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Lips Of Faith - Belgian Style Blond Ale - New Belgium Brewing
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3.2/5 rDev -11.8%
Bomber into NB globe glass.
Great head retention, cloud white on top of golden that becomes see-through after chill haze warms. Looks like pilsner malt.
Smells like their Trippel (at least the ones they used to make before the new logo and addition of spices). Some banana and clove, but not as much as most Tripels. Could pass as a saison. No sediment.
Very clean...kinda bland actually. Mostly melon and strawberry, some straw. Creamy at the beginning, and knowing NB, there's prolly oat in it. Mostly pilsner malt, some grass. Belgian yeast at the end. A strange metallic aftertaste, maybe some synthetic cork or rubbery-ness in there too.
The noble hops were nice when it was fresh, but not really there now.
Very easy drinking for 8.5%!
Tastes like New Belgium. It really seems they were going for NB version of Duvel. I much prefer the NB version of Orval (Le Fleur Misseur)over this.
08-09-2010 02:17:24 | More by MEsquandoles
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North Carolina
3.78/5 rDev +4.1%
Poured into an oversized wine glass a hazed light golden with with a well retained white fluffy head,aromas of honey malt,overripe tropical fruit,and light acidity,almost like white grape.Flavors are pretty mild for the style,not to much yeastiness,somewhat sweet upfront with some green apple and or white grape skin in the finish.Really drinkable at the abv% its at,not overly complex but I like a toned down version of the style more than one that goes over the top.
11-05-2010 15:01:54 | More by oberon
2.23/5 rDev -38.6%
22 oz bottle. Pours a clear light yellow with a big rocky white head that retains well and laces the glass.
The aroma is slightly metallic and vegetal malts with some Saaz and Noble hops and some musty yeast.
The flavor is sweet malts with some noble hops in the finish. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with lots of carbonation.
Overall, tastes a lot like a subpar, strong, overly sweet pilsener. Not my cup of tea.
04-28-2010 04:56:24 | More by Beaver13
3.78/5 rDev +4.1%
The beer pours a clear straw color with a white head. The aroma is wheat with some grassy hops, lemons, oranges and peppers. The flavor is a mix of lemons and oranges with some wheat, pepper and Belgian yeast. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.
07-12-2010 06:22:52 | More by Mora2000
3.9/5 rDev +7.4%
On-tap at the Porter in Atlanta.
Pours a clear yellow-straw color with a 1.5-finger white head. The head recedes into a thin layer on top leaving solid lacing.
Smells of crisp pilsner and other light malts with soft pear flavors and lighter leafy hops.
Tastes similar to how it smells. Smooth light and moderately sweet light malt flavors kick things off and are joined quickly by solid amounts of pear and lighter amounts of ripe banana flavors. Midway through the sip the fruit flavors fade a bit before being overtaken by light leafy hops. The hops carry through to a solidly bitter ending.
Mouthfeel is good. It's got a nice thickness with active carbonation.
Drinkability is also good. I had no problems finishing my glass and could have another.
Overall this was an easy-drinking beer for the style despite the relatively high-ABV. It's really closer in the flavor profile to a BPA than anything else. Worth a shot.
08-04-2010 00:21:53 | More by glid02
3.5/5 rDev -3.6%
10-31-2012 19:38:40 | More by ste5venla
2.68/5 rDev -26.2%
Clear, straw yellow with a modest stack of white suds. It falls relatively rapidly, but endures as a fluffy, low-slung, collar which leaves plenty of lace.
Doughy, wheat bread nose with underlying graininess and black pepper. Vague lemon peel notes, and a more rotund sense of Pinot Grigio, or maybe just white grapes washed with grain alcohol.
Plain white bread as it touches the tongue. Intermittant fuller, grainier wheat notions, and a apparition of lemon. Very little yeast nuance. Just shrugs of pepper. Hopping is herbal, hay-like, dry. Booze comes out on the swallow, especially as it warms.
Fullish bodied, lightened a bit with the eddies of CO2, though they die out over time, leaving it fat and sloppy.
It's just big and terribly bland. The malts carry no intrigue. The yeast is damn near invisible, and it's hopped solely for balance. Had there been some initiative from any of these, there would probably be something here to like.
07-30-2010 07:49:36 | More by cokes
4.08/5 rDev +12.4%
Pours a clear straw from a 22 oz. bomber into a large wine glass An inch of foam descends slowly as a light boil emanates from the glass, yet offers decent lacing.
Nose offers a light yeast funk, particularly through the foam. Bit of ripe granny smith apple. An intriguing nose, particularly for a Stateside version of the style. Touch of spice accompanies. Quite nice and unique.
Flavors of yeast and malt comingle well. Light and fruity in a sense and with a firm finish. Bit of citric spice and a nice carbonation accompany a nice malt background. Offers a spritzy feel and an easy drink.
This brew raises the bar for New Belgium in my view. Very nice..
06-12-2010 05:54:46 | More by HalfFull
4.25/5 rDev +17.1%
05-14-2012 00:23:29 | More by MrJolly
3.48/5 rDev -4.1%
Appearance: A crystal-clear golden-straw body capped by more than two fingers of bubbly white head that fades slowly and leaves great lacing.
Aroma: Lemony and floral hops, golden fruit, peppery spice, and a touch of yeast over a pale malt body. A hint of booze as it warms.
Flavor: A mix of apples, white pepper, grassy hops, and Belgian yeast over a Pilsener-like pale malt backbone. There's no booze at first, but a spicy alcohol component shows up and compliments everything nicely as it warms. There's a lot going on here, but it's all balanced nicely. Grapes and apples over crackery malt in the finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with spritzy carbonation and just a little slickness from the alcohol.
