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Is This Progress?
Is that progress?
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The figure of 2.6 billion people worldwide living at less than $2.00 per day in 2005 comes from a 2008 World Bank paper by Chen and Ravallion (here in PDF) and specifically their Table 5. The $2.00 are expressed in 2005 international dollars (i.e., PPP adjusted).
The figure for 1820 comes from the Maddison global GDP dataset, and actually works out to $1.82 in 1990 international dollars (i.e., PPP adjusted values, which will be closer to $2.00 in 2005 dollars). Maddison estimated total global population in 1820 to be 1.04 billion, so the maximum number of people living at less than $2.00 is 1 billion. The actual value is no doubt less than this, but by how much is not known.
Thus, my conclusion that the number of people living on less that $2.00 per day has increased by 250% over almost 200 years is conservative -- it could easily be 300% or 400%.
Some more details: From 1820 to 2005 global population increased by 620% and per capita GDP increased by 1,045% (again, PPP-adjusted dollars, both figures from the Maddison dataset).
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Getting to *live* is a really big deal. Even though the number of poor people has increased it is still an improvement.ReplyDelete
Some of them might include the next Heisenberg, the next Dumas or the next Lincoln. They won't all stay earning less than $2 a day.
Also each will get to experience the joy and sorrow of life.
Finally, this is cherry picking as you'd be aware. The number of people of $2-5 a day and the number from $5-10 and the number from $10-20 would have exploded. But even without including the incredible gains in welfare for these people we're still better off.
Regardless of what Paul Ehrlich might claim.
Isn't another way of looking at this that the "percentage" of world population living on just $2/day or less has dropped by more than half since 1820..?ReplyDelete
Or, even that the percentage of the world population able to consume/spend/invest more than $2/day into the economy has increased Thousands-fold? (0.04B to 4B = 10,000%)
I suppose it is all how one looks at numbers. The United Nations estimates that poverty was reduced more in the last 50 years than in the previous 500.ReplyDelete
"Do you know the numbers?," Matt Ridley asked in his opening chapter of The Rational Optimist. "In 2005, compared with 1955, the average human being on Planet Earth earned nearly three times as much money (corrected for inflation), ate one-third more calories of food, buried one-third as many of her children and could expect to live one-third longer. All this during a half-century when the world population has more than doubled, so that far from being rationed by population pressure, the goods and services available to the people of the world have expanded. It is, by any standard, an astonishing human achievement….
"The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better. The poor in the developing world grew their consumption twice as fast as the world as a whole between 1980 and 2000. The Chinese are ten times as rich, one-third as fecund and 28 years longer-lived than they were 50 years ago. Even Nigerians are twice as rich, 25 per cent less fecund and nine years longer-lived than they were in 1955. Despite a doubling of the world population, even the raw number of people living in absolute poverty (defined as less than a 1985 dollar a day) has fallen since the 1950s, let alone the percentage living in such absolute poverty. That number is, of course, still all too horribly high, but the trend is hardly a cause for despair….
"Even inequality is declining worldwide. As poor Asians get richer faster than rich Americans, the global 'Gini coefficient', which measures inequality, has been falling rapidly. In another respect, too, inequality has been retreating. The spread of IQ scores has been shrinking steadily — because the low scores have been catching up with the high ones. It is a levelling-up caused by an equalisation of nutrition, stimulation or diversity of childhood experience."
So if we have another plague, the equivalent of the "black death" and wages increase it would be "progress", if there were only 1.5 billion left alive? (you might try to see what the graphs look like on either side of that event).ReplyDelete
The point is that they are living and not dying or dead. Of course they are contributing to pollution, destroying the earth, whatever evils you would ascribe to any alive person (except to Al Gore who has a huge energy wasting mansion and jets to all the conferences he says we need to reduce carbon).
Of course war works as well as plague. What IS the carbon footprint of our military? If our troops weren't going 10k miles everywhere could everyone have a better life? If we didn't have vehicles measured in gallons per mile without Check-Engine lights and catalytic converters all over the world? What is the EPA mileage of a military Humvee?
That said, there is a right to property, and to wealth, but it depends on the rule of law. We don't have that. Billionaires who take huge risks, crash the economy so indirectly impoverish millions are bailed out and pay themselves bonuses via the tax money of the working poor.
I'm for people keeping what they earn. Not what they lobby for, defraud, extort, rob, steal, or otherwise gain illegitimately. The offspring of such are bastards, but the opprobrium belongs upon the parent.
One billion people living on less than $2 a day in 1820, and 2.5 billion living on less than $2 a day in 2012.ReplyDelete
"Is that progress?"
Well, the life expectancy at birth is probably about double what it was in 1820:
So unless one thinks that it's better to die (for example, of smallpox, malaria, cholera, etc.) than to live on $2 a day, there has been progress.
