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Immigration May Detract From Other Issues
President Obama, has decided that in addition to the health care, energy and education debates, he'll also crank up the immigration debate:
He said then that comprehensive immigration legislation, including a plan to make legal status possible for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, would be a priority in his first year in office. Latino voters turned out strongly for Mr. Obama in the election.
"He intends to start the debate this year," Ms. Muñoz said.
12 million is the low-side estimate. Others estimate the total to be as high as 20 million.
Here is the argument he can plan on seeing prominently pushed from the other side as it concerns legal status for illegal immigrants:
"It just doesn't seem rational that any political leader would say, let's give millions of foreign workers permanent access to U.S. jobs when we have millions of Americans looking for jobs," said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, a group that favors reduced immigration. Mr. Beck predicted that Mr. Obama would face "an explosion" if he proceeded this year.
"It's going to be, 'You're letting them keep that job, when I could have that job,' " he said.
The argument that the jobs immigrants hold are jobs Americans won't do rings even more hollow in a recession.
Additionally, starting this emotional issue up now, while he's trying to push the other issues I mentioned is going to diffuse focus and may cost him critical support on health care, energy or education.
This is not a smart political move. But it is one I welcome.
Cap-And-Trade And Health Care
Some relatively good news and some bad news. The good news has to do with "cap-and-tax" as the WSJ article cited refers to "cap-and-trade":
Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander called it "the biggest vote of the year" so far, and he's right. This means Majority Leader Harry Reid can't jam cap and tax through as part of this year's budget resolution with a bare majority of 50 Senators. More broadly, it's a signal that California and East Coast Democrats won't be able to sock it to coal and manufacturing-heavy Midwestern states without a fight. Senators voting in favor of the 60-vote rule included liberals from Wisconsin, Michigan and West Virginia. Now look for Team Obama to attempt to impose cap and tax the non-democratic way, via regulation that hits business and local governments with such heavy costs that they beg Congress for a less-harmful version.
I say relatively good news because the author is right – if the Obama administration can't get it through Congress, there's little doubt they'll look for an administrative way to impose cap-and-trade through the executive branch. One route may be through the EPA.
Of course, there is always the distinct possibility that one of the Democratic Senators who is presently against limiting the filibuster will be pressured into changing his mind. And then there are always the RINOs.
But the possibliity remains that the cap-and-trade economy killer may be defeated in Congress, or at least delayed for a while. If passed, you could rest assured we'd not be seeing an economic recovery anytime soon.
However, cap-and-trade isn't the only problem on the horizon. The health care push will be coming up soon as well, now that Congress has passed the Obama budget blueprint with no Republican support.
The most important remaining fight this year is over health care. Democrats seem intent on trying to plow that monumental change through with only 50 votes, even as they negotiate to bring along some Republicans. We hope these Republicans understand that a new health-care "public option" — a form of Medicare for all Americans — guarantees that the 17% of GDP represented by the health-care industry will be entirely government-run within a few years. This is precisely Mr. Obama's long-term goal, though he doesn't want to say it publicly.
It is a back-door means of claiming the reforms are "market" oriented while setting up the system to be quietly shifted to government control. And this at a time when more and more doctors are leaving the Medicare system because of low payment.
In the case of health care, the use of "reconciliation" appears to be a possiblity. That means, as an exception to the rule which now requires 60 votes for cloture on all measures of law, the Senate could require a mere majority (51 votes) to pass this monstrosity and see the government devour another 17% of GDP.
The game plan is fairly evident. Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, said in an interview:
"We really have a pretty good idea of the outline of the plan they are going to be proposing," she said. They'll want to "require everyone to have health insurance and require all employers to pay."
Since some companies and individuals may not be able to afford that, the taxpayers will be told they are making up the difference, she warned.
The real danger, she suggested, is that with a government-run program, private insurance soon will start disappearing.
"If you expand access to government programs, more and more will drop private coverage," she said. "A lot of this is going to be, I fear, replacing the private coverage with taxpayer supported coverage."
That will just raise the costs even higher, and be the first step to what she expects eventually will be "a monopoly player."
