apply.
The term US governments was supposed to mean any government within the US and not just the US federal government.
A buddy of mine cut a copper phone cable a few years back running some drain tile to the drainage ditch along the road. They didn't get the helocopters of FBI but a couple of verizon trucks kept running up and down the road. Finally one of them pulls in the drive and asked is anyone was doing any construction around there. They said no but then remembered putting the drain tile in and offered that.
They ended up using the backhoe to dig up access to the line, the guy used a signal wand to find it. The guy and someone else worked for about 6 hours patching 500 some copper lines back together. His total bill was around $6,000 but he ended up getting it cut in half because they were about a foot outside of the right of way. Unfortunately, they placed the drain tile into the right of way so it would have been cut either way so they split the difference. I guess the bill would have been a little more if Verizon would have had to send it's own backhoe out.
They told a story of a fiber line being cut on the other side of the road (fiber on one side and the older copper on the other) that cost the guy 1 million per day that it was down. I guess whoever cuts the line pays for the lost service too. Hope that give you an idea of how much the bill will be.
During the cold war, we regularly taped into Russia's fiber and copper lines. They did the same to us or so we expected then to have because we could do it to them. The Russians weren't exactly stupid.
We even have/had subs who's entire job was to find under sea cables coming off the coast of Russia and place bell taps on them.
Fiber can be tapped in much the same way except you need to get around or near the actual fiber lines. This means a cut in the sheath surrounding the bundle. I can't find a reference but I do remember a positive pressurized device that would encapsulate a undersea cable allowing the sheathing to be removed and patched without the sea water penetrating. This same device could probably be used to defeat a pressurized line buried in the ground too. Just stick a regulator on the end of a stout hypodermic needle and penetrate the line, wait for the pressure to equalize and then work with relative impunity.
Most likely you/the contractor couldn't sue the government for anything in this case. This is Washington DC and congress has the final say in everything that goes on in Washington. If Congress ok'd the lines in the first place, then congress would have to grant the ability to suit over them in order to allow you to sue. This is part of the sovereign immunity that all US governments enjoy.
More then likely, the lines were placed in back during the cold war and possibly upgraded since then. Intercepting communications during the cold war by taping fiber lines or even copper lines was a real and seen threat. We did it to them and they did it to us. Ego and Laziness really has nothing to do with it. Especially when congress has ultimate control over DC. Many people forget that Washing DC is a territory/district, not a state and the constitution specifically give congress control of it.
As for being secrete, they still can be secrete. There are probably alternate paths that the fiber channels cover and the only real difference is that now someone would have either keep a signal live on these lines to detect any interruption or drive the path several times a day to check for any digging or anything around them. IF nothing is detected, they would still be good for backup routes if ever needed, if something is ever detected, then replacing them through another location and just making the existing lines public would work just as well.
The government does a half-assed job securing its own computers, but they'll lock down what's between the computers... that's like having a convoy that's well protected, then having that same convoy deliver without any security detail.
Not really, these computer systems are no where near the internet. They are secured by strict access restrictions (physical security) and the lack of interconnection to places without that.
In short, and to keep with your military convoy scenario, you can't really think of this convoy as a regular supply convoy behind the lines. Think of it as the one the president is in when touring the camps and the others are just running supplies to relatively safe camps. These systems serviced by the secrete fiber are something completely different then the main systems you keep hearing about with the breaches. Those systems use publicly accessible and most likely publicly documented lines.
Ideally, the law would be the will of the people, so in theory it's the same thing.
Your right except that the "people" aren't just you and me, and you and I tend to change our minds.
