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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- If embattled BP chief executive Tony Hayward leaves the company, he is not likely to walk with a massive windfall, compensation experts said.
Speculation is rampant that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will cost Hayward his job. That raises the question of how much severance he could receive if he steps down.
BP spokesman David Nicholas would not comment when asked about a possible severance plan, adding that Hayward remains the company's chief executive.
But experts say Hayward will probably not get a lucrative package of bonus money and stock awards that many U.S. companies give to outgoing CEOs as so-called golden parachutes.
"He will be lucky to get a single year's salary," said Paul Hodgson, a senior researcher at The Corporate Library, a governance group. "And even that could be mitigated in certain circumstances."
Hayward's salary last year was just over 1 million British pounds, or $1.5 million, according to BP's annual report. He also received a bonus worth more than $3 million and stock valued at nearly $1 million in 2009, the report said.
Given his recent track record, however, Hayward will probably not get a bonus this year, Hodgson said. It is also unlikely that he will receive much in the way of stock awards, which are often the most lucrative part of a severance package.
According to BP's annual report, Hayward stands to gain nearly 1.2 million "performance shares" under a deferred compensation plan for company directors. But those shares, which would vest in 2011, are contingent on "an assessment of safety and environmental sustainability," the report said.
"If there are shares that are unvested, such as the performance shares, they are unlikely to vest," said Hodgson. "Shareholder return is not going to look good, and the performance condition won't be met."
Shares of BP's U.S.-listed stock plunged 50% in the weeks after the April 20 disaster, but have recently started to pare those losses. However, shareholder groups are threatening to sue BP for damages.
The sell-off could also hit Hayward, who owned over 500,000 options to buy U.K.-listed shares of BP at the end of last year, according to the company's annual report. Those options, which are set to expire in 2011 or 2012, are currently worthless. But they could have some value if the stock recovers.
To be sure, Hayward will not be destitute if he leaves BP. In his 28 years of service, he has amassed a pension worth over $16 million, according to the annual report.
"Retirement is really the bulk of what he will see," said Julie Davidson, a consultant at Cogent Compensation Partners. But it is not clear whether the 53-year old executive will be eligible for retirement benefits before he turns 60, she added.
Davidson said BP's board appears to have more discretion over severance payments than companies in the United States - particularly when performance is lacking.
"This is a contrast to what you see in the U.S.," she said. "He's probably not going to get very much."
The average severance package for the chief executive of a major U.S. corporation is three times annual salary, plus bonus and stock awards, according to Hodgson.
These types of golden parachutes were intensely criticized last year after a number of chief executives at financial firms were awarded billions of dollars in compensation despite exceptionally poor performance.
Hodgson, who previously worked for the London-based publication Executive Compensation Review, said that few U.K. companies award severance packages comparable to their U.S. counterparts.
"In the U.K., compensation committees tend to have a little bit more muscle and shareholders have more say when it comes to poor performance," he said.
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The somewhat disappointing synthesis report of UN's Secretary-General on the post-2015 development agenda.
It is now more than 25 years ago that the World Bank declared it had a dream: a world free of poverty. And because it was and remains a dream, poverty is still with us.
But the dream had some nasty consequences: it buried all research and all theories on development economics. In its World Development Report of 1990 the WB started to build its new knowledge. The title of the report was 'Poverty', but in fact it concerned the new economics, the new state, the new social paradigm.
The World Bank published this week its newest World Development Report: 'Mind, Society and Behaviour'.
In a most cynical way, the World Bank now reduces poverty to a 'cognitive tax' that makes it impossible for poor people to think rationally and take adequate decisions. This report gives a 'theoretical' justification for sanctioning the 'non-deserving' poor and implicitly also for repressing resistance. A must-read.
The latest newsletter of Global Social Justice explains what is happening and how this new reasoning is a logical consequence of the World Bank's earlier thinking on poverty and development.
Bond argues that climate change movements, organizations and communities are not yet strong enough to shape climate negotiations. He also suggests that Latin American counterpower is vital to that struggle:
Global pessimism and local optimism: that's how to quickly explain Climate Justice (CJ) 'scale politics.' Or, better: paralysis above, movement below.