Drinkability: Drinks much faster than the moderately-high alcohol would suggest, so watch out.
Verdict: New Belgium's Blond Ale is a solid, easily drinkable, though ultimately pretty forgettable beer. It drinks more like a Saison than a Duvel, but could use a bit more character regardless of the style.
02-05-2011 23:58:34 | More by BeanBone
3.5/5 rDev -3.6%
12-21-2013 20:26:56 | More by jaydoc
4.08/5 rDev +12.4%
Brenda also picked this up for me tonight at Albertsons... The bottle says 8.5% (beernews says 7.5, but they're wrong :-) Poured into my Delirium goblet.
Bottle says, "While light in color, body and texture, this blond isn't timid, Belgian yeast gets it on with Saaz and Styrian Golding hops for appreciated complexity and crisp finish."
3 finger beautiful meringue like head... tons of crusty lacing and a nice cap for more than half the glass.... the brew is a brilliant pale golden... surprisingly lite in color actually, but oh so pretty.
Nose seems lighter than I was expecting... mildly phenolic with some spicy/grassy hoppiness... bits and pieces of pale malts help push the "Belgian" qualities and the significant hoppiness forward... lite pear essence show with alot of warmth... so does hints of white pepper.
Pale malts deliver on the palate... some spicy pear begin at the front of the palate and moves quickly into (more than the aroma) grassy hops that make me think of freshly cut hay... again some lite white pepper with some very background green apple..
Very crisp and finishes pretty dry with some lingering esters and hoppiness.. great carbonation and lite/medium body... this is nicely done ... it is NOT going to blow your mind, but it is a sipper that deserves to be savored and contemplated... but at the same time, the drinkability is pretty high for me... the confusion!!
I like this and will probably buy it again.... I want to see a "Lips of Faith Belgian DIPA" or a "Lips of Faith Huckleberry Lambic"... come on ... live up to Galt's challenge!!
03-26-2010 07:46:26 | More by JohnGalt1
South Carolina
3.9/5 rDev +7.4%
golden amber with a small white head of lace on top maybe one finger in depth but no more then that. Very cloudy and hazy with small minute particles floating around and some nice streams of carbonation coming up from the bottom.
light, and very bright with the first initial smell being of light yeast and wheat that seemed to have a nice little edge of fresh grass to it that melded very well. Some very very light aromas of fruit maybe some peaches or apricots as it warmed but very light. crisp and clean with a bright east flavor sitting right up front that offered more then adequate hints of peach and grain and wheat in the flavor. That nice light grass flavor was also very present and offered a nice little bitter finish to it.
06-23-2011 03:29:49 | More by mikesgroove
3.5/5 rDev -3.6%
a: pale golden in color, an attractive head recedes to a sustained thin layer
s: full pale and pilsner-like malt nose, on the sweet end with a good deal of yeasty spice, clove and banana, papery noble hop nose
m: carbonation light-medium, body medium and a touch slick, lacking the delicacy of the finer examples of the style
t: belgian pale and crisper pilsner malts tend towards the sweeter end of things, fruity banana and spicy clove notes, noble hop flavor with a mild bitterness, plenty flavorful, likeable but a little rough around the edges
d: a little challenging for the style, but could've been a situational issue, nice beer regardless
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05-09-2010 02:47:54 | More by blackie
3.5/5 rDev -3.6%
02-20-2012 23:58:24 | More by mechanicalprints
3.48/5 rDev -4.1%
22 oz bomber pours a very clear gold color with a massive, long-lasting white cap of foam. Forms a mesa in my glass as it recedes at a snail's pace while dropping mad lace on the glass.
Nose reminds me of steamed carrots and salted barley soup. Mild sweetness and crystallized graininess. Interesting to say the least...some light fruit wafts in upon further inspection.
Very much tastes like bread dough with a twinge of light and tart fruitiness, think crushed strawberry juice. Belgian yeast influence is lighter than I would like and the grains are somewhat neutral, with a hay like flavor contribution. For such a light bodied beer, it hides the 8.5% ABV exceptionally well. Very drinkable, but really not all that exciting.
08-04-2010 03:37:56 | More by twiggamortis420
3/5 rDev -17.4%
03-07-2012 20:47:40 | More by mhagler
3.5/5 rDev -3.6%
07-07-2013 21:35:57 | More by GABrew
3.73/5 rDev +2.8%
Very clear yellow colored beer with a tall white head. Very pale color for the style.
The smell is herbal and soapy to the nose. There is a little bit of pepper and rose petal here but it doesn't have much malt character at all. A slight lemon aroma with the bare hint of malt but that is about it.
Starts out dry in the mouth with a lemon pepper flavor and a lingering banana aftertaste. Decent bitterness with a slight melon and rose flavor. Have to say it again, a very dry beer.
Mouthfeel is on the light side.
A good dry beer that seems to be more Saison. A dry refreshing beer that is great for summer.
05-22-2010 02:25:41 | More by Zorro
3.75/5 rDev +3.3%
08-01-2013 13:26:13 | More by Hopheadjeffery
3.4/5 rDev -6.3%
Served chilled in a tulip.
Poured a light, translucent golden amber that was fully filtered, no sediment. Produced a bubbly consistent lace that left a mere thin layer. Smells are of slight hop, malts, fresh pears, grapes, yeast. They are not very robust and the taste matches the aromas. They are quite light. The mouthfeel is refreshing and it leaves a slight bitter bite that fleets quickly. A decent brew. The 8.5% abv is not terribly suprising as there is a slight booziness to it. Glad I tried it.
