Saturday, August 27, 2022

Question 82


Question 82

Is the American effort to improve the world's CO2 levels without China and India crazy, naive, or just ill-informed?
What is memorable in our current times is the tendency to approach very serious problems in an unserious way.

Which debts, and whose, are worthy of shifting to others? Which are not? How is that determined?

On the student debt-shifting bill:
Meanwhile, my rough new estimate is that the cost to taxpayers will be $427 billion. To put that in perspective, it is more than the gross domestic product of Hong Kong and 182 countries. For those who support federal social programs, it is nearly 36‐​times greater than the federal government spent on Head Start in 2022. And if you support defense spending, it is nearly two‐​and‐​a‐​half times larger than the U.S. Army’s 2022 budget.--mckluskey
I've read estimates at twice that.

“Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now,” Biden said.
Responding to the president later in the day on Twitter, Mr. Bezos wrote: “Ouch. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this. It’s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics.”
After credit card fees and other operating costs, net profit for gasoline sales averages 3 cents a gallon — less than one cent per liter — according to the National Association of Convenience Stores. When gas prices soar, and drivers think they're being gouged, stations are barely scraping by or even losing money.

Meghan Markle’s new podcast “Archetypes” has soared to the top of Spotify’s podcast charts, taking the top spot from longtime No. 1 title “The Joe Rogan Experience” in the US.

A good letter to the WSJ on Hutchinson/Peggy Noonan: Regarding Peggy Noonan’s column “The Courage of Cassidy Hutchinson” (Declarations, July 2): Ms. Hutchinson may be a wonderful person, but her appearance before the Jan. 6 committee was neither courageous nor heroic. It takes no courage to walk into a friendly room and tell the people sitting there exactly what they want to hear. Neither is it heroic to speak to a set of specifics for which she had no firsthand knowledge, as Ms. Hutchinson often did.
Little in Ms. Hutchinson’s testimony is admissible anywhere other than the court of public opinion, which is exactly where the Jan. 6 kangaroo court is conducting its trial of Donald Trump.

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