Did someone have to much eggnog over Christmas? I suspect there was a point intended here, but it seems to have gotten lost somewhere in the fiber optic cable.ReplyDelete
How many different goods & services could be bought for $2 (adjusted) in 1820? How many different goods & services could be bought for $2 today?ReplyDelete
Will 6.25 billion be living on less than $2 (adjusted) per day in 200 years'time - or will it be nobody?
Well, according to at least one of the standard progressive measures it's the opposite of progress. Of course, I'd guess that the folks who are pushing using the Gini coefficient as such a measure have never really considered what a society with a coefficient of near unity would actually look like. But then again, math has never been a progressive strong suit.ReplyDelete
The idea of measuring the social situation in terms of absolute numbers is something of a fashion nowadays in "development" circles. It is wrong, in my view. By the same token, there are more unemployed people now than during the Great Depression, but also many more people now who have all sorts of good things: more people living to be 100, more people having cars, more people having everything from big houses to potato peelers, more people avoiding all sorts of diseases, more people not hungry, more food produced per person (and more people overweight and obese), and so on. Neither list is a good indicator that the world has become better or worse.ReplyDelete
The only real measures of any social malady are relative rates, i.e. prevalence percentages, per capita amounts, or other similar indicators. Which indicators are more telling or more useful will depend on the problem and the intent, but the use of absolute numbers is not usually a good approach.
I think you forgot to include the /sarc tag.ReplyDelete
Dr Pielke, first, thanks for all the good work you have done.ReplyDelete
Next, using your figures I find:
World population:
1820: 1.068 billion
2012: 7 billion
Number of people living on MORE than $2 per day:
1820: ≈ zero
2012: 5,400,000,000
As one of the people making more than $2 per day, yes, I'd say that was progress ...
To quote Burt Rutan -- "here are the same numbers presented in a way to inform, not to alarm" (regarding his CO2 ppt deck)ReplyDelete
World population in 1820 was 1.07B of which 1.04B lived at < $2/day. That's 97%. In 2005 6.5 people, 2.6B living < $2/day. That's 40%... which is a reduce of 2.4 times! Seen as an increase in those living above > $2, we go from 3% to 60%, factor of twenty (multiples of small numbers are bogus, but even so).
A child born in 2005 was 20 times more likely to live above the $2/day mark than a child in 1820.
Yes, I'd call that better.
@ Willis.ReplyDelete
Shouldn't that be 4.4 billion (4,400,000,000) people living on > $2 per day in 2012 (7 billion people - 2.6 billion people living on less than $2 per day)
Have you all left your sarcasm detector turned off because of the christmas season or something? Ahahah, mr. Pielke you even fooled everyone in this room (well Tom was apparently not fooled).ReplyDelete
Assuming this isn't a wind up, the increase in poverty may be accounted for by the fact that population growth is higher amongst the poor. For economic reasons.ReplyDelete
World population is predicted to level off around 2050 due to increasing incomes in second world countries like Iran and Argentina.
As with all these numbers, averaging only tells part of the picture. Growth in income is certainly not evenly distributed, as is increases in life-expectancy, as is caloric intake....ReplyDelete
For some, consideration of the proportion in growth increase, and the proportion of increase in life-expectancy and caloric intake, is not particularly relevant to determining "progress."
How about for you, Roger?
The growth process was uneven in space as well as time. The rise in life expectation and income has been most rapid in Western Europe, North America, Australasia and Japan. By 1820, this group had forged ahead to an income level twice that in the rest of the world. By 1998, the gap was 7:1. Between the United States and Africa the gap is now 20:1. This gap is still widening.
According to this chart,ReplyDelete
from 1950 to 2001, growth in GDP per capita in "the West" vs. "the rest" wasn't that disproportionate (@4X and @3X, respectively).
Still, I have to wonder what is not evident in aggregating the data. Not to mention how aggregating the data doesn't reflect the broad differences say, between Asia and Africa, further it doesn't reflect the proportions of growth within specific regions or countries.
Got anything on that, Roger?
This article takes an interesting look at starting to break down the aggregated data.ReplyDelete
I have to say, the more I read about this stuff the more empty becomes the meme about "cheap energy = fewer starving people."
Along those lines:
For example: relevant to determining "progress?":ReplyDelete
WASHINGTON — New government research has found "large and growing" disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the last two decades.
The date of 1820 is extremely significant. It is the point at which economic growth here in Britain really started. By 1850 the benefits were being clearly seen in all levels of society. A similar pattern soon spread to some other countries, most notably USA and continental Europe. But only a small minority of the worlds population enjoyed these benefits of rising living standards until after WW2. Thus the global "Gini coefficient" (a measure of inequality) increased from 1820 to 1950, more or less stablised for 30 years, then started to fall in the 1980s. The reason for the fall is that many of the world's poor are in faster growing economies than the developed nations. Principally this is the 36%-38% of the world's population that live in either China or India.ReplyDelete
The older measure of absolute poverty was a dollar-a-day (revised in 2005 to $1.25). In 1820 the vast majority of the World's people would have been below this figure. By 1981 this had fallen to 52.2%, and in 2008 22.4%. Absolute numbers fell from 1.9 to 1.3bn.