12-20-2011 02:46:18 | More by rmcnealy
3.25/5 rDev -10.5%
06-09-2012 04:19:07 | More by trancesk8er
4/5 rDev +10.2%
11-28-2011 16:13:15 | More by akinsja
3.7/5 rDev +1.9%
Served in a tulip glass at The Firkin.
My first trip to The Firk', and the first beer of the night there. It pours a clear pale straw topped by over a finger of stiff white froth. The nose comprises light lemon, pine, wheat, corn, and a healthy serving of Belgian yeast. The taste is pretty much identical, though some coriander makes itself known as well, not content to let the others have all the fun. The body is a light medium, with a moderate carbonation and a dry finish. Overall, a solid BSPA, but falling short of greatness. Still pretty tasty and enjoyable, though.
09-12-2010 18:12:59 | More by TMoney2591
3.98/5 rDev +9.6%
Really nice looking beer. It's a nice yellow/orange color with a full white long lasting head.
The smell is very citrusy. The first thing that it reminded me of was lemon, but a hint of orange in there as well. I can also detect some malt, and a hint of spice.
Tastes a lot like it smells. Quite a bit of citrus, with a hint of spice. I can detect some pepper and some coriander in there. There is a bit of a floral hops finish to it, almost overwhelmed by the citrus notes.
Feel is pretty good, a high amount of carbonation does help. Ends up feeling a bit thin, though.
While I don't think this is near as good as Duvel, not a bad effort. It is a bit sweet for the style, but a hint of spice helps balance it. I actually quite enjoyed this one, as I like non hoppy tasting beers. if your tastes run towards a more fruity beer, give this one a try.
05-01-2010 23:43:09 | More by Vixie
Lips Of Faith - Belgian Style Blond Ale from New Belgium Brewing
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John Patrick Max, 40 - October 07, 2009
John Patrick Max, 40, of Cozad passed away on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.
Funeral services were held Thursday, Oct. 8, at the Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Larry Viter officiating. Burial took place in the Brady Cemetery.
Max was born July 4, 1969, to Jimmie and Della (Pollat) Max at North Platte. He grew up on a farm near Brady. He attended school and graduated from North Platte.
He moved to Cozad in 1995. He worked for South Central Developmental Services since that time.
Max enjoyed country music, attending concerts, bird watching, fishing and bingo. He especially enjoyed meeting people and has many friends who will miss him.
?He was preceded in death by his parents, Jimmie and Della Louise Max.
?He is survived by: a brother, James Max of Omaha, NE; sisters; aunts and uncles; nieces and nephews, and many friends.
Memorials are suggested to the South Central Developmental Services, 821 Ave. J, Cozad, NE 69130.
Online condolences can be given at www.blasestrauser.com.
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George H. Blackford, Ph.D.
Economist at Large
Email: george(at)rwEconomics.com
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. Mark Twain
Figure 1: Total Federal Government Outlays, 1901-2013.
Source: Office of Management and Budget (1.1 10.1), Historical Statistics of the U.S. (Ca9-19).
This figure also shows that, in spite of what most people seem to think:
Our Ever-Growing, Out-of-Control Federal Bureaucracy
As can be seen in Figure 2, the fall in federal employment as a percent of total employment since the 1960s is even more dramatic.
Figure 2: Breakdown of Federal Government Employment, 1962-2012
Source: Office of Personnel Management, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Federal employment fell from 5.4 million in 1962 to 4.1 million by 2007 and 4.3 million by 2012. When we subtract out those employed in the military and by the post office we find there has been hardly any change at all in the number of non-military, non-postal federal employees over the past fifty years even as the population increased by over fifty percent and the level of total employment in the economy more than doubled. What's more, Figure 2 clearly shows how the fraction of the workforce employed by the federal government has been cut in half since the 1960s even after taking into account the decrease in the size of the military.
So much for our ever-growing, out-of-control federal bureaucracy!
Our Unbearable Tax Burden
The fact that Americans are not terribly overtaxed is shown quite clearly in Table 1 which is constructed from the official statistics of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This table shows how the United State's ranking among the 34 OECD countries has changed since 1980 in terms the percentage of gross income (GDP) that is paid in taxes.
Table 1: OECD Countries that Pay Less Taxes than We Do
Percent of GDP, 1980-2010.
Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Comparative Tables.
We have moved from tenth from the bottom on this list to third from the bottom over the past thirty years. Among the advanced countries of the world, only Chile and Mexico paid less in taxes as a percent of their gross income than we did in 2010.
The American Fiscal Dilemma
The idea that the federal budget and employment have grown voraciously over the past forty years or that Americans are terribly overtaxed are only three of the fiscal myths people believe today. In a recent survey (February 2013), the Pew Research Center asked 1,504 respondents: "If you were making up the budget for the federal government this year, would you increase spending, decrease spending or keep spending the same" for nineteen different categories of government expenditures. The expenditure categories and results of the survey are given in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Pew Research Center Survey Results, February 2013.
Source: Pew Research Center
These results suggest that the vast majority of the American public is satisfied with the size of the federal government we have, and, if anything, would like to see it increase rather than decrease: For all categories of expenditures, other than the first three, a larger proportion of the respondents would choose to increase rather than decrease expenditures, and for all categories, even the first three, a majority of those who had an opinion would either increase expenditures or keep them the same if given the choice. In addition, the three categories which more respondents would rather decrease than increase—Aid to the world's needy, State Department, and Unemployment aid—sum to just 3% of the federal budget while just five of the categories which more respondents would increase rather than decrease—Social Security, Military defense, Medicare, Health care, and Aid to needy in U.S.—sum to over 70% of the federal budget.
These results stand in stark contrast with those of the Pew Research Center/USA Today survey conducted later that same month. In this survey the respondents were asked if the president and Congress should focus on spending cuts, tax increases, or both in order to reduce the federal budget deficit. The results are given in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Pew Research Center/USA Today Survey Results, February 2013.
