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Kidapawan | ||
City | ||
City of Kidapawan | ||
City Hall
Nickname(s): City of Fruits and Highland Springs; Spring in the Highlands; Second Fruit Basket of the Philippines; City at the Foot of Mt. Apo | ||
Map of Cotabato with Kidapawan highlighted |
Location in the Philippines | ||
Coordinates: 07°01′N 125°05′E / 7.017°N 125.083°ECoordinates: 07°01′N 125°05′E / 7.017°N 125.083°E | ||
Country | Philippines | |
Region | SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII) | |
Province | North Cotabato | |
District | 2nd District of Cotabato | |
Founded | August 18, 1947 | |
Cityhood | February 12, 1998 | |
Barangays | 40 | |
Government[1] | ||
• Mayor | Joseph A. Evangelista | |
Area[2] | ||
• Total | 358.47 km2 (138.41 sq mi) | |
Elevation | 279 m (915 ft) | |
Population (2010)[3] | ||
• Total | 125,447 | |
• Density | 350/km2 (910/sq mi) | |
Time zone | PHT (UTC+8) | |
ZIP code | 9400 | |
Dialing code | 64 | |
Income class | 3rd Class | |
Website | kidapawancity |
Kidapawan, officially the City of Kidapawan (Filipino: Lungsod ng Kidapawan) or Kidapawan City, is a third class city in the province of Cotabato, Philippines. It is the capital city of Cotabato Province. Located at the foot of Mount Apo, it is popular destination from late October to December and in the summer, when thousands of tourists climb the country's highest mountain.
The word Kidapawan comes from the words tida, which means 'spring', and pawan, which means 'highland'.[citation needed]
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The first settlers around Kidapawan were predominantly Manobos. The influx of Christian settlers from Luzon and the Visayas resulted in the evolution of the word from 'Tidapawan' to 'Kidapawan'. Aside from the Manobos and Christians, Kidapawan was also home to the most prominent Muslims, including a Sultan (Sultan Omar Kiram II) who was a descendant of Rajah Baguinda.
Kidapawan City was created by the Republic Act. No. 8500, signed by President Fidel V. Ramos on February 12, 1998, making it the first component city of Cotabato Province. The Act was ratified by a large majority by a plebiscite on March 21, 1998. It was originally named a district of Pikit.
In 1942, the Japanese Imperial forces entered Kidapawan. Three years later, local Filipino soldiers of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary units and Moro guerrilla fighters taken to liberate Kidapawan fought the battles against the Japanese Imperial forces. Kidapawan was later declared a separate municipality by Executive Order No. 82 issued by President Manuel Roxas on August 18, 1947. It thus become the fourth town of the then Empire Province of Cotabato, composed previously of the municipalities of Cotabato (now Cotabato City), Dulawan (later named Datu Piang) and Midsayap.
Created along with the city were the twelve original barangays, namely: Birada, Ginatilan, Indangan, Linangcob, Luvimin, Manongol, Marbel, Mateo, Meohao, Mua-an, Perez, and Sibawan. From the original land area of 273, 262 hectares, Kidapawan retained only 34,007.20 hectares when four municipalities were created from it namely: Magpet (June 22, 1963, R.A. 3721), Matalam (Dec. 29, 1961, E.O. 461), M'lang (Aug. 3, 1951, E.O. 462) and President Roxas (May 8, 1967, R.A. 4869).
Prior to its conversion to a municipality, five appointed District Mayors had served Kidapawan. The first was Datu Siawan Ingkal, tribal chieftain of the Manobos, who headed the Civilian Emergency Administration when World War II broke out. He was followed by Felimon Blanco, Ceferino Villanueva, Jacinto Paclibar, and Alfonso Angeles Sr., who became the first elected mayor of the municipality.
Kidapawan became the provincial capital of Cotabato Province pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 341 dated 22 November 1973, with the provincial seat of government located in Amas. Later, Batas Pambansa No. 660 dated 19 December 1983 renamed the Province of North Cotabato just plain Cotabato. By the time it became the province capital, Kidapawan had already 40 barangays under its geopolitical jurisdiction.
Kidapawan is located at the foot of Mount Apo in the southeastern section of Cotabato province, placed in the middle of five other major cities of Davao, General Santos, and Cagayan de Oro.[citation needed]
Kidapawan lies outside the typhoon belt and has a mild climate characterized by wet and dry seasons. The coldest months are December and January. The hottest are April and May.[citation needed]
Kidapawan City is politically subdivided into 40 barangays.[2]
- Amas - (Urban)
- Amazion - (Rural)
- Balabag - (Rural)
- Balindog - (Urban)
- Binoligan - (Rural)
- Birada - (Urban)
- Gayola - (Rural)
- Ginatilan - (Rural)
- Ilomavis - (Rural)
- Indangan - (Rural)
- Junction - (Rural)
- Kalaisan - (Rural)
- Kalasuyan - (Rural)
- Katipunan - (Rural)
- Lanao - (Urban)
- Linangcob - (Rural)
- Luvimin - (Rural)
- Macebolig - (Rural)
- Magsaysay - (Rural)
- Malinan - (Rural)
- Manongol - (Rural)
- Marbel(Embac) - (Rural)
- Mateo - (Rural)
- Meohao - (Rural)
- Mua-an - (Rural)
- New Bohol - (Rural)
- Nuangan - (Urban)
- Onica - (Rural)
- Paco - (Rural)
- Patadon(Patadon East) - (Rural)
- Perez - (Rural)
- Poblacion - (Urban)
- San Isidro - (Rural)
- San Roque - (Rural)
- Santo Niño - (Rural)
- Sibawan - (Rural)
- Sikitan - (Rural)
- Singao - (Rural)
- Sudapin - (Urban)
- Sumbac - (Rural)
Population census of Kidapawan | ||
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
1995 | 87,758 | — |
2000 | 101,205 | +3.10% |
2007 | 117,610 | +2.09% |
2010 | 125,447 | +2.38% |
Source: National Statistics Office[3] |
Based on the 2010 census, the city has a total population of 125,447 people,[3] up from 117,610 in 2007. The religion is predominantly Christian, although there are many Muslims residing in the city. The main language is Cebuano. Ilonggo, Tagalog and English are the secondary languages.
Cebuanos and Ilonggos are the major ethnic groups in the city. Other ethnic groups residing in the area are the Ilocanos, Maguindanaons and Manobos. Cebuano language is the most widely spoken language, especially in the city proper. English is considered as the medium of instruction in schools and other learning institutions; it is also predominantly used in major government agencies in their transactions and reports. Laws and ordinances in the city are all written in English. Most of the inhabitants can also speak Filipino.
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Kidapawan City was classified as a 1st class city per Department of Finance Order No. 20-2005 . In 2006, it yielded an income of Php268.94 million, of which 73.8 percent constituted the Internal Revenue Allotment. Of its Php314.22 million total expenditures for the year, 25.9 percent were expended on economic services.
The City is considered as the province's industrial hub. It plays a pivotal role in the economic development of the province and its adjacent areas. It is the commercial and trading hub of six neighboring municipalities. It lies at the heart of two large domestic markets: General Santos City, Davao City and Cotabato City.