The combination is on display again this week, in Lima, Peru, at the twentieth annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 'Conference of the Parties', the 'COP20' (actually, 'Conference of the Polluters' is more accurate). So it is opportune to re-assess global environmental governance as a site of struggle, one that has proven so frustrating over the past two decades.
It is time again to ask, specifically, can hundreds of successful episodes in which communities and workers resist local greenhouse gas generation ('Blockadia' is Naomi Klein's term for the newly liberated spaces) or seed local post-carbon alternatives, now accumulate into a power sufficient to shape climate negotiations?
The international community's post-2015 development agenda will depend, in key aspects, on whether the delegates of 195 countries meeting now at the climate summit in the Peruvian capital reach an agreement to reduce global warming, since climate change affects all human activity.
Climate change's effects on agriculture, health, poverty reduction or housing among vulnerable segments of the population mean progress in the search for a solution to global warming will have a major impact on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), said experts consulted by IPS at COP20.
At the today's AGM of the German campaign the director of the tax department in the MoF, Mr. Sell, made a briefing.
Here are the main messages:
The finance ministers of France, Germany and Italy today sent a joint- letter to the EU commissioner for economic and financial affairs and taxation Pierre Moscovici calling for new EU legislation on aggressive tax planning, through base erosion and profit sharing (BEPS) (1).
Commenting on the initiative, Greens/EFA economic and finance spokesperson Sven Giegold stated:
The loss of tax revenues due to international tax evasion and avoidance significantly reduce the funds available to finance policies aimed at fulfilling the human rights of women and girls and gender justice.
Due to the structural nature of gender inequality and its intersection with other categories such as age, race-ethnicity, sexual orientation and income, women in most of societies continue to be overrepresented in the lowest quintiles of the income distribution, continue to be the most responsible for unpaid and care work, continue to be concentrated in the most precarious and poorly paid jobs, are still a minority in the spaces of representation and leadership in political, labor or territories, still face gender-based violence, human trafficking, and continue to have their sexual and reproductive rights and autonomy limited.
Over the past couple of months, China has played a major role in launching initiatives to increase infrastructure financing for developing countries. In July 2014, China, together with the other BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa - agreed to create a new development bank (NDB) that would have initial capital of 50 billion USD.
More recently, in October, 21 Asian countries agreed to establish a new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for which China will provide up to 50 percent of initial capital. The bank's aim is to provide funding for infrastructure projects such as roads in underdeveloped Asian countries. Just last week, at the APEC Leaders Summit in Beijing, President Xi also announced the creation of a new Silk Road Fund to improve connectivity in Asia, for which China will provide USD 40 billion of capital funding.
While the initiatives have been criticized by some as a way for China to simply challenge Western-backed institutions such as the World Bank or International Monetary Fund (IMF) - as a result of Beijing's growing discontent with these bodies - there are others who believe the new development banks might have a positive impact on emerging economies.
Let us assume that you share the global consensus view on what the eurozone should do right now. Specifically, you want to see more public-sector investment and debt restructuring.
Now ask yourself the following question: if you were a citizen of a eurozone country, which political party would you support for that to happen? You may be surprised to see that there is not much choice. In Germany, the only one that comes close to such an agenda is Die Linke, the former Communists. In Greece, it would be Syriza; and in Spain, it would be Podemos, which came out of nowhere and is now leading in the opinion polls.
Has organised civil society, bound up in internal bureaucracy, in slow, tired processes and donor accountability, become simply another layer of a global system that perpetuates injustice and inequality?
How can civil society organizations (CSOs) build a broad movement that draws in, represents and mobilises the citizenry, and how can they effect fundamental, systemic transformation, rather than trading in incremental change?
This kind of introspective reflection was at the heart of a process of engagement among CSOs from around the world that gathered in Johannesburg from Nov. 19 to 21 for the "Toward a World Citizens Movement: Learning from the Grassroots" conference.