Routed through the government bureaucracy, the same inefficiencies that every government run health care service will emerge. And as with any system in which unlimited demand meets finite supply, some sort of rationing will take place. Since government will be the monopoly player, as Turner calls it, that rationing won't be by price, as it now works, but instead by denial of service:
Already, she said, $1.1 billion is being allocated for "comparative effectiveness studies."
That will be "what treatments are good and bad, what's going to be available to us or not. That's the first step toward rationing," she said.
That $600 billion dollar "downpayment", as Obama calls it, will eventually morph into a deficit of trillions. Why? Because the promise is low-cost universal health care. And there is no such animal that is worth a tinker's dam.
China Toughens Stance On Greenhouse Gas Emissions
China has stated it won't be left holding the financial bag in order to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Calling itself a "poorer" nation, China wants the 7 most developed countries to spend 1% of GDP on helping them and others.
China raised the price of its co-operation in the world's climate change talks yesterday by calling for developed countries to spend 1 per cent of their domestic product helping poorer nations cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The funding – amounting to more than $300bn (£190bn, €240bn) based on Group of Seven countries – would be spent largely on the transfer of "green" technologies, such as renewable energy, to poorer countries.
Gao Guangsheng, head of the climate change office at the National Reform and Development Commission, the Chinese government's main planning body, said that even such large funds "might not be enough".
China's toughened stance comes weeks ahead of United Nations talks in Poland aimed at forging a successor to the Kyoto protocol, whose main provisions expire in 2012.
China also suggests that to this point, emissions reduction has been mostly talk:
"Climate change policies need a lot of money to be invested, however developed countries have not made any substantive promises about how much they are going to spend on," said Mr Gao. "And they did not fulfil some of the promises they made in the past very well either."
Of course a number of reasons relate to why those previous promises haven't been fulfilled. Most of them relate to economics and the realization that their promises are potentially crippling to their economies. That's effecting the G20 meeting as we speak:
Fears are mounting that environmental issues could be almost entirely sidelined at tomorrow's G20 summit in London as leaders of the world's largest economies resist calls to make clear green commitments as part of the meeting's closing communiqué.
According to Guardian reports, UK officials are leading a last-ditch effort to have clear environmental commitments incorporated into the global economic recovery package that will back up politicians' repeated calls for a " green new deal".
Gordon Brown has said that the inclusion of a commitment on the environment would be one of the tests of the summit's success, but he admitted that the negotiations were likely to be tough.
The draft version of the communiqué leaked at the weekend made only a passing reference to climate change and it is thought some nations are resisting more detailed commitments to dedicate a proportion of the global stimulus package to green projects that they fear could provide an excuse for protectionist measures.
There is also reluctance to incorporate climate change commitments that could be seen to step on the toes of the UN's climate change negotiations, which are continuing this week at a separate conference in Bonn, Germany.
This, of course, is good news. Why?
"Everybody seems to be focusing on short-term recovery and getting long-term regulation of the banks right," he said. "I haven't heard anything that suggests green recovery and climate change are a major part of the [G20] agenda."
That's because that is the priority – not that anyone should expect the G20 to get any of financial part of it right either. However, the priority does keep them from making commitments that would cripple economic growth. And they, of course, know that – which is why they're avoiding it and spinning it as a desire not to "step on the toes of the UN's climate change negotiations".
But back to China – you'll enjoy this. It is called "having your cake and eating it too":
[China's climate ambassador Yu Qingtai]… said that China was willing to make a "due contribution" to curbing emissions, but warned that the country would not see its citizens "left in the dark" as a result of binding emission targets and was within its rights to continue to invest in coal power that allows its economy to grow.
Gotta love the Chinese – they make some of our spin merchants seem like rookies. China will decide what its "due contribution" will be while it builds thousands of coal fired plants. In the meantime, per China, it is up to the rest of the world to do what is necessary to curb emissions because, you know, the poorer nations just aren't up to it. Su Wei, Chinese delegation chief to the UN climate change talks in Bonn:
Su said the success of the Copenhagen summit lies in whether or not the developed countries would make "substantial arrangements" for transferring climate-friendly technologies to and providing funds for developing countries.