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The flower-cutting industry is a primary source of livelihood among Cotabateños, especially those residing in Kidapawan City. In addition to ornamental and forest tree seedlings, flowers such as roses, anthuriums and orchids are abundantly grown locally providing a very promising and highly profitable source of livelihood and business in the area.
Kidapawan is the second largest producer of fruit in the Philippines, after Davao City. Exotic fruits like durian, Mangosteen, lanzones, marang, singkamas, rambutan, banana, and the like are grown and harvested in abundance in the highlands of Mt. Apo, in rural communities of Kidapawan City, and also in small home plots.
Crops abundantly grown in the area include abaca, rubber, corn, rice, coconut, and vegetables.
Kidapawan City is the most well-known starting point for trekking on Mount Apo[4][5][6][7] which towers at 10,311 feet above sea level with a total area of 14.6 square meters. The country's tallest peak is an abode to the almost extinct Philippine eagle.[8][9][10] The mountain is surrounded by moss-covered century-old-trees, a wide variety of flora and fauna, sulfur craters, and massive boulders. Within the Mt. Apo Natural Park is the Mandarangan Geological Site which is being promoted as a major educational tourism site. Lake Venado, hidden among the mountain ranges, stands at an elevation of 7,200 feet above sea level. Lake Agko is a steaming blue lake where hot and cold springs converge. It stands at an elevation of 4,200 feet above sea level.
Marbel Falls is a hidden twin waterfall of about 60 to 70 feet surrounded by hot springs. Mawig Falls is located in Barangay Balabag and is the source of the Matingao River.
To celebrate the abundance of the exotic fruits grown in Kidapawan City, the city government hold an annual festival in the month of August called Timpupu, the fruit festival. This festival, first held in 2002[11] celebrates the fruit harvest. The city purchases large quantities of local fruit which is laid out on tables along the streets for visitors and residents.[12] Dubbed "Timpupu" from the Manobo word "harvest", the celebration signifies the people's thanksgiving for the bountiful harvest and richness of the exotic fruits that thrive in the area. Activities featured during the annual event include the Fruit Galore, Fruit Float Parade, Fruit Arrangement and Street Dancing Competition.
The Foundation Anniversary of the City of Kidapawan (February 12) is celebrated with parades, beauty contests, and traditional, non-lethal horse fights.
Local public transportation is primarily served by almost 2,000 motor tricycles known as just "motor". Multicabs, and jeepney provide transportation to barangays and adjacent municipalities. Public Utility Vans also served routes to and from the cities of Davao, Cotabato, Tacurong and General Santos.
Educational institutions[edit]
- Southern Philippines Methodist Colleges, Inc.
- Spottswood National High School
- Marciano Mancera Memorial Elementary School
- School For Life Montessori
- Kidapawan Doctors College, Inc.[13]
- Kidapawan City Pilot Elementary School SPED Center
- Kidapawan City Pilot Elementary School
- Kidapawan City National High School (City High)
- ABC Educational Development Center
- Felipe Suerte Memorial Elementary School
- Central Mindanao Colleges
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Kidapawan College
- Colegio de Kidapawan[14]
- Kidapawan Anchor Bay Bible School
- Kidapawan Jireh Christian School
- Kidapawan Southern Baptist Elementary School
- Kidapawan Polytechnic College
- Kidapawan Doctors College, Inc
- North Point College of Arts and Technology
- North Valley College Foundation
- Notre Dame of Kidapawan College[15][16]
- Read Data Access Computer College (RDACC)
- Habitat Elementary School
- St. Mary's Academy of Kidapawan (Formerly Notre Dame of Kidapawan for Girls)[17][18][19][20]
- University of Southern Mindanao Kidapawan City Campus[21]
- Kidapawan City SDA Elememntary School
- St. Louis Review Center (SLRC) - Kidapawan (Nursing, Teachers & Civil Service Review)
- Lanao Central Elementary School
- Saniel Cruz National High School (SCNHS) Formerly Kidapawan City National High School Annex[22]
- Linangkob National High School
- Paco central elementary school
- Paco national high school
- Amas Central Elementary School
- Amas National High School
Radio Stations[edit]
- 1. 90.3 mHz DXCA Charm Radio (Andolana Broadcasting Network/Polytechnic Foundation of Cotabato & Asia)
- 2. 101.5 Edge Radio (United Christian Broadcasting)
- 3. 103.1 Dream Fm (DepEd)
- 4. 107.1 mHz Radyo Natin (Manila Broadcasting Company)
- 5. 88.7 mHz Happy FM DXDM (Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation)
- 6. 102.3 Gold FM (Kalayaan Broadcasting System)
- 7. 96.1 Lyk Fm (NCTVN)
- 8. 98.5 Energy Fm Kidapawan Doctors Broadcasting and Multi-media Corp. (Ultrasonic Broadcasting Network)
- 10. 89.5 Z Fm Mercado Entertainment
- 11. 107.9 One Radio "Ang Radyo Ni Juan" RMC Broadcasting Network
- 12. 105.7 Joy FM (Yaki Broadcasting Network)
- 13. 747 mhz DXND Radyo Bida (Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation)
- 14. 1089 mhz DXCM Radyo Ukay (University of Mindanao Broadcasting Network)
TV Network Stations[edit]
- TV5 DXKN-TV 8(with transmitters located in Cotabato Provincial Compound, Amas, Kidapawan)
- ABS-CBN TV 4 (relay station with transmitter located at Ilomavis, Kidapawan City)
- CTS-TV 6 (community television station of PCB-Countryside Television System)
- RAMS-TV 10 (relay television station of Rural Airwave Media Services)
- ABS-CBN Sports+Action TV 26 (relay station with transmitter located at Kidapawan City)
- ^ "Official City/Municipal 2013 Election Results". Intramuros, Manila, Philippines: Commission on Elections (COMELEC). 12 May 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^ a b "Province: COTABATO (NORTH COTABATO)". PSGC Interactive. Makati City, Philippines: National Statistical Coordination Board. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^ a b c "Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay: as of May 1, 2010" (PDF). 2010 Census of Population and Housing. National Statistics Office. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^ http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5022/
- ^ http://www.summitpost.org/mount-apo/483022
- ^ http://volcano.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/update_VMEPD/Volcano/VolcanoList/apo.htm
- ^ http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0701-03=
- ^ http://pawb.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71:region-11&catid=69:regions
- ^ IUCN Red List
- ^ http://www.haribon.org.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=223:the-largest-eagle-in-the-world&catid=57:news-on-h&Itemid=119
- ^ Mindanews - Kidapawan prepares for Fruit Festival
- ^ Sun.Star General Santos - Timpupu Festival: Paying homage to the exotic fruits
- ^ http://www.kdci.edu.ph/
- ^ http://www.cdk.edu.ph/
- ^ http://www.university-directory.eu/Philippines/Notre-Dame-of-Kidapawan-College.html
- ^ http://www.philippinecompanies.com/companyprofile/52413/notre-dame-of-kidapawan-college
- ^ http://www.rvmonline.net/?q=education
- ^ http://mom.exchange.ph/schools/kidapawan-city/st-marys-academy-of-kidapawan
- ^ http://www.philippinecompanies.com/companyprofile/52416/st-mary-s-academy-of-kidapawan
- ^ http://www.ndea.org.ph/index.php?module=index&event=postsdetails&postid=9
- ^ http://www.usm.edu.ph
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saniel-Cruz-National-High-School/213923581988462,
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kidapawan City. |
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Kidapawan. |
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PORTLAND, Ore. – A Christian organization in Oregon has filed a ballot initiative that would protect business owners against lawsuits and other penalties in the event that they decline to directly or indirectly participate in a same-sex "wedding."