What I mean is, a corporation is little more then a legal front for people practicing in enterprise. It shields the people not participating directly (shareholders) from actions the enterprise takes and creates a set of guidelines in which the corporation can be cited for wrong doing. So suppose you, me and viyh (the comment I was originally replying to) started a business. viyh had an idea on how to make something and you and I had the funding to get started so he sells just under 1/3 of the idea to each of us and we forms a corporation to put our assets into. Now he runs the corporation but a law was about to be passed making what we were doing way more expensive then our business model could handle. We fight the law because it will bankrupt us. Now lets suppose 2000 other companies just like ours are in the same boat and fight it too. Now out of these 2001 companies, 30 percent of the population is represented as stake holders and another 25 percent of the population doesn't want the government to expand into these areas because they know it will cause inflation and raise the bar of entry into free enterprise. Theoretically, 2001 companies and 25% of the population got the laws defeated, but the reality is that 55% of the population decided it was too costly and dangerous to them so the will of the people was served. Take a company like microsoft, they have around 8.9 billion shares of stock outstanding, if every one of the shareholders had 1 million shares, microsoft's voice would still be representing 8,900 people plus the possibility of all the employees who might not have a job if the law put them out of business.
The other problem can be illustrated in the same light. Suppose the defeat of the law caused a shortage of a natural resource and now our costs are even more then it was if the law had passed. We now change our minds and want the law passed but no one else does because they are larger and able to offset the costs now. SO now we are with the 45% of the population and it appears that the will of the people, at least our will isn't being represented.
So Idealy goes out the window when you consider what "the people" encompass as well as that the people change their minds. We have a further problem with jurisdiction and constitutionality of the laws too. This means that some laws the people ask congress for are outside their scope of legislative activity. A law that was in favor of the will of the people at one time, usually doesn't get notices when it falls out of favor until a problem around it comes up.
So the will of the people could be one thing, the law that was created a generation ago could be another, and the justice department has to represent the law regardless of the current will of the people.
I didn't realize it was that long ago. This guy is something like 92 years old now, that's amazing.
I was thinking, if someone was 67 and retiring today, and they started with the DOJ right out of school at age 22 or so, they could have been hired in 1964 and served with Johnson.
You need to check out what interstate matters actually are.
Mobility of people educated on one state's dime to another state where labor is needed makes education an interstate matter. I believe the problem is called "brain drain".
Bullshit. There aren't even any federal laws on the books about education attendance or experience levels or subject coverage. The No Child Left Behind Act didn't even provide any, it simply says that some funds are availible and if the state wants them they have to implement something like this in much the same ways international treaties implement a concept and leave it to the parties to do the detail in their laws.
The federal government pays for less then 6 percent of total elementary-K12 education expenses and it administrates grant funds for higher education that was set up by other entities.
Again, the problem of someone being a dumb ass then being able to leave his state and go to another is not an interstate problem. It's a personal problem. If you go somewhere that you aren't qualified to do any work, that is your fault/concern, not the state's or the government's. Just because you can take a problem to another state doesn't mean it is a problem between the states.
Is agriculture really intrastate? That is, is there a major fertilizer company based in each state that practices agriculture?
Some agriculture is completely in state. I don't use fertilizer, lime, or seed produced out of the state. My tractor was produced in Michigan years ago but using that as a foot in the door would be a lot like the federal government saying that you can't have sex on Sunday because your car was produced or uses parts that was produced in another states (or country). Their involvement constitutionally ends with my consideration for purchase. But no, they want to tax my hogs and cattle because of the methane produced by their crap. And they are even forgetting that the methane is largely carbon neutral because I grow my own feed and if I wasn't raising animals, I would still be selling the feed or raising some other food crop. More Carbon is created in eating the animals as well as crops then there is in producing it.
Medications, devices, and skilled labor routinely cross state lines.
And when it does, it can be regulated. But the regulation stops when it's considered for sale and has already crossed the state line. You don't assume that because your aspirine crossed the state line, the federal government can mandate how big of a house you have where your medicine cabinet is do you? Interstate commerce is just that, commerce between the states. Once a hospital or doctors office purchases it, it is over. This again is reflected in federal laws with respect to FDA regulations that allow off label usage for approved drugs and medical devices. Once the interstate part is over, the government's control is over. If any further regulations are required, it's up to the state to do so.
For someone who lives on one side of a state line and works on the other, which state has authority to tax income?
there are no federal laws on working across state lines. You are allowed to deduct a portion of the overage if you don't get 100% credit for the state and local taxes paid on the other side, but there are no federal laws concerning it. Just recently, New Jersey or was it New York, anyways, one of them increases to portion of taxes paid by out of state workers by withholding the credit amount they reimbursed the home state. It didn't take an act of congress to do that, the rules that they can credit the other state with taxes withheld was already in place, the rest is up to the state itself. When I was working in Sacramento CA and kept my residency status in Ohio, I ended up having to pay both California and Ohio taxes on the entire amount of income I earned. The only differ
Since the development of rail transport, what isn't a matter between the states?