Su noted the establishment of three international "mechanisms" is very important among the "substantial arrangements."
"The first is to set up an international mechanism on climate-friendly technology development and transfer, to eliminate barriers hindering technology transfer, so that developing countries can get access to such technologies," he said.
"Secondly, we should set up an effective financing mechanism to ensure the developed countries provide adequate funds for developing countries in their bid to cut emissions and fight climate change," he added.
Thirdly, Su said an "effective supervision mechanism" should beset up to monitor the above-mentioned technology transfer and funding.
Nice. Known as the "you pay, we take" program, this pretty much excuses China (and the rest of the poorer BRIC nations) from doing much of anything. As long as China is convinced that a) enough technology hasn't been transfered, or b) there hasn't been enough "effective financing" of the effort, it can c) exempt itself from any cuts while insisting the rest of the developed world stick by its commitments.
Now that is how a master loots your wallet.
"Green Jobs" Likely To Destroy More Jobs Than Are Created
A study just completed in Spain finds that the creation of so-called "green jobs" doesn't at all seem to be the employment panacea promised by their advocates. As you recall, President Obama pointed to Spain as the reference point for the establishment of government aid to renewable energy. As the study points out, "No other country has given such broad support to the construction and production of electricity through renewable sources." But the results are not at all what you might expect given the hype. In fact, they've been quite the opposite:
Optimistically treating European Commission partially funded data, we find that for every renewable energy job that the State manages to finance, Spain's experience cited by President Obama as a model reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4 created, to which we have to add those jobs that non-subsidized investments with the same resources would have created.
Be sure you read that last part of the sentence carefully as well – those jobs would have been created by "non-subsidizsed investments" with the "same resources" – or said another way, they'd have been created in the private sector without government picking winners and losers and spending billions in taxpayer money.
Between 2000 and 2008, Spain was very aggressive in pursuing alternative energy and green jobs. But its results were less than stellar:
Despite its hyper-aggressive (expensive and extensive) "green jobs" policies it appears that Spain likely has created a surprisingly low number of jobs, two-thirds of which came in construction, fabrication and installation, one quarter in administrative positions, marketing and projects engineering, and just one out of ten jobs has been created at the more permanent level of actual operation and maintenance of the renewable sources of electricity.
So 9 out of 10 were temporary jobs, while only 1 in 10 became permanent. And the cost?
The cost to create a "green job":
The study calculates that since 2000 Spain spent €571,138 to create each "green job", including subsidies of more than €1 million per wind industry job.
The cost in jobs lost:
Each "green" megawatt installed destroys 5.28 jobs on average elsewhere in the economy: 8.99 by photovoltaics, 4.27 by wind energy, 5.05 by mini-hydro.
And the eventual cost to consumers:
The price of a comprehensive energy rate (paid by the end consumer) in Spain would have to be increased 31% to being to repay the historic debt generated by this rate deficit mainly produced by the subsidies to renewables, according to Spain's energy regulator.
Spanish citizens must therefore cope with either an increase of electricity rates or increased taxes (and public deficit), as will the U.S. if it follows Spain's model
Previous studies have concluded that such increases would impact the poorest quintile the most:
• Reducing emissions, a major rationale for "green jobs" or renewables regimes, hits the poorest hardest. According to the recent report by the Congressional Budget Office, a cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by just 15% will cost the poorest quintile 3% of their annual household income, while benefiting the richest quintile ("Trade-Offs in Allocating Allowances for CO2 Emissions", U.S. Congressional Budget Office, Economic and Budget Issue Brief, April 25, 2007).
• Raising energy costs loses jobs. According to a Penn State University study, replacing two-thirds of U.S. coal-based energy with higher-priced energy such as renewables, if possible, would cost almost 3 million jobs, and perhaps more than 4 million (Rose, A.Z., and Wei, D., "The Economic Impact of Coal Utilization and Displacement in the Continental United States, 2015," Pennsylvania State University, July 2006)
So to recap, we have a scheme which would see a net reduction in jobs by its implementation, create jobs of which only 10% were permanent, Cost anywhere from a half a million to a million dollars per job, increase energy costs tremendously and hit the poor the hardest.