Source: Pew Research Center/USA Today
Here we find that the overwhelming majority of people (73%) would like to see the federal deficit problem solved through only or mostly spending cuts rather than through only or mostly tax increases (19%). In other words, an overwhelming majority of the American people would like to have their cake and eat it to: they want to increase the size of the federal government or keep it the same as they solve the deficit problem through only or mostly spending cuts.
According to the OMB, the federal deficit was equal to 20% of total federal expenditures in 2013. As a result of rescinding some of the provisions of the 2001-2003 tax cuts combined with the expected recovery of the economy and some spending cuts, this deficit is estimated to decline to 10% of total federal expenditures by 2019. It should be obvious that we are not going to be able to eliminate the remaining 10% deficit through mostly spending cuts—as, apparently, 73% of the American people want to do—by cutting the 3% of the budget that goes to Aid to the world's needy, the State Department, or Unemployment aid. If we are to eliminate the 10% deficit estimated for 2018 through mostly spending cuts we are going to have to cut the 70% of the budget where we find Social Security, Military defense, Medicare, Health Care, and Aid to needy in U.S. because that's where the money is.
As can be seen in Figure 5, which shows a breakdown of the entire federal budget (after adjusting Total Outlays for Undistributed Offsetting Receipts and the Commerce and Housing Credit) with a 10% hole in it, the money is not in the 24% of the budget that is left after we deduct the 6% we must pay in interest on the national debt.
Figure 5: Pie Chart of Federal Expenditures 2013 with a 10% Hole.
Source: Office of Management and Budget (3.2 11.3)
Even a causal examination of this chart reveals that it is impossible to maintain the government the vast majority of the American people seem to want and, at the same time, reduce the deficit by as much as 10% through mostly spending cuts:
Where are these cuts supposed to come from? From eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse? I don't think so! (For an examination of the problems involved in trying to cut the budget through the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse see Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in the Federal Budget.)
The Federal Budget in the Real World
The federal budget has been at the center of the political debate in our country for the past forty years, and, yet, few people seem to understand how the money is spent. As the Pew Research Center and Pew Research Center/USA Today surveys indicate, many, if not most seem to believe that somehow we can cut the budget dramatically, say by as much as 10%, and can thereby save a substantial amount in taxes without having to cut defense or Social Security or Medicare and without cutting those programs that make up our social safety net. At the same time there are those at both ends of the political spectrum who believe we can save a tremendous amount in taxes by cutting defense. (Coburn Sanders) Figure 5 clearly indicates that these beliefs are problematic. Figure 6 and Figure 7 below may help to make this point even more forcefully.
Figure 6 is constructed from the OMB's Table 3.1—Outlays by Superfunction and Function. This figure plots a breakdown of the actual, real-world outlays of the federal government in terms of its three largest categories (Superfunctions) from 1940 through 2013: Defense, Human Resources, and Net Interest both as a percent of GDP and of Total Outlays.
Figure 6: Defense, Human Resources, and Net Interest, 1940-2013.
Source: Office of Management and Budget. (3.1 10.1)
The first thing we see when we look at the graphs in this figure is that even though the size of the federal budget has changed very little relative to the economy since the 1950s, the Human Resources component of the budget—those programs that make up our social insurance system including Social Security, Medicare, and those programs that make up our social safety net—has grown dramatically. It has gone from less than 20% of Total Outlays in the early 1950s to more than 60% in the 2000s.
At the same time, we see that Defense has decreased just as dramatically, going from over 60% of Total Outlays in the early 1950s to around 20% in the 2000s. Meanwhile the third largest category in the budget, Net Interest, has gone from a high of 13.8% of the Total Outlays in 1948 to a low of 5.2% in 2009, and it stood at 6.4% in 2013. What is most relevant to the point at hand, however, is what has happened to All Other Outlays and Defense in this graph.
All Other Outlays
All Other Outlays shows us how much the federal government spent on everything other than Defense, Human Resources, and Net Interest. All Other Outlays consists of such things as expenditures on Energy, Natural Resources and Environment, Transportation, Community and Regional Development, International Affairs, General Science, Space, Technology, Agriculture, Administration of Justice, and General Government—basically, all of the items north of Interest on the National Debt in Figure 5 that do not involve retirement, healthcare, or other social-insurance programs. This residual has gone from a high of 32.6% of the budget in 1940 to a low of 7.6% in 1945. It stood at 9.7% in 2007 before the financial and economic crisis that wrought havoc with the federal budget began and at 8.0% in 2013.
It is obvious—or at least it should be obvious to anyone who looks at the actual, real-world expenditures of the federal government plotted in Figure 6—that there is no reason to believe we can save a substantial amount in taxes by cutting the programs in the All Other Outlays category in Figure 6, obviously not enough to reduce the total budget by 10%. The expenditures on programs in this category have already been cut by more than 55% since 1980, relative to the budget and to GDP, and even if we were to eliminate all of these expenditures completely—which, of course, we can't do and still have a functioning government—we would succeed in reducing the size of the federal budget by at most 8%. It is worth noting that, relative to the size of our economy, we have already cut the programs in this portion of the budget to below where they were in the 1950s!
What do we find when we look at Defense?
It is apparent from Figure 6 that there may be room to make additional cuts in the area of Defense. After all, Defense today is barely below where it stood in 1980 when we were still waging the Cold War against the Soviet Union. With the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan there may be room to maneuver here. Just the same, there is no reason to think we can cut our total tax bill by as much as 10% simply by cutting Defense. Even if we were to cut the 18% of the budget that went to Defense in 2013 in half—something that virtually no one would be willing to do—it would only reduce the total federal budget by less than 10%. (See How a Conservative Would Balance the Federal Budget.)