Education, welfare entitlements, intrastate agriculture, intrastate commerce which allows states to this day to set minimum wage laws below the federal minimum, health care, homelessness, work regulations, and many many more.
Just because you can take a problem to another state doesn't mean it is a problem between the states.
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There are actually a few other options that can happen. Some of them are more likely to happen too.
Right now, the government takes a rolling account of medical costs in different areas, creates an average and a payable amount based on that. When they take control they can just lower the amounts and force nurses, doctors, to take less of the pie, cause hospitals to close down decreasing overhead, and redirect many of the medical research grants to cover expenses.
Alternatively, they could outlaw private insurance coverage and force people into the public system or pay out of pocket then mandate the maximum pay a doctor or nurse or staff can make then limit the maximum profits they can make if they participate in the public system. This right here is how they get around insufficient medicare payments currently. If they accept government medicare-medicaid payments, they have to fit their bill within a list prices they figured for procedure and the area your in. You then have to waive any overages if your bill is more without justification.
That is one reason why medical costs are so expensive. Hospitals, doctors, and everyone in between found out long ago that if the uninsured regular costs were as high as possible, the averages would go up. Most insurance companies also attempt to use this list of approved payments in order to negotiate their costs. I know a guy who broke his ankle recently. They need to install pins to fix it. His original hospital bill was over $15,000. When they found out there was no chance in hell of him ever paying it, they adjusted it to just under $3,000 if he agreed to making payments of a certain amount per month.
It's a racket, one that Obama's wife (and presumably Obama himself) knows all about. When he was a state senator, a hospital created a job position making a over a hundred grand a year in hopes to get Obama's support on some grant money for the hospital to treat the poor. When he became senator, her salary nearly tripled. After it came through, the hospital started rejecting the least profitable patients from it's emergency room care. Of course that job has since been eliminated now that she is the fashion first lady. Most first ladies strive to be more but I guess she didn't have to do much at the old job but stay married to Barrak and keep him happy enough to help the hospital out in free money.
BTW, this administration has a way at hiding the intent of what they are doing. Take the recent GM buyout for instance. They were claiming that everyone should buy a new fuel efficient car and evern pondered the idea of a government payment for the trade in of your older less efficient car. Then the recession hit, the lending crisis, and not to many people can afford a new car right now. So they blamed GM's and Chrysler's woes on building Big SUVs which people were buying instead of the more fuel efficient offering that they still sell today. Now they are going through bankruptcy, the government under Obama's control, purchased controlling interest, they are closing a lot of shops down and guess which ones were the first to be cut, the ones which make replacement parts for older cars and the less efficient newer ones. Now aftermarket vendors make replacement parts too, but less of them on the shelf with little financing availible for expanding operations means they will start costing more as they get rarer. All the sudden, Poof, it's cheaper to buy a new
How is he different from the mumbling cowboy that Bush was? Have you ever heard him speak without a teleprompter? I have and there isn't much difference. Hell, Even Biden made a remark about Obama being lost when the wind at some speech in Colorado blew the teleprompter over and broke it. When Bush read from the screen, he sounded pretty good too.
I think you have been fooled.
Well, as I mentioned, I walked to school a year earlier without a parent too. Of course I was with other people and the grade schools, even to this day still have crossing guards. But we are forgetting that we had several advantages. One is that we lived within walking distance to school, many people don't and their 5 or 6 year olds have to ride the bus. Two, we knew where we were at and where to get help is needed. We weren't far from home which both aided in our comfort as well as our parents, and finally, there was a point of destination that we actually arrived at. Imagine your parent's state of mind if the school called them a half hour after you should have been there asking why you weren't at school. Now imagine the state of mind when the bus shows up, your only 6, and your not on it. When they call the school thinking maybe you missed the bus to tell them they are on your way to pick you up to find out that none of the students are left at the school.