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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsA War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian Warby Victor Davis Hanson
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Fear Why Sparta Fought Athens (480-431) Our Peloponnesian War The Peloponnesian War is now 2,436 years in the past. Yet Athens and Sparta are still on our minds and will not go away. Their permanence seems odd. After all, ancient Greek warring parties were mere city-states, most of them smaller in population and size than Dayton, Ohio, or Trenton, New Jersey. Mainland Greece itself is no larger than Alabama, and in antiquity was bordered by empires like the Persian, which encompassed nearly one million square miles with perhaps 70 million subjects. Napoleons army alone had more men under arms by 1800 than the entire male population of all the Greek city-states combined. In our own age, more people died in Rwanda or Cambodia in a few days than were lost in twenty-seven years of civil war in fifth-century b.c. Greece. Nor were Greeks themselves especially lethal warriors, at least by later historical standards. Rudimentary wood and iron of the preindustrial age, not gunpowder and steel, were their shared weapons of destruction. Even the soldiers themselves who fought the war were not much more than five foot five and 130 pounds. They were often unimpressive middle-aged men who would appear as mere children next to contemporary towering two-hundred-pound GIs. Yet for ancient folk so few, small, and distant, their struggle during the Peloponnesian War seems not so old even in this new millennium. During the weeks after September 11, 2001, for example, Americans suddenly worried about the wartime outbreak of disease in their cities. In October and November 2001, five died and some twenty-four others were infected from the apparently deliberate introduction of anthrax spores by unknown terrorists. During the spring of 2003 a mysterious infectious respiratory ailment in China threatened to spread worldwide, given the ubiquity of low-cost transcontinental airfare. The panic that ensued in Washington and Peking during a time of global tension evoked ancient wartime plagues, such as the mysterious scourge that wiped out thousands at Athens between 430 and 426. Similarly, at about the same time, Sicily, Melos, and Mycalessus were all cited in contemporary media, as millennia later the world once again watched military armadas head out to faraway places, saw democracy imposed by force, and read of schoolchildren killed by terrorist bands. But even before September 11 the Peloponnesian War was not really ancient history. Scholarly books regularly appeared with titles like War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War, or Hegemonic Rivalry: From Thucydides to the Nuclear Age. Thucydides had long been assigned reading at the U.S. Army War College. And an array of statesmen such as Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, and Eleuthérios Venizélos either taught or wrote about Greek history, in which the use of Thucydides war loomed large. More recently, controversial thinkers known as neoconservatives ("the new conservatives") were for a time influential in American strategic thinking, and the text that they purportedly consulted frequently was once more Thucydides.1 What is it about this particular ancient clash that causes it to be called to mind during our present wars? Why were the conflicts supposed lessons both astutely and clumsily applied to most of our own struggles of the last century? Russia—or was it really Hitlers Germany?—supposedly resembled oligarchic Sparta in its efforts to destroy a democratic, seafaring America. Did not the Cold War, after all, similarly divide up the world into two armed leagues, led by superpowers who had united for a time against the common enemy only later to face off for decades of bipolar hostilities? Was the Sicilian expedition a precursor to Gallipoli, Vietnam, or any proposed great democratic or imperial crusade abroad? Or does the disaster at Syracuse show, as Thucydides oddly concluded, what happens when folks at home do not support the troops abroad? Because Thucydides first framed the important issues that haunt us still, we naturally return to his original and seemingly unimpeachable conclusions. The Sorrows of War Why exactly is this rather obscure ancient war between minuscule Athens and Sparta still so alive, and used and abused in ways that other ancient conflicts, such as the Persian Wars (490, 480-79) and Alexander the Greats conquests (334-323), are not? Many intriguing reasons come to mind. First, it was a brutal and very long struggle. King Xerxes and his enormous Persian military were routed from Greece in about two years. Alexander destroyed the later Persian Empire in a third of the time it took Sparta to defeat Athens. Lasting twenty-seven years, or almost a third of the fabled fifth century of classical Greece, the Peloponnesian War, like the Second Punic War, the Thirty Years War, or the Hundred Years War, was a mess that eerily crossed generations. Those born after the first years of the war often fought and died in the fighting before it was over. So the catastrophe devoured entire families across generations. The carnage reminds us of imperial Britain tottering after the First World War, the end of empire, aristocracy, and unquestioned patriotism all inextricably