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Vontaze DeLeon Burfict, Jr. (pronounced VONN-tez BER-fict;[1][needs IPA] born September 24, 1990) plays linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals. He attended Arizona State University. Burfict was considered the most highly ranked football prospect Arizona State ever signed to a letter of intent,[2][3] but had an up-and-down career for the Sun Devils. An All-American in 2010, Burfict was projected an early first round pick for the 2012 NFL Draft on the eve of his junior season.[4][5][6] However, a mediocre on-field performance and poor pre-draft workouts deteriorated his draft stock. Burfict eventually went undrafted in the 2012 NFL Draft, but was later signed by the Bengals.[7] He went on to have a productive rookie season, starting 14 games and leading the team in tackles.[8]
Burfict attended Centennial High School in Corona, California, where he was part of an undefeated Huskies team that won a CIF title, a state championship with the help of quarterback Taylor Martinez, and was ranked No. 2 in the nation by USA Today in 2008.[9] That year, Burfict led the Huskies with 159 tackles, two quarterback sacks, two interceptions and two fumble recoveries. Burfict participated in the US Army All-American Bowl and was the third-leading tackler for the West team. He also earned numerous All-American honors, including Parade.[10]
As a junior, Burfict collected a team-high 130 tackles and added four sacks, two interceptions and one fumble recovery. He helped anchor a linebackers unit that included fellow Sun Devils Shelly Lyons and Brandon Magee. Corona Centennial finished the 2007 season as No. 24 on USA Today's Top 25.[11]
Burfict missed almost all of his sophomore season due to academic problems.[12]
He played in the 2009 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Considered a five-star recruit by Rivals.com and Scout.com, Burfict was listed as the No. 1 inside linebacker prospect in the nation.[13][14]
Name | Hometown | High school / college | Height | Weight | 40‡ | Commit date |
Vontaze Burfict LB | Corona, California | Centennial High School (CA) | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | 245 lb (111 kg) | 4.6 | Feb 4, 2009 |
Scout: Rivals: 247Sports: N/A ESPN grade: 85 | ||||||
Overall recruiting rankings: Scout: 1 (MLB) Rivals: 1 (ILB), 2 (CA) ESPN: 1 (LB) | ||||||
Burfict originally committed to play for the USC Trojans, but eventually switched to Arizona State on National Signing Day.[15] He joined ASU's 2009 class that included three of his high school teammates.[16] By July 2009, he struggled to meet admission standard based on the NCAA eligibility sliding scale and still had one summer school class to complete.[17] Sun Devils coach Dennis Erickson, who compared Burfict to Ray Lewis,[3] expected him to be academically eligible for enrollment.[18] Burfict did qualify on time for the 2010 football season.
By midseason, Burfict ranked second in the team with 30 tackles despite starting only three of six games, and had five tackles for a loss, two sacks and three pass break-ups. ESPN named him Arizona State's midseason defensive MVP.[19] In a road game against Georgia on September 26, Burfict collected a season-high 11 tackles (three solo) and one and half tackles for loss. He led the Sun Devils in tackles in five games over the course of the season. By the end of the year, he had collected 69 tackles, seven tackles for loss, and a pair of sacks, and was named a Freshman All-American by College Football News,[20] and by the Football Writers Association of America.[21] He was also honored as the Pacific-10 Conference Defensive Freshman of the Year.
At the start of his sophomore season, Burfict was named First-Team Preseason All-American by The Sporting News. He was also named to the watch lists of the 2010 Rotary Lombardi Award and the Bronko Nagurski Trophy.[22]
On October 6, 2010, Burfict was benched by Arizona State head coach Dennis Erickson. The reason given was Burfict's unusually high number of personal foul penalties.[23] In a game against Stanford, Burfict was called for grabbing the facemask of Doug Baldwin, and—after complaining to the referee—charged with a personal foul for unsportsmanlike conduct that gave Stanford a first down at the ASU 7.[24] Two plays later, Stanford scored what turned out to be the winning touchdown.[25]
Burfict finished the 2010 season with a team leading 90 tackles, 8.5 for a loss, and two forced fumbles. The Sporting News selected him to their All-American team, as well as Pacific-10 Defensive MVP.[26] Burfict is ASU's first 1st team All-American since Terrell Suggs.
With senior cornerback Omar Bolden lost for the season to a knee injury, Burfict was expected to take over as the leader of the Sun Devils defense in 2011,[27][28] but eventually had a rather inconsistent junior season. Burfict decided to forgo his senior year at Arizona State and entered the 2012 NFL Draft.[29]
When he entered his junior season, Burfict was regarded as one of the best linebackers available in the 2012 NFL Draft, projected to go as high as the No. 5 pick.[4][5][6] Problems on and off the field at Arizona State, however, caused his draft stock to plummet. In October 2011, Sports Illustrated′s Tony Pauline still ranked him as the No. 20 prospect on his midseason draft board, but noted that he has been "a loose cannon on and off the field, which has raised red flags."[30]
Burfict entered the NFL Combine rated as the No. 3 inside linebacker, behind Luke Kuechly and Dont'a Hightower, but his "disappointing" performance—including a 5.09 sec in the 40-yard dash, slowest among linebackers—caused some analysts to project him as a third day (Rd. 4-7) draft pick.[31][32] NFL scouts also faulted him for his interview process, in which he blamed the ASU coaching staff for his mediocre junior season.[33] Later it was also reported that Burfict tested positive for marijuana at the combine.[34]
Ht | Wt | Arm length | Hand size | 40-yd dash | 10-yd split | 20-yd split | 20-ss | 3-cone | Vert | Broad | BP | ||||||||
6 ft 1¼ in | 248 lb | 31¼ in | 9¾ in | 5.09 s | 30 in | 9 ft 8 in | 16 reps | ||||||||||||
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At the ASU pro day on March 16, Burfict had an "average" performance by his own estimation.[35] According to SI's Tony Pauline, Burfict "looked poorly conditioned and out-of-place in drills".[36][37] In their draft coverage, SI.com projected him as 7th round to undrafted.[38] Burfict eventually went undrafted, but was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent.[7]
An undrafted rookie, Burfict managed to make the Cincinnati Bengals' roster. He played in all 16 games and started 14 of those, finishing the seasons as the Bengals' top tackler with 127 combined tackles, including 18 tackles in their final game of the year against the Baltimore Ravens. When Burfict was on field, the Bengals defense allowed 2.4 yards fewer per play, allowing 4.5 compared to 6.9 when he was off the field.[8]
For incidents that occurred in the 34–30 win over the Green Bay Packers in week 3 of the 2013 season, Burfict was fined a total of $31,000.[39] He had hit a defenseless receiver (James Jones) and struck an opponent in the groin (Ryan Taylor).[40]
Burfict finished the 2013 season leading the NFL in tackles with 171, and was the only Bengals defensive player who was selected to the Pro Bowl. He was the first Bengals linebacker to make the Pro Bowl since Jim LeClair in 1976.
