Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
– Arthur Miller, “The Crucible”
"Amnesty," the mainstreaming of immigrants who have entered the country illegally, would like have several effects: Bigger government, increased federal spending, a growing welfare state and an increase in the country's subset that has less respect for law and free markets. Yet one of amnesty's loudest supporters is the historically conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
– Arthur Miller, “The Crucible”
The
abolitionist Theodore Parker used the phrase, "A democracy — of all the
people, by all the people, for all the people" which later influenced
the wording of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Another quote,
lifted by Martin Luther King, was, "I do not pretend to understand the
moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I
cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of
sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it
bends towards justice."
There
is an interesting theory about the rise of Japan's hierarchical system
being initiated by the success of Confucian concepts in the 5th and 6th
Centuries with the emphasis on preserving the hierarchical order between
the 'superior' and 'inferior' persons. This meant the maintenance of
proper relationships to ensure social harmony where the 'inferior'
persons to behave in accordance with his or her station in the family
and society. This came to be staunchly embedded in Japanese mores. This
social imperative was reinforced by the emergence of the samurai in the
12th Century.
The president convened a summit at the White House on concussions. Apparently the National Potato Council was not involved.
A
lot of surprising international energy decisions. Globally there are
about 66 reactors under construction with 160 planned and 319 proposed.
Japan is expected to bring over 30 reactors back online over the next
three years. There are only about 434 reactors operating today. Germany
was going to shut down its 20-some nuclear-electrical production sources
within 10 years, and are now furiously building new coal plants.
Who was...Cornelius Gurlitt?
Marx’s
Labor Theory of Value disregards the infusion of seed capital necessary
to launch and sustain an enterprise, privileging the role of labor in
the production process.
Scott
Brusaw, the developer of Solar Roadway which wants to replace all the
roads with solar panels, estimated a cost of $10,000 for a
12-foot-by-12-foot segment of Solar Roadway, or around $70 per square
foot; asphalt, on the other hand, is somewhere around $3 to $15,
depending on the quality and strength of the road. According to some
math, the total cost to redo America’s roadways with Solar Roadways
would be $56 trillion — or about four times the country’s national debt.
These people have started a crowdfunding effort to build a prototype.
They have got over 1 million dollars so far.
The
GDP contracted last quarter under an administration that has pledged
itself to improving the economy as its main objective. Its main
objective. How is such a thing possible? How could an administration's
main objective not be reached, especially when it gets to do the
grading? Or is it only more evidence of the difficulties of large
organizations transforming its wishes into reality? Would now would be a
good time to attack cheap energy?
Golden oldie:
The Census Bureau survey, as reported in the LA Times that In
1992, found more was spent on legal fees in California [$16.3 billion]
than on auto repairs, funerals, tanning salons, one-hour photo
finishing, videotape rentals, detectives and armored car guards, bug
exterminators, laundry, haircuts, day care, shoe repairs and septic tank
cleaning combined.
Izikhothane
loosely translates to ‘brag it’. It is a South African subculture of
young people who dress themselves in designer clothes they can barely
afford. They arrive in minivans at public spots and participate in
elaborate dance-offs against rival gangs. During these performances,
they indulge in burning wads of cash, destroying their clothes and
spilling expensive food and alcohol on the streets.
“To
be Izikhothane, you have to be like us. Buy expensive clothes, booze,
fame, girls, driving, spending. And when you are dressed in Italian
clothing it shows that you’re smart,” said one gang member. Almost 50
percent of youths are unemployed in South Africa and most of the
Izikhothane are funded by their working class parents with modest
incomes.
"Amnesty," the mainstreaming of immigrants who have entered the country illegally, would like have several effects: Bigger government, increased federal spending, a growing welfare state and an increase in the country's subset that has less respect for law and free markets. Yet one of amnesty's loudest supporters is the historically conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Why is that?
Gary
Burtless, an economist at Brookings, writes that government transfer
payments made up 17 percent of personal income in 2010 versus less than 1
percent in 1929.
An
improvement on simple non-profit: A Cambodian woman who has been honored
internationally for her work against sexual slavery has resigned from
the New York-based foundation she helped found after reports alleged
that she had distorted aspects of her personal history. Somaly Mam had
received U.S. government funding for some of her early work and wrote a
memoir, "The Road of Lost Innocence," which was a best-seller in France,
with a tale of being abused and sold into prostitution as a child, one
of several claims that have now been questioned.
The
Lincoln Monument was dedicated in 1922 in front of an audience of more
than 50,000 people. Even though Lincoln was known as the Great
Emancipator, the audience was segregated; keynote speaker Robert Moton,
president of the Tuskegee Institute and an African-American, was not
permitted to sit on the speakers’ platform.
Government
spending at the start of the 20th century was less than 7 percent of
GDP. It went to almost 30 percent of GDP by the end of World War I,
and then settled down to 10 percent of GDP in the 1920s. In the 1930s
spending doubled to 20 percent of GDP. Defense spending in World War II
drove overall government spending over 50 percent of GDP before
declining to 22 percent of GDP in the late 1940s. The 1950s began a
steady spending increase to about 36 percent of GDP by 1982. In the
1990s and 2000s government spending stayed about constant at 33-35
percent of GDP, but in the aftermath of the Crash of 2008 spending has
increased to 40 percent of GDP.
AAAAaaaaaannnnnnnndddddd............a graph:
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