Thus, if we are serious about saving as much as 10% of our total federal taxes, unless we are willing to make draconian cuts in Defense or dismantle a substantial portion of rest of the federal government, we must look to Human Resources. That's where the money is, and that's also where Social Security and Medicare are as well as the other social-insurance programs that make up our social safety net.
The question is:
Human Resources
The OMB's Table 11.3—Outlays for Payments for Individuals details the bulk of the expenditures contained in the Human Resources category of the budget. Figure 7 breaks down the items in Table 11.3 into four categories: Retirement/Disability is the sum of all federal expenditures on retirement and disability programs. Healthcare is the sum of all federal expenditures for individuals on healthcare. Other Payments for Individuals is the sum of all federal expenditures on all payments-for-individual programs that are not medical or retirement/disability programs. The final category, Other Human Resources, is the total of all government expenditures on all other Human Resources programs. (For a detailed explanation of each of these categories along with a detailed examination of programs that are included in each category see the expanded discussion of this figure in Understanding the Federal Budget.)
Figure 7: Breakdown of Human Resources, 1940-2013.
Source: Office of Management and Budget. (11.3 3.1 10.1)
The first thing we see when we look at the breakdown in Human Resources in Figure 7 is that Retirement/Disability has been the largest component of Human Resources since 1952.
The second is that while there were significant increases from 1965 through 1975 in all four of the graphs in this figure, only Healthcare has continued to rise after 1975. This component of the federal budget has grown almost continuously from virtually nothing in 1965 to the point where it rivals Retirement/Disability as the largest component of Human Resources today.
Retirement/Disability and Healthcare combined dominate Human Resources and accounted for some 82% of all Human Resources expenditures in 2013. This would suggest that if we are to find ways to make substantial cuts in Human Resources we should begin by looking at Retirement/Disability and Healthcare.
The problem is that when we look at Retirement/Disability we find that it is dominated by Social Security in that fully 75.9% of the total spent on programs in this category of the budget went to Social Security in 2013 while 19.4% went to civil service, military, and railroad retirement/disability programs, and only 4.7% to the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.
There is no way to make substantial cuts in this portion of the Human Resources budget without cutting Social Security. After all, military, civil servants, railroad employees, and other government employees are just as entitled to their retirement/disability benefits as are Social Security recipients, and, in any event, these programs take up less than 8% of the total budget in 2013.
This leaves the SSI program which was 4.7% of Human Resource expenditures and less than 1.2% of the entire federal budget in 2007. Aside from the fact that SSI was only 1.8% of the budget in 2013, SSI is the primary social safety-net program that provides for indigent disabled and indigent elderly individuals who are either not eligible for Social Security or whose benefits fall below a subsistence level. Substantial cuts in this program would not only save virtually nothing, it would also tear a hole in our social safety net.
What about Healthcare?
Healthcare accounted for 25% of the federal budget in 2007 with Medicare and Medicaid accounting for over 90% of this portion of the budget, and Medicare accounting for 69% of this 91%. What about the 31% of this 91% that went to Medicaid?
This program represented 9.7% of the federal budget and less than 2% of our gross income in 2013 and lies at the very core of our social safety net. According to the Census Bureau's Table 151. Medicaid—Beneficiaries and Payments: 2000 to 2009, some 75% of its beneficiaries were either poor Children, indigent Blind/Disabled individuals, or indigent elderly adults age 65 and over, and over 85% of Medicaid's expenditures went to these individuals. It would appear that there is very little room to cut this 9.7% of the budget without causing a great deal of hardship and misery through the denial of medical services to poor children or indigent disabled or elderly adults.
That leaves the remaining 9% of the Human Resources budget that went to the other Healthcare programs in 2013. Here we are talking about 3% of the entire federal budget and 0.6% of our gross income. Of that 3%, 65% went to veterans (Hospital and medical care for veterans and Uniformed Services retiree health care fund), 12% to Children's health insurance, and 5% to Indian health. Of the remaining 18%, 52% went to Health resources and services (a program that is designed to meet the healthcare needs in underserved, mostly rural areas), 23% went to Substance abuse and mental health services (a program that is severely under funded given the extent of the substance abuse problem in our country), and 25% went to Other federal healthcare programs.
Veterans certainly have as much right to their medical benefits as Medicare recipients, and the rest of these programs play an important role in our social safety net. In addition, since the rest of these programs took up only 1.0% of the entire federal budget in 2013 there is virtually nothing to be saved in taxes by eliminating these programs.
The leaves but two categories in Figure 7 to examine: Other Payments for Individuals and Other Human Resources.
Other Payments for Individuals
Other Payments for Individuals includes the expenditures on all of the federal programs in the OMB's Table 11.3 that are not medical or retirement/disability programs. This is where we find the programs that make up our social safety net.
The first thing that should be noted about this portion of the budget is that we are talking about only 14.5% of the entire federal budget and less than 3% of our gross income in 2013 in the midst of the worse economic depression since the 1930s. These programs comprise the backbone of our social safety net. We're talking about the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits (2.9% of the total budget in 2013 and 0.55% of GDP) that are designed to encourage work and assist the working poor who pay over 14% of their earned income in payroll taxes. About food stamps, school lunch and milk programs, and feeding programs for women, infants, and children (1.0%/0.19%) that assist the poor in feeding themselves and their children. About student aid (1.6%/0.31%) and unemployment compensation (0.48%/0.09%). About housing assistance (1.4%/0.27%) and temporary assistance to needy families (0.78%/0.15%). About foster care and adoption assistance (0.25%/0.05). And we're talking about only 14.5% of the federal budget in all of the programs in Other Payments for Individuals combined, less than 3% of our gross income in 2013 in the midst of the worse economic crisis since the Great Depression.