Sounds like a winner, doesn't it?
Will anyone pay attention to the actual experiment conducted by Spain and its results? Or are the blinders firmly in place?
While this scheme would be important to contest at any time, it is critically important to do so now, given the economic situation. One thing that must be avoided is government killing jobs as fast as the private sector creates them. This is truly a time when government should do all it can to enable the private sector to create jobs (tax cuts, etc.) and step back and allow that process to work. What it shouldn't be doing is picking winners and losers and enacting a scheme which, in Spain at least, has proven to do all the things necessary to kill or at least cripple any economic recovery.
Proposed Taxes On Oil Producers Will Be Paid At The Pump
This is such a basic lesson I'm surprised it has to be repeated so often.
Under pressure to narrow projected deficits, President Barack Obama's 2010 budget proposal calls for raising more than $31 billion over the next decade by eliminating the oil and gas industry's eligibility for various tax breaks.
When you're thowing around 3.6 trillion dollar figures for budgets, someone is going to ask, "how are you going to pay for it?" A 3.6 trillion dollar budget certainly doesn't answer, "by cutting spending" does it? So new sources of revenue have to be found. But in a consumer society who is the ultimate source of all revenue? If you answered, "the consumer" you get a gold star.
So revenue is the purported reason for the focus on oil companies. Additionally, they're easy to demonize which makes for easy political pickings. That seems to be the modus operandi of this administration.
The propsoal:
The plan would slap companies with a new excise tax on production in the Gulf of Mexico worth $5.3 billion between 2010 and 2019, and repeal the industry's eligibility for a manufacturing tax credit worth $13.3 billion in that period.
In an era in which the word "trillions" is uttered with abandonment, billions suddenly don't seem like much do they? Unless of course you're a middle or lower income family. Then trillions and billions are meaningless. It's how far can you stretch the thousands of dollars you earn each year?
Well that $13 a week tax cut you're contemplating will quickly disappear at the gas pump if Congress and the adminstration get their way. Fuel prices will rise at the pump and may rise rather dramatically. That's because that approximately 20 billion you see above will most likely morph into about 400 billion cost to the oil companies during that period:
The industry says the final cost of Mr. Obama's proposals on petroleum production could top $400 billion, once his plan to put a price on greenhouse-gas emissions is factored in.
The lie:
The Obama administration has generally justified its proposals by arguing that taxpayers deserve a better deal.
Yeah, I know, "lie" is a strong word. I've always considered it to be the knowing telling of a falsehood. And that's precisely what this "justification" is. The "taxpayer" being talked about isn't you in this scenario. It's the government. You will be paying the passed through tax at the pump which the oil companies will then send to DC.
For the seeming millionth time, corporations don't pay taxes, they collect them and pass them on. Individuals pay taxes.
Last but not least – Raising taxes in recessionary times (not matter how indirect) is a recipe for economic disaster. Additionally such taxes in recessionary times may have the effect of driving jobs offshore where taxes and restrictions are less onerous and seeing oil companies produce less oil and natural gas domestically in a time when there is a growing and increasingly worrisome energy gap.
Not a very bright policy.
If The Alternative Energy Types Think It Will Be Easy …
It won't be. There's nothing "sacred" about wind and solar, certainly nothing which is going to see environmentalists back off of their opposition to anything with despoils the vision they hold of how mother earth should be:
As David Myers scans the rocky slopes of this desert canyon, looking vainly past clumps of brittlebush for bighorn sheep, he imagines an enemy advancing across the crags.
That specter is of an army of mirrors, generators and transmission towers transforming Mojave Desert vistas like this one. While Whitewater Canyon is privately owned and protected, others that Mr. Myers, as head of the Wildlands Conservancy, has fought to preserve are not.
To his chagrin, some of Mr. Myers's fellow environmentalists are helping power companies pinpoint the best sites for solar-power technology. The goal of his former allies is to combat climate change by harnessing the desert's solar-rich terrain, reducing the region's reliance on carbon-emitting fuels.