We should also not forget that the reasoning behind this isn't because the guy doesn't trust the kid to go outside and play. This isn't a normal situation where everything is as it should be. This is a situation where the plan failed. And worse, the failure was outside his control. Imagine that you had kids that age (5-6). Now imagine that you left them in my care and when you came back, I had absolutely no clue whatsoever at all where your kid was, who he was with, what he was doing, if he was alright, hurt, sick, being molested, or anything. We have to spend an hour or so looking for him. Now would you be questioning my ability to keep your kids safe and consider never leaving him with me again? I would hope so, but what do you do when I am the school and you are compelled by law to give your kid to me for 5 days a week. What would you do?
To an extent. The plants in question are older and didn't include enough cooling towers in their design because the river was right there.
You can actually build the cooling needed into the design without using the rivers except maybe to replenish some evaporated water. It takes more land, more building materials and will drive the over all costs up, but it seems to be headed that way anyways.
They have. My friend is still a line man, well he supervises a crew of about 100 linemen but he worked as one until that position opened up. I guess now they run grounds from the poles to isolate the service areas and cut breakers switched a pole back. (that alone would have protected him) They also use a new types of rubber gloves, jackets, and rubber boots that are more effective then the older stuff at blocking energy arcs plus they are mandatory which at the time of his accident, it was just a good idea. Here is some info on the newer standards. It has some of the older ones there but they have been modified a but since then too.
Your probably right to the extent. The current efficiencies of solar sort of jack the costs up quite a bit making it more of a promotional/public image scenario. I get the idea that solar is free once your past the costs of the equipment and installation but this costs can still be more then grid power itself over the life time. If someone is willing to accept that costs, then more power to them. Where I have a problem is when it seems to be mandated which ultimately ends up being a tax on the products and services being sold.
Now don't get me wrong, I am a user of solar power right now. I use it on an outbuilding to charge a battery for a well pump to water livestock when the spring goes dry, and I use some cells to charge batteries to operate the electric gate openers. The costs of going solar made total sense compared to getting electricity out there. I even built a solar furnace that attaches to the side of one barn so I don't have to heat it in the winter. My cousin and I are working on a device that splits the light coming into a solar cell into the different frequencies then applies filters to them in order to "shape" the radiation to make some solar cells more efficient. It's a simple concept but so far, the increases in efficiency don't equate to the costs of implementation.
I just don't think photovoltaic solar is the answer or cost effective at this time. However, I do think some modifications to a solar water heater, a h2o2 generator, and a pneumatic motor coupled to a generator head could have the possibility of creating much more energy in the same space and could also be used in place of a fuel cell for an electric car. The storage issues are worked out as well without
9-10 is realistically quite a bit older then 5 and 6 in which I was mentioning. You certainly should be able to address the situation and come to a conclusion at that age. However, with a 6 year old, would you trust them crossing the busiest street in your town unsupervised? Would you rely on a 5-7 year old to wake you up from your nap in an hour or you will lose your job? I would say it depends on the kid but in general, no to both questions. I asked those questions because that is something you could reasonably assume a 9-10 year old could handle. The similarities is in the wherewithal the kid will have when stranded alone in an unfamiliar place. Parent tell their kids, if they get separates, go to the front of the store and ask someone wearing a shirt like that one to help you, yet almost every day or close to it, someone somewhere finds a kid in a corner or under a cloths rack of a stare crying because when they realize they were alone and separated, even though they have been to the store many times and are familiar with it, when they ignore what they were told and realize they can't find mommy or daddy, the break down. It's inherent to some degree.
Your talking about an entirely different age group here. At 9-10 years old, you are pretty much responsible enough to not lose a cell phone, or the key to your bike lock, or whatever. But what is even worse, even if the kid does know what to do, the parrent can't be sure they will do it because kids that young (5 and 6 years old) aren't normally left to fend for themselves. At 9-10 years old, you are less then 3 years away from being able to legally babysit the first grader getting lost in most areas (12 years old in mine). But you have to remember, at 9-10 years old, you were most likely in 4th or 5th grade, that means there are at least 4 grade younger then you (k-3) who will not have the understanding and knowledge that you had.