On August 20, 2014, Burfict signed a four-year contract extension with Cincinnati.[41]
Year | Team | GP | GS | Tackles | Interceptions | Fumbles | ||||||||||
Comb | Total | Ast | Sck | SFTY | PDef | Int | Yds | Avg | Lng | TDs | FF | |||||
2012 | Bengals | 16 | 14 | 127 | 73 | 54 | 1.0 | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
2013 | Bengals | 16 | 16 | 171 | 114 | 57 | 3.0 | -- | 6 | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | -- | 1 | |
Total | 32 | 30 | 298 | 187 | 111 | 4.0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 | 1 |
Burfict was born in South Los Angeles. His father, a gang member and convicted cocaine dealer, was incarcerated most of the time and never had a relationship with his son.[42] His mother, a city transit bus driver, initially raised Burfict and his older half-brother DaShan Miller (b. 1986) on her own, but eventually re-married and moved to Corona.[42][43] Like Burfict, DaShan Miller was a football player at Corona Centennial High School, and later played college football at UTEP and Akron.[43] Miller was eligible for the 2010 NFL Draft but was not selected by any team.
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Originally posted by Seanalex also isn't kickstarter fairly new? i only heard about it last year.. since then I have seen a ton of new projects emerge on there but none have had long enough to actually finish development after getting funded I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg |
It's funny because Kickstarters are not obligated to bring you a finished product in a reasonable time frame. They can finish it ten years from now, or never, as long as they keep promising you that "they're working hard on the game" every year or so (like The Last Guardian and Versus 13 in the console realm for example). This is why I hate Kickstarter, and people that actually make a finished product are the exception, not the norm. |
Funny what happens when the market doesn't provide for a product that the market wants. All these people who can't wrap their heads around why someone would fund something ahead of time like this should take a cold hard look at the state of MMOs. Your answer lies within.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." - Friedrich Nietzsche |
sorry dont trust kickstarters hell i keep thinking of starting one that say give me money i wont give you anything in return just to see how much i get. bet i would get at least a few hundred |
Originally posted by Deeter that's why its called an investment, a donation, a gamble. Pretty sure people who donate to kickstarter as I have are well aware of the risks. You are funding an idea and hoping that idea will come to light. Kickstarter launched in 2009 and just in the past year has gained more widespread popularity so no one can say kickstarter won't kickstart quality MMOs in the future I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg |
this game will be epic, welcome back into the fray chris
All I can tell you is that I sat down with Chris at GDC Austin a few months ago and got to ask him a pile of questions as well as see him demo his game and feel his passion and vision for Star Citizen. This guy is more or less a childhood hero of mine being that he created games that truely changed PC gaming and my own life forever. The demo he had put together so far was pretty darn impressive - and I think given the resources this gaming champion is going to blow us all away again. While it make take a massive corporation $100M to make an MMORPG I don't think that is necessarily true with smaller organizations that can sidestep all the waste that corporations tend to make. I feel that Chris & team can pull this off with a fraction of the typical budget. For what it is worth I threw it some cash on KS ;-) - MMORPG.COM Staff - |
I willing to bet that Chris Roberts will get some major funding from outside the Kickstarter realm. It's one thing to go to investors with a great design and a working demo. If they don't believe there's a market for your product (or game), they won't give you a penny. But if total strangers are so enthusiastic about your game that they give you $8M (so far !), then it begins to look like there might be a market after all. At this rate, Chris will be inundated with offers of venture capital.... |
Yeah, that is how you turn small company into large corporation - you start wasting money. More you waste, bigger you become.
I'm really sick of the anti-kickstarter crowd. Look, it's a very simply situation. If you like a game well enough, and believe in the designers' vision, support it. If you don't, walk away. How some choose to spend their own money is none of your concern. Stop trying to be the wise sage and herd them away from their own decisions to support something. Personally, I'm really tired of being **** on by gigantic corporations who are only interested in producing treadmills disguised as games in order to generate as much profit as possible. Excuse me for parting with a few of my dollars to support someone who believes in making money by creating 'real' games which are fun to play, and not human rat mazes. |
You are missing the point. The problem with Kickstarter isn't the backers but those who are trying to raise their funds. Crowdfunding currently, despite in a way looking like legal investment method, has several legal issues - accounting, disclosing responsibility, etc. It does not process legally same way as other investment methods. It is a loophole in legal system at the moment and in fact it allows you legally scam people - you can accept payment for future service or goods but never deliver. |
I don't know why but "star Citizen" just sounds like a not ver ygood game.....Maybe if they would have given it a better name but not star citizen......