tied to trenches that gobbled up the British elite. The Peloponnesian War spared few Greeks, regardless of wealth or family connections. The "great houses" of Athens, or so the postbellum lament went, were almost wiped out.2 Take the most famous branch of the exalted Alcmaeonid family. Pericles, the spiritual and political leader of Athens, died of the plague at Athens in 429 in only the third season of the war. His sister, also in her sixties, had perished a year before from the same epidemic, along with his sons Paralus and Xanthippus. Neither of those young men reached thirty. Later, a much younger bastard son, Pericles the Younger, was elected an Athenian general. He was in part responsible for the great sea victory at Arginusae, some twenty-three years after his fathers death. Yet the younger Pericles was subsequently executed by an Athenian jury in an infamous scapegoating frenzy during the battles aftermath. And Pericles nephew, the thirty-two-year-old bright and upcoming Hippocrates, fell at the forefront of the battle of Delium (424). Thirty years worth of plague, political intrigue, general hysteria, and enemy spears more or less wiped out the family of the most powerful man at Athens. The war also started at the high-water mark of Greeces great Golden Age (479-404). Yet the attendant calamity ended for good such great promise that started with the defeat of the Persians (479). The capitulation of Athens (404) and the end of the fifth-century Golden Age remain symbolically interconnected events to this day. They are also loosely associated as well with the near-contemporaneous trial and execution of Socrates (399), the last and greatest casualty of a once wonderful world seemingly gone mad in a few decades. Contemporaries, among them the comic poet Aristophanes, believed that with the end of the Peloponnesian War, Attic tragedy as emblemized by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides had lost its splendor. Indeed, players in and observers of the war were the greats of Hellenic civilization—Alcibiades, Aristophanes, Euripides, Pericles, Socrates, Sophocles, Thucydides, and others—many of whom flourished, were discredited, or perished because of their involvement in the fighting. Much of the greatest classical literature, such as Aristophanes Acharnians, Euripides The Trojan Women, Platos Symposium, and Sophocles Oedipus the King, either deals with issues of the war or employs the conflict as dramatic landscape, leaving with us the depressing possibility that war, not peace, prompted the greatest explosion in the Greek creative genius, a frenzied outburst before a weary collapse. Most Greeks saw the bloody struggle through the eyes of Athens, whose writers enjoyed a near monopoly on reporting, praising, and condemning the war—shocked that in just three decades the entire dream of a cultural renaissance was brought to an end. So north of the Isthmus of Corinth the fight was soon known universally as the "Peloponnesian War," the conflict against those awful supermen who inhabited the southern peninsula of Greece—not, as the parochial Peloponnesians saw it, as a Spartan-led struggle against imperialists in an "Athenian War." The Peloponnesian War pitted against each other two Greek states that were antithetical in nearly every respect. Athens had 300 warships, a population of over 300,000 residents, a fortified port, a vast countryside, some 200 tribute-paying subject states abroad, and plenty of coined money. Sparta was landlocked. About 160 miles to the south, it relied on an army of only 10,000 infantrymen—less than half of them full citizens—to enforce rule over 250,000 inferiors and serfs, and a hegemony of neighboring communities, without any tradition of either seapower or cosmopolitan culture. Rightly or wrongly, the fighting was assumed to be a final arbitrator of the contrasting values of each. Which would prove to be the more viable ideology: cultural and political liberalism or a tough, insular conservatism? Does an open society reap military advantages from its liberality or succumb to a license unknown in a regimented and militaristic oligarchy? And who is the most resourceful in an asymmetrical war when both sides either cannot or will not face each other in conventional battle: the ships of a "whale" like imperial Athens or the ponderous armies of the "elephant" Sparta? Thucydides Then there is the matter of Thucydides himself. Greeces preeminent historian was not merely an analytical and systematic writer of a great extant military history of Sparta and Athens. He was also a brilliant philosopher who tried to impart to the often obscure events of the war a value that transcended his age. In his own boast, his narrative would prove to be "a possession for all time," far more important than the actual war itself.3 Precisely because of this didactic nature of Thucydides lengthy narrative—predicated on the belief that human nature is unchanging across time and space and thus predictable—the conflict of Athens and Sparta is supposed to serve as a lesson for what can happen to any people in any war in any age. A central theme is the use and abuse of power, and how it lurks behind mens professions of idealism and purported ideology. What men say, the speeches diplomats give, the reasons states go to war, all this "in word" (logos) is as likely to cloak rather than to elucidate what they will do "in deed" (ergon). Thucydides teaches us to embrace skepticism, expecting