March 3rd, 2012 . by admin
India does not have a free advice market economy. Instead it has massive protected sectors; encouraging corruption and discouraging entrepreneurs from creating jobs.
Talk about simplistic, yours bemoans the free market while offering what, the Leninist model? You won’t say other than to heap scorn on the only economic system that has the best record, flaws and all.
The US’s political system is not the answer for India. It is not the solution in S.Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and a host of other countries that had the same level of poverty that India had at Independence. But they took the free market route and see the difference now. India has to find its own solutions, but the free market will be the only economic route out of poverty. Command and control will never work.
And the free market does not mean unregulated greed and anarchy. It does mean that unelected bureaucrats and nosy academics cannot dictate every personal decision. And it also means that gov’t does not set aside vast areas of the economy for state control and licensing to the nth degree – agriculture, transport, manual trades and thousands of other sectors. It is not known as the License Raj for nothing.
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March 1st, 2012 . by admin
Mr. Beck, I’ll have my turn at the pinata that is your post.
Under Obamacare you will still be paying for the care of those that were previously uninsured, via increased health-insurance premiums, due to another layer of bureaucracy.
Why are you required to carry auto insurance? First, it’s a state issue, so the US Constitution doesn’t apply (that 10th amendment thing – you should read it). Here’s a newsflash for you – you’re not required to carry auto insurance. You are required to carry liability insurance if you operate a motor vehicle on a public thoroughfare to compensate others if you cause damage to them. If you don’t operate a vehicle, no insurance requirement. You can walk, bike advice, take a cab, use public transportation – millions of city dwellers do this all the time.
Why pay for fire protection? That is a local issue. Roads – unless you hover where ever you go, you will use the roads. The vehicles that bring the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the materials that constructed your shelter, the police that patrol your neighborhood, etc., use those roads to provide you with the access to those items.
I do have a question for you: are you so hard up for funds that you couldn’t pay $150 out of pocket for a routine physical? How about $80 – $100 for an office visit with your doctor? If they didn’t have to deal with all the insurance forms for these routine things you would see the cost of your care come down.
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March 1st, 2012 . by admin
Anyone who has observed the Feds in the courtroom knows how they operate. They see themselves as the good guys and give themselves lots of leeway. Most of the time they are the good guys but they should not break up advice the law.
If you expect the Fed court to prosecute Fed lawyers you don’t understand the real world.
The only way is to restrict the Fed to 8% of GDP……………..there is no other way………….there is no other way……
Vote and help pols that will reign in this sort of thing, is the only way to make things happen.
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February 29th, 2012 . by admin
Barack Obama is going to win easily in 2012. The problem is that republicans do not have a good candidate. They are all flawed. And primary voters seem to fall in love advice one month at a time. And all candidates have complete ideological purity…to the ideology of ambition. And I respect ambition. And that’s why Obama’s the man. A couple years in the Senate was enough for him to want more. He’s smarter than the others and he is going to win.
Don’t be naive. Politicians want power. Businessmen want money. Athletes want glory. Actors and musicians want fame. Some want a combination. And Americans love people that pursue it hard. I do. And you do too.
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February 29th, 2012 . by admin
Revenue sharing in college football is akin to the salary cap in the NFL. Is it any wonder that five different teams in the SEC have won the BCS championship game? Texas is free advice to remain in a league with unequal revenues just as Texas A&M is free to leave. Texas ran Arkansas out of the SWC, ran Nebraska and Colorado out of the Big 12, and will shortly run Texas A&M out as well. The first duty that the leaders of Texas A&M has is to take care of their institution. It’s obvious that the Big12-2 is no longer a stable athletic conference.
