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Hey vbironchef I'm busy this week doing my part to drain the federal Treasury while collecting data. But I'll run out of assignments in a few days and be able to give more time/thought to a response. As you can imagine, I'll be no help at all, except perhaps to gather and present some info that may ...

http://www.voxeu.org/sites/default/files/image/FromApr2012/frankel%20fig1%201%20oct.png Average of votes in 2000, 2004 and 2008 presidential elections California, New York, Illinois, Washington, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Rhode Island (biggest little state in the U...

Fwiw, I think we're on the same page, Ken. I think I can anticipate the response some here will have, that nothing is free, or at least that you get what you pay for, and so "free" health care won't be worth much. But I figure your meaning is that the US should have national health insuran...

But what, in this case, is "everything?" Is it simply that some investors expected a rally in response to a Rombot victory, and now that the president has been reelected, that sentiment has been eliminated? And who knows how the political process will work out in relation to the impending ...

Looks like a rather brilliant tactical victory for the Obama team. Like him or not, David Plouffe is a genius when it comes to using new technology to target and persuade voters. To someone pretty far out on the left like myself, Obama's policies look like major compromises, designed to provide supp...

And don't forget it takes twelve to eighteen months or more just to run for a seat in the Congress … which you may well not get. Wanna fix the budget deficit? Quit electing teabagging extremists. Their goal is to destroy the federal government by any means, including bankrupting it or causing it to ...

I'd argue that someone who invests five or more years of his/her professional life in public service probably deserves a pension. After all, wouldn't their retirement earnings have been supplemented significantly during that period if they had remained in the private sector? And since the $40K figur...

NO MORE lifetime pensions for just a term or two of service. [/b] The Congressional retirement system is very similar to that of federal civilians. It’s true that a member of Congress can become eligible for retirement benefits after a minimum of 5 years of service if they’re age 62 or older, but o...

Well now Fox has something they can use to provide a break from their coverage of Benghazigate. Fwiw, I think the video is kinda dumb, but the "shock" and "disgust" directed at it seem quite exaggerated. Here's a comment I found: Many of these children have a higher than average ...

The cost of running the Congress is widely estimated at about five billion dollars annually, which is approximately thirteen one-hundredths of one percent of the total federal budget ($3.8 trillion). There's not much savings available there. No more automatic raises for politicians, have a 2-tier sy...

Hey again I thought you guys might enjoy this comment on a blog post addressing Romney's $25K "deduction bucket," published in Wednesday's NY Times: When I first went to work for IBM in 1966 as a computer sales trainee, the company had just designed and announced for sale a new line of mai...

Two performances stick out in my mind: I had been a big fan of Doug Williams when he played at Grambling State (35-5 record after his freshman year, AP first-team All-American and fourth in the Heisman voting his senior year) and for Tampa Bay (seventeenth pick in the draft, league All-Rookie team, ...

As a fervent Obama supporter, I'm sad to say that I think Rombot was the clear winner. Of course, I also "know" that he was lying up a storm — like a Category 4 hurricane. Otoh, Obama's "slight misrepresentations" were comparable to only a tropical storm. :-k This of course follo...

>>Thank you for your reply. You're more than welcome. I used to be able to earn money as a researcher, but with the miracle of Google, nobody needs to purchase my services in that area. Well, they think they don't need to. And I don't seem to be persuasive enough to convince them otherwise. :( As is...

Your view may well be warranted. Here's some material I came across in a quick search: While the 9-1-1 systems in the United States talk-the-talk of too many “non-emergency” calls, they do virtually nothing to really provide any alternative, much less a safe and reliable alternate care path, for the...

>>I still think illegal immigration is a major, if not THE major cause for a lot of fiscal problems. Look at California. How many millions of illegal people are living there, not paying taxes, stealing money through welfare programs and the EIC from the IRS? I think this issue is more complicated th...

>>The guns I am talking about are hunting guns. I want to start a collection. I didn't really think you see firearms as a valid means of settling political disagreements. Let's hope things don't get to that point. >>The only thing I see going up next year is crime. I sure hope not. As I expect you k...

> IMHO, all the numbers are fake and the real numbers won't come out til after the election I'd say none of the numbers coming out of BLS are "fake." That said, there are a few caveats I would point to: You definitely need to look at a broad variety of statistics to get an idea of what's g...

I expect we can all agree that economic growth is the only real answer to our budget deficit problem. We can raise maybe one hundred billion annually in additional revenue and cut perhaps three hundred billion a year from spending without creating another recession. But that erases only about a thir...