Mr. Myers is indignant. "How can you say you're going to blade off hundreds of thousands of acres of earth to preserve the Earth?" he said.
As I've said before, if you think that these groups are going to let anyone carpet the Mojave Desert with solar panels and endanger its eco system, you haven't been paying attention to what has been going on here for the last 50 years.
Terry Frewin, a local Sierra Club representative, said he had tough questions for state regulators. "Deserts don't need to be sacrificed so that people in L.A. can keep heating their swimming pools," Mr. Frewin said.
But that's precisely what it will take for solar to make any appreciable difference, given the technology available today. The ironic thing is the movement to plus up solar is being driven by a Democratic administration and putting it into direct conflict with one of its more loyal constituencies.
It is also causing dissent within environmental organizations as well:
"It's not enough to say no to things anymore," said Carl Zichella, a Sierra Club expert on renewable power. "We have to say yes to the right thing."
We'll see who wins in the end and what the eventual political cost will be – but you can rest assured, there'll be nothing easy about implementing solar and wind if environmentalists have any say.
The Difference Between A Business and A Government
At least when it comes to spending money. Business takes a hard look at the potential and when there doesn't seem to be any, it pulls back. Government, on the other hand, decides it believes something has a future and spends money to try to make their belief a reality.
Oil Major Royal Dutch Shell Plc doesn't plan to make any more large investments in wind and solar energy in the future and does not expect hydrogen to play an important role in energy supply for some time.
"We do not expect material amounts of investment in those areas going forward," Linda Cook, head of Shell's gas and power unit told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday.
"They continue to struggle to compete with the other investment opportunities we have in our portfolio," Cook said of solar and wind.
Shell's future involvement in renewables will be principally limited to biofuels, which the world's second-largest non- government-controlled oil company by market value believes is a better fit with its core oil and gas operations.
Now let's be clear. "Oil companies" such as Royal Dutch Shell understand that in reality they're "energy companies". They realize that somewhere in the far distant future, we'll wean ourselves from fossil fuels and they need to be in a position to supply what we decide is the viable alternative fuel(s) for that time. And my guess is, they'll do so.
However, on a purely business assessment of "potential" (that would be potential profit) for some of the favorite alternatives of this era, Shell just doesn't see a real future, at this time, in solar, wind or hydrogen.
With one exception:
In the past year, the company said it was refocusing its wind business on the U.S. as it pulled out of European projects.
Can anyone guess why that may be? Well, whether or not wind works or has a real application anytime soon, there's money being promised for R&D. Why not get a little of it even while pulling back in Europe where it sees no real future for wind at this time? They'd like to keep researching it, but why spend their own money when it would appear they can use yours?
Meanwhile, I'm sure we'll hear all about the government no longer subsidizing Big Oil with tax breaks (while you pay the difference at the pump).
I'm no arguing for tax subsidies or anything else. I'm just pointing out a few things. Shell obviously believes there's no real business potential in the alternatives it's backing out on right now. But it will certainly accept subsidy money for wind research if our government is handing it out, all the while our government is telling us it is no longer subsidizing Big Oil. It's an irony thing.
In the meantime, given Shell's decision, I don't expect much from the billions of your money the government plans on throwing at alternatives any times soon. But I could be wrong. After all, isn't there a new emerging "conventional wisdom" about markets among the anti-capitalists among us?
Markets – they're always wrong, aren't they?
Cap-And-Trade – The Impact And The Politics
It is time to get real about what the promised cap-and-trade tax means to the average American.
Politicians love cap and trade because they can claim to be taxing "polluters," not workers. Hardly. Once the government creates a scarce new commodity — in this case the right to emit carbon — and then mandates that businesses buy it, the costs would inevitably be passed on to all consumers in the form of higher prices. Stating the obvious, Peter Orszag — now Mr. Obama's budget director — told Congress last year that "Those price increases are essential to the success of a cap-and-trade program."