I don't think your putting things into the proper perspective. If you were reading books in the book store, your probably either quite a bit older then the kindergartner, first, or second grader who is still learning the alphabet and how to read words larger then 2 syllables, or you are unique and was advanced for your age and your experience doesn't really apply to the rest of the world.
The only age you have given is almost twice as old as the youngest who could be lost by the schools. It's all fine and all if you roamed free at 4 and five years old, most likely you were under someone's supervision at that age, even if it wasn't your parents. When you are older, I totally agree, but I would consider it child endangerment if someone was letting a 5 year old wonder around unsupervised at a mall running from shop to shop for hours on end. A 5 year old who would be in school, does not posses the pr
Well, suppose the teacher does get them on the right bus but the kid, sally johnson responds when the driver is looking for sally jones. Now there are possibly two kids getting off at the wrong spot and if they are young enough, they might just listen to the bus driver when he says this is where you get off.
Well, gee wiz, lets see how this differs.
First, the school lost the kid, presumably by letting her off at the wrong stop or putting her on the wrong bus. In my area, letting 6 year kids off the bus at the wrong stops happened about 30 times last year. Of those thirty times, the child reported that it wasn't their place and the drivers was convinced it was and ordered the kid off 4 or 5 times.
Now when this happens, several things are different from you playing in the neighborhood and calling your parents every couple hours. First, they aren't in their neighborhood. They are somewhere completely different and foreign to them, most likely beyond a safe walking distance (street crossings, traffic, bad neighborhoods, and so on) for someone that age. Second, they are by themselves, not with a neighbor playing, they are all alone looking for their home. Finally, there is no fucking phone for them to use even if they do remember their phone number.
And don't give me the bullshit that every kid should know their address and phone number by the time they get into school. It's irrelevant because they most likely won't have the money to hit a payphone or the knowledge to reverse the charges, and even if they did while somehow being able to reach the numbers in the phone booth designed for adults and not 5 and 6 year old kids, they don't know where in the hell they are so you still need a way to find them. In a panic, emergency, or stress situations, most normal people not trained to handle the situation will make a critical mistake. Even with training, people still make mistakes and I'm talking about competent adults, not 6 year old kids.
Your simply equating two entirely different situations. And if your young kid went missing while coming home from school and you wasn't concerned about it, then I will suggest that you shouldn't be a parent at all. But just in case you are concerned when you child comes up missing, do you want to spend 5 hours looking for her or 5 minutes to figure out where you need to go and fifteen minutes to find her?
Actually, the carrot and stick is an analogy concerning an ass. The ass or donkey does what you want by manipulating a reward (in this case, a carrot) where as the ass is known to become more stubborn when you beat it.
Take the same principles, alter it to adjust to a child, and you have positive reinforcement training without calling them asses.
The river was too hot because of the lack of water, not the nuclear power. When you dump heat into a river, it is almost instantly and completely transported away from the site. The volume of water mixing with it is also more then the discharge so it won't be a complete 1-1 transference.
Anyways, a drought in the area caused the river's water levels to drop so low that the sun was heating it up to dangerous temps on it's own. The call to shut the plants down was made because the water levels was too low and the current too slow to carry the heat away. This wasn't a situation where the power plants heated the water too much.
Plants along the Ohio River had to create contingency plans over the same scenario because throughout the summer the water levels were starting to get low there too.
This is something that has been a problem in the past. In most states, electric companies have had to employ feedback isolation units to protect pole workers and the line men have special safety procedure they have to employ before servicing an outage, and laws have been passed requiring generators and non-grid power sources to be totally isolated from the mains when in use. Most modern generators have circuit breakers built into them that will trip if the back feed into the grid because of the power drain.
About 25 years ago, good friend of mine (a line man for AEP) was knocked out of a bucket and fell 16 foot to the ground breaking his leg, arm, collar bone, and ribs plus suffered from burns over 15% of his body from a shock caused by someone plugging a generator into dryer outlet to feed the house without disconnecting the mains. The guy happened to be "fixing" the generator by bypassing the built in circuit breakers because they kept blowing, and achieved the successful fix about the same time he was reconnecting the downed lines. The power interrupters where pulled but the jolt blew a transformer and caused the electricity to jump the safety precautions that were normal at the time.