Originally posted by Gdemami And you missed the point. The entire point of these kickstarters is to give someone THE CHANCE to do something. All the anti-kickstarter people are going to accomplish if they should happen to convince the entire Internet to stop funding is to shove everyone back to the giant publishers who don't give a shit about you or anything that isn't going to bring in the biggest profit. Do you look forward to Call of Medals 723:Bad Black Special Company of Operations X2 that badly? Many of the people who started these kickstarters have something much more binding than a contract, they have their reputations. Some of them have been building that rep for 20 years. You think they're gonna throw it away for a kickstarter scam? You've obviously been abused by the giant publishers for so long that your cynicism has robbed you of all joy in life. You have a severe case of Battered Gamer Syndrome which will get worse if it goes untreated. I would suggest you seek medical attention immediately. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams |
Read my post again. Everyone has equal chance to raise funds via established funding methods. However, if someone is seeking to raise their funds through unorthodox, controversial methods such as crowdfunding, there is either something wrong with their business or they treat you like stupid. |
Originally posted by Gdemami Read my post again. What exactly are the established funding methods excluding someone investing money in your company? Also, in case you haven't been on the internet in the last few years, kickstarter is neither unorthodox or controversial. What better measure of public approval and interest in your idea could be found than asking for donations for it? Kickstarter is a Great thing. The more success stories that come from Kickstarter, the better for the industry as a whole. Publishers will have to learn to either makes entertaining games that are actually worth the money they sell them for, or lose business to some guy in his basement. I've funded 4 projects so far that would have never made it through the Publisher gauntlet. Not because the games wouldn't be spectacular, but because the publishers have no data points with which to gauge their prospective profits. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams |
You cannot hold someone accountable for crowdfunding money. |
Originally posted by Gdemami You just replied to a quoted statement from my post with a completely unrelated statement. Congratulations, you now get to discuss this subject with yourself. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams |
It is very much relevant, I just got straight to the point, then you either understand why being accountable for money invested is important or not... |
Originally posted by Gdemami We need MANY more such "loop holes". Contrary to the belief of many, in all too many situations, government (and its regulations/laws) are a PROBLEM, not a solution. Yes, yes I know its all to "protect" us poor ignorant/stupid people, from ourslves, and the E-vile Capitalist Pig Dogs that are lurking everywhere in the shadows, waiting to pounce and run off with our life savings...<Cue voice over "Save me! Save me!">... ^^ I've been over all VERY pleased with my backing of various Kickstarter projects. I'm the one responsible for doing my own research, and making the *choice* to back any given project, and how much I will back it for. I certainly don't want or need any pompus government stuffed shirt, taking it upon themselves to make my choices for me. |
All these haters...well I believe that SC will be a success! If not I lost some $, who cares? Kickstarter is a good way to bring back a genre that is not mainstream. But seems that ppl dont like to try out new ways and still believe the world is flat. |


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a) 0<=x<L ===>> (2*t_0*L)/(pi*G_0*R4)
b)L<=x<=3L =>>(2*t_0*(2*L-))/pi*G_0*R^4)
c) x=2*L
d*phi/dx = (t_0*L)/(pi*G_0*R^4)
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phi_max = 9/8*t_0*L^2/(pi*G_0*R^4)
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Review: Smartr Contacts for iPhone expands your address book functionality
Connect your address book with Facebook, LinkedIn, and more, for added information and access on your iPhone.
Smartr Contacts for iPhone brings together just about every component you could want in a contact library, streamlining the process of checking, interacting with, or reviewing your network. Because it integrates deeply with all of your communication platforms -- including iCloud, Gmail, Outlook, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more -- the app is a perfect multi-platform view of your contacts.
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(Read article summary)A grilled cheese that is not fancy in the least but it is most definitely delicious.
Grilled Shane
Yes, it has been awhile. Yes, life has gotten in the way. Yes, I am well on my way to a management role at my newly remodeled restaurant job. Yes, I now have a career and not a job. Go me! However, you are probably not here to listen to me ramble, you want to hear about the new sandwich, yes?
This particular grilled cheese is not fancy in the least but it is most definitely delicious.
ingredients for cranberry cheese grilled cheese…
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"A mouth-watering combination. Succulent and juicy deep red cranberry pieces sit within the soft, mild flavour of Wensleydale cheese. This is one of our most popular fruit cheeses and with very good reason! It looks great and of course it tastes even better." (Ilchester)
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Historic Shelton House hosts Ghosts and Goblets event
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Pale glimmers of subdued lighting casting shadowy silhouettes against a backdrop of muffled voices will transform the historic Shelton House from a gallery where artifacts, crafts and valuable artistic pieces are displayed in an eerie setting where ghostly tales are relayed.
The Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts at Shelton House will host the second Ghosts and Goblets event from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 23, with the storytelling program lasting approximately one hour.
Those wishing to attend, including children age 10 and up, should come to the Shelton House Barn where small groups will be assembled throughout the evening. Goblets of wine and juice as well as light refreshments will be available in the barn before or after the visit with storytellers. Refreshments will be served until 10 p.m.
Storytellers will be situated in various rooms in the historic Shelton House and will mesmerize the audience with tales of ghostly encounters, strange occurrences and spectral visits — blurring the line between real, surreal and supernatural. No goblins or monsters will startle from behind a creaky door, but the tales relayed will impress the audience with their potential for hazy connections between imagination and actuality.
The Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts is celebrating its 30th anniversary affiliation with historic Shelton House, built in 1875. Ghosts and Goblets is one in a series of events and fundraisers held in 2010 to support the upkeep of the house and the museum collection. Tickets are $10 at the door.
Shelton House is open May through October, Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Curator Jackie Stephens is available to give tours and introduce visitors to the history of the house, its original owners, and the extensive craft collection.


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This product removes make up very well. It has a cucumber scent which doesn't irritate my skin. The towelettes are thick and doesn't dry out easily. The packaging is good and I like how it has aloe Vera in it. I but it from priceline for $10 for a pack of 30. It is quite pricey but works well. I would totally invest in this product and would recommend anyone who is wanting to try new face wipes to purchase this
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My only complaint is the smell. I have the smell of cucumbers lol
Unlike a lot of the others reviews I've read of this product, they do not burn my skin at all. I find them to be cooling and comforting to my face, and they remove my makeup and make my skin feel fresh. I use these every night to remove my makeup, and I've never had a problem. I always buy more when I run out.
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Freescale Reveals i.MX 6 Processor Series
Freescale brings the i.MX 6 processors series to tablets, smartphones, eReaders, automotive infotainment and more.
Using ARM Cortex-A9 cores, the i.MX 6 series of quad-, dual- and single-core applications processors can run up to 1.2 GHz each and deliver up to five times the performance of Freescale's current generation of applications processors.
Applications for mobile devices featuring 3D video playback and desktop-quality gaming are included in the list of possible uses for i.MX 6 series.
More information on the i.MX 6 series can be found on the Freescale website.
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HP's annual Cyber Risk report offers a bleak look at the state of IT.
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Microsoft Frees CoreCLR
.NET Core execution engine is the basis for cross-platform .NET implementations.
New Trojan Attacks Linux Servers
The Xnote trojan hides itself on the target system and will launch a variety of attacks on command.
Cisco Releases Annual Security Report
Spammers go low-volume, and 90% of IE browsers are unpatched.
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Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
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Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
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The most resounding speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference came not from a presidential candidate, or an elected official — but from Sarah Palin.
The screams and cheers that filled the spacious ballroom in which Palin spoke Saturday felt at times like they belonged at a Justin Bieber concert. A dozen times the conservatives at the conference leaped to their feet to applaud Palin, as she threw them line after line about beating President Obama and reclaiming "traditional values."
"The president says small Americans, small-town Americans — we bitterly cling to our religion and our guns," Palin said, referring to a comment Obama made in the last election, as the audience rose and cheered. "You say, I say, we say — keep your change. We'll keep our God. We'll keep our guns."
For the first time at the three-day conference known as CPAC in Washington, protesters disrupted a speech. But the response from Palin's loyal supporters was fierce. As protesters chanted at her from the back of the room at the Marriott, a man in the back row leaped over his chair, ran toward them and screamed, "Get the hell out of here, you asshole!"
The protesters were kicked out as others in the room began chanting "USA! USA!" followed quickly by "Sarah! Sarah!"
"See, you just won," Palin ad-libbed to more cheers.
The GOP's 2008 vice presidential nominee didn't endorse a candidate for president, and she said that the drawn-out primary process can benefit the party — as long as Republicans don't turn on each other.
"In America, we believe that competition strengthens us," she said. "Competition relates to victory in 2012. We must stay true to our principles. I believe that the competition has got to keep going. But let's make sure that the competition brings out the best in our party.
"We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records," she added. "Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?"
Palin, wearing a bright-red blouse, black skirt and heels, spent her time on the stage bashing both Obama and Washington. But for all the contempt she had for Obama, she borrowed liberally from his most famous statements.
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Novo Nordisk released results of a Phase III trial investigating NovoSeven® (recombinant activated factor VII) for the treatment of people suffering from bleeding in the brain, also known as intracerebral hemorrhage, or ICH.
The trial showed that treatment with NovoSeven® significantly reduced intracerebral bleeding compared to placebo treatment. Improvement in clinical outcomes in terms of functional independence and neurological impairment was observed on day 15 after the bleeding, but mortality and severe disability was not improved at the end of the study period (day 90). With regard to safety, study results were in line with the established safety profile of NovoSeven®.
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These are the finest rods, customs, muscle cars, street machines and trucks in the entire country folks! Check out this amazing lineup!
- West Coast Custom of the Year – Ted Stevens, Los Gatos, CA – 1940 Mercury Coupe
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- Hot Rod of the Year – Bill Steele, Oakdale, PA – 1931 Ford Model A Coupe
- Classic Instruments Street Rod of the Year – Doug Cooper, Oyster Bay Cove, NY – '32 Ford B 400
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan proposed a 2012 budget that would essentially end Medicare as we know it and replace it with a voucher system. The payments proposed under this plan would be far less than the payments Medicare is projected to pay, leading to large savings for the government.
However the Congressional Budget Office projects that costs to retirees would rise by far more than just the cutbacks in spending by the federal government. In addition to shifting the burden onto retirees, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the Ryan plan will make the Medicare system much less efficient.
The CBO analysis projects that a Medicare equivalent plan will cost much more under the Ryan plan than if purchased through Medicare both because private insurers have much greater administrative costs and they would be less effective in constraining costs. (We know this, we have tried privatization before.) This additional cost is a pure waste from the standpoint of the economy as a whole.
The additional expense resulting from the Ryan plan is real money. Over the next 75-years (the planning period for Medicare and Social Security) the projections imply that the extra payments to the insurance and health care industry would come to $20.3 triliion if everyone purchased a Medicare equivalent policy. This is almost 4 times the size of the projected Social Security shortfall. That is equal to almost $70,000 for every man, women and child in the country.