Essentially Congress will be creating a new commodity literally out of thin air. It will only create a certain amount of that commodity and so create instant scarcity. As we all know, scarcity drives up prices. The next year, the plan is to remove a portion of the created commodity from the market creating even more scarcity and driving prices for the commodity even higher.
Imagine steel as the commodity. Imagine steel prices going through the roof. Do you suppose they might effect the price of, say, automobiles? Metal buildings? The price of building a bridge or sky scraper?
So who, in the final analysis, is going to end up paying for this increase in steel prices? Why the final consumer, of course. Naturally, with steel, in some cases you can choose to consume (buy a new car, rent an office or approve the bridge) or not consume. However, with the CO2 tax on all industry, to include manufacturing, service, transportation and energy, you have little choice in the matter of consumption. You will be picking up the tab for this.
That brings us full circle to the promised tax cut for 95% of America and my promise that what government gives with one hand it takes with another, making the tax cut illusory at best:
Hit hardest would be the "95% of working families" Mr. Obama keeps mentioning, usually omitting that his no-new-taxes pledge comes with the caveat "unless you use energy." Putting a price on carbon is regressive by definition because poor and middle-income households spend more of their paychecks on things like gas to drive to work, groceries or home heating.
After all the caterwalling the left does about "progressive taxation" they are about to implement the most regressive tax I can imagine. And as I've pointed out, the tax is pervasive, touching just about all aspects of life. Food prices will rise. Energy prices will go through the roof.
The Congressional Budget Office — Mr. Orszag's former roost — estimates that the price hikes from a 15% cut in emissions would cost the average household in the bottom-income quintile about 3.3% of its after-tax income every year. That's about $680, not including the costs of reduced employment and output. The three middle quintiles would see their paychecks cut between $880 and $1,500, or 2.9% to 2.7% of income. The rich would pay 1.7%. Cap and trade is the ideal policy for every Beltway analyst who thinks the tax code is too progressive (all five of them).
Of course there is talk of subsidizing those at the lower end of the economic ladder so the impact of rising prices is lessened. Naturally that also negates the impact of the cap-and-trade system. In the end, your tax dollars subsidze the system while increased prices are passed along by so-called polluters. As the price of permits rise over the years, permit holders pay the increasing cost, pass it along and you again subsidize it. The rich can afford it, the poor will be subsidized, so who will get squeezed? Why that middle class that Obama and Biden are so concerned with.
Economically, estimates are that we're going to have a miserable year in '09 and possibly '10. But we may begin to see a recovery really start to take hold in '11, just in time for the 2012 presidential election. The smart politicians in Washington plan to delay cap-and-trade implementation until 2012. The reason should be obvious. If cap-and-trade has the expected impact on the economy, we could very well see the recovery stall and head back into recession. But politically the timing would be perfect. The mirage of recovery would be just enough to keep the current administration in power for another 4 years, before the economy wrecker of cap-and-trade begins to do its work.
The Dishonesty Inherent In The Administration's Economic Claims
David Brooks, 3 days after a semi-courageous, "what-the-heck-is-going-on" column, received calls from the senior staff at the White House and quietly got back in line:
In the first place, they do not see themselves as a group of liberal crusaders. They see themselves as pragmatists who inherited a government and an economy that have been thrown out of whack. They're not engaged in an ideological project to overturn the Reagan Revolution, a fight that was over long ago. They're trying to restore balance: nurture an economy so that productivity gains are shared by the middle class and correct the irresponsible habits that developed during the Bush era.
The budget, they continue, isn't some grand transformation of America. It raises taxes on energy and offsets them with tax cuts for the middle class. It raises taxes on the rich to a level slightly above where they were in the Clinton years and then uses the money as a down payment on health care reform. That's what the budget does. It's not the Russian Revolution.
How moderately wonderful, right? They've now dazzled Brooks again. They're not "liberal crusaders", they're moderate pragmatists who want to lend stability to the economy.
Brooks then goes through a litany of things "Republicans should like". He finishes up by claiming he still thinks they're trying to do too much too fast, and that may lead to problems "down the road", but all in all, he's impressed by their sincerity, commitment to what is best for America and the fact that all of this is not going to cost anywhere near what all the critics claim.