The problem and concern is the DIY people who don't spend the money on a qualified electrician to connect the units or don't maintain them properly or modify the systems somehow (putting larger units in place of rated equipment) because of lack of money, knowledge, or whatever reason. It's a real concern when "everybody" has it.
I think he was looking for the VMware argument over jails and so on. Consolidating lightly used services probably means getting rid of 5 dual core zeon power edge server and running virtual machines on one while duplicating them on another for availability. I don't think he meant loading five different versions of accounting applications on the same server OS.
Windows 2000 was never intended to be a "general user" or "home user" platform and it's original launch date was intended to be in 97 or 98. When the NT 5 beta 2 was released, Microsoft was finally hammering home the notion that Windows NT 5.0 was being designed solely for businesses, not for individual users at home. Microsoft's Jim Allchin spoke of releases that would follow NT 5.0, such as NT 5.1 "Asteroid" and NT 6.0 "Neptune," which would feature a consumer edition. Post-NT 5.0, Windows would receive a maintenance-free user interface and a unified Web/Win32 API. "NT everywhere" was the theme of the show. (of course NT 5 is windows 2000)
In line with the Asteroid release containing a consumer edition, it was something like service pack one or two in windows 2000 before some of the more major problems with consumer level access was addressed.
Windows ME however was the original 98 to NT transition plan that Gates was talking of back in 1998. It's release was behind then rushed too. XP was the first planned and first implemented consumer lever transition to the NT style Kernel. The NT numerical names would have been windows 2000 as NT 5.0, Windows XP as 5.1, and Vista or the 2008 server as NT 6.0.
There was a rumor that MS was going to combine the best of windows CE with ME to create a consumer level NT platform but it was scrapped as marketing feared the slogan would become windows "CE ME NT": hard as a rock and dumb as a brick. Anyways, in the middle there, MS did come out with the windows "really good edition". This version was one of my favorites and you can even run a demo of it on that site.
OK, I see your point now. If they screw up, they make the screw up physically resemble one of those other scenarios to deflect suspicion. That seems plausible and probably effective.
Good call for mentioning that.
In my area, it's 1-800-dig or the Ohio Utilities Protection Service! .
I didn't find that out about it until after the scenario my friend had and I totally forgot about it when until you reminded me. I guess it is free to mark public utilities but private lines may end up costing. I'm required to give at least 48 hours (legal hours not including holidays, weekends and so on) notice before digging and if they fail to mark the lines, you can assume they have declared that they have no lines in the area. Or at least in my area.
Thanks for reminding me of that.
OMG do you actually believe yourself? You have set up this fictional scenario that defies all truth, logic, and rapes the actual realities of history that played out in front of all of us, and above all, you believe your fallacious argument above any other truth while dismissing it as republican bullshit when your own evidence supports the very same conclusion. You sir are not only a partisan idiot, but a borderline case of Schizophrenia cause by your own ignorance and intention misconstruction of the facts and truth.
Hans Blix was an anti war hack who's own statements countered the reports offered by the very team and program he chaired. Blix never declared Iraq to not have WMDs or banned weapons until after Powell used many of Blix's own reports to the UN in order to support an invasion which ended up resulting in UN resolution 1441 in 2002. If you want to bring Blix up, you might as well look at what he was saying officially in his UNMOVIC reports. You will find a stark contrast to what you believe and what he said in public to newspapers.
Here are a few excerpts from the February 2003 report that Blix claims to have personally submitted.
As pointed out in their august 2001 report,
I don't know if the guys name was harry potter or not. A signal wand is a flashlight type device with a cone over the end of it and they can hold lens filters on the very end of them. This one had a UV filter and was able to illuminate part of the coating around the cables allowing them to detect the wires in the trench with just a tiny portion showing through the dirt.
That's entirely possible. However, the recent cuts in the middle east actually was because of someone dragging an anchor. I would assume that when they screw up, they would initially not comment on it at all outside of "don't look at me, I didn't do anything to it".
There is the federal US government and the State governments inside the US. Then to a more limited extent with respect to sovereign immunity, the city, county and township governments within the states. The total would be difficult to calculate because of the different aspects of sovereign immunity and when it applies and doesn't apply.
