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POPSObama's Critics Are Also in His Administration Those deficits were nothing compared to those provided in Obama's budget. His deficits would last years after the recession is over and in spite of the massive tax increases that promises to accompany them. The Democrats correctly criticized Bush's deficits. Feldstein notes that Obama's deficits, because of its expensive health care agenda will reach $9.3 trillion -- more than twice the amount of the previous administration. In an earlier article in the Washington Post, Feldstein noted that "For the 85 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, the Obama health plan is bad news. It means higher taxes, less health care and no protection if they lose their current insurance because of unemployment or early retirement." Feldstein also notes that the price of the program is enormous and would cost more than $1 trillion and would raise the current maximum tax rate from 35 to 45 percent.
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POPSLaws of Sustainability (3) Following Bartlett's logic, it's a case of do or die (if not, do and die), if not on the level of the individual, then on the level of humankind. People need to start to care for themselves (and others!) on the level of the species. The selfish individualism fostered by the consumer economy and the whole trash heap of economic growth theory needs to thrown overboard first, otherwise the boat will most certainly sink.
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POPSIndependent commission led by former lawmakers, economists releases plan to control federal debt 
The rest of the plan includes an enforcement mechanism to stay on track (featuring automatic triggers to raise taxes and cut spending if targets aren’t met), then actually stabilizing the debt in 2018, followed by continued debt reductions toward the nation’s 50-year average of below 40%. The nation’s public debt is now 53% of U.S. gross domestic product — up from 41% a year ago — and on track to become 85% of GDP by 2018, 100% by 2022 and 200% by 2038, under the commission’s projections. The group says before those levels are reached, the U.S. would likely face a debt-driven crisis in which interest rates spiral higher and squeeze out other priorities. “The tipping point is impossible to predict, but the United States is already hearing concerns about its fiscal management from some of its largest creditors, and the country is uncomfortably vulnerable to shifts in confidence around the world,” the report stated.
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POPSWe Ain't Seen Nothing Yet FTA: "Next year’s tax hikes will be real and large..". " As these storm clouds gather, Congress bickers on Saturday nights about borrowing even more money for health-care reform, yet another federal entitlement." Are you ready for 2010??? (sigh)
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POPSIs Voting Republican Bad For Your Health? The chart wouldn't clip . You'll have to click through to see it. From the source: "As Forbes noted: The annual ranking looks at 22 indicators of health, including everything from how many children receive recommended vaccinations, to obesity and smoking rates, to cancer deaths." They just want to drag everyone down to their level. Red states also have the highest overall divorce and teenage pregnancy rates. Way to go.
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POPSTwo Common Objections to Capitalism The system of voluntary exchange and experimentation based on secure private-property rights — what we loosely call "capitalism" — expands rather than restricts our material and nonmaterial opportunities. Substituting elite power for voluntary exchange invites all sorts of epistemological problems and moral disasters. For these reasons, capitalism deserves to be defended.
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POPS2010 Military Pay Chart: 2010 Military Bah Chart, Rates 2010 Military Pay Chart: Latest news about 2010 military pay chart, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 which states, Increase in Basic Pay- Effective on January 1, 2010, the rates of monthly basic pay for members of the uniformed services ... 2010 military pay chart, 2009 military pay chart, 2010 military bah chart, 2010 bah rates, 2010 military bah rates, proposed 2010 military pay charts
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POPSCool Websites and Tools [October 11] BreathingEarth – Real-time simulation tool that shows stats like CO2 emissions, birth and death rates, and CO2 emitted per person. The stats are given both for each country and worldwide. All the data comes from reputable sources like CIA World Factbook and United Nations Statistics Division. Read more: BreathingEarth – CO2 Emissions, Birth & Death Rates by Country
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POPSDeaths rise' with junior doctors "Clearly even a small increase in death rates is of great concern and we need further research to see whether this is a real effect or an anomaly."
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POPSProtect Children, Not Guns To validate the “for the children” gambit, there should especially be some link between gun prevalence and child murder. Examining the Centers for Disease Control fatal injury data reveals the truth. Looking at total fatal injuries, between 1994 and 2005, the overall fatal injury rate for ages 15+ (non-children) rose 4.6%, but it fell 26.6% for children (ages 0-14). Overall homicide rates (murdered by any means, e.g. firearms, strangulation, poison) for ages 15+ fell faster than for ages 0-14 (-35.6% to -28.2%), but firearms homicide rates fell faster for children: -53.0% to -38.0% for ages 15+. This variance shows that while non-children are relatively safer when looking at overall homicide, children became much safer from firearms homicide.
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POPSSuper Sperm more (at source): The researcher said: 'Sometimes, during the fine-tuning process, high rates of infertility can be seen. That's probably the reason for the very high rates of unexplained infertility in the last decades.' Dr Hasson, of Tel Aviv University in Israel, says women's bodies have gradually evolved extra 'defences' to force sperm to become more competitive to reach the egg at all. Men have responded by making more of the aggressive super-sperm. Once the first sperm fertilises an egg, a woman's body throws up a further range of biochemical defences to stop all the others reaching it. Dr Hasson said: 'To avoid the fatal consequences of polyspermy, female reproductive tracts have evolved to become formidable barriers to sperm.
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POPSWatch out American Consumers The world knows what is coming, hyper inflation or the great depression, and they don't want to participate in the next financial collapse.
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POPSCalifornia State HMOs deny 1 in 5 claims It's time to stop talking about make believe death panels, and talk about the real ones. I had been going on the assumption the health insurance industry made (kept) $13,000,000,000 last year in profits. I was off by a couple billion dollars...it is closer to $16,000,000,000...opps!
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POPSWorst Depression, not Recession Jackson Hole, Wy, stock piling their supplies before the next global collapse. I wouldn't be surprised to see Barton Biggs, there giving lessons on survival. http://tinyurl.com/m6c9nb
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