On their face, the arguments are nonsense. This is the biggest planned expansion of government in a century. Estimates are the federal government will be hiring between 100,000 and 250,000 new employees to oversee its new programs and spend the trillions of dollars being borrowed through debt instruments right now.
Unlike the rather facile and easy to impress Brooks, Charles Krauthammer takes a look at the spin and deconstructs it rather handily.
At the very center of our economic near-depression is a credit bubble, a housing collapse and a systemic failure of the entire banking system. One can come up with a host of causes: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pushed by Washington (and greed) into improvident loans, corrupted bond-ratings agencies, insufficient regulation of new and exotic debt instruments, the easy money policy of Alan Greenspan's Fed, irresponsible bankers pushing (and then unloading in packaged loan instruments) highly dubious mortgages, greedy house-flippers, deceitful homebuyers.
The list is long. But the list of causes of the collapse of the financial system does not include the absence of universal health care, let alone of computerized medical records. Nor the absence of an industry-killing cap-and-trade carbon levy. Nor the lack of college graduates. Indeed, one could perversely make the case that, if anything, the proliferation of overeducated, Gucci-wearing, smart-ass MBAs inventing ever more sophisticated and opaque mathematical models and debt instruments helped get us into this credit catastrophe in the first place.
And yet with our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. Four months after winning the election, six weeks after his swearing in, Obama has yet to unveil a plan to deal with the banking crisis.
As Krauthammer points out, none of the costly things that Obama pledged to focus on have anything to do with the down economy. They all do, however, include the the probability of causing even more damage if enacted.
And since they've been in office, Obama or his surrogates (mostly in the guise of Timothy "tax cheat" Geithner") have talked down the stock market, the auto industry, the oil and gas industry, the health care industry, energy, banks, financial and the defense industry. They still don't seem to realize what impact their words have on markets, or if they do, then one has to assume they're doing this on purpose. I tend toward the side of ignorance, but at some point, after it has been pointed out to them over and over again, you have to abandon that belief and head toward the other conclusion. Their words, quite literally, are wrecking the economy.
Markets can't stand instability and insecurity. When leaders talk about what's wrong with this industry or that industry and what they intend on doing to punish or change how that industry does business, investors get very nervous. As you might imagine, they're extremely nervous right now, as reflected by the Dow. They know that there is a government assault coming, in some form or fashion, on the industries I've mentioned. So they're going to get out of the position they now hold in them and they're going to refrain from investing in them until they're clear what that assault will entail. And I don't use the word "assault" lightly.
Health care, defense, oil and gas, pharma, auto, energy, housing, banking, finance etc. are all under a form of assault by the new administration. Health care will change and expand dramatically under government auspices, oil and gas will lose tax breaks, cap-and-trade will bury the auto industry and shoot energy prices through the roof – affecting transportion and manufacturing. Cram-downs affect the housing, banking and financial sectors. Who wants to invest in any of that when a judge can reward irresponsible home owners with a write down of their principle? Meanwhile responsible home seekers will see the interest rate go up by about 2 points to cover the losses. That'll spur homebuying, won't it?
Like Dale pointed out about the Red Kangaroo, you can see this coming from a mile off. And "useful idiots" like David Brooks climb back on the bandwagon and resume cheering the parade to economic ruin.
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What is something you probably shouldn't do if you want to see an industry "save or create" jobs?
U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks because their businesses contribute to global warming, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Wednesday.
It was one of the sharpest attacks yet on the oil and gas industry by a top Obama administration official, reinforcing the White House stance that new U.S. energy policy will focus on promoting renewable energy sources like wind and solar power and rely less on traditional fossil fuels like oil as America tackles climate change.
Got that? They shouldn't get tax breaks because they "contribute to global warming". Freakin' incredible. An ideological reason given to deny tax breaks. Here's government again picking winners and losers.
The Obama administration's budget would levy an excise tax on oil and natural gas produced in the Gulf of Mexico, raising $5.3 billion in revenue from 2011 to 2019.
And in a time of financial crisis, that cost will be passed on to whom?