World Bank data is at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm?1
Could I chip in again?ReplyDelete
I have come across a 2009 NBER paper with the catchy title "PARAMETRIC ESTIMATIONS OF THE WORLD DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME" (Pinkovskiy & Sala-i-Martin). From page 46 onwards, there are lots of graphs showing estimates from 1970 to 2006. "Figure 26: World Poverty Counts, Baseline" on page 54, is especially relevant to many of the comments. The authors estimate the numbers a people at or below various values of poverty defined in constant purchasing power dollars per day. There are two opposing elements at work here. As the total population grows, so will the total numbers of total numbers at below any poverty threshold. With economic growth the proportion of the global population below a certain level will decline. Population growth precedes the economic growth, but eventually the economic growth causes the absolute numbers to decline. In Figure 26, those on $2 a day or less peaked at around 1.7bn in the 1970s and is now around 0.9bn. Those on $10 a day or less were about 2.9bn in 1970, 4.1bn in 2000 and 3.9bn in 2006.
(NB the definition of $2 a day is different to the one Prof Pielke uses)
The paper (860kb pdf), can be accessed here.
WASHINGTON — New government research has found "large and growing" disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the last two decades.ReplyDelete
What is clear is that the poorer Americans are living less often as the suffer the diseases of the wealthy. Wealthy and stupid, to be sure, but still wealthy. Diabetes in particular. Fewer and fewer are dying early of the diseases of the poor.
It's something the world was not prepared for – that in most places few people would starve, but that many would choose to eat badly and forgo exercise of any sort. Like most social plagues, it will work its way out. It's now considered very low rent to smoke, but OK to be fat. I would suggest that is likely to change.
"Fewer and fewer are dying early of the disease of the poor."
If you define "death by violence" as a disease of the poor, I'm not sure that's true.
But to your basic point, you have to understand that in today's America, obesity is the new hunger.
I know, because public radio said so.
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In 1815, news of the Tambora volcano eruption in Indonesia (bigger than Krakatoa) took 2 years to get back to Europe, because the news had to travel by ship. Lewis and Clark traveled by canoe and foot on their epic journey in 1806 or so, railroads were still decades away.
In 1820, we were still over a century away from antibiotics, people were dying young everywhere. The notion that most people would die in their old age of cancer and heart ailments, in nursing homes and hospices, would have been uncomprehensible.
I don't know how to compare today and 1820. I don't think statistics are the right way to think about the differences.
Which may have been Dr. Pielke's point.
The British favor the expression 'too clever by half.' Unless you consider yourself an a level with J. Swift, 'modest proposal'-style writing is best avoided. Laying a trap for one's stupid readers flatters neither one's readers nor one's self. Just sayin.'ReplyDelete
==]] I don't know how to compare today and 1820. I don't think statistics are the right way to think about the differences. [[==ReplyDelete
Well, statistics are certainly not sufficient - but they are useful. For example:
Just one metric, just one country, but certainly measuring "progress" is not easily captured by singular or simplistic metrics.
I read this post as an exercise in 'understand your dataset.'ReplyDelete
I looked at the background data, and it's all price surveys and consumption rates and the daily wage - the consumer/money economy. The natural economy is a tiny niche in 2013, but not so in 1820. How many fish did they have to catch back then to equal $2.00 a day today? Does it even make sense that we can reasonably make any such assertion at all, that (say) catching 1 fish/day is the equivalent of $2.00/day?


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It marks the Phoenix's only appearance at home amid a five-game stretch.
Elon won 72-66 at UNC Greensboro on Thursday night while Samford lost 71-51 at South Division-leading Davidson.
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Who: Samford (7-14, 5-3) at Elon (14-7, 7-2)
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verb ap·pro·pri·ate \ə-ˈprō-prē-ˌāt\
: to get or save (money) for a specific use or purpose
: to take or use (something) especially in a way that is illegal, unfair, etc.
Full Definition of APPROPRIATE
transitive verb
: to set apart for or assign to a particular purpose or use <appropriate money for the research program>
: to take or make use of without authority or right
— ap·pro·pri·a·ble \-prē-ə-bəl\ adjective
— ap·pro·pri·a·tor \-prē-ˌā-tər\ noun
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- The town has appropriated funds to repair the bridge and work should begin this summer.
- The economy has been weakened by corrupt officials who have appropriated the country's resources for their own use.