Source: CBO, Social Security Trustees, and author's calculations.
Note that this $20.3 trillion figure does not count the savings to the government from the lower Medicare payments. It is the pure waste that results from a having less efficient health care system in place for the Medicare population. We can think of this money as being equivalent to a tax since from an economic standpoint it has roughly the same impact on the economy if the government imposes taxes on the health care sector equal to $20.3 trillion, as if the inefficiency in the sector raises the cost of cost by care by $20.3 trillion. So we can view this $20.3 trillion as the Paul Ryan Medicare tax.
This week, we post links to reports from Center for American Progress, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Economic Policy Institute.
Center for American Progress
The Importance and Promise of American Manufacturing: Why it Matters if We Make it in America and Where We Stand TodayMichael Ettlinger and Kate Gordon
Center for Economic and Policy Research
The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and LosersDean Baker and David Rosnick
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Earned Income Tax Credit Overpayment and Error IssuesRobert Greenstein and John Wancheck
Chairman Ryan's Proposal to Block Grant SNAP (Food Stamps) Rests on False Claims about Program Growth: Recent Increases in SNAP Spending Largely Reflect the Recession; Program Does Not Contribute to Nation's Long-Term Budget ProblemsDottie Rosenbaum
Tax Holiday for Overseas Corporate Profits Would Increase Deficits, Fail to Boost the Economy, and Ultimately Shift More Investment and Jobs OverseasChuck Marr and Brian Highsmith
Economic Policy Institute
'Right-to-Work Wrong for New Hampshire'Gordon Lafer
Since Representative Ryan is running around pushing his Medicare vouchers I might as well take the opportunity to push my own. It seems that Mr. Ryan and I have something in common, we both like Medicare vouchers.
Of course there are big differences between our systems. Ryan's voucher system would deny seniors the option to stay in the existing Medicare system. It would give them a lump sum which they could then apply towards the cost of an insurance premium. There is no guarantee that either the insurance they bought would be as good as Medicare, nor that the voucher would cover the full cost of the insurance.
By contrast, the Baker voucher leaves the current Medicare system intact, seniors would always have the option to be in the Medicare system just as they do today. The change created by the Baker voucher is that seniors would also be able to buy into the health care systems of any of the countries with longer life expectancies than the United States.
The big advantage to seniors is that they would be able to pocket half of the savings. The government gets the other half. Because our health care system is so inefficient, this is big money.
The cost to the government per beneficiary is projected to be nearly $13,000 (in 2008 dollars) by 2020. The average cost of treating a person over age 65 in the countries with longer life expectancy is projected $9,600 (also in 2008 dollars). If we allow the receiving country a 10 percent premium (this ensures that they share in the savings) and split the difference, the value of the voucher would be $11,300, allowing the federal government to save $1,700 for every beneficiary that took advantage of the voucher.
The gains to seniors will depend on which country they chose. Since they also would have substantial out of pocket medical expenses if they stayed in the United States (including their Medicare premiums) their savings from moving to another country to get care would be considerably larger than just the difference between the value of the premium and cost of care in the receiving country.
Seniors that moved to Canada would be able to pocket $5,600 a year. Those that moved to Spain could pocket $10.900, and those that went to New Zealand could pocket $11,200. These numbers get much larger through time. By 2045, the annual savings to a senior moving to Canada, Spain, and New Zealand would be $22,600, $26,700 and $29,400, respectively. This would more than double the income of many retirees. The savings to the government would rise accordingly.
The deal gets even better for people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. For these people, the government would just split the savings, handing half to the beneficiary and pocketing the other half. This deal would allow dual beneficiaries going to Canada, Spain, and New Zealand in 2020 to pocket $13,500, $18,700, and $18,900, respectively in 2020. By 2045, the annual savings for seniors going to these countries would rise to $37,800, $41,700 and $41,900, respectively.
That's the Baker proposal. It doesn't require setting up a complex new domestic voucher system. It just requires some negotiations that would allow our retirees to buy into foreign health care systems. Hey, even a trade negotiator should be able to do that.
The big difference is that the Baker proposal is likely to take some money out of the hides of the domestic health care industry, while ensuring that seniors continue to get quality care. By contrast, Representative Ryan's plan takes money out of the hides of retirees while protecting the incomes of the health care industry. It's a matter of priorities.
This week, we post links to reports from Economic Policy Institute, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and National Employment Law Project.
The State of Working America's Wealth, 2011: Through Volatility and Turmoil, the Gap WidensSylvia A. Allegretto
Paid Sick Days: Measuring the Small Cost for Connecticut BusinessesDouglas Hall and Elise Gould
'Right-To-Work' Wrong for New HampshireGordon Lafer
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
An Opportunity Not Taken...Yet: U.S. Labor and the Current Economic CrisisChris Tilly
National Employment Law Project
Fair Pay for Home Care Workers: Reforming the U.S. Department of Labor's Companionship Rules Under the Fair Labor Standards ActNational Employment Law Project
That's the analysis from the Heritage Foundation. They calculate the cumulative trade deficit over the next decade will be almost $1 trillion greater under the plan put forward by Representative Ryan than under the current baseline. This is measured in 2005 dollars. If we used current dollars then the sum would be more than $1.3 trillion over the course of the coming decade.
The borrowing from China theme is one that many of the deficit hawks have harped on repeatedly so it is interesting that their own plan, by their own assessment, will lead to more borrowing from China and other foreign investors than the status quo. This analysis is helpful because it points out that our borrowing from foreigners is determined by the trade deficit, not the budget deficit. So even though Representative Ryan's plan is projected to substantially reduce the budget deficit, it still leads to a larger trade deficit and more borrowing from abroad.