The Oregon Family Council filed the proposal, entitled the Protect Religious Freedom Initiative, on Thursday in light of the lawsuits and complaints lodged in recent months against several bakers, florists and photographers in the nation.
Earlier this year, the Christian owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham were placed under investigation after they declined to make a cake for a lesbian ceremony. The business states that it was soon forced to close its doors and operate from home due to protests and harassment from homosexuals.
"This fight is not over. We will continue to stand strong," owners Aaron and Melissa Klein wrote on a note taped to the bakery door upon closing. "The LORD is good and we will continue to serve HIM with all our heart."
"A growing trend of silencing can be seen where business owners of faith or with conscientious objections are being forced to compromise their individual conscience rights or face harassment, persecution, penalties levied upon them by the state, and the possibility of losing their business for declining to participate in same-sex wedding ceremonies," Oregon Family Council wrote in a news release announcing the initiative.
Current non-discrimination laws prohibit businesses from refusing service based on "race, color, religion, sex [or] sexual orientation." But many business owners have no issue with serving homosexuals in general, unless it involves participation in a same-sex ceremony.
The text of the amendment proposed this week would ensure that any business owner in Oregon may not be "penalized by the state or a political subdivision of this state for declining to solemnize, celebrate, participate in, facilitate, or support any same-sex marriage ceremony or its arrangements, same-sex civil union ceremony or its arrangements, or same-sex domestic partnership ceremony or its arrangements."
It notes that "there are groups pushing the view that religion is purely a private matter and that religious voices or opinions should be silenced." But "[r]eligion is more than just private worship. It involves public expression on moral and social issues. Religious freedom, our first freedom, needs protection as this Initiative intends to do."
Oregon Family Council spokesperson Teresa Harke told reporters this week that business owners should have the right to operate in accordance with their faith.
"Would you expect a Jewish bakery to serve a neo-Nazi who wanted a cake with a swastika on it?" she asked The Oregonian.
Harke also outlined in the organization's news release that Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian once said, "The goal is never to shut down a business [for their beliefs]. The goal is to rehabilitate."
"It is very troubling that Oregon elected officials believe people of faith or with conscientious objections need to be 'rehabilitated,'" she stated.
The initiative would need to collect at least 87,213 signatures to qualify for the November 2014 ballot. It must, however, pass other hurdles before the signatures can be collected.
Stand on the truth .we have a big God that will depend us.
The woman business owner said she does not ask about lifestyle or question if one sins, we all do, she even said she has no problem serving gays; but, being confronted with an obvious sin of gay marriage, as that is what she was being asked to do, attend and photograph at a gay marriage, and thus having to decide is she was willing to participate and she felt it was wrong.
The Lesbian couple had other options of other wedding photographers, so they were not denied equal services. I believe that they simply wanted money and publicity for the gay cause, which is based on anti-Christian thuggery.
This protection should have been written into the "queer marriage" laws of all states that allow this fiction. But the liberal;s would rather force believers to participate in this sick charade or be penalized.
About 80% of Americans call themselves 'Christian', so "homosexual marriage" would not be happening unless that's what American 'Christians' wanted.
In the Old Testament the Jewish Synagogues gave themselves over to Baal worship because they didn't want to be "Baalophobic bigots". Today American Christian Churches are giving themselves over to homosexuality because they don't want to be "homophobic bigots".
Satan is still fooling people with the same old bag of tricks. There is nothing new under the sun.
The lesbian couple want publicity that's what this is about,stay strong, it is wrong. REMEMBER NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR GOD!!!One day every knee will bow ,and every wrong will be righted.Please refrain from making deragatory remarks about homosexuals, by this,I mean the term queer it makes you sound like you don't know the LORD as christians we know GOD loves everyone. Instead PRAY PRAY PRAY that we all turn from our sinful ways,LOVE ONE ANOTHER, isn't that what JESUS SAID? Don't condone wrong whether it's your point of view or not. HATE IS ALSO WRONG!
Amen. Nothing is too hard for God. I agree we need to pray. However we are called to Hate evil and the works of abominations what ever they are. In Revelations letters to the seven churches Jesus mentions:
"Yet this you have, you hate the works of the Nicola'itans, which I also hate."
Jesus hated a doctrine and the subsequent behaviour of the Nicolaitans. God hates evil and behaviour that is classified as wicked, but grants mercy to those who repent. He does not blindly close his eyes to that which he calls wickedness.
If you say that God does not hates, you have thrown out verses of the bible. Here are two:
Psalm 97
[10] The LORD loves those who hate evil; he preserves the lives of his saints;he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
[3] I will not set before my eyes anything that is base.I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cleave to me.
Praise God. The measure will probably pass but we should pray— however, the ungodly globalist-minded court system will then attempt to overturn the initiative for the good of "common cause". we must pray for the oregonian judges. God have mercy on those who are sealed in the blood of Jesus!
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Title: | Health and wealth: Dietary supplements, network marketing and the commodification of health |
Author: | Dixon, Anna R |
Date: | 2003-12 |
Publisher: | University of Hawaii at Manoa |
Citation: | Dixon, Anna R. (2003) Health and wealth: Dietary supplements, network marketing and the commodification of health. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawai'i, United States -- Hawaii. |
Abstract: | Dietary supplements overall constitute a multibillion-dollar industry in the U.S. today. This dissertation investigates a heretofore poorly-documented aspect of the burgeoning dietary supplements industry: network marketing. Network marketing, exemplified by companies like Amway as well as a host of smaller, less well-known companies, operates within the so-called "grey economy." Hawai'i ranks second in the nation in the percentage of network marketing distributors relative to its population. Network marketing works at the grassroots level of existing social networks to promote and sell its products, making it the ideal setting in which to do social science research. Semistructured and structured interviews were conducted with members of three companies. Aside from gathering baseline data on products used, health conditions addressed by these products and the structure of each company, interviews and product promotional material were analyzed using text analysis. Results of this research show that while perceived efficacy of network-marketed products is an important motivator in becoming a product distributor, factors such as control over one's health, creation of a support community through shared efforts, and economic opportunity are also important. Finally, analysis of themes in product advertising simultaneously reflect as well as inform network marketers' beliefs and desires for autonomy in the spheres of finance, personal life, and health. |
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You are what you eat: diet shown to be factor in evolution
What role does the dietary differences between men and other apes have on our evolution? Researchers found that even in a very short time our diets can have physiological and genetic consequences.