- Elements of the design were appropriated from other architects.
- The term "bad" has been appropriated by teenagers as a synonym for "good."
- From this source it was appropriated by Wilhelm Ropke in his effort to develop a social and political theory in which the market economy would be reconciled with the local community. —Roger Scruton, National Review, 20 June 2005
- Dr. Seuss's mother, also the daughter of German immigrants, was Henrietta Seuss, and when he appropriated the name for his books Dr. Seuss pronounced it in the German manner, "soice," until he realized that Americans naturally read the name as "soose," and that the American pronunciation of "Dr. Seuss" evoked a figure advantageous for an author of children's books to be associated with—Mother Goose. —Louis Menand, New Yorker, 23 & 30 Dec. 2002
- Wales, in contrast, was officially appropriated into the United Kingdom by Henry VIII's Acts of Union, in 1536 and 1543, before it had developed the apparatus of a modern state. —Pamela Petro, Atlantic, April 1999
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Middle English, from Late Latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare, from Latin ad- + proprius own
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- arrogate, commandeer, convert, expropriate, pirate, preempt, press, seize, take over, usurp
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adjective ap·pro·pri·ate \ə-ˈprō-prē-ət\
: right or suited for some purpose or situation
Full Definition of APPROPRIATE
: especially suitable or compatible : fitting <an appropriate response> <remarks appropriate to the occasion>
— ap·pro·pri·ate·ly adverb
— ap·pro·pri·ate·ness noun
Examples of APPROPRIATE
- Red wine would have been a more appropriate choice with the meal.
- The movie is perfectly appropriate to people of all ages.
- More than almost anyone writing today, Slater, whose prose is astringent and sensuous by turn, reflects both a genuine feeling for and appreciation of foods appropriate to the season—and a tolerance for kitchen disasters. —Cynthia Zarin, Gourmet, April 2007
- Crepuscular means "pertaining to twilight." It sounds so lovely. I use the word as much as possible, even when it's not appropriate. —Bob Berman, Astronomy, June 2006
- While working as one of the exhibition curators, I was surprised to learn that, until the 1920s, ice cream was properly eaten with a fork, a cumbersome technique decried by none other than Florence Howe hall, the granddaughter of Julia Ward Howe, who wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". But if high society eventually agreed on a more appropriate utensil for eating the frozen-dessert, even the most au courant hostess may have had trouble deciding what kind of device should be used for serving it … —Darra Goldstein, Saveur, June-July 2006
- Three days. There was no way on this earth that proper due diligence could be done in such a limited time. For a merger of this magnitude, a week's worth of due diligence would have been more appropriate. —Nina Munk, Vanity Fair, January 2004
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(see 1appropriate)
First Known Use: 15th century
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- Antonyms
- improper, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, indecent, infelicitous, malapropos, misbecoming, unapt, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unfit, unfitting, unhappy, unmeet, unseemly, unsuitable, wrong
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"What if I took something you agree with, that this country had a lot of resources that need to be explored and extracted, and every barrel of oil that we can find off South Carolina with South Carolina's permission, and natural gas deposits, make us more energy independent?" he added. "What if you married those two things up? And took some of the revenue from oil and gas exploration and put it toward reducing our carbon dependency? I think that's a deal that a lot of people would go for. You don't have to be a true believer of drilling offshore or that climate change is real. You've just got to be willing to give and take."Can we "reduce our carbon dependency" via extracting "every barrel of oil that we can find"? Does this make sense?
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I believe he is talking about taxing short term revenue from oil and gas and using it to invest in cleaner energy (e.g. nuclear and "green" nuclear like LFTR).
This makes a lot of sense to me.
Roger, while doubtless many would agree that Graham is a moderate, he is not a D-he is an R.ReplyDelete
"Can we "reduce our carbon dependency" via extracting "every barrel of oil that we can find"? Does this make sense?"ReplyDelete
If we burned oil and natural gas for electricity, rather than coal, that would reduce carbon emissions.
Another thing that most people don't think about is that oil and natural gas are much easier to use for co-generation than coal. Co-generation is good, because the heat that would normally be wasted is utilized.
As Charles points out, I think Graham is talking about using the revenue from increased oil and gas production to fund low-carbon energy technologies (e.g., nuclear, off-shore wind).
That makes perfect sense to me.ReplyDelete
This country will continue using oil for decades however the AGW debate turns out. Our choice is whether to drill for our own oil, or buy imported oil. Importing oil transfers wealth from us to other countries. Drilling for our own oil leaves the wealth here to use as we as a nation decide.
Doh! Thanks! Fixed.
This website has a discussion of cogeneration (aka, combined heat and power, or CHP):ReplyDelete
Yes, what Graham says absolutely makes sense.ReplyDelete
Environmental extremists currently have a strangle hold on the world economy by depriving it of the energy required to run it.