There is no reason to think that we can save a great deal in taxes by making substantial cuts in this portion of the budget without dismantling our social safety net and causing a great deal of hardship and misery. The money just isn't in this 14.5% of the budget, and it's through the programs in this portion of the budget—combined with Medicaid and SSI—that our war against hardship and misery is waged. (For a comprehensive examination of our social safety net see Chapter 14: Welfare, Tax Expenditures, and Redistribution in Where Did All the Money Go?)
Other Human Resources
This leaves only Other Human Resources in which to find those elusive programs on which the government is supposedly squandering our federal tax dollars. Other Human Resources is the total of government expenditures on all Human Resources programs that are not included in the other categories in Figure 7. It is calculated by subtracting the sum of Retirement/Disability, Healthcare, and Other Payments for Individuals in Figure 7 from the total of Human Resources given in Figure 6.
This residual can be disposed of rather quickly. It represented only 0.77% of the budget in 2013 and 0.16% of our gross income, and aside from the fact that 0.77% of the budget is insignificant in the grand scheme of things, as is shown in Figure 2, the programs contained in Other Human Resources have already been cut by more than 87% since 1980. There is no reason to believe that additional savings can be found in this 0.77% of the budget.
That's it! That's all there is to the entire federal budget! Everything the government spends money on in financing its ongoing operations is included in one or another of the categories contained in Figure 6 or Figure 7. (See Understanding the Federal Budget for a more complete examination of these two figures. For a somewhat different perspective on the problem of finding ways to cut the budget see Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in the Federal Budget. In addition, a detailed and comprehensive examination of the various kinds of expenditures in the federal budget can be found in Part III The Federal Budget of Where Did All the Money Go?)
What Real-World Economics is About
This is the situation that actually exists in the real world, and this is what Real-World Economics is about. It's about cutting through the rhetoric, the spin, the propaganda, and all of the other nonsense that exists in the imaginary world many, if not most people have come to believe in, and looking at the facts as they actually exist in the real world, the world in which we actually live. It is hoped that looking at the facts in this way will introduce a degree of rationality into the otherwise hopelessly irrational debate we have been subjected to over the past forty years. After all, facts do matter, or at least they should.
Many of the papers on this website, including this introduction, have numbers in them. I realize that many people have an aversion to numbers, but I make no apology for including them here. For the past forty years we have lived in a world in which one end of the political spectrum has insisted that two plus two is six and demonized anyone who argued otherwise. Those who argued that two plus two is four have been ignored while the vast majority of the population, including our political leadership, has come to the conclusion that this sum must be five. Our nation's economic policies have been guided accordingly with results that are totally consistent with the logic involved. This is the kind of arithmetic that got us into the mess we are in today, and it is not going to get us out. The time has come for people to look at the numbers and learn how to add.
This is particularly so when it comes to trying to understand our economic system. It is impossible to understand the economy without looking at numbers. The reason is no one can actually see the economy. The economy is made up of some 315 million people, 114 million households, 27 million business firms, 89 thousand governments, innumerable goods and services, and it is spread throughout the land and has tentacles that stretch all over the world. All we can actually experience of the economy is the very tiny part we personally interact with, and our personal experiences tell us virtually nothing about the whole.
The only way we can come to grips with the whole is to look at numbers. Output numbers. Employment numbers. Government numbers. Production numbers. Price numbers. Money supply numbers. Income numbers. International numbers. Debt numbers. Numbers! Numbers! Numbers! There are often very real problems in obtaining the numbers needed to understand the economy, and often the numbers we have don't measure what we want them to measure or think they measure, but, in the end, all we can actually know about the economic system is numbers. Everything we think we know about the economic system is just speculation unless it is supported by numbers, and everything we think we know about the economy that is contradicted by the numbers is just hot air in the absence of an explanation as to why the numbers are wrong.
In searching for ways to cut the federal budget it is important to understand that cutting a small amount from a large portion of the budget or a large amount from a small portion of the budget may yield a lot of money in absolute terms, but it doesn't yield a lot of money relative to the size of the total budget. It only reduces the total budget by a small amount. To reduce the total budget by a large amount we have to cut a large amount from a large portion of the budget. That's just grade school arithmetic.
When we look at the actual expenditures in the federal budget over the past forty years we find that it is not possible to cut a large amount from a large portion of the budget without cutting defense, Social Security, Medicare, or the programs that make up our social safety net because that's where the money is. The rest of the budget has already been cut to the bone since 1980, and there simply isn't enough money in the rest of the budget to make a difference even if we cut a large amount from this small portion of the budget.
At the same time, if we were to look at the actual numbers that exist in the real world we would find there is no reason to believe we can reduce the size of the federal government by increasing our efforts to target specific instances of waste, fraud, and abuse, because there simply aren't enough specific instances of waste, fraud, and abuse in the budget that are of sufficient magnitude to make a difference in this regard. (See Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in the Federal Budget for an explanation as to why this is so.) At best, all we can hope to do by expanding our efforts in this area is cut a small amount from a large portion of the budget, and doing this could actually cost us more to do than we can save by doing it. This does not mean we should ignore this problem. It only means that we should not expect to see a substantial reduction in the size of the budget as a result of our efforts to solve it. Those who think otherwise have a problem with arithmetic. Their numbers just don't add up. (Compare Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in the Federal Budget with Coburn Sanders, MFCU, NYT, and St Luis Fed.)