us to look to national self-interest, not publicized grievances, when wars of our own age inevitably break out. Still, Thucydides was not an abstract theorist but a chief player in the war he wrote about. He nearly died of the plague and was cooped up in the city with tens of thousands of other Athenians who sought refuge there from the invading Peloponnesians. He fought and lost to the cagey Spartan commander Brasidas as an Athenian general in the struggle over the northern allied city of Amphipolis. For that setback he was unfairly exiled in his late thirties by an angry people back home (423), whose leaders are later prominent in his own history. Like Caesars and Napoleons, Thucydides writing is inextricably mixed up with his past life as a man of action—and he too sometimes refers to himself in the third person as a character in his own history. In response to that injustice of expulsion, the historian traversed the Greek world for twenty-some years of the war as an embedded reporter of sorts. Thucydides was eager to hear from veterans the Peloponnesian and Boeotian sides of the story as well, and his subsequent balanced treatment is riveting. The history is also full of bizarre examples of how ingenious Greeks diverted their singular energy and talent to find horrific ways of killing and maiming one another, from crafting a fire cannon to torch trapped soldiers to throwing overboard thousands of captured rowers. Yet for all his personal autopsy and firsthand graphic detail, Thucydides can also be hard to read for a modern audience: a difficult vocabulary, strange-sounding names and places, often tedious listings of invasions and expeditions—and long, sometimes contorted speeches whose odd grammar and syntax seem almost impossible for even his contemporary audiences to have understood. While it is fashionable lately to suggest that Thucydides was our first "postmodern" historian whose preconceived theories required that he invent "facts" in the interest of constructing "objectivity," he is much too complex a mind for such a simple sham. Modern readers are instead more struck by Thucydides attempts at objectivity, by how this historian went to great lengths to interview combatants, consult written treaties, and look at records on stone. Thucydides was an observer who at various times expressed admiration for the democratic imperialist Pericles. But he also clearly liked the Spartan firebrand Brasidas (whose more brilliant career ended his own). He waxed eloquently over the Athenian right-wing coup of 411 and its eccentric godhead Antiphon—even as he praised the wartime resiliency of democracies. And though a commander of sailors, Thucydides was nevertheless still more enamored with infantrymen. Because his history is a classic of literature and philosophy, the war is known to us in a manner not true of subsequent larger and far more bloody conflicts.4 Athens as America Contemporary America is often now seen through the lens of ancient Athens, both as a center of culture and as an unpredictable imperial power that can arbitrarily impose democracy on friends and enemies alike. Thomas Paine long ago spelled this natural affinity out: "What Athens was in miniature, America will be in magnitude." Like ancient Athenians, present-day Americans are often said to believe that "they can be opposed in nothing," and abroad can "equally achieve what was easy and what was hard."5 Although Americans offer the world a radically egalitarian popular culture and, more recently, in a very Athenian mood, have sought to remove oligarchs and impose democracy—in Grenada, Panama, Serbia, Afghanistan, and Iraq—enemies, allies, and neutrals alike are not so impressed. 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Long, tedious, unintentionally hilarious, silly, lumbering, consistently empty-headed -- those are some of the adjectives being used to describe The Host. And they all can be found in just one review -- Lou Lumenick's in the New York Post. In fact, the movie hasn't received a single positive review from a major newspaper critic. What it primarily has going for it is the name of the writer who conceived the book on which the movie is based -- Stephanie Meyer, who produced the Twilight trilogy, which begat one of the most successful movie franchises ever. Virtually every review of The Host compares it with the Twilight films -- some favorably. Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News, for example, writes: There's no more subtlety here than in the Twilight saga, but at least this woozy, convoluted tangle represents a more interesting effort.. Those may be the most positive words written by any critic about this movie. More typical of the attitude of virtually all critics towards it are these comments from The New York Times's Manohla Dargis: Dopey, derivative and dull, The Host is a brazen combination of unoriginal science-fiction themes, young-adult pandering and bottom-line calculation. That sounds like it should work (really!), but it never does, largely because the story is as drained of energy as are its Moony aliens. Michael O'Sullivan in the Washington Post scorches the actors and the director, Andrew Niccol. Niccol, he writes, is usually better than this. But I don't blame him. His body has been taken over by Meyer, whose monomaniacal focus on the supernatural menage a trois is guided by her own alien overlords: the teenage girls who buy her books by the millions.