If we continue to crush the hydrocarbon based economy, then we will fail to generate the capital required to move beyond petroleum and we will NEVER GET THERE!
But, we should have thought about that BEFORE electing a President who promised to bankrupt the coal industry.
Face it! The world economy is powered by hydrocarbons and even NPR knows that the best candidate currently available to replace hydrocarbons is what NPR called "Wishful Thinking" (as reported near the end of that segment).
Shiver and die in the dark and wait for National Socialism to come to the rescue. That's what Obama fans voted for -- not that a Cap and Trade loving McCain would have been much better.
I would agree that Senator Lindsey Graham misspoke. He probably meant to refer to foreign oil dependency and conflated it with carbon dependency.ReplyDelete
Clear obtaining oil domestically will not reduce our carbon dependency, as oil is carbon based whether it is foreign or domestic.
Click here for a post I created last year describing the additional tax revenues which could be generated by drilling here.ReplyDelete
Roger, Graham definitely seems to be alluding to provisions in the Republican's "All of the Above" energy bill "alternative" that would dedicate 90% of the federal share of new oil royalties from leases in the OCS to a clean energy trust fund. See more here. Not a terrible idea. If we're going to drill up that oil, and if Dems are going to serve it up for Republicans to secure 60 votes, we should at least utilize the revenues to fund clean energy RD&D.ReplyDelete
Back when Congress was debating OCS drilling in 2008, I calculated the potential scale of this revenue stream. Back of the envelope: assuming 2008 EIA mean estimates for recoverable OCS yields in the lower 48 of 18.17 billion barrels (likely recovered over about 20 years), a royalty of $10 per barrel could yield $180 billion in government revenues. About 50% would go to the feds (the other half to states) and if 90% went to clean energy RD&D, that'd be about $80b in new funding over roughly 20 years - or about $4b per year. That's enough to fund a good chunk of our proposed National Institutes of Energy for example.
If we're going to make a deal...
Just for the record…ReplyDelete
I favor Graham's proposal as a means of getting the Capitalist engine running better so that more capital is created and put to work on next generation energy solutions in the PRIVATE SECTOR.
Putting more money in the hands of moronic and corrupt government bureaucrats so they can dole it out to those who push the most money back under the table will ONLY give us an endless stream of utterly counter productive debacles such as Ethanol!
It's realistic at least. At some point somebody in government surely will realize that all this monetized debt is backed by little more than blind optimism. Using the abundant resources that are in your own territory is just one of the necessary steps back towards fiscal sanity. If that resource is natural gas rather than coal or nuclear then there is an opportunity for compromise between the greens, the government, the engineers and the economists.ReplyDelete
SBVOR: I see your Ethanol and I raise you an Enron. Private energy funding is great until you get crony capitalism, mafias or monopolism and then it's bad. At that point you'd probably wish there was more government oversight. The trouble with utopian economics is that crooked people are assumed not to exist.
I'll see your Enron and raise you a Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security/Fannie/Freddie/FHA/HUD/USPS.
Nobody does waste, fraud and corruption better than the Federal government.
Furthermore, when private companies engage in bad behavior, I have the FREEDOM to CHOOSE not to patronize that company.
Agents of the government hold a gun to my head and demand that I fund their corrupt behaviors. Lately they do so while bailing out private companies with incestuous relationships to politicians which should be allowed to fail.
Government regulation never works. The SEC had Madoff handed to them on a silver platter and still did not stop him. Buyer beware is the ONLY sort of regulation that EVER works. It's called due diligence.
The AIG bailout amounted to $170 billion whereas the Fannie and Freddie bailout amounted to $400 billion.
Roger, if the concern is about carbon, does it make sense to shift consumption from coal to oil and gas? Of course, and that would be one of the chief consequences of pricing carbon.ReplyDelete
And behind this of course Graham is also aware that alot of royalty revenue would flow to South Carolina.
Oil is not a substitute for coal in the US. And reliance on gas increases emissions as energy consumption increases. Expanding reliance on oil and gas is not consistent with the emissions reductions targets in current US legislative proposals much less more aggressive targets. Consider that substituting all US coal with gas gets you a 12% reduction by 2020. And of course, see Steven Chu's comments earlier this week, coal ain't going anywhere.
While I totally agree about government corruption and waste, I see it as human nature which will appear in either the private or public sphere given the opportunity.
But your freedom to choose often doesn't exist in the real world. With one set of water pipes, electricity cables and telephone lines coming in your house you only have the freedom to either do without, pay up, or pay much more for a more exotic alternative. And if you've had a major operation you'll find it nigh impossible to get health cover - so you then have the freedom to do without, get treatment abroad, or just die. And if you do have an incapacitating illness or accident or just get too old then you'll probably notice that it's not that easy to find or even do any work so you'd appreciate why that social safety net exists, corrupt or not. The free market alternatives mainly consist of burdening your family, becoming a criminal or begging.