Of course caution would be advised in using the Heritage Foundation analysis that is the basis of these projections. This analysis shows the Ryan plan creating an additional 831,000 jobs compared with the baseline over the year 2012. This additional job growth is projected to be associated with a 2.1 percentage point decline in the unemployment rate. With a civilian labor force of more than 150 million, this doesn't seem to add up. The Heritage Foundation projections also show the unemployment rate falling to 2.8 percent by 2020, a level not seen since the end of World War II.
The economy added 216,000 jobs in March, pushing the overall unemployment rate down to 8.8 percent, but African Americans do not appear to be sharing in the benefits of recent growth, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment report. The employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) for African Americans fell by 0.3 percentage points to 51.9 percent, just 0.1 percentage points above the recession low hit in September. The EPOP for black teens stands at just 14.8 percent. The overall unemployment rate for African Americans rose by 0.2 percentage points to 15.5 percent.
Overall, the recent acceleration in job growth is encouraging, but it is still an extremely weak recovery from a severe downturn. Based on the experience of the last two severe recessions, 1974-75 and 1981-82, we should be expecting job growth in the range of 400,000 a month. Instead, we are still seeing a rate of job growth that is below the 250,000-a-month average from the 90s.
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CEPR on Pensions and Budgets CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker co-authored a report with the Center on Wisconsin Strategy that found that the Wisconsin retirement system is one of the healthiest in the country. The paper was mentioned in this Reuters article, among others. Dean authored several op-eds on public pensions, and on March 15th he testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs on state and municipal debt. A video of the testimony can be seen here. Dean also discussed cuts to state budgets on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show. An earlier CEPR report shows that many of the problems facing state and local governments are due to the recession and not, as some have claimed, public worker compensation packages. CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot also weighed in on events in Wisconsin in this op-ed for The Guardian Unlimited.
Paul Krugman tears apart a new post from John Taylor in which he attributes high unemployment to the falloff of investment, noting the sharp decline of investment as a share of GDP. Taylor's remedy for this problem is to spur investment by cutting business taxes.
Krugman shows that the bulk of the falloff was due to a falloff in residential investment. In other words, housing construction plummeted following the collapse of the housing bubble. Actually, Taylor's case is even even weaker than the picture Krugman shows. There was also a bubble in non-residential real estate. The falloff in non-residential construction is due to the fact that there was enormous over-construction in most categories of non-residential construction. Tax breaks are not going to persuade builders to put up another office building or mall in a glutted market.
Investment in equipment and software is down by less than 0.8 percentage points as a share of GDP from its pre-bubble peak. That is not bad given the falloff in demand. I have also included a line that subtracts vehicle leasing from investment. The issue here is that a leased vehicle will count as investment by the car leasing company, whereas a purchased vehicle will count as consumption by the consumer. There was a big surge in car leasing in the 90s which explained about 0.3 percentage points of the increase in the investment share of GDP over the course of the decade. (The calculation here just subtracts the current lease expenditures. In principle we would want to pick up the value of cars purchased for leasing. The expenditures on leased cars likely lag the purchases by a year or so. They will also not be exactly the same, but they should give the right general size of this effect.)
Click to Enlarge Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis.
For the fourth consecutive month, the Case-Shiller 20-City index fell by at least 1.0 percent. It is now down by 5.4 percent from its peak in July. Of the 20 cities in the index, 19 had a drop in housing prices in January, with the exception again being Washington, D.C. Prices in D.C. edged up by 0.1 percent. Prices are now down by 3.1 percent from their year-ago-levels. In nominal terms, prices are still 1.1 percent above their previous post-bubble low in April of 2009; however, in real terms they are already 2.2 percent lower.
Seattle and Portland continue to rank near the top for largest price declines, with prices falling by 2.4 percent in January in Seattle and by 1.8 percent in Portland. Over the last three months prices have fallen at an annual rate of 19.9 and 16.3 percent respectively in the two cities. The Midwest cities continued to see sharp declines, with prices in Minneapolis falling by 3.4 percent, in Chicago by 1.8 percent and in Detroit by 1.7 percent. Over the last three months, these cities have seen annual rates of price decline of 24.6 percent, 19.6 percent and 17.3 percent, respectively. The California cities are also continuing the process of deflating their bubbles. Prices in January fell by 0.6 percent in Los Angeles, by 1.2 percent in San Diego, and by 1.7 percent in San Francisco. The annual rate of decline over the last three months in these cities was 9.2 percent, 7.2 percent, and 14.9 percent, respectively. These declines may accelerate as the impact of the state's homebuyer tax credit fades.
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That's what millions are asking after the Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) put out a paper outlining their strategy for achieving economic prosperity by cutting government spending and laying off workers. The central claim in the paper, that cutting spending even in the middle of a downturn will lead to growth, is contradicted by a careful analysis of this topic that the IMF published last fall. But maybe the problem is more basic than a disagreement on economic research and a reading of data. It seems that the problem might stem from the meaning of the word "success."
Readers of the JEC report will see that New Zealand in the years since 1986 is highlighted as one of the success stories. The Republicans tell us that if we make the same sort of harsh cuts in domestic spending as New Zealand and have the government take comparable steps to weaken the power of labor unions then we can look forward to the same sort of economic progress as New Zealand.
This should have people really worried. If we go the OECD and look up New Zealand's growth in real per capita income since 1986 we find that it came in third from last, beating out only Switzerland and Iceland. According to the OECD data, real per capita income in New Zealand grew by a total of 18.9 percent in the 22 years from 1986 to 2008.
Source: OECD and Bureau of Economic Analysis.