Humans consume a distinct diet compared to other apes. Not only do we consume much more meat and fat, but we also cook our food. It has been hypothesized that adopting these dietary patterns played a key role during human evolution. However, to date, the influence of diet on the physiological and genetic differences between humans and other apes has not been widely examined.
By feeding laboratory mice different human and chimp diets over a mere two week period, researchers at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, were able to reconstruct some of the physiological and genetic differences observed between humans and chimpanzees.
The researchers fed laboratory mice one of three diets: a raw fruit and vegetable diet fed to chimpanzees in zoos, a human diet consisting of food served at the Institute cafeteria or a pure fast food menu from the local McDonald's™ (the latter caused the mice to significantly gain weight). The chimpanzee diet was clearly distinct from the two human diets in its effect on the liver - thousands of differences were observed in the levels at which genes were expressed in the mouse livers. No such differences were observed in the mouse brains. A significant fraction of the genes that changed in the mouse livers, had previously been observed as different between humans and chimpanzees. This indicates that the differences observed in these particular genes might be caused by the difference in human and chimpanzee diets.
Furthermore, the diet-related genes also appear to have evolved faster than other genes - protein and promoter sequences of these genes changed faster than expected, possibly because of adaptation to new diets.
Citation: Somel M, Creely H, Franz H, Mueller U, Lachmann M, et al (2008) Human and Chimpanzee Gene Expression Differences Replicated in Mice Fed Different Diets. PLoS One 3(1): e1504. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001504 http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0001504


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Social Security: Shock Therapy |
Wrote this in 2007. Thought it could stand a repost what with the budget doings.
Shock Therapy Part 1 by HB As all good torturers know, fear and uncertainty can be wonderfully motivating. In Naomi Kleins latest book, The Shock Doctrine, she explains how this simple principle has been used by international financial institutions to push through neo-liberal economic policy around the world. In the wake of crises and disasters, the boys from the IMF and the World Bank would show up, loans in hand, preaching the gospel of privatization and austerity. The natives, their better judgment clouded by fear and confusion or bribes, when needed would generally submit. It was called shock therapy. Klein has, however, been at some pains to deny any deliberate engineering of crisis by the neo-liberal shock cadres. And though Im generally enamored with her thesis, here we part ways. To my mind, theres plenty of circumstantial evidence that deliberate engineering is sometimes precisely whats going on. Case in point, right here at home: Social Security. A recent headline from my local paper: Social Security 13.6 Trillion Short. Big, scary number, but youll search the article in vain for any contextual detail. Just how much is 13.6 trillion? And when will this shortfall occur? Next week? Next year? Sometime in infinity? They dont say. Just the scary number. The lack of context, boys and girls, is a clue youre being played. The correct answer is: Sometime in infinity.1 Its the Bush Administration making its annual noises about the Social Security crisis. Alan Greenspan has been out hyping the same message. On Democracy Now, for example, he pronounced that There is no alternative to increased private funding of retirement.2 But wait a minute. Alan Greenspan? I dimly remember him as the guy who saved Social Security, back in the reign of St. Ronnie Reagan. Greenspan chaired Reagans National Commission on Social Security Reform, for heavens sake, and made the recommendations that became the Social Security Amendments of 1983. A bipartisan Congress passed them, and Reagan signed them into law. St. Ron said at the time: This bill demonstrates for all time our nations ironclad commitment to Social Security. It assures the elderly that America will always keep the promises made in troubled times a half a century ago. It assures those who are still working that they, too, have a pact with the future. From this day forward, they have one pledge that they will get their fair share of benefits when they retire.3 Now Alans saying we have to privatize? What terrible disasters occurred since 1983? In fact, the disaster was the 1983 reform itself. Its main provision was an increase in Social Security taxes calculated to generate 25+ years of ever-increasing surpluses, surpluses that could be dumped into the general budget to grease the skids for tax cuts to the super-rich. In 1983, 20 million in extra Social Security taxes and interest was collected, 20 million more than needed to pay retirees. In 1988, Reagans last year in office, the surplus was 38 billion. By 2006, it was 182 billion,4 and nearly 2 trillion in bonds sat in the Social Security Trust Fund, mostly surplus tax payments and interest accumulated since 1983.5 The 2006 surplus was 1/3 over and above the $544 billion mailed out to beneficiaries that year. 102 billion of it was interest paid to the Trust Fund, and 80 billion was excess payroll taxes: 13% of total collections.6 Tossed into the general budget, the 2006 surplus easily financed the Department of Education budget (67 billion),7 with plenty left to pay for the Administration for Children and Families (47 billion). ACF, by the way, is welfare, Head Start, child support enforcement,* adoption assistance, foster care, child care, community block grants, energy assistance, and programs for the mentally retarded, refugees, and Native Americans.8 Thats how big the yearly Social Security surplus is. Alternatively, the 2006 surplus would fund about a year of the war in Iraq. Thats how big the war budget is.9 1. Social Security Administration, 2007 Trustees Report, Table IVB6. 2. Democracy Now 9/24/07. 3. R. Reagan, Remarks on Signing the Social Security Amendments of 1983 4/20/83. 4. Congressional Budget Office Historical Budget Data 1962-2006 5. Social Security Administration, Fiscal Year Trust Fund Operations. 6. Social Security Administration, Trust Fund Operations in 2006. 7. Department of Education Budget History, 2007 Total Appropriation. 8. Administration for Children and Families, ACF All-Purpose Table 2006 Enacted. 9. Iraq War Budget Jumps for 2008, LA Times, 10/11/07, ret. 10/11/07. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-14-11 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. Shock Therapy pt 2: Three-Card Monte |
Three-Card Monte In 1983, the hike in Social Security taxes was sold to the public as a way for the boomers to pre-fund their own retirement. Kind of like putting away a nest egg at the local savings and loan. Sounded reasonable. But in that scenario, youd be loaning your money to a separate entity, whod pay it back plus interest from its own money. In the case of the 1983 reform, Social Security taxpayers effectively loaned money to the Federal Government, and their children (in their role as regular taxpayers) will pay it back plus interest. No easing of the burden for the next generation has occurred; theyll pay about what they would have paid anyway, even without the 30 years of extra payments from their elders. Plus interest. Everybody involved in the 1983 reform knew this: Reagan, Greenspan, the bipartisan Commission that made the recommendations and the bipartisan Congress that passed them. Any surplus Social Security money, by law, must be loaned to the government in exchange for government bonds. That hasnt changed since 1936.1 The only difference in the past was, once a cushion was built up in the Trust Fund reserve, no significant yearly surpluses (or deficits) were allowed to accumulate. Taxes taken in were kept in rough balance with benefits going out.2 From the 1950s to the 80s, the Trust Fund balance stayed at under 200 billion in inflation-adjusted value. Performance of Social Security Trust Funds in Inflation-Adjusted (2005) Dollars* Year Current $ (Mils) 2005 $ (Mils) 1943 4,820 55,709 1953 18,707 132,760 1963 20,715 129,015 1973 44,414 199,960 1983 24,867 48,434 1993 378,285 507,152 2003 1,530,764 1,611,323 2005 1,858,660 1,856,660 (*Social Security Administration, Performance of Social Security Trust Funds, 1937-2005.) Pay as you go was policy for over 40 years; it worked very well. With an overhead of less than 2%,3 Social Security never missed a check. Its the most successful and longest-lived retirement security program in history. It took a financial wizard