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Jack Gantos has written books for people of all ages, from picture books and middle-grade fiction to novels for young adults and adults. His works include Hole in My Life, a memoir that won the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist, and Joey Pigza Loses Control, a Newbery Honor book. Jack was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Norvelt. When he was seven, his family moved to Barbados. He attended British schools, where there was much emphasis on reading and writing, and teachers made learning a lot of fun. When the family moved to south Florida, he found his new classmates uninterested in their studies, and his teachers spent most of their time disciplining students. Jack retreated to an abandoned bookmobile (three flat tires and empty of books) parked out behind the sandy ball field, and read for most of the day. The seeds for Jack's writing career were planted in sixth grade, when he read his sister's diary and decided he could write better than she could. He begged his mother for a diary and began to collect anecdotes he overheard at school, mostly from standing outside the teachers' lounge and listening to their lunchtime conversations. Later, he incorporated many of these anecdotes into stories. While in college, he and an illustrator friend, Nicole Rubel, began working on picture books. After a series of well-deserved rejections, they published their first book, Rotten Ralph, in 1976. It was a success and the beginning of Jack's career as a professional writer. Jack continued to write children's books and began to teach courses in children's book writing and children's literature. He developed the master's degree program in children's book writing at Emerson College and the Vermont College M.F.A. program for children's book writers. He now devotes his time to writing books and educational speaking. He lives with his family in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Sept 19, 2012 | WMFE - A last minute bid to get a question about mandatory earned sick time for workers in Orange County on the November ballot has failed. In a hearing Tuesday afternoon, Orange County Circuit Judge Frederick Lauten declined to grant an injunction to force county commissioners to put the measure on the ballot. The deadline to get ballots to the printer was Tuesday.
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It was earlier reported that three men who gave a total of $70,000 to a super PAC supporting Tillis' bid for the U.S. Senate landed spots on the board. But one of them, G. A. Sywassink, was initially rejected for the Board of Governors by the Republican caucus because he lives in South Carolina. But then, after the caucus vote but before the final vote on the House's eight nominees for the BOG, Tillis circulated a list of his preferred candidates. Sywassink made the board.
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The artwork of most any 9-year-old might make it to the refrigerator, with two magnets holding it up next to the grocery list. But Tanner McIntosh, a fourth-grader at Daniel Boone Elementary, will be able to drive by and look out of a car window to view his masterpiece.
Tanner was chosen as the winner of this year's Be A Children's Champion poster contest. His poster will be displayed on three billboards, one in Berea and two in Richmond.
Picking a theme for his poster was pretty easy, Tanner said in an interview at the Richmond Register office Wednesday. "I love baseball. I really just like all sports, and I thought other people would like the idea of being an all-star."
Although he said it was hard to determine what the background would be, he finally settled on his favorite color: neon green.
"I just went with it — I knew it had to be bright," Tanner said.
He modeled the man and woman on the poster after his mom and dad, Traci and Scott McIntosh, he said, but he put "an artistic spin on them."
When asked about the person in the middle with the big muscles, he turned his thumbs inward, pointed at himself and replied, "That's this guy, right here."
Tanner is the second winner in a row from teacher Mary Carole Tate's class at Daniel Boone, Traci said.
He also is the 15th winner of the annual contest, which has gained popularity in the county's schools over the years, said Phillis Adams, chair of the Be A Children's Champion group.
Adams was Kentucky River Foothills Head Start director until she retired after 35 years of service. Along with Family Resource and Youth Services Center directors from local schools, she helped begin the group in 1997.
The following year, the group began displaying the posters on billboards through the generosity of local sponsors and contributers such as the Kiwanis Club, Adams said.
"The whole idea is to make everyone in the community more aware of doing the right thing for kids," she said. "We want adults to be more thoughtful about children's issues and become advocates for them."
The main responsibility of the group is to "get the message out," Adams said. "And to be on the forefront of making things better for our kids."
Along with countywide student participation, the billboard poster contest is a great way to reach out to the community, she added.
Although Tanner learned everything he knew about drawing from his sister, he said, he's probably not going to spend any of his $100 prize money on her.