The term US governments was supposed to mean any government within the US and not just the US federal government.
A buddy of mine cut a copper phone cable a few years back running some drain tile to the drainage ditch along the road. They didn't get the helocopters of FBI but a couple of verizon trucks kept running up and down the road. Finally one of them pulls in the drive and asked is anyone was doing any construction around there. They said no but then remembered putting the drain tile in and offered that.
They ended up using the backhoe to dig up access to the line, the guy used a signal wand to find it. The guy and someone else worked for about 6 hours patching 500 some copper lines back together. His total bill was around $6,000 but he ended up getting it cut in half because they were about a foot outside of the right of way. Unfortunately, they placed the drain tile into the right of way so it would have been cut either way so they split the difference. I guess the bill would have been a little more if Verizon would have had to send it's own backhoe out.
They told a story of a fiber line being cut on the other side of the road (fiber on one side and the older copper on the other) that cost the guy 1 million per day that it was down. I guess whoever cuts the line pays for the lost service too. Hope that give you an idea of how much the bill will be.
During the cold war, we regularly taped into Russia's fiber and copper lines. They did the same to us or so we expected then to have because we could do it to them. The Russians weren't exactly stupid.
We even have/had subs who's entire job was to find under sea cables coming off the coast of Russia and place bell taps on them.
Fiber can be tapped in much the same way except you need to get around or near the actual fiber lines. This means a cut in the sheath surrounding the bundle. I can't find a reference but I do remember a positive pressurized device that would encapsulate a undersea cable allowing the sheathing to be removed and patched without the sea water penetrating. This same device could probably be used to defeat a pressurized line buried in the ground too. Just stick a regulator on the end of a stout hypodermic needle and penetrate the line, wait for the pressure to equalize and then work with relative impunity.
Most likely you/the contractor couldn't sue the government for anything in this case. This is Washington DC and congress has the final say in everything that goes on in Washington. If Congress ok'd the lines in the first place, then congress would have to grant the ability to suit over them in order to allow you to sue. This is part of the sovereign immunity that all US governments enjoy.
More then likely, the lines were placed in back during the cold war and possibly upgraded since then. Intercepting communications during the cold war by taping fiber lines or even copper lines was a real and seen threat. We did it to them and they did it to us. Ego and Laziness really has nothing to do with it. Especially when congress has ultimate control over DC. Many people forget that Washing DC is a territory/district, not a state and the constitution specifically give congress control of it.
As for being secrete, they still can be secrete. There are probably alternate paths that the fiber channels cover and the only real difference is that now someone would have either keep a signal live on these lines to detect any interruption or drive the path several times a day to check for any digging or anything around them. IF nothing is detected, they would still be good for backup routes if ever needed, if something is ever detected, then replacing them through another location and just making the existing lines public would work just as well.
Not really, these computer systems are no where near the internet. They are secured by strict access restrictions (physical security) and the lack of interconnection to places without that.
In short, and to keep with your military convoy scenario, you can't really think of this convoy as a regular supply convoy behind the lines. Think of it as the one the president is in when touring the camps and the others are just running supplies to relatively safe camps. These systems serviced by the secrete fiber are something completely different then the main systems you keep hearing about with the breaches. Those systems use publicly accessible and most likely publicly documented lines.
Your right except that the "people" aren't just you and me, and you and I tend to change our minds.
What I mean is, a corporation is little more then a legal front for people practicing in enterprise. It shields the people not participating directly (shareholders) from actions the enterprise takes and creates a set of guidelines in which the corporation can be cited for wrong doing. So suppose you, me and viyh (the comment I was originally replying to) started a business. viyh had an idea on how to make something and you and I had the funding to get started so he sells just under 1/3 of the idea to each of us and we forms a corporation to put our assets into. Now he runs the corporation but a law was about to be passed making what we were doing way more expensive then our business model could handle. We fight the law because it will bankrupt us. Now lets suppose 2000 other companies just like ours are in the same boat and fight it too. Now out of these 2001 companies, 30 percent of the population is represented as stake holders and another 25 percent of the population doesn't want the government to expand into these areas because they know it will cause inflation and raise the bar of entry into free enterprise. Theoretically, 2001 companies and 25% of the population got the laws defeated, but the reality is that 55% of the population decided it was too costly and dangerous to them so the will of the people was served. Take a company like microsoft, they have around 8.9 billion shares of stock outstanding, if every one of the shareholders had 1 million shares, microsoft's voice would still be representing 8,900 people plus the possibility of all the employees who might not have a job if the law put them out of business.