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Local brewery branches out with a new alehouse in Little Italy.
By Jess Mayhugh. Posted on November 17, 2011
Matt Seeber, Vince Cassino, Hugh Sisson, and Patrick Dahlgren. Photo by Mitro Hood
According to a couple of sources, and a report by Baltimore Business Journal this morning, local brewer Heavy Seas is opening a new brewpub in the old Diablita location near Little Italy. The new spot, dubbed Heavy Seas Ale House, will be run by Patrick Dahlgren, the stepson of Heavy Seas owner Hugh Sisson.
State law doesn't allow Sisson to run a pub like this because of his ownership of Heavy Seas Brewing Company, but his company will be able to sell beer to the new Heavy Seas Ale House and, ultimately, the pub will help better market his beers.
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Someone has finally decided to take it upon themselves to visualize what we've all been dreaming about: Nicolas Cage's face on every Pokémon's body.
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Finally brewed up some of this after having it my cupboard for over a week. I have been having some heartburn so I've been cutting out the caffeine for a bit. Finally feeling up to brewing up a pot.
This is a lovely, gentle keemun. Not as smokey as the keemuns I get from Adagio, but it's a charming drink for a lazy morning.
I prepared it as a latte with almond milk and stevia.
It's a relaxing cup, and took my mind off some big changes that are coming my way and inducing stress. :) Good changes (hopefully) but that doesn't make them any less stressful.
My guts have been acidic for about a week, about the same time the trees started pollinating here. I checked my journal, & I had the same problem a year ago. I guess if I'm breathing it, I'm also swallowing it. :(
That's what I have been suspecting too. I noticed I have been feeling better when remembering to take my allergy pill. Silly trees and their yearly orgy.
I suspected it last year too. With all my food allergies & such, a part of me starts thinking "what did I eat?", but I have been really 'good' lately, & I can't think of anything. Same as last year.
I think what happens to me is that when I sleep, my sinuses are draining down to my stomach and starting off a chain reaction. I also have been eating more gluten-y stuff than works for me. I don't think I've got a full fledged gluten allergy, but it definitely affects me. I need to get back on my personal diet bandwagon, and stop falling off so frequently!
Haven't been drinking much new lately, and I don't want to order more stuff until I clear out my cupboard more. This is starting to get low, as are a few others. I might be able to make myself a birthday order in January. We will see.
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Someone sent a bag of this to me in a card. It is too late for anything caffeinated, so I pulled this out.
It made a very strong tisane in my small japanese cup (a little bigger than a juice glass). Drank a bit hot, and it's pretty good, but I get the usual "wet washrag" taste I get from most tisanes from it. Ice got rid of it though. I really need to try some decent quality loose tisanes – I think most of the time I have bagged ones – I wonder if I am tasting the bag. Hmm.
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Editor's note: The writer of this story is one of many Addison County residents who has recently experienced a home break-in and the theft of precious family heirlooms of great sentimental value.
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Consider the enlightening — and depressing — tale of two governors. One is the face of what the Republican Party could, and should, be. The other is the face of what it is and seems determined to remain. The first governor, not coincidentally, has "former" before his name: former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. The second is current and fresh off his recall victory: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Earlier this summer, Bush told the House Budget Committee that he would have taken the 10-for-1 spending cut and tax increase deal that the Republican presidential candidates unanimously and foolishly spurned at a debate in 2011. "If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 in spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement -- put me in, coach," Bush said. He added, tellingly, "This will prove I'm not running for anything."
Later, proving that point yet again, Bush said: "Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground … would have a hard time, if you define the Republican Party — and I don't — as having an orthodoxy that doesn't allow for disagreement," Bush said. Reagan today, he added, "would be criticized for doing the things that he did."
Perhaps by Walker, who declined the 10-for-1 tax deal that Bush would have grabbed at, and dismissed the notion that the Republican Party needs to become more flexible: "There is a false choice out there between raising taxes and cutting services."
The real falsehood is that it is possible to deal with the yawning federal deficit by choosing spending cuts alone. Democrats will not accept a cuts-only solution that would require carving too deeply into essential government functions and services.
Walker points to his state-level experience, saying that, for years, residents were told that they needed to choose: "pay higher property taxes, or your schools fail." But by squeezing teacher pensions, he argued, that false choice was avoided.