"She's a good drawer. She inspired me," Tanner said of his sister, Morgan McIntosh, an eighth-grader at B. Michael Caudill Middle School.
After donating $10 of the money to his church, Tanner wants to buy the architecture-series Legos to build the Empire State Building.
Tanner aspires to be an engineer when he grows up, he said, and has already constructed a Lego replica of the White House.
However, he added, "The worse thing about Legos, if you step on them in the dark, it hurts like crazy."
March is Children's Champion Month and is full of family-oriented activities (more events will be announced as they are confirmed):
• March 4: Car seat checks by Safe Kids Madison County and the health department, 2:30-4:30 p.m. at Berea Head Start (behind the Russel Acton Folk Center). For details, call 626-4251.
• March 8: Kidz Night Out, activities and refreshments for ages 6-12, 6 -10 p.m., Russel Acton Folk Center. Admission is $3 per child, who must be signed up by noon. For details, call Berea Parks & Recreation at 986-9402.
• March 12: Couponing for Parents, 9-10:30 a.m. and 6-7:30 p.m., Madison County Cooperative Extension Center. Register by calling 623-4072.
• School Staff Appreciation, Chick-fil-A at the Richmond Centre. Show a school ID to get a free cookie with a meal purchase.
• March 16: Indoor Petting Zoo, 10:30-12:30 p.m. at the Madison County Public Library Richmond location and 2-4 p.m. at the Berea location. Door prizes will be awarded.
• March 17: Family Special Bowling Day, noon to 4 p.m., Galaxy Bowling Center. The price is $10 per lane per hour.


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I cover domestic and world economics from a free-market perspective
The liberal drumbeat against spending reductions is increasing in volume, frequency, and lack of common sense. Arithmetic makes the odd liberal claim that we can spend our way out of deficits a hard sell. Not only will it not work, but its failure will be costly. Unsustainable deficits impose burdens not only on future generations. They also divert limited savings away from private investment to the blank checks of politicians and Washington central planners.
Everyone knows the deficit is the gap between government revenues and government spending. In order for extra spending to reduce the deficit, it must somehow raise revenues. If liberals ridiculed Reagan's belief that tax cuts could generate growth and reduce deficits as "voodoo economics," their plan for increased government spending to reduce deficits is "witch doctor" economics. Whereas, the media heaped scorn on Reaganomics, it ignores the near comedic features of liberal witch-doctor economics.
Witch-doctor economics, however, provides convenient political cover. The Obama administration must dream up an explanation for why it is proceeding on a fiscal course that even his Government Acountability Office (Overview: Federal Debt and the Fiscal Outlook) concludes is unsustainable. Economists, even very prominent ones, enjoy spinning schemes that have theoretical appeal, no matter how impractical. Solving the deficit by spending more is one such example.
The spend-more-to-reduce-the-deficit argument works like this: Increased government spending on the right things – like health care, infrastructure, education, and the social safety net – raise economic growth as government spending trickles down to improve incentives and increase efficiency throughout the economy. And more economic growth means more tax revenues. With higher growth and more tax revenues there from, we can spend our way out of deficits, at least as a percent of GDP. (Remember: We are not talking about Keynesian multipliers, but about factors that raise the overall productive capacity of the economy. These are two quite different things).
Witch-doctor economics is a highly perverted form of the vilified "supply-side" economics. Only instead of tax savings bolstering private-sector initiatives, it is government planners who are unleashed to spend more as they did for Evergreen Solar, Solyndra, SunPower, and Fisker Automotive, to name just a few.
Harvard professor, former treasury secretary, and liberal icon, Larry Summers (America's deficits: The problem is more than fiscal) explains it like this:
"No one who travels abroad from the United States can doubt that this country has an enormous infrastructure deficit. Surely even leaving aside any possible stimulus benefits, current economic conditions make this the ideal time for renewing the nation's infrastructure. Such investments, borrowed at near-zero interest rates, need not increase debt ratios if their contribution to economic growth raises tax collections."