The other problem can be illustrated in the same light. Suppose the defeat of the law caused a shortage of a natural resource and now our costs are even more then it was if the law had passed. We now change our minds and want the law passed but no one else does because they are larger and able to offset the costs now. SO now we are with the 45% of the population and it appears that the will of the people, at least our will isn't being represented.
So Idealy goes out the window when you consider what "the people" encompass as well as that the people change their minds. We have a further problem with jurisdiction and constitutionality of the laws too. This means that some laws the people ask congress for are outside their scope of legislative activity. A law that was in favor of the will of the people at one time, usually doesn't get notices when it falls out of favor until a problem around it comes up.
So the will of the people could be one thing, the law that was created a generation ago could be another, and the justice department has to represent the law regardless of the current will of the people.
Wow, Thanks,
I didn't realize it was that long ago. This guy is something like 92 years old now, that's amazing.
I was thinking, if someone was 67 and retiring today, and they started with the DOJ right out of school at age 22 or so, they could have been hired in 1964 and served with Johnson.
You need to check out what interstate matters actually are.
Bullshit. There aren't even any federal laws on the books about education attendance or experience levels or subject coverage. The No Child Left Behind Act didn't even provide any, it simply says that some funds are availible and if the state wants them they have to implement something like this in much the same ways international treaties implement a concept and leave it to the parties to do the detail in their laws.
The federal government pays for less then 6 percent of total elementary-K12 education expenses and it administrates grant funds for higher education that was set up by other entities.
Again, the problem of someone being a dumb ass then being able to leave his state and go to another is not an interstate problem. It's a personal problem. If you go somewhere that you aren't qualified to do any work, that is your fault/concern, not the state's or the government's. Just because you can take a problem to another state doesn't mean it is a problem between the states.
Some agriculture is completely in state. I don't use fertilizer, lime, or seed produced out of the state. My tractor was produced in Michigan years ago but using that as a foot in the door would be a lot like the federal government saying that you can't have sex on Sunday because your car was produced or uses parts that was produced in another states (or country). Their involvement constitutionally ends with my consideration for purchase. But no, they want to tax my hogs and cattle because of the methane produced by their crap. And they are even forgetting that the methane is largely carbon neutral because I grow my own feed and if I wasn't raising animals, I would still be selling the feed or raising some other food crop. More Carbon is created in eating the animals as well as crops then there is in producing it.
And when it does, it can be regulated. But the regulation stops when it's considered for sale and has already crossed the state line. You don't assume that because your aspirine crossed the state line, the federal government can mandate how big of a house you have where your medicine cabinet is do you? Interstate commerce is just that, commerce between the states. Once a hospital or doctors office purchases it, it is over. This again is reflected in federal laws with respect to FDA regulations that allow off label usage for approved drugs and medical devices. Once the interstate part is over, the government's control is over. If any further regulations are required, it's up to the state to do so.
there are no federal laws on working across state lines. You are allowed to deduct a portion of the overage if you don't get 100% credit for the state and local taxes paid on the other side, but there are no federal laws concerning it. Just recently, New Jersey or was it New York, anyways, one of them increases to portion of taxes paid by out of state workers by withholding the credit amount they reimbursed the home state. It didn't take an act of congress to do that, the rules that they can credit the other state with taxes withheld was already in place, the rest is up to the state itself. When I was working in Sacramento CA and kept my residency status in Ohio, I ended up having to pay both California and Ohio taxes on the entire amount of income I earned. The only differ
Education, welfare entitlements, intrastate agriculture, intrastate commerce which allows states to this day to set minimum wage laws below the federal minimum, health care, homelessness, work regulations, and many many more.
Just because you can take a problem to another state doesn't mean it is a problem between the states.