The bigger issue is that it is not scalable to the federal budget mess. Eliminating every cent of waste, fraud and abuse would not produce anything close to budgetary balance. Tackling entitlement spending is necessary but not sufficient.
Behind closed doors, some Republicans acknowledge that debt reduction will require a balance of spending cuts and new tax revenue. After all, three sitting Republican senators voted for the Simpson-Bowles plan. But too much of the GOP response is Walker-type "happy talk" about cutting spending and promoting economic growth to produce a miracle of near-painless debt reduction.
"You've got to have growth and frugality," Walker said. "You've got to have a pro-growth agenda, because you've got to grow your economy, which will increase your revenues without raising taxes."
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Walker's case in point is Reagan.
"Think about it," he said. "Thirty years ago, the unemployment rate was 10.8 percent … the highest it had been since the Depression." Once Reagan's tax cuts went into effect, "we saw the longest sustained economic boom in peacetime in American history," Walker said. "There is a method out there. It was after slashing the marginal tax rate 25 percent. You put more money back in the hands of the American people, the American consumer, the American entrepreneur, it'll have a positive impact on growing the economy. And, in turn, you'll get revenue."
Except here is what Walker left out of his story: after Reagan cut taxes, he raised them -- starting the very next year, spooked by deficits that seem quaint compared to today's monster numbers. Ultimately, the Reagan tax increases took back about half the cuts that Walker praises.
"Although he cut taxes when he could, he raised them when he had to," economist Bruce Bartlett wrote of Reagan in a 2011 article in Tax Notes. Which is, sadly, more than can be said of Walker and most of his compatriots in the modern-day Republican Party.


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Ian McEwan: Ian McEwan is good at creepy. In fact, he's the master of creepy. Not gross creepy like Stephen King. No, Ian McEwan doesn't write about rabid devil dogs or possessed girls who are drenched in pig's blood at the prom. He writes stories about ordinary people whose dreary lives are invaded by horror, whose banal existences swerve out of control when they open the door to maniacs. McEwan's unbridled imagination won him a Whitbread Prize in 1987 for his novel The Child in Time; two of his books (including 1981's The Comfort of Strangers) have been short-listed for the Booker Prize. Tonight at 8:00 at Books & Books (296 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables) he reads from his latest book, Enduring Love, a tale of obsession and tolerance. Admission is free. Call 442-4408. (NK)
Touched by the Gospel: The New World Symphony gives you many reasons to say hallelujah tonight at 8:00 at the Jackie Gleason Theatre of the Performing Arts (1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach). Grammy and Stellar Award-nominated singer Yolanda Adams joins guest conductor Isaiah Jackson and the orchestra, along with the 250-member Community Gospel Choir, for "Touched by the Gospel: A Symphonic and Choral Tapestry." The soul-stirring program consists of Brahms's Academic Festival Overture, George Walker's Lyric for strings, and Joseph Schwanter's "Daybreak of Freedom" from New Morning for the World. Further attempts to have you dancing in the aisles include gospel standards such as "His Eye Is on the Sparrow," "I Am Not Afraid," and "Lift Him Up." Tickets range from $15 to $50; proceeds will go to create a scholarship fund for black students pursuing a classical music degree. Call 673-3331. (NK)
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François-Frédéric Guy, concert pianist and specialist in the works of Beethoven, will play Sonatas No. 15, Op. 28, 14, Op.27 and 29, Op.106.
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If you enjoy The Twilight Zone but find them slightly too tame, you will enjoy this collection of short stories. Most will leave you thinking, "Umm... what?" Others will have you wondering, "What is this guy on?" and a few will just leave you saying "WTF?!" All in all they are an entertaining collection of short stories. The stories are not scarey in the classic sence but very odd indeed. Bentley Little has an interesting imagination. Even though they are short stories, it's not long before you're right there along with each main character, picturing whats happening in your mind.
I hope that Audibles recieve more of his books for us to enjoy. This is one auther I will easily spend my credits and extra cash on, should they do so.
"creepy, stupid, funny or weird l, but always fun."
Although just about every story was enjoyable even if returned from original collection, I found mitch's performance lackluster. He seemed almost bored.
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