like Alan Greenspan to think of generating increasing surpluses. But since they dont ease the burden on the next generation as advertised, one has to ask: why? First, note that in 1983 Social Security taxes applied only to the first 32,000 of wage income, and now apply only to the first 97,000. Wage income over the cap isnt subject to Social Security taxes.4 Not a concern for most of us, since 90% of us make less than 90,000 a year, and every penny is taxed.5 Second, note that Social Security was designed as a stand-alone, transparently self-financing program on purpose, so that its taxes and benefits wouldnt be mixed in with the general budget for nefarious ends. But thats just what happened in 1983. While Greenspan and company were busy raising Social Security taxes on the bottom 90%, the Reagan Administration was merrily cutting income and capital gains taxes, mainly for folks making over 200,000. In 1979 the top income tax rate was 70%, assessed only on income above 200,000, and the capital gains tax was 28%. By 1986 the top rate was 50%, and the capital gains tax was 20%, with 60% of income excluded.6 Here the reform begins to look like a three-card monte shuffle. Raise Social Security taxes on ordinary working people to generate a surplus. Borrow the surplus into the general budget. Whoa Nelly, look at that extra money! Someone needs a tax cut! The super-rich and big businesses gain; ordinary workers and small businesses lose. Predictably, increasing budget deficits were the result. Both Bush I and Clinton re-jiggered taxes to generate more revenue, but never back to their pre-Reagan levels at the top.6 Now here comes Bush 2, and he wants to lower taxes even more. Whos there to help but Alan? In 2001 Greenspan testified in support of Bushs tax plan.7 Wonderful idea, he told Congress. Clintons budget surpluses are just too big. Were in danger of paying off the federal debt too fast, and then whatever would we do with all the money rolling in? Someone needs a tax cut. And once again, dear reader, that someone isnt you. Never mind that without borrowing the Social Security surplus, Clinton never produced a general budget surplus. But who bothers with details like that? With a wink and a nod from Alan, Congress passed Bushs tax cuts. Currently the top rate on capital gains is 15%, and the top rate (on income over 250K) is 35%.6 The Social Security tax is 12.4%. Half is taken off the top of employees checks and half is paid by employers. Both halves are part of the employees compensation. So in effect, the kid who works for $5.15 an hour at the Burger Palace gets taxed at almost the same rate Bill Gates does when he sells a property for capital gains. But heres another wrinkle thats not as immediately obvious: the owner of the Burger Palace also takes it in the shorts. Small and medium-sized businesses use more labor than large ones to generate a unit of production and profit. Every increase in Social Security taxes hits a small business harder than a giant corporation because the giants are less labor-intensive. Compared to a 28% cut in the top income tax rate, a 2% increase in payroll taxes is insignificant to Bill Gates; each of his 79,000 employees generates over 100K in profits.8 For the owner of the Burger Palace and his 5 employees generating only 3K each, its a different story. But hey by Greenspans style of reckoning, who needs an inefficient Burger Palace when you have a shiny corporate Burger King? 1. Social Security Administration, Agency History. # 2. Congressional Budget Office Historical Budget Data, Revenues, Outlays, Surpluses, Deficits and Debt Held by the Public, 1962 to 2006. # 3. Social Security Administration, Administrative Expenses. # 4. Urban and Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, Historical Social Security Tax Rates. # 5. Citizens for Tax Justice 3/07, Background Information on Incomes and Income Ranges. # 6. Citizens for Tax Justice, Top Federal Income Tax Rates on Regular Income and Capital Gains Since 1916. # # # 7. 2001 Tax Cuts were Justified, Greenspan Maintains, Washington Post, 3/16/05, ret. 10/07. # 8. Gates profit/employee, MSFT Investor Relations (July 19, 2007). Microsoft Fourth Quarter FY 2007 Earnings Release: Microsofts Annual Revenue Surpasses $50 Billion. microsoft.com, Ret. 07/08/15. # |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-14-11 03:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Pt. 3: The Big Lie |
Shock Therapy: The Big Lie
So new tax cuts were passed by a bipartisan Congress in 2001, and once again, the main beneficiaries were you guessed it the filthy rich. The top 1% of wage earners, those making 500K and up, saved 70 billion in 2006 alone. Enough to fund the Department of Education with change to spare. Over the ten years 2001-2010, the top 5%, those making 191K and up, will save about 920 billion dollars. Thats 48.3% of all Bushs tax cuts.1 Incidentally, thats about half of whats in the Social Security Trust Fund right now, built up over 24 years on wages under 97K. But the Trust Fund debt, some say, is just IOUs. Youve heard the spiel. Heres Bush in 2005: "Now, let me tell you something about the Social Security system. Its not a trust. A lot of people think, well, were collecting your money and were holding it for you, and then when you retire, were going to give it back to you. Thats not the way it works. Were collecting your money, and if weve got money left over in other words, if the if theres more money than the benefits promised to be paid in our hands, were spending it and leaving behind an IOU. Thats how it works. Its called a pay-as-you-go system. You pay, we go ahead and spend it." (Laughter.)2 Isnt he cute? Here he is again, same year: We take your payroll taxes, we pay out the benefits to current retirees, and with the money left over, we pay for other programs. And theres nothing left but file cabinets with IOUs. And thats how it works.3 Lets not ignore his second-in-command. Heres Cheney on the mission: Now, about 1.7 trillion of that is in the so-called Trust Fund: that is, money - thats money thats been collected thats not there as cash at this point.4 They dont sound very encouraging, do they? The cost of the war in Iraq, waged over imaginary WMDs, is approaching 200 billion a year.5 Nine billion of that has simply disappeared6, and unknown millions have gone into the pockets of corporations with ties to Cheneys and Bushes.789 Apparently its easy to find 200 billion a year to kill people, even while cutting 70 billion from millionaires tax bills but impossible to come up with 60 billion or so a year to redeem the Trust Fund.10 Those IOUs are implied to be worthless only because theyre owed to ordinary working people: sheep to be sheared, rubes to be conned, like the rubes dying in Iraq. Greenspans no better. In 2004, he urged the House Budget Committee to deal with the countrys escalating budget deficit by cutting benefits for future Social Security retirees.11 There. Did you watch his hands? Same old three-card monte shuffle. Thanks to Bushs No Billionaire Left Behind tax policy and Iraq, theres a growing deficit in the general budget so Greenspan wants to cut Social Security benefits. Thats the kind of rigorous logic that earns you the title of Wizard in ruling circles. Social Security was set up as a self-funding program. Its currently running multi-billion-dollar surpluses. Its finances and benefits have nothing to do with the general budget, or didnt, until Alan stuck his paws in. Is he senile? Doesnt he remember what he did and said in 1983? If deficits are bad, why in 1983 did he recommend the deliberate creation of a deficit the debt now owed to the Social Security Trust Fund? And if the extra money weve been sending Social Security for 24 years is just creating debt and worthless IOUs, how come Alan never suggests we stop making those excess payments? Because hes senile like a fox. And neither will you hear our party leaders suggesting we stop paying the extra freight. Instead, Republicans cheerlead for private accounts, and Democrats push for payroll tax increases. To save us from crisis, they say. Theyre picking our pockets, and they offer us every solution but the obvious one: remove their thieving hands. Theyre lying. Theyve always been lying. the great masses of the people more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. Such a falsehood will never enter their heads and they will not be able to believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous misrepresentation in others Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 10 1. Citizens for Tax Justice, The Bush Tax Cuts: The Latest CTJ Data, 3/07. # 2. President Participates in Social Security Conversation in Arizona, 3/21/2005. # 3. President Participates in Social Security Roundtable in Texas, 4/26/2005. # 4. Vice Presidents Remarks at Town Hall Meeting on Social Security, 3/22/05. # 5. Iraq War Budget Jumps for 2008, LA Times, 10/11/07, ret. 10/11/07. # 6. Audit: US Lost Track of Nine Billion in Iraq Funds, CNN 9/05, retrieved 10/07. # 7. Cheneys Multi-Million Dollar Revolving Door, Mother Jones 8/2/00. # 8. The Perpetual War Portfolio, Rational Enquirer. # 9. Big Contracts Went to Big Donors, CBS News, 10/30/03. # 10. Ignoring the complication of interest, it would cost about 63 billion/year to pay off 2 trillion dollars over 32 years. # 11. To Trim Deficits, Bush Recommends Social Security and Medicare Cuts, New York Times 2/28/2004; Greenspan Urges Future Social Security Cuts, MSNBC 2/25/04. # |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-14-11 03:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Pt. 4: "Ideas That are Lying Around" |