Were the failures of the financial system and it's regulators largely reflecting the influence of the private sector on the politicians? If so, then who is more to blame?
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"With one set of water pipes, electricity cables and telephone lines coming in your house you only have the freedom to either do without, pay up, or pay much more for a more exotic alternative."
The extent to which Leftists willfully blind themselves and gleefully enslave themselves never ceases to amaze me.
By simply opting to live in an unincorporated part of the county, any American can get their water from a private well (which they own), their electricity from any number of sources -- including a generator burning hydrocarbons (at least for now), their telephone via cell phone and even their TV from a variety of satellite providers.
Of course, depending on the extent of the value placed upon freedom, any number of those items can be dropped from the priority list.
I am on the verge of dropping my health insurance and going entirely off the medical grid. I will probably do so because government regulations already dictate that I get gouged through my insurance (and my medical bills) in order to pay for those whom the government deems more "needy" than me.
First and foremost among those more "needy" than me are the filthy, stinking trial lawyers who pay the bills for the filthy, stinking Dims.
Ever heard the phrase "give me liberty or give me death"?
I would rather die free than live as a slave!
SCREW UNIVERSAL SLAVERY, SCREW BIG GOVERNMENT and SCREW THE DIMS!


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MISENHEIMER, N.C. - The Pfeiffer University softball team dropped its third-consecutive Conference Carolinas doubleheader to Queens on Wednesday by the scores of 2-0 and 4-3 in eight innings. The east division leading Royals improve to 17-19 overall, 7-2 in league play while the Lady Falcons fall to 14-25, 4-10.
In the opener, a dropped fly ball led to Queens' first run in the top of the first while insurance in the form of a Kaitlyn Cheek RBI-double in the sixth. Royals starter Chantel Dodge was almost unhittable tossing a one-hitter with five three-up, three-down innings. Pfeiffer's lone hit was a leadoff single by Emily Workman in the fourth. Dodge finished with a complete game one-hitter adding three strikeouts in the win.
In game two, the Lady Falcons struck first in the opening frame with a run-scoring single by Mikaela Strickland. Later in the fifth, Hannah Jackson would put Pfeiffer up 2-0 while her fielder's choice to short scoring Sadie Saine.
Queens would comeback to tie it on a two-run Megan Lathbury double in the sixth before the Lady Falcons regained a 3-2 advantage on a Royals infield error in their half of the sixth. Queens would force extra innings scoring the game-tying run on a pair of Pfeiffer errors.
The Royals would push across the eventual game-winning run in the eighth on a Cheek single. Pfeiffer had the tying run at third with one out in their eighth by Dodge, entering in relief during the sixth, got a pop out and fly out to end the contest.
Pfeiffer returns to Conference Carolinas action on Friday traveling up to Mount Olive for a 3:00 p.m. double dip with the Trojans.


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Lady Falcon Softball Inks Six in Early Signing Period
December 9, 2010
MISENHEIMER, N.C. – Pfeiffer University head softball coach Amy Yates announced the signing of six student-athletes to join the Lady Falcons softball program in 2011. Alexis Brock, Tyresha Ellis, Lindsey Russell, Brittney Timberlake, Sadie Saine and Emily Workman all signed with Pfeiffer during the NCAA's early signing period.
Brock, an outfielder from Raleigh, brings an all-conference and most outstanding player award to the Lady Falcons. Brock is a two-time coach's award winner and all-academic award recipient in softball and volleyball. The senior from Knightdale High School holds a 3.79 grade point average playing summer ball as a member of the Triangle Lightning ASA team.
Coach Yates on Brock: "Lexie possesses an enormous amount of potential and brings a great glove to the outfield. Her hard work and positive outlook has paid off over the past year and I know she'll be a great asset to our program."
Ellis, a left-side infielder from Jefferson, South Carolina is a two-time all-region performer at Central High School. With speed and sharp glove over at short and third, Ellis holds a 3.7 GPA and plays for the Charlotte Magic-White ASA team.
Coach Yates on Ellis: "I'm looking forward to the versatility and speed that Ty will bring to our program. She has a lot of experience on the left side of the infield and could be a great outfielder as well."
Russell is a dual position player from Huntersville and Hopewell High School. Russell spends time over at short and in the pitcher's circle racking up all-state, all-conference, all-district and 4A pitcher of the year honors. Academically, Russell holds a 4.2 GPA in the classroom and has played club ball with the Carolina Curve ASA team.
Coach Yates on Russell: "Lindsey is simply a great athlete combining the ability to pitch with the ability to play anywhere on the infield. After working with her at camp this past summer, I know she has the talent and the mentality to be very successful here at Pfeiffer."