This is less than 40 percent of per capita income growth in the United States over this period. Do the Republicans really wish that we had followed New Zealand's path back in the mid 80s so that we could be 20 percent poorer today?
We were not the only ones who outpaced New Zealand's "success" story. Germany and France both had almost two and half times as much income growth as New Zealand. Those flaky Scandinavian types in Denmark and Sweden also had more than twice as much income growth as New Zealand over this period. If we think there is a regional aspect to New Zealand's slow growth it does not appear to have infected Australia, which also had more than two and half times the income growth as the Republican role model.
In fact, even depression wracked Japan had more than two and half times the income growth as New Zealand over this period. Japan has certainly had its problems over the last quarter century, but they don't seem to have damaged its economy to the point where it performed worse than New Zealand's by this basic measure of economic progress.
Clearly the Republicans have some other measure of success than the ones that economists usually apply. New Zealand's economy did grow slowly but there was also a large increase in inequality and a serious weakening of the rights of workers. Perhaps that is what they see as the country's success since 1986.
Back in November, John Schmitt and I wrote a report that estimated the number of people in the United States that have ever been to prison or convicted of a felony. We were interested in the number because a prison record or a felony conviction is a major impediment to employment. We concluded that there were about 6 million people with a prison record and somewhere between 12 and 14 million with felony convictions. Our calculations suggested that the difficulties that these groups face in the labor market probably reduce employment by 1.5 million jobs and cost the economy about $60 billion a year in lost output.
This week, the National Employment Law Project (NELP) has put out a study dealing with a broader group – those who have a criminal record of any kind, including arrests for misdemeanors and felonies, whether or not they were ultimately convicted of the crime. The estimates produced by the report's authors, Michelle Natividad Rodriguez and Maurice Emsellem, suggest that there are 65 million people in the United States with a criminal record. NELP notes that people with criminal records often face difficulty in finding a job because of overly broad (and sometimes illegal) criminal background checks. As the report says:
"In the right situations, criminal background checks promote safety and security at the workplace. However, imposing a background check that denies any type of employment for people with criminal records is not only unreasonable, but it can also be illegal under civil rights laws. Employers that adopt these and other blanket exclusions fail to take into account critical information, including the nature of an offense, the age of the offense, or even its relationship to the job."
While the report notes "a promising shift in policy and practice" towards "fairer and more accurate criminal background checks for employment," perhaps what is most discouraging is that existing anti-discrimination laws are often not being enforced, at the federal, state, or local level. NELP lays out four recommendations that would steer our country towards more reasonable employment screening procedures: 1) That the federal government enforce existing protections relating to background checks, 2) that the federal government adopt fair hiring policies for federal employment and contracting, serving as a model for all employers, 3) that state and local governments certify that their hiring policies comply with federal regulations and launch employer outreach and education campaigns, and 4) that employers take a more active stance in promoting fair hiring policies, for both their own and workers' best interests.
The authors highlight the compelling, obvious reason for following these recommendations: "millions of deserving workers will have a fairer shot at employment, allowing them to contribute to their communities and help rebuild America's economy."
This week, the LMPRR features reports from Center for Economic and Policy Research, Center on Wisconsin Strategy, Economic Policy Institute, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and National Employment Law Project.
Center for Economic and Policy Research and Center on Wisconsin Strategy
The Wisconsin Retirement System is One of the Healthiest in the Country
The Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum-Wage Laws in Three Cities
John Schmitt and David Rosnick
Farm Exports and Farm Labor: Would a Raise for Fruit and Vegetable Workers Diminish the Competitiveness of U.S. Agriculture?
Philip Martin
The State of Working America's Wealth, 2011: Through Volatility and Turmoil, the Gap Widens
Sylvia A. Allegretto
An Opportunity Not Taken...Yet: U.S. Labor and the Current Economic Crisis
Chris Tilly
65 Million "Need Not Apply": The Case for Reforming Criminal Background Checks for Employment
Michelle Natividad Rodriguez and Maurice Emsellem
Political Economy Research Institute
Unemployment Benefits and Work Incentives: The U.S. Labor Market in the Great Recession
David R. Howell and Bert M. Azizoglu
As CEPR economists Dean Baker, Eileen Appelbaum and Mark Weisbrot have written here, here, here and here, work-sharing is a policy that has helped many countries keep their unemployment rates lower during the recession.
In a nutshell, Dean's work-sharing tax credit proposal would pay employers to keep workers' pay constant while reducing hours. For example, rather than laying off 10% of her employees, an employer would reduce all of her workers' hours by 10% and get a tax credit to keep their pay whole.
Some critics claim that recent (weak) job growth in the economy means that work-sharing is no longer needed. But this misses the fact that the reported jobs numbers are the *net* total of jobs created and lost. Since employers both hire and fire workers, work-sharing would help by preventing some of the millions of layoffs that happen every month.
Yesterday, the Census Bureau's Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) released a report with a graph of job creation and destruction rates since 1980 that nicely illustrates this point.
As Census explains:
Figure 1 shows the BDS patterns of gross job creation and gross destruction rates for the U.S. private sector from 1980 through 2009.... It is evident from Figure 1 that there is always a swift pace of U.S. gross job creation and destruction. The difference between the two determines whether the economy expands or contracts (i.e., the difference is, by definition, equal to the net employment growth rate of the economy).
...It also is evident from Figure 1 that job creation and job destruction tend to move in opposite directions during expansions and contractions. All of the recessions since 1980 experienced a large increase in job destruction in one or more years, accompanied by a decline in job creation.
Even former President Bill Clinton thinks that structural unemployment – unemployment stemming from a mismatch between job seekers' skills and job requirements – is an important cause of unemployment today. One oft-cited cause of structural unemployment is "housing lock," which happens when unemployed workers can't move to where the jobs are because they can't sell their houses in depressed housing markets.