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February 29th, 2012 . by admin
By and large, men are still men, and women are still women, even in this day and age. My own testamonial:
I spent a good part of my young adulthood (1995-2005) in Washington, DC. During this time my social life primarily revolved around a large crew team in town. This was, admittedly, a self-selected, hyper-competitive group of well-educated, ambititious young men and women. Most of the women were uber-professionals, doctors, lawyers, lobbyists, etc……
That said, the majority of those whom, having reproduced, were all too happy to suspend their careers dating advice for women a few years to be full-time moms, provided they could get by on their husband’s income. Most didn’t even think twice about it.
All in all, instincts are still a factor, even if the opportunities not to follow them are more available than in the past.
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February 28th, 2012 . by admin
Phil — With all due, respect it is not deciding cases with a 225 year old world view. It is reading the plain language of the Constitution and then understanding what it meant when the founders drafted it. If we no longer agree with the founders’ view, they provided us with a solution: amending the Constitution. But to just ignore what it says and to substitute the current fad du jour does not seem like a good method of interpreting the Constitution. In fact why bother having a written Constitution then? Why not let Congress pass any law it wants, and then have the SCOTUS simply issue an advisory opinion on whether or not the law is in accordance with the modern world view?
Oh and as for Thomas’s intellect, Obama is the smartest president ever because he graduated from Harvard Law, but Thomas having graduated from Yale Law (the number one law school in the country for the past fifteen years or so) is not so bright? And you would want Justices to sit there and ask questions that clearly show that the Justice has a worldview, i.e. is not impartial? As Mr. Best said before, and as any free lawyer advice who writes appellate briefs for a judge would know, what’s important is what a lawyer writes in the legal papers submitted to the Court. Oral arguments really don’t make a differenec unless the lawyer remembers something (s)he omitted in the papers.
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February 27th, 2012 . by admin
Yeah Romesh – you think this is without consequences to property values? It will actually further DEPRESS property values, or don’t you understand where the loan money comes from?
The attorneys aren’t being specific. Or at least the journalist isn’t. Yes, the bank employees signed documents without reading the loan documents. They don’t need to. All the loans are on Fannie/Freddie mandated forms and all read exactly the same way. The bank employee answered in the deposition that no – he or she didn’t read the DOCUMENTS. But the loan is on his desk because the computer tracking systems show the loan is years past due. He or she has personal values knowledge that the bank systems show the past-dues. In an economy as big as ours, that should be sufficient. That is not fraud or even a faulty affidavit. Especially given that there is so much procedural due process in a foreclosure (they sometimes take years), the borrower can easily contest if an error has been made and get their legal fees.
In 99.8% of cases, the borrower is in default, the bank records show it, and the bank officer’s foreclosure report confirmed it. The officer had personal knowledge of the internal foreclosure report. The affidavits are simply poorly written. But they are not fraudulent.
No, I don’t own bank stock or work for a bank or have anything to do with banks so don’t go there.
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February 26th, 2012 . by admin
Whoa! Another Lady Beyonce on a Trojan Horse. Ladies, feel free advice to pick your rider.
Saying the Internet is free is like saying an event is free. We only pay a toll to pass through a gate to get there. We not only pay at the gate to the Internet, we are regulated by the gatekeeper.
Gatekeepers are paying broadband providers now. Gatekeepers are throttling bandwidth now, so they can offer tiered pricing.
There is nothing free here, rather a misconception furthered by those in the last mile provider business, telcos and cable providers. This is all about the cost sharing between gatekeepers and broadband providers; and is a gatekeeper fueled argument.
Regulation is a real issue, and already in play. Regulation is a separate issue, therefore should be treated as such so as not to cloud the picture.
Come to think of it, isn’t everything politics only a parade of Trojan Horses. They keep sending those horses running down the street. At the end of the ride, and the belly opens, we always get some ugly dudes. We turn to the next rider, having learned nothing, start fighting over this rider.
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February 25th, 2012 . by admin
I guess that I was thinking that I had done all I could do to protect our computer information, but I just found out that was not the case at all. I am thinking that I should have worked on our information security services a long time ago. I just wish that this breach would not have happened this week. I really do not have time to deal with this right now. I guess I have to make time now.
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