Ideas That Are Lying Around
Heres where we come back to Kleins thesis. In her book she quotes Milton Friedman, the capo di capi of the Chicago School of Economics: Only a crisis produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.1 Within certain circles of power, the Social Security crisis has been lying around for a very long time. In his 1936 campaign against FDR, Alf Landon called the new program a fraud on the workingman, and continued: Every month they bring 6 per cent of their wages so that he may act as trustee and invest their savings for their old age .the day comes What do they find? Roll after roll of neatly executed IOUs.2 Those damned IOUs again. FDR won that election. It was the Great Depression, the poorhouses were full, and for some the threat of starvation hit all too close to home.3 During the war and after, booming profits kept the rich folks busy for awhile, but by the end of the 50s things had started to slow down and Social Security crisis was back on the agenda. St. Reagan, in his nominating speech at the 1964 Republican convention, suggested privatization.4 Goldwater, the nominee, echoed the call. He lost. Too many folks still remembered the Depression and the poorhouses. Social Security had put those institutions out of business, but in their day, the overwhelming majority of their residents were over sixty.56 Today Social Security is a bulwark against penury for the elderly. It provides 50% or more of retirement support for 2/3 of beneficiaries, and 100% of support for 1/3.7 In 1978, a young Congressional candidate picked up the theme of crisis. Stumping at the Midland Texas Country Club, George W. Bush said: will be bust in 10 years unless there are some changes The ideal solution would be to invest the money the way they feel.8 Like the WMDs, the 1988 Social Security bust never manifested. Youd think Bush would be embarrassed, but 20 years after the crisis-that-wasnt, hes still banging the privatization gong. Theres plenty more scary talk where that came from, a steady stream of policy papers and opinion pieces, dutifully parroted by the media. The think tanks that produce them are funded, not by any grass-roots demanding Social Security reform, but by a handful of big private fortunes, some well-known: Mellon-Scaife9, DuPont10, Coors.11 Other funders are less famous, but their fortunes are equally large. The Koch brothers, inheritors of one of the worlds largest private oil fortunes, fund whats probably the most important source of privatization propaganda: the Cato Institute.12 Incidentally, George Bushs sister Doro Bush Koch, is reportedly married to a Koch cousin.13 In 1983, in the wake of another failed attempt to gather public support for privatization, Cato published an influential paper titled Achieving a Leninist Strategy.14 The authors start by acknowledging that Social Security is a popular program, so head-on approaches to dismantling it are unlikely to be successful. Instead, they recommend the Leninist Strategy of the title. Strange to find libertarian free-marketeers so enthusiastic about a reviled communist, but politics does make strange bedfellows. Lenin was a political strategist known for super-pragmatism, a proponent of stealth tactics, alliances of convenience, and sleeper cells. He advised a secretive vanguard to help create the conditions for revolution, while lying in wait for the revolutionary moment when power could by seized by virtue of the same vanguards superior organization and discipline. This is exactly what the Cato authors recommend in the way of a long-term strategy to take Social Security private. To help create revolutionary conditions, they suggest: 1) Mobilizing a coalition of folks whod benefit from privatization (banks, investment houses, and other financial institutions). 2) Continuing public education aimed at discrediting Social Security and talking up privatization. 3) Creation and promotion of financial savings alternatives (e.g. 401Ks, IRAs) to get people accustomed to using them. 4) Splitting potential coalition supporters of Social Security, such as current and future recipients: the strategy must be to propose moving to a private system in such a way as to neutralize the coalition that supports the existing system. Thus, older folks would be told their benefits wouldnt be cut, making them less likely to mobilize to help protect benefits for the young. All this has happened in the years since. At the end of the paper, the authors say: The next Social Security crisis may be further away than many people believe it could be many years before the conditions are such that a radical reform of Social Security is possible. But then, as Lenin well knew, to be a successful revolutionary, one must also be patient and consistently plan for real reform. 1. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, 1962. # 2. Alf Landon, I Will Not Promise the Moon, Speech of 1936. # 3. Ronald Edsforth, The New Deal: Americas Response to the Great Depression, Starvation deaths, pp. 84-87. # 4. Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing, Speech of 1964. # 5. Michael B. Katz, The Shadow of the Poorhouse, Social Security as the end of the poorhouse, p. 132. # 6. Abraham Epstein, Facing Old Age: A Study of Old Age Dependency in the United States and Old Age Pensions, majority of residents elderly, pp 28-29. # 7. Economic Policy Institute, Economic Snapshots, Social Security and Income, Figure 1, Importance of Social Security Benefits to Those Aged 65 and Older. # 8. For Bush, A Long Embrace of Social Security Plan, New York Times 2/27/05. # 9. Mellon-Scaife helps fund Cato, Heritage and other anti-Social Security initiatives through Scaife foundations. # 10. The Dupont think tank is the National Center for Policy Analysis. # 11. The Coors family helps fund Cato, Heritage and other anti-Social Security initiatives. # 12. Media Transparency, Koch Family Foundations; Cato Institute Project on Social Security Choice. # 13. Kicked in the Koch, American Politics Journal 8/4/00. # 14. Stuart Butler and Peter Germanis, Achieving a Leninist Strategy. # |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-14-11 03:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Pt 5: Perfect storm |
Shock Therapy: Perfect Storm
Lenin and the boys at Cato agree with Friedman: Only a crisis produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. We know what ideas our leaders have lying around. Theyve been drumming them into our heads for years. What shape might the coming crisis take? Crisis neednt be a hurricane or tsunami; it can be a financial disaster as well even a phony one. As long as people are scared and confused and will do what you want them to thats all that matters. Crisis might look like the perfect storm of mortgage meltdown, recession, declining industries and wages, rising deficits, all coming to a head as the boomers retire and that unfortunate file cabinet full of IOUs, with so sorry no money to redeem them. Combine that with a full-court press of pundits, preachers and politicians, all well-manicured and well-fed, none in any danger of going without in their old age, though they insist you must. All of them nattering away at you, on the TV, in the papers, on the radio, relentless as the zombies in The Night of the Living Dead: Theres no-o-o-o money! No-o-o-o money! If you dont do what we say the countrys going to go broke and youre all going to die! It might be that the 1983 debut of both Greenspans reform and the Cato paper wasnt coincidental. It might be, indeed, that Greenspan created the debt to the Trust Fund with an inkling that it could eventually be hyped as a crisis to take down Social Security for good. Thats how the IMF did it, Klein says. Get the rubes in debt, then pressure them to take your shock treatment, your austerity program. As in Chile, as in Russia, where poverty rates doubled and tripled after the treatment1; so here. We too must take our medicine. Bugger that. Theres no Social Security crisis. There never has been. If youre not