The economic-growth-through-infrastructure-investment argument is an old liberal saw. In Summers' version (also stubbornly advocated by leftist columnist Paul Krugman), deficit-financed infrastructure will raise GDP growth above deficit growth to push down the debt to GDP ratio. (On a side note, Summers perpetuates the myth of a U.S. infrastructure deficit. Of large countries, we rank second only to Canada, and we beat the European Union average. See: The U.S. infrastructure argument that crumbles upon examination).
President Obama's second inaugural address furthers the narrative of "good" government spending raising growth and creating jobs:
"No single person can train all the math and science teachers we'll need to equip our children for the future, or build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores," e.g., we must spend more to produce more.
Per Obama, we also need government investment to create the technologies of the future, such as renewable energy, that short-sighted private enterprise neglects:
"The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries – we must claim its promise."
The clear warning to the opposition: Anyone, who dares to cut such vital spending, is risking America's future.
Not content with the government-spending-as-investment argument alone, Obama extends witch-doctor economics to claim that the major source of deficits – entitlement programs – also raise economic growth and are hence as untouchable as government investment:
"The commitments we make to each other – through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security – these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great."
Let me get this straight: Once entitlement recipients know they are guaranteed food, shelter, transportation, and other necessities, they suddenly become entrepreneurs, business owners and risk takers. Knowing they have a safety net to fall back on, they will crank up their "Obama phones" to start businesses, wheel and deal, and move up the ladder of success.
Europe's cradle-to-grave entitlement state has reduced work incentives and entrepreneurial risk taking everywhere it has been tried, but, in the good old USofA, it will have the opposite effect, Obama would like us to believe.
To summarize witch-doctor economics: If we cut government spending, either in the form of "investments" or entitlements, we reduce economic growth. Hence we must raise government spending in order to reduce the deficit. Is there anything left to cut? Well, defense is neither an investment nor an incentivizer. It can go. We also can have tax increases – limited to the rich, of course, until we cannot soak them any more. Only crazy Reagan supply-siders believe the rubbish that higher tax rates cost us economic growth.
Witch-doctor economics rests on the doctrinal belief that deficits are good because they transfer resources from the "bad" private sector to the "good" public sector. It also exists in a netherworld of first order effects in which we can increase government spending without having to worry about spillovers and second order effects on the private sector.
In Economics 101, students learn that net investment equals net saving as an identity (that is, as a matter of definition). An economy can only invest as much as it has access to saving. Economics 101 students also learn that the three sources of net saving are: private saving, saving from abroad, and government dissaving.
The latest figures show a net private saving of $1,193 billion, savings from abroad of $493 billion, and government dissaving of minus $1,255 billion, leaving only $430 billion of net saving for net investment. Of this, $344 billion went for private investment the rest for government investment (in structures, buildings and inventory). From a private saving pool of over $1.5 trillion, only $344 billion was left over for private investment after the government deficit.
In effect, the government deficit cost the economy one trillion dollars in private investment that could but did not take place! Economists have long called this public "crowding out" of private investment. In return for crowding out, the government paid about forty cents on each dollar of entitlements, general government, public education, GM and Chrysler bailouts, Solyndras, agricultural subsidies, and so on down the list.
Witch-doctor economists, like Obama and Summers, believe that the loss of private investment is no big deal. Government can direct this money to better things. Their central planners can allocate its diverted savings to produce more growth, prosperity and happiness than the private sector's new drilling rigs, office buildings, assembly lines, Silicon Valley startups, new apartment complexes, private research labs, and new plants and equipment ever could.
Try selling that argument to anyone with common sense.
Paul's reading recommendation: Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames, Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn't
Singapore is packed with money sent and American visits seeking safety of deposits from Agency scrutiny. Residency there is booming. There is a reported 150 Americans each month bailing with their money going to other areas. Relinquishing citizenship has increased even with the ten percent tax on all assets (By the way we seem to be the only country with that double taxation provision in the world). People are speaking with accounts through companies like Straits Financial where you can have money held in other currencies to offset Dollar risk.
The real question is How many times can the Federal Reserve using the lie, because of insane CPI valuation, "There is very little Inflation"! In reality that house wife who pays the bills knows that in the Fall of 2008 Hamburger was $1.29, Now it's $3.20; Gasoline was $1.80, now it's $3.50; A trip to the corner Med. Center was $50. now it's $125. These are three of four primary costs of life each month. There has been a 100%+ increase in four years. That's 25% average per year!!