Timberlake, a second baseman from Concord, was named the team MVP at First Assembly High School during her freshman season while scoring the coach's award in her second season at Jay M. Robinson High School. Off the field, Timberlake grasps a 4.07 GPA as a member of the National Beta Club. Timberlake is also a member of the Diamond Stars NSA team.
Coach Yates on Timberlake: "I'm excited to have the opportunity to work with Brittney over the next four years. She has a great attitude and has plenty desire to learn and play the game."
Saine and Workman both come to Pfeiffer as four-year teammates at West Lincoln High School. Saine, from Crouse, has racked up multiple all-conference, all-district and all-state awards in both softball and basketball. Saine holds down the middle infield while Workman patrols the outfield. Both are members of the Foothills Heat ASA team during the summer. Both have outstanding GPA's as Saine stands at 4.39 while Workman, from Vale, has earned a 4.34.
Coach Yates on Saine and Workman: "I had the opportunity to work with both Sadie and Emily at camp and learn not only about their talents, but their work ethic as well. Both girls stayed after sessions to get additional work in which says a lot about them as players. Sadie has a strong bat and will be a great addition to the middle infield, while Emily has tremendous speed to make her a big threat on offense and defense."
The 2010 edition of Lady Falcons softball, led by Yates, will begin on Saturday, February 12th traveling to Carson-Newman for a 1:00 p.m. doubleheader with the Lady Eagles.


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Kinston attorney Jimbo Perry is known for his work helping children.
So, Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., pegged him to deliver the keynote address for the representative's 12th-annual Youth Summit. The event, to be held Monday at Southeast Community College in Whiteville, will bring together 45 students from 12 Eastern North Carolina counties.
"Young people are the future of our great country, yet this population is rarely given a forum in which to discuss issues that they feel are important," McIntyre said in a statement. "This Youth Summit will provide students with the opportunity to voice their opinions and give input on the issues that our leaders are faced with every day."
Perry, who's been profiled about his involvement in children's causes in the North Carolina magazine Our State, also works with children at Southeast Elementary School, with the Boy Scouts, in a project called The Refuge and other activities.
He said McIntyre's vision with these summits is to get high school juniors engaged in their communities at least during their senior year, to be proud of the place where they are and try to make it better.
"I'm not doing anything particularly important, other than trying to help one or two people at a time," Perry said. "But I think that vision is a vision he would like to convey to the students."
He knows McIntyre through his wife, who was in the same program in college as McIntyre.
"I actually heard him speak years ago — he gave a talk called 'Servant Leadership,' which really models what his philosophy of leadership is," Perry said. "… his talk, actually years ago, impacted me in a way in which my wife and I have sought to invest ourselves in our community — which is to try to not necessarily try to change the world, but try to help a few people who you come in contact with. And through that, each of us are doing our part."
Perry said Thursday hehadn't finished writing his speech yet, but he knows the direction he wants to take it.
"I'm going to be talking about the importance of the students knowing who they are and how they're made — that is, their gifts and talents," Perry said. "And then, on recognizing the needs of the community around them, and how they can make a difference in their communities based on the way in which they're made and what their gifts and talents are."
He continued, "And I'm going to really try to challenge them to practically look at it from a perspective of next year, take some time to think through it and gather some people around them who would be like-minded. And then, try to have an impact in their community in the next year."
Locally, South Lenoir High School's Kalyn Jones, Bethel Christian Academy's Carley Sanderson and North Lenoir High School's Justin Ward will be attending.
The summit will last from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and feature breakout workshops on youth issues, one of which will be led by Miss North Carolina Arlie Honeycutt, who formerly was Miss Kinston-Lenoir County.
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Results vs. Boo Bash Invit. (2007-10-20 09:00:00)
October 20, 2007
|Falcons Take Third at Boo Bash
|Saturday, 20 October 2007
Salisbury, NC---Pfeiffer University Men and Women's Swimming combined earned third place overall at the Boo Bash relay meet. In the Men's events the Falcons swam for an overall 3rd place trophy, just behind Catawba College.
Coach Hawkins said, "This meet was a learning experience for many of the swimmers on the Falcon teams. Our relays were strong, but so was the conference competition. There were many encouraging swims, and the women's team of Emily Belton, Meg Toncheff, Brittany Byrum and Hannah Fitzgibbons swam a storming 4 x 100 free relay to take second in 3:51.94 just 3 tenths off the long established Pfeiffer school record. The men's 4 x 100 medley relay of David Angell, Kevin Parks, Andrew Siegfried and Edwin Torres combined to set a new Pfeiffer men's standard of 3:46.88. The Boo Bash is a fun meet to go to and it was great to get an advance look at the competition before we see many of these teams at our upcoming dual meets. Coming off fall break and the Lenoir Rhyne meet which finished late the night before, I am quite pleased with our overall performances. Next week we drive to Virginia to race Division 1 Virginia Military Institute at their pool along with the women of Randolph Macon."