It is also worth noting that attempting to address deficit problems by simply cutting the budget—which is what we have been trying to do over the past thirty years—is a recipe for disaster. When we do this we risk increasing malnutrition and death rates among poor children or indigent disabled/elderly adults and forcing people who can't find work—for whatever reason—to become desperate which is what we can expect to happen when we simply cut the funds to those programs contained in Other Payments for Individuals in Figure 7. (Lindert) We also risk impairing the government's ability to protect the public from poisonous food, dangerous drugs, harmful consumer products, fraud and predatory practices in our financial system, unsafe work environments, potential environmental catastrophes or to maintain our transportation systems and educate our population which is what happens when we arbitrarily cut funds to those programs contained in All Other Outlays in Figure 6. (Amy)
A fundamental, real-world truth that has been almost completely ignored in the otherwise hopelessly irrational debate we have been subjected to over the past forty years is that there are certain things that only the government can do. One is provide a system of national defense. Another is provide legal, law enforcement, and legislative systems that set and enforce the rules in a fair, efficient, and effective way. Another is provide the public education and infrastructure that makes possible such things as an educated labor force and an efficient transportation system. Yet another is to provide a social insurance system that makes possible such things as unemployment insurance, efficient healthcare and retirement systems, and a welfare system, all of which provide ordinary people some insurance against the devastation caused by the vagaries of our economic system. (See Amy, Lindert, and Ideology Versus Reality)
It seems to me quite clear that these are all things the vast majority of the people want the government to provide for them. (Pew) This does not mean the vast majority of the people expect the government to take care of their every need. It means the vast majority of the people realize that, in the real world, only the government can provide these kinds of economic goods in a fair, efficient, and effective way. These are not the kinds of economic goods that can be provided fairly, efficiently, or effectively by the private sector of the economy. (Amy Lindert)
The response from those who are waging their own private war against the federal government is that we must cut the budget—especially Social Security, Medicare, and the rest of our social welfare system—because deficits and the national debt are out of control.
But if we really do want to balance the budget and, at the same time, provide the government that the vast majority of the American people seem to want, balancing the budget through mostly tax increases makes much more sense than trying to do so through mostly spending cuts. National income in the United States amounted to $14,543 billion in 2013, and total federal federal outlays came to $3,456 billion. This means that the total tax liability created by a 10% hole in the federal budget amounted to only 2.3% of our national income. Does it really make sense to make dramatic cuts in Social Security or Medicare or to dismantle a major portion of the rest of the federal government rather than pay the extra 2.% of our income needed to fund the government we have?
If we want the government to provide the essential services that only government can provide we have to pay for those services, and the way we pay for them is by paying taxes. It's just that simple. (Well, not quite. There is the economic crisis to deal with, but since I have dealt with that in excruciating detail in Where Did All the Money Go?, I won't get into it here.)
But we live in a democracy. I don't get to decide. This is something a majority of the American people must decide, and the first thing we as a people must decide is whether we want to keep the government we have, as an overwhelming majority of the people seem to want to do, or dismantle that government in an attempt to balance the federal budget, as an equally overwhelming majority of the people also seem to want to do. We can't do both, and if we want to keep the government we have we must first accept the fact that we have to raise the taxes needed to pay for it.
Finally, I freely admit there is no reason anyone should agree with everything I have to say in the essays on this website, and constructive criticism is more than welcome. If you find a mistake, I will fix it immediately and will be ever so grateful when you point it out to me. If you can convince me I am wrong, I will change my mind. If not, we can agree to disagree. What's important is that we establish the facts as they exist in the real world, not that we agree on the interpretation or meaning of those facts.
I am convinced that it is what people "know for sure that just ain't so" that has brought us to where we are today. I also believe that if we are to find solutions to the seemingly insurmountable political, social, and economic problems we face today we must begin by leaving the imaginary world that is created by rhetoric, spin, propaganda, and all of the other nonsense and face the facts that exist in the real world, the world in which we actually live. Real-World Economics is my contribution toward the effort to make this possible.


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Antique and Vintage Philco Radios
The Philadelphia Storage Battery Company was organized from the Helios Manufacturing Company in July 1906, with Frank S. Marr as its first president. While Helios had produced carbon-arc lamps, the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company produced storage batteries for cars, trucks, and mine locomotives.
In 1911, the company hired James M. Skinner as a chemist. Skinner quickly rose up through the ranks, eventually becoming general manager and vice president. It was Skinner who introduced the name Philco as an abbreviation for the company's name in a 1919 advertising campaign.
Philco started making batteries for consumer radios in 1923. These early radios, which were becoming increasingly popular, required two types of batteries, A and B. When a battery ran out of power, the consumer had to take the radio to a service station for it to be recharged. Philco, however, began producing and selling battery chargers so radio owners would not have to take their batteries outside the home to be recharged.
Under Skinner's leadership, Philco ran aggressive ad campaigns in a wide array of magazines. It also shipped instructional booklets to Philco dealers to ensure that salesmen were well-versed in the company's products. In 1927, Philco began a weekly Friday night radio broadcast on four stations in the eastern U.S. By September, the "Philco Hour" had become a regular program on NBC.
In 1925, Philco got its first taste of large-scale success with its Socket-Power units, which allowed a radio to be plugged in to an electrical outlet. Even though the radio still required an A battery to function, the Socket-Power units utilized trickle charging to ensure that the battery wouldn't die.
Two years later, however, the Radio Corporation of America developed technology which allowed radios to be plugged directly in to a wall, making Philco's Socket-Power units obsolete. In an attempt to adapt to the changing market, Philco began to explore the possibility of making radios, not just batteries. To this end, Philco bought the Wm. J. Murdock Company in February 1928 to acquire all the proper patents and licenses.