convinced yet, how about this: the projection used to hype the phony crisis assumes a growth rate of 1.8% over the next 75 years.2 Thats lower than the 1.9% average growth rate of the Great Depression, 1929-1940.3 But there are actually three projections; an optimistic one, an intermediate one, and a pessimistic one. In the optimistic scenario, long-term growth averages 2.6%, the Trust Fund never runs out, and theres a 17-trillion dollar surplus in 2080.4 So far, reality has always turned out closer to the optimistic projection than the other two. Since 1980, growth has averaged 3.1%.5 Whee! Feel better? Not that a projection 75 years into the future has any bankable accuracy anyway. The projection, like crisis it predicts, is a fraud, a cynical Big Lie, a con. They want your money. Thats all theyve ever wanted, and theyll keep pushing until they get it, unless they know you understand the con. Heres the straight story. The economy isnt the casino, isnt the game, isnt even the chits of paper we use to trade and keep score with. The economy is the real world of producing real goods and services. So long as American workers are producing real goods and real knowledge for decent wages, there will be enough surplus for their elders Social Security. If, on the other hand, our leaders follow the road theyve been on the last 30 years: off-shoring production, outsourcing democratic government to unaccountable private power, stripping resources faster than theyre renewed, allowing infrastructure and human skills to decay, and substituting a casino economy for a real one, well all go broke, and private accounts wont change that likelihood one bit. Social Securitys not in crisis. Our leadership is. Our democracy is. No tax hikes, no benefit cuts, no private accounts. Hands off, ya lying crooks. 1. See discussion of the effect of shock therapy and privatization on Chile and Russia in Melanie Klein, The Shock Doctrine, 2007. # 2. Social Security Administration, 2004 Trustees Report, Table V.B.2, intermediate projection 2015-2080 = 1.8% GDP growth # 3. Growth % calculated from Real GDP 1929-1940, Louis D. Johnston and Samuel H. Williamson, The Annual Real and Nominal GDP for the United States, 1790 - Present. Economic History Services, 10/05. # 4. Social Security Administration, 2005 Trustees Report, Table VI.F7. # 5. Growth % calculated from Real GDP 1941-2006, Louis D. Johnston and Samuel H. Williamson, The Annual Real and Nominal GDP for the United States, 1790-Present. Economic History Services, 10/05. # 6. Three-card monte is a confidence game where the mark is tricked into betting he can find the money card among three face-down playing cards, a classic short con in which the outside man pretends to conspire with the mark to cheat the inside man, while in fact conspiring with the inside man to cheat the mark. (*definition from wikipedia) # |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-14-11 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
5. I can't seem to find the surplus. Seems we spend 59% more than |
we recieve. The trust fund is a giant pile of iou's.
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-14-11 04:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Yup, just like the pile of IOUs for China, Japan, Treasury bond purchasers, etc |
I would favor a separation from the general fund, raising the cap, and applying social security taxes to all forms of income.
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-11 12:09 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. so you're saying if you borrow money from me & spend it you no longer have to pay it back? |
not only would that be dishonest, it would be in violation of 60 years of precedent.
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sad sally (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-14-11 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. Add to the SS Shock Therapy the Payroll Tax Holiday stimulus effects |
Where did this stimulus go?
In the United States, the job market is showing increasing signs of life. In March, payrolls rose by about 200,000 for the second month in a row. For the quarter as a whole, our US economics team points out that aggregate hours worked rose at a 2.0% annual rate. Adding in a percentage point of productivity growth to this number, the rough supply-side measure of GDP growth comes to 3.0%. On the back of this improving outlook, markets have been very sensitive to even the smallest hint of an exit . However, consumption is looking softer despite the payroll tax cut. The 2% cut in the social security tax started adding about an $8bn per month tailwind to disposable income starting in January. Unfortunately, that tailwind is quickly being displaced by mounting food and energy price headwinds. As Chart 23 shows, our US economics team thinks the cumulative rise in food and energy prices this year will completely cancel out the tax cut by April. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/remember-how-the-payroll... As for the Payroll Tax Holiday ending December 31, 2011, will that actually happen? http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/12/08/republicans-casu... Nancy Altman called the payroll tax cut in the Obama/McConnell deal the end of Social Security. In her view, the American political system circa 2010 doesnt let taxes go back up, and so Social Security will face a revenue crisis faster with a reduced payroll tax. The money will come out of general revenue to pay for that payroll tax holiday, but that just makes Social Security more dependent on general revenue and more vulnerable. That this is all coming at a time when knives have been unsheathed and are ready to hack away at Social Security makes it all the more dangerous. Ryan Grim asked the exact right questions, and Republicans were unusually blunt with him. Republicans acknowledged that the expiration of the tax holiday will be treated as a tax increase. Once something like this goes into place, a year from now, when it expires, itll be portrayed as a tax increase, said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). So in a body like Congress, precedents matter and this is setting a precedent. I think that certainly is going to create some problems down the road if it passes. Given that Congress, under Democratic control, cant gather itself to let tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire, members of both parties are convinced that letting the payroll tax rate revert back to its current spot will be near impossible. Once you bring a rate down, if it goes back up, people will feel that. Theyll feel their paycheck being less and that argument that letting it expire amounts to a tax hike eventually is bound to be made, said Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.). Theres always a tendency to continue those things Once something comes in, its very difficult to change it, said Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio.) He then volunteered, without prompting, that It would be detrimental to the Social Security system, especially when its in bad shape. ORIGINALLY POSTED TO DAILY KOS ON WED DEC 08, 2010 AT 01:36 PM PST.: The final point: we haven't heard from the White House how they plan to defuse this new bomb they've created two years from now. We've heard from his economic advisors that this temporary defunding of Social Security simply isn't a problem because we'll be writing IOUs from the general fund to pay for it -- but no acknowledgement that that's what we say every single time we "borrow" money from Social Security, and somehow never manage to pay it back, and that that, precisely, is exactly why there's currently a problem. On the part of ostensible experts like Summers, Geithner and the others, it fairly reeks of insincerity. Obama is willing to call Republicans "hostage takers" and irritated liberals "sanctimonious", but his people haven't yet addressed how they're magically going to stand firm on something two years from now that they're willingly giving away today. If America is expected to subject themselves to yet another Republican tax-cut experiment, and set itself up for not one, but two more rounds of hostage taking when these "temporary" measures run down their own clocks, the White House needs to be a lot clearer on why this newest one won't result in the same disaster all the last ones have caused. "Trust us next time around" is not a plan. |
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Mar 1, 2014
Tanglewood Manor of over half the staff that work for Frewsburg rest home . It upset a lot of the Residents that live there. When Tanglewood announce that the we're taking over 6 months ago they promised everyone that currently worked there would still have a job. What kind of person owns it now. well I would have to say money hungry a****** owns it now.