However, according to a recent CEPR analysis of data from the January 2010 Displaced Workers Survey (DWS), staying rates for displaced workers in states where house-price declines were steepest have not been significantly different from those in states where there was little or no change in house prices.
If housing lock existed, we would expect to see the inter-state migration rates to fall after the housing bubble burst in 2007. But, as economists Greg Kaplan and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl recently showed, inter-state migration rates have not responded in any obvious way to the recession. Instead, they've continued on their same long-term path evident from 1996.
The NYT treated us to this column from a recent college grad complaining about the prospect that he will be faced with higher taxes to pay for his parents' and grandparents' Social Security and Medicare. The idea that our children and grandchildren are going to be poorer on average than we are is a regular theme of much of the budget reporting and advocacy work (think Peter Peterson funded enterprises) that we see regularly.
It is of course absurd on its face, as all economists and budget analysts know. Real per capita disposable income has risen at average rate of just under 2.0 percent year as shown in the chart below.
Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis.
All projections show that real per capita disposable income will continue to rise, meaning that future generations will on average be richer than we are today and much richer than our parents and grandparents' generations. Of course there is an issue of inequality, if most of the gains from growth go to the Goldman Sachs-Mark Zuckerberg types, then most today's children may not be much better off than their parents and grandparents, but that is an issue of inequality within generations, not between generations.
The Republican proposals to slash the budget seem to work from the premise that if we fire government employees that we will induce private employers to hire more workers. This runs directly opposite to the idea behind the stimulus, that if the government stimulated demand by spending money and/or cutting taxes it would create more jobs. Interestingly, there is new research that indicates that the stimulus did raise employment. In fact, it seems that its effect was even larger than the Obama administration had predicted.
But the Republicans seem uninterested in these research findings. They instead claim that the best way to create private sector jobs is by having the government fire workers and spend less.
It is difficult to follow the logic of this view. If we think of a cross section of employers – hospitals, construction companies, car factories, retail stores and restaurants – which ones on this list do we think will hire more workers after a big round of federal budget cuts and layoffs?
Do we think that hospitals will suddenly rush out and hire more nurses and doctors because because of the National Institutes of Health is cutting funding for cancer research? Will Wal-Mart expand its sales staff because the government is laying off people from Head Start? These stories don't seem very plausible.
Undoubtedly some of the government employees losing their jobs will be experienced and highly educated workers who private employers will be anxious to hire, but this will generally be for positions that would have existed in any case. These former government employees will simply be displacing other workers who would have held these jobs; there will not be new jobs in the private sector created for them.
One of the most e-mailed articles on the New York Times webpage today is "Report Urges Even Higher Global Retirement Ages," about a new OECD report, "Pensions at a Glance 2011." The article summarizes the report:
Retirement ages in advanced economies will have to rise more than currently planned if countries hope to cover the increase in costs caused by aging populations, a global economic organization warned Thursday....
In a report, the organization said that by 2050, the average age in industrialized countries for drawing pensions would reach 65 for both sexes. This represents an increase of about 1.5 years for men and 2.5 years for women from current levels.
Question: When will the OECD bring their own pension scheme into accordance with their recommendations? According to the OECD's salaries and benefits webpage, OECD staff can start receiving reduced pensions at the ripe old age of 51:
The maximum age for retirement is 65, but staff members are entitled from the age of 63, and after at least 10 years of service, to a pension amounting to 2% of the final basic salary per year of service up to a maximum of 70 per cent for 35 years of service. A reduced pension can be paid to retiring staff members from the age of 51.
This week, we post links to reports from Center for American Progress, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Demos, Economic Policy Institute, and National Employment Law Project.
Earlier this week, my colleague John Schmitt and I released a paper, "Deconstructing Structural Unemployment," highlighting some additional data that counters the argument coming from some quarters that what we are seeing today is a dramatic increase in structural rather than cyclical unemployment. We used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Displaced Workers Survey to show that even though construction workers were more likely to become displaced over the three years 2007-2009, they were strikingly similar to other workers in terms of finding new work, being geographically mobile, and taking pay cuts in new jobs. We also looked at whether or not "housing lock" – immobility caused by decreases in housing prices – might be contributing to structural unemployment, and found that the effects are miniscule and, regardless, not caused by structural problems in the labor market.
Andrew Sullivan has put forward a dramatic proposal for means testing Social Security. He wants to eliminate all Social Security benefits for individuals with non-Social Security incomes above $40,000. In addition, he wants to raise the retirement age to 70. Let's take these in turn.
First, $40,000 is probably a bit low for most people's definition of wealthy. Most people probably don't think of firefighters and nurses as wealthy, but we don't live in Mr. Sullivan's world.
So, in the interest of dealing with projected deficits in the years ahead, rather than taxing the rich, taxing financial speculation, fixing the health care system, or cutting defense, Mr. Sullivan wants to use a "Social Security" tax on the wages of middle class workers to pay for shortfalls elsewhere in the budget. I look forward to seeing candidates running on this platform.
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Then as you folks add information on this slide...maybe.
I DO have the Ebay Pics saved to my 'puter & I'll upload those pictures to the forum gallery & then delete the references to Ebay and the auction link in the very near future. Then we'll just have an interesting thread on an unusual 1911 slide with our own photos.
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I know that the Germans produced some Colt Pattern 1911 pistols during the war era but, wouldn't they be Nazi proofed?
I really don't know much about non Colt Colts.
I'm not thinking about buying this although the price is right...for any slide now.
My curiousity is peaked on this item though.
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