Philco released its first radios later that year. This line of radios later became known as the 511 series and included a metal table model designed by Hollingsworth Pierce, as w...
In an effort to appeal to female buyers, Philco hired artist Matild Massaros to create floral designs for the furniture cabinet models; these designs were hand-painted. Philco also devoted substantial resources to advertising. In 1929, for example, the company sponsored broadcasts of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In the early 1930s, Philco also signed a number of advertising deals with Paramount, which included promotional giveaways featuring actors' autographs.
At the same time, Philco sank massive capital into retooling the Murdock company factory to make it fit for mass production. Despite taking on some short-term debt, this transition allowed Philco to become the third-biggest company in the radio industry in 1929, selling more than 400,000 radios.
As Philco dropped its prices and introduced new features, it quickly became an unpopular competitor among radio manufacturers. In 1930, it introduced Tone Control, which allowed a listener to change his or her radio's sound to brilliant, bright, mellow, or deep, depending on the desired balance of low and high frequencies.
As the Depression grew even more serious, Philco produced one of the first cathedral radios—small table model radios with arched tops, which made them look like cathedrals. Featuring an Art Deco design, these models were cheap, marketed to those hit by the Depression. In particular, Philco's Baby Grand model quickly became a success. By the end of 1930, Philco was the top radio manufacturer in the United States.
That same year, Philco bought the Automobile Radio Corporation and renamed it the Transitone Automobile Radio Corporation. Transitone released the Model 3 automobile radio, which was smaller and cheaper than its competitors.
The company's fortunes did suffer as a result of the Depression, but innovation allowed Philco to stay in business. In 1934, its Model 200-X became the first true high fidelity radio receiver on the market, beating out its competitors by a full year. In 1936, Philco introduced its Automatic Tuning system, which allowed listeners to assign their favorite stations to presets. Three years later, Philco introduced the Mystery Control, the first wireless remote control made for radios.
By 1938, Philco had produced its 10 millionth radio; to mark the milestone, it manufactured a small number of 38-116 radios with a commemorative brass plaque. Even so, the company began diversifying its product lines, producing an air conditioner called the Cool-Wave in 1939 and initiating a line of refrigerators in 1940, the same year Philco sold its 15 millionth radio and reorganized as the Philco Corporation. Philco also started selling its first TVs in 1939, and the company began broadcasting from its own television station, W3XE.
To keep sales high, Philco employed a number of winning strategies. Its ads usually promoted the company's cheapest models, hoping that low prices would lure customers into the store, where a dealer could talk them up to a more expensive model. Philco dealers also had to meet monthly quotas in order to continue to be allowed to sell the company's radios. In the early 1930s, Philco introduced an annual cruise for all of its dealers, during which the company would tout its new line.
With the coming of World War II, Philco secured contracts to manufacture radar and other technology for the U.S. government. After the war, Philco slowly made the transition back to consumer electronics. The delay in getting its television line back in step allowed the Radio Corporation of America to gain a huge head start in the market, a lead it never relinquished.
In the 1950s, Philco expanded its product line and began research into computers and transistors, diversions that hurt the company as a whole. In 1961, Philco was bought by Ford, which sold the company in 1974 to GTE-Sylvania. Philco later became part of the Philips Consumer Electronics Corporation.
For collectors, dating Philco radios is easy. Most models have a five-digit model number. The first two digits indicate the year of manufacture, so a 41-255, for example, was made in 1941. In its long history, Philco produced many types of radios, from the small cathedral radios to larger Lazyboy chairside models.
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"It was a cooperative effort with neighbouring landowners (namely Philco Farms) and was funded by Tamani Communities (Riversong developer), LaVita Land (The Willows developer) and Slokker Canada (owner of lands north of River Heights Drive)," ...Read more
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Now retired, Gehrer has considerable work experience the area, including a wood products company, Philco Ford, in the office of American Home Foods (Chef Boyardee), a steel supply company, Continental Can, Pennsylvania House and others. Several ...Read more
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The choice presented to him was to work for Philco or to return to MIT to complete a doctorate. He opted to put off joining a company and built a statistical sound analysis meter at the MIT Speech Computation Laboratory writing the first Analysis by...Read more
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(August 16, 2014) MORE. The pen is a nice place for that punk. Let the sorry dude watch an old Philco B&W TV, but no computer time... (August 16, 2014) MORE. Hell Yes!!! This guy should stay in jail, and no bail whatsoever!!! If you let this Russian...Read more
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Todd Sullivan and Tim Daley, the brewmasters at Pioneer Brewing Company, brew their golden mixtures of fresh hops, malts, and barley into an eclectic array of frothy beers with a focus on freshness and community. Each of Pioneer's beers⎯including the American nitro stout, American pale ale, and spring doppelbock⎯are brewed to not only meet their own exceedingly high standards, but particularly the high standards of their friends, regulars, and the local beer lovers who bathe in it. Todd and Tim relish their microbrew status and 150-acre Hyland apple-orchard setting, and plan to stay small in order to continue the tradition of crafting only the finest brews for themselves and their community.
Founded by certified beer judge Michael Bernier, DIY Brewing Supply equips and educates patrons in the arts of at-home fermentation procedures and food construction. Beginner's brewing classes steer students through four hours of crafting an extract beer and ingesting significant brewing concepts. Aspiring homebrewers learn to settle down yeast and barley for a midday nap in the mashtub, as well as how to perform simple troubleshooting should a batch end up tasting like lasagna. Winemaking classes help students study grapey elixirs on the journey from fermentation to sanitation to staining cashmere sweaters. Students can also round out their education with a mozzarella-making class and a one-hour coffee-roasting class, where they roast 1 pound of coffee.
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