Don't tell me issuance of all these trillions of dollar currency hasn't affected lives. Maybe your maid could fill you in Mr. Bernanke!
Great column.
Do you ever feel like Canute talking to the waves?
The last election severely hurt my belief in the collective wisdom of voters.
Sadly lots of intelligent people buy Obama's "witch doctor" economics. When I took Econ. 101 a couple years ago our teacher said this while explaining his attendance policy: "I'm not one of those teachers who thinks his class is the most important thing you'll ever do so if you don't show up for class I won't penalize you – after all, your paying to be here."
He was a great guy, but it is sad that he so undersold his class. Most people don't know anything about economics or they take for granted that what ever they read in the "New York Times" or see on MSNBC about economics is true.
Deficits, like many other things, don't matter until they do.
Having performed this economic rain dance before and gotten rain, the shamans assure us of the same outcomes today. After all, a cargo cult forms because cargo did fall from the sky once. They didn't just make that up- cargo really did fall from the sky in New Guinea in the 1930′s.
We have had a huge deficit before: after WWII and after Carter. And it turned out fine. Of course we were 50%+ of the world economy in the first instance that was poised for rocket like growth and globalization, and we can debate the second instance's drivers. What you can't debate is that we are now in one of the Grand Economic Experiments of the last 100 years.
We all await the outcome with some excitement. I for one will pick up cargo if I see a helicopter drop it (time to sell some real estate), but will not sit on my haunches awaiting it either.
And in response to L. Summers – having just spent 5 years abroad I can assure you that anyone seeing the US for the first time would be struck most by the amazing amount of infrastructure. 14 lane freeways and airports and towering bridges and wireless in the smallest of towns. Its the first thing that hits you (similar to the bad air when you walk out of the Beijing airport). Most countries are struggling (even the oil rich) to put up a railroad or subway, or 4 lane highway for 50 miles. I know if I go to a US town in the middle of nowhere there will be a gas station and a Walmart and breathable air and clean water- and I dont need a 4 wheel drive to get there, and if the car breaks there is a dealer.
There is nowhere on earth with this infrastructure and no one who lives here sees it, they just complain about some pot holes. And it's the difference between spending all day getting somewhere to make some small transaction (however colourful) and being able to do 100 transactions a day.
>> From a private saving pool of over $1.5 trillion, only $344 billion was left over for private investment after the government deficit.
As of the latest quarter and on an annualized basis, the Feds spent (deposited money into private/foreign bank accounts) $3.88 trillion. In that same quarter, they taxed (removed money from private/foreign bank accounts) $2.69 trillion.
The difference between these two numbers is what we refer to as the US deficit.
Now, lets assume the Feds cut spending to $2.69 trillion and taxes stayed the same. This would push the US deficit to zero. Great news!
Okay, but what about the non-government sectors? Well, their taxation would stay the same, at $2.69 trillion. However, the amount of money deposited into their bank accounts (by the US Government) would fall by $1.19 trillion.
So, when the Feds run a deficit, it actually adds more "investable" money to the economy, it doesn't deplete it.
John, I'm not sure your MMT framework is completely right. The bonds used to fund the $1.19 trillion deficit also remove $1.19 trillion from non-government deposits. So I don't believe new money is created by deficits as you seem to be implying. But the deficits do reallocate deposits away from ultra risk averse government bond investors, which likely increases the velocity of money.
You're right and as far as money goes, US deficits add savings to the private sector, who then can take that money and spend it as they wish, in the free market.
>> The bonds used to fund the $1.19 trillion deficit also remove $1.19 trillion from non-government deposits.
Except, of course, that the US Government is not in the habit of hoarding cash. It will take this money and put it back into the US banking system.
The net effect, is that, after selling US treasuries, the non government sectors will have the cash they used to buy US debt + US debt. The deficit, which was funded by treasury sales, is the net addition of capital to the non government sectors. It may not be money printing, but it is "savings" printing and it has the effect of making US balance sheets stronger.


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