Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
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Statistics of the Day: Gallup CEO Clifton on the 5.6% Unemployment Number
“The number of full-time jobs, and that’s what everybody wants, as a percent of the total population, is the lowest it’s ever been… The other thing that is very misleading about that number is the more people that drop out, the better the number gets. In the recession we lost 13 million jobs. Only 3 million have come back. You don’t see that in that number. “Tweet of the Day
The unaccountable Fed is outraged Sen. Paul would dare suggest their audit. Purchasing power of the dollar by CPI is down 95% under the Fed.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 6, 2015
The Fed suggests that the Congress would politicize monetary policy. Like when it created the Fed and gave it a full employment mandate.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 6, 2015
A Spoof of Government Intervention in the Internet (Via "Net Neutrality"): Tell Wheeler 'NO' on Regulating the InternetDeath and Taxes: Government Even Regulates the Way We Go...
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(Reason). Colleges can charge as much as they want for tuition: their customers don't pay, all Americans do.
The federal government has no constitutional mandate whatsoever to fund or otherwise intervene in the education market. We can't afford the $1T college loan bubble; the government had no moral or legal right to nationalize college loans, which transferred risk from private-sector lenders to taxpayers. The statistics on college investment do not reflect recent realities of subpar economic growth, and what we need is for the Snake Oil Salesman-in-Chief to stop running up the tab on future taxpayers underwriting the costs of kids who do not belong in college, many of which will never earn their degree and others with unmarketable degrees. For a more sobering, realistic view of college economics, see Vedder: http://centerforcollegeaffordability.org/uploads/12_Inconvenient_Truths.pdf
We are the richest country in the world. But we don't want to help people move up in the world. Why? A more educated populous means a strong economy. Which means more money into everyone's pockets. How about we take some money from defense. We spend more money on it then the top 9 countries behind us.
Fascist morons. I absolutely reject the idea of funding unmarketable snake oil degree program graduates on my money. Fund your own education yourselves.
Make no mistake, this isn't a subsidy for students, it's a subsidy for colleges.
Whereas colleges will profit from malinvestments in higher education, make no mistake--overenrollment made possible by generous financial aid packages drives up costs and prices and we now have a trillion-dollar college loan bubble that the taxpayer is on the hook for. Education is NOT a constitutional mandate.
(Mercatus Center). The FCC is set to issue an order that will reclassify broadband under Title II of the Communications Act. As a result, broadband will suddenly become subject to numerous federal and local taxes and fees.
Remind me again who likes their ISP? Oh yeah, Time Warner and Comcast have lower approval ratings than the IRS. Completely normal in a "competitive" market.
I've been a satisfied customer of both Time Warner and Comcast.
Here in Brasil the govt pass a internet constitution, lots of trouble for users while providers are really happy. Damm corporativism.
It's what we call regulatory capture.
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How many Internet fascists are going to spam this thread? Net neutrality is pushing-on-a-string pretentious nonsense to rationalize government intervention. The free market works--the government impedes innovation, raises consumer costs, and is grossly incompetent and intrusive.
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A word to all you Soros' funded leftist whore advocates for "Net Neutrality"; there is not one libertarian who supports government regulation of anything, including the Internet. The Koch brothers are not neo-cons on foreign policy, and they support "gay marriage" and drug liberalization; not all candidates they've supported hold to these views. They do support limited government, so opposing regulation of the Internet is consistent with limited government.. I hold multiple IT/business advanced degrees, and I've always opposed net neutrality, never seen a dime from Koch.
(Cato Institute). "A federal appeals court recently upheld a $7,000,000 judgment against two now-former police officers. In 1983, the officers coerced a mentally challenged 15-year-old boy, Anthony Caravella, to confess to rape and murder....'officers...spent hours alone with him, fed him information about the crime scene and got him to repeat it back to them...After that 'police work,' prosecutors actually sought the death penalty against the teen, but the jury opted for a life sentence instead. The man who was actually responsible for the rape and murder remained free, endangering other members of the community. He never faced justice for this crime."
It would really be nice if CATO were to balance their negative reporting about police officers with a reciprocal Best Case of the Month.
And maybe the local TV station should recognize the Driver of the Month, who actually follows the rules of the road. It's the nature of the beast; too many of you police propagandists try to excuse, ignore or dismiss misconduct. Most of us in the real economy get little if any recognition for doing our jobs with professionalism. You might have more integrity if you were to recognize bad cops who violate their code to serve and protect undermine confidence and respect for their fellow officers and too many cops protect the bad ones and/or do nothing when they are witness to abusive conduct (e.g., Eric Garner).
(Cato Institute). "Rightly suspicious of government compulsion, a libertarian’s first instinct is to say that this is a question for individual parents to decide. But second thoughts suggest that the matter is more complicated."
Rights analysis starts to break down? Really? So suddenly any action that potentially creates risk for others should be banned? Then no one should drive a car.
If you do not vaccinate and you are infected with a contagious disease, you basically have a moral responsibility not to spread the disease to others, especially those with compromised immune systems or cannot tolerate the vaccines for physical reasons. We cannot, of course, control all risk. Not all contagious diseases may have vaccines; furthermore, you may not realize that you have a contagious disease. But many common vaccines are 90-100% effective, and the occurrences of the disease all but disappear after initial widespread vaccination.
To give an example, one measures outbreak in unvaccinated Ohio Amish communities in 2014 (383 people) outnumbered all of the other cases in the US, and 10 years earlier, there were only 27 cases across the US. In contrast we had over 400,000 cases a year up to the time the first measles vaccine became available in the early 1960's. What's disturbing is the number of people opting out of immunizations for themselves/their children, which increases the probability of infection. In the recent California measles breakout, nearly 80% of the 34 cases with immunization records, were unvaccinated. Many measles cases can be traced to exposures originating in US traveler destinations.
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Dusty Springfield, "Wishin' and Hopin'". I LOVE this performance--mad arrangement, great pipes.