Mar 2, 2014
Then you don't know too much about him...Duh...sound like disgruntled employee or got fired..They are the only ones who have shit to say about Tanglewood Manor..Grow up...quit spreading lies and rumors about the place. Stupid people in this town..
Mar 2, 2014
shove a d*** up your ass f*** |
Mar 2, 2014
you must be Nicks Ball sacking Girlfriend |
Mar 3, 2014
Nick runs top notch facilities. Not afraid to spend money. One of a kind in this business. This person has sour grapes . Time will tell. FRH will be way better off . So will it's residents. Don't be a jerk. Get another job . It's ok. Really.
Mar 4, 2014
You must be one of those brown nosing emplyees of Tanglewood. Either that or you are completely blind because if you dont know the situation of him taking over the rest home in Frewsburg and the damage he has caused to so many peoples lives then you are a very ignorant person to say the least. I worked there...I sat in the meeting when they told us last year of this buyout. Nick stood in front of is all and swore NOBODY was leaving there if currently employeed. What a lie that was....he decides 2 months later to hold interviews and then only keeps aprox 10 people. Do you have any clue how many lives were affected for no reason at all? No of course you dont because it wasnt you. The employees were told simply your not needed...wtf is that bullshit? And perhaps the most devestating is to hear of our beloved residents who were so used to our care aides and med aides...some for 15 plus years. Can you justify that to me? Again...no you cant. He saw $$$signs and no regards to the lives of our residents or the families of loved ones who no longer have employment. I chose to quit before this takeover was final because I knew somwwhere down the line this guy was gonna do this. The rest home was a family owned business and we built a family. He is making it an institution and as long as im around I will continue to tell people not to do business with Tanglewood. What comes around goes around and word of mouth travels. In the end I hope his money makes him happy because some day he will have to answer for his wrong doings.
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This couldn't be more true! I do not now nor have I worked at FRH, however I have been effected, I have a loved one who works there. What that person has witnessed in the last 4 days is appalling not to mention the poor residents. Nick is a lying scumbag |
Mar 4, 2014
I really think I'd do anything in my power to keep my loved ones out of these types of facilities. They are plagued with apathetic,overworked employees that could give two shits about your family member.
Mar 5, 2014
Your a joke if you believe that he just has $$ signs in his eyes. I have worked thwre and I also have had family there so I have seen both sides! |
Mar 5, 2014
First off Nick has enough money to take care of himself, his children, grandchildren and possibly his great grandchildren so money is not what he's all about. An look at tanglewood then at frh.....um it was a dump. Tanglewood is very successful so just like any other normal person would do they are going to run frh the same.....makes sense. Change is part of life. Good and bad. You deal with it and move on. Get over it seriously! Nick is an amazing person who cares! An if you didn't make the cut then you didn't make the cut. Move on. Crying over it gets you no where! He may of said people were keeping their jobs but things change. Again its called life. It could of been you didn't pass their standard of an employee. Their strict.....because their good. An anyway you calling him names and boo hooing on here isn't changing anything. He's still rich as can be and owns successful businesses. Time will tell. But ik if I was choosing a retirement home to live in I most definitely would of choose tanglewood over frh. They will make that place beautiful and people will love it. An anyone that gets on here saying the nasty things they are saying because they were fired I'm sure are not mature enough to meet their standards anyway. You sound pathetic. Move on in life because again things happen life changes that's nothing new.
Mar 5, 2014
As a private owned business it can be sold. An the new owners have the right to hire and fire who they please!! Mind your own business! If you know so much why didn't you buy it???? |
Mar 5, 2014
Nick plan and Simple don't care about any of the Residents all he wants is money. If it wasn't for the residents they would have to close. You only cares about the money and the looks of the facilities..............
Mar 5, 2014
Oh how i REMEMBER the Kendra days, huh Ol Nickie boy??? LOL |
Mar 5, 2014
It looks like major remodeling going on. I am sure the state has more to say about closing , not the residents. |
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Mar 6, 2014
You people that are defending Nick...you are just as bad as he is. Have you been to the rest home in frewsburg? It most definately isnt a dump. Can it use updating? Of course it can like many places. The Sischo family started that business many years ago and have been a part of that community. Ask anyone who knows over the years the rest home had a waiting list for residents and has won many awards for most liked senior living establishment. Pretty sure I havent seen Tanglewood recognized for that. You keep bragging about how rich Nick is...so what? Does that make him GOD to you? So he can a run a business, big deal so can alot of other people. And as far as getting rid of people because they didnt meet his criteria? Lol..what a joke. Most of the people he let go were state licensed. Let me guess...he didnt want to pay them what they were worth? Your right, change is good and life is constantly changing. But as anyone knows who has a heart and takes care of the elderly, they like repetition and order. It is bad enough they have to deal with a new owner and all the new construction, but to take away the aides and med aides who cared for them...some for 10 plus years...smh.You along with your buddy Nick are heartless. Call it what you like, but way more people agree with the fact that Nick is a liar...rich or not...a liar is still a liar. Obviously some people agree because they are pulling their loved ones out of that place. Actions speak volumes and as I said before, so does word of mouth. And just so you are clear, I did not lose my job there...I left while it was still frewsburg rest home simply because I would NEVER work for a man like Nick or Tanglewood.
Mar 7, 2014
Love the Post. It's so true about all the staff that lost there jobs. I'm one of them |
Mar 7, 2014
Are you kidding? I know none of the parties , or care! But if the owner chose to sell a private owned business to who ever, it is their business deal. Why do you think it is any concern of your's?? Hey come up with the money and you could have bought it ! My God grow up!! Money talks , Bull Shit walks!! |
Mar 8, 2014
Your the Bulls shit that works there. |
Mar 8, 2014
Such his Nicks D*ck b*tch |
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