Obama's budget would also place a $4 per acre annual fee on energy leases in the Gulf that are designated as nonproducing. The budget proposal projects the fee would generate $1.2 billion from 2010 to 2019.
Of course, they're talking millions of acres out there. As Sen. Cornyn points out, it won't be the ExxonMobile's or the Chevrons which will be hurt by this:
Senator John Cornyn of Texas criticized the tax increases, saying they would hurt independent energy companies that provide a large share of U.S. oil and gas supplies.
"My view is that higher taxes on small and independent producers here in America will make us more dependent on imported oil and gas while we transition to cleaner energy alternatives, a goal we all share," said Cornyn. "And it will also hurt job retention and job creation in the energy sector, which provides an awful lot of jobs in this country."
Pure brilliance.
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The Miz looks like a prutty boy face and the Undertaker is really out of place there, lawls!
Why is Cena front and center in the poster? Shouldn't The Miz be there since he is the champion? Wait this is WWE we are talking about where they take every opportunity to shove Cena down our throats.
As much as i love the undertaker. he looks mentally retarded in this poster…
How does Rey Mysterio get a spot on the poster over Edge or Triple H?
I like the first wm27 poster better
Because Rey Mysterio is the only person that can fit in the corner like a fly on the wall. Even though he hasnt been scheduled for a match yet, probably the Money in the bank ladder match that John Morrison is overdue to win.
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Indie Memphis and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art are partnering to present Arkansas Phil Chambliss' "Auteur from Arkansas" beginning at 7:30 Thursday night. It's a collection of three folk art films: "Shadows of the Hatchet Man," "The Devil's Helper" and "The Mr. Visit Show." Tickets are $7, $5 for Brooks members. Call 544-6208.
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Kick off the Labor Day weekend with the Memphis Zoo's newest event -- Zoo Brew. Sample 24 crafted beers from around the world and live entertainment from Jeremy Shrader's Quintessentials. Browse a collection of art and pottery, mixed-media paintings and sculptural clay pieces from local artists Susan Inman and Skippy Gronauer.
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Retired FedEx Captain Jim Tucker returns to Memphis on Friday to share the story of how he and two colleagues prevented the 1994 hijacking of Federal Express Flight 705. A Night With Jim Tucker gets underway at 6 p.m. at the Memphis Marriott East, 2625 Thousand Oaks Blvd. Tickets to the Mid-South Airshow Foundation fund-raiser are $35 and available at msairshow.
East Memphians Rictrell LeMond Pirtle, Andrew Edward Garrett and Robert Leon Cheeks of Southeast Memphis this spring earned their bachelor's degrees from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.
Pirtle, the son of Deborah A. Roberts, majored in Spanish language, culture and society.
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Gary Rowsey was among 48 educators who attended the Mississippi State University Center for Science Mathematics and Technology's Industry-Education Partnerships workshop this summer. The St. Agnes Academy algebra and pre-calculus teacher visited Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Pascagoula, Miss.; Mississippi Lignite Mining Company's Red Hills Mine in Ackerman, Miss.; Nissan North America in Canton, Miss.; and and the Tennessee Valley Authority in Chattanooga.
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Schuetz is the daughter of Drs. Erin and John Schuetz of Midtown. Lowe's parents are Christine and Timothy Lowe of Southeast Memphis.
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Does the loot from a Horadric Cache vary (in quality or frequency) depending on the difficulty level where you obtain it, or open it? No. Blizzard explains Horadric Cache legendary drop rules:
Sorry, just wanted to clarify something. You're very clear about the loot in the cache not changing based on the difficulty. I take that to mean that the loot table does not change.
However, does the "chance" that you'll get a legendary from that fixed loot table increase with each torment level? For example. Am I just as likely to get a Ring of Royal Grandeur (a cache specific item) from a T1 cache as I am from a T6 cache?
Grimiku: That's a great observation, but more of an oversight on my part rather than precise, selective messaging. The chance to get a Legendary item from a Horadric Cache does not change based on the difficulty you acquired the cache. To use the example provided you'd have the same chance to get the Ring of Royal Grandeur from