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Ashlan McSwain has always had two passions: the outdoors and helping others.
"Since childhood, I have loved being active, whether it was playing sports, or just being outdoors," said McSwain, a graduate of Crest High School. "I also have a desire for helping people."
When she started searching for college majors, she found recreational therapy.
"I felt like recreational therapy was my best chance to combine these two passions," she said.
Part of her inspiration, she said, was her parents. McSwain said they encouraged her to do something that would make her happy.
So, McSwain began volunteering. She worked with adults participating in the Special Olympics during basketball and softball seasons. She volunteered at the Cataloochee Ski Area for two seasons, helping people with autism, cerebral palsy and blindness learn how to ski. She has helped with therapy sessions for older adults with dementia, as well as elementary-age children at a local school.
'They can succeed'
Last week, McSwain finished a 15-week internship at Youth Villages in Douglasville, Ga., a residential facility for at-risk youth with different problem behaviors.
"I work with boys ages 7 to 18, leading several recreational therapy groups per week," said McSwain.
Some of the types of recreational therapy offered there included games and sports, horsemanship, caving, and a ropes course.
"I think horsemanship was probably one of the best ones," she said. "The kids that were there had so many different backgrounds, stuff that was traumatic. Some of them had been abandoned. They could be really hateful, but whenever they got around the horses, they changed and wanted to treat the animal well."
McSwain said learning to ride horses boosted the children's confidence and made them happy. She also said the ropes course was very helpful.
"When they got to the high elements, you could also see them being nervous about going up high. Many of them said, 'I'm not going to do this.' Once they pushed themselves, you could see how proud they were of themselves," she said. "They can succeed even though they don't think they can."
'Others' encouragement'
Another exercise that McSwain said proved to be a learning experience was caving.
"Our supervisor, he was taking some of his kids on the unit he worked with caving. We were in there for about four hours. A lot of the places were tight squeezes and you had to be led through them. You had very little room," said McSwain.
At times, the spaces were so small the kids had to crawl through them.
"Some of them were like, 'I don't think I can do it.' We encouraged them and they got through. It's like the tight places you've been in before in life," she said.
The kids were able to relate the experience to other experiences they have and were able to realize that they can get through things.
"They had to count on others' encouragement," said McSwain.
'Focusing on the strengths of the person'
For her recreational therapy work, McSwain was recently recognized as student of the year by the N.C. Recreational Therapy Association.
She says recreational therapy is a huge difference-maker.
"Recreational therapy makes a difference in people's lives by focusing on the strengths of the person rather than their weaknesses," she said.
It bases their treatment on their interests and needs and lets them participate in activities they already love or ones they are introduced to by the therapist.
The ultimate goal of the therapy is for the individual to achieve a better level of well-being, so they can continue the recreational activities independently.
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McSwain said her experiences at Youth Villages solidified her ambition that recreational therapy is what she wants to do. Some of the youth that gave her the hardest time were also the most rewarding.
"Whenever they would have a good day, or whenever we were approaching the end of my 15 weeks there, they would tell me thank you or say something positive about how they enjoyed me being there, that kind of made a difference," she said. "You don't expect them to appreciate what you're doing. But they would tell me they're going to miss me. It reminded me that this is definitely what I want to be doing."
Recently, McSwain became a nationally Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. She also graduated from Western Carolina University. In the future, she wants to work with youth in an outdoor or adventure setting.
"I am also considering getting my master's degree in Recreational Therapy. I would love to coach young people in basketball or softball," she said.
What is recreational therapy?
Recreational therapy (RT) is a holistic treatment that focuses on improving or rehabilitating the physical, emotional, social, and/or spiritual aspects of a person's wellbeing through various active approaches.
Five interesting facts about Ashlan McSwain:
-She has run a mud run and a half marathon.
-Duck Dynasty is her favorite show.
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The Assad dictatorship and his supporting forces are committing murder on a huge scale while his opponents (the victims of the regimes crimes) are trying to get support from the outside world and sometimes misleading the media. Well, misleading the media is the lesser "crime" in my opinion. Neither side is made of entirely of Saints............. surprise, surprise!!
"We can exclusively reveal that the men in the photos were posing with fake guns." - they still look like unhinged psychos though - perhaps the one thing in their favour is that they are not stupid enough to play with real firearms.
nato,saudi arabia, qatar,turkey and israel,have a heart, leave the poor people of syria alone,you criminals, because of you the whole world is suffering,enough is enough.
So which is it, facts or more disinformation? What does this snip-it really tell us? What's going on here, seems like the out come will be just like Libya, another Western-U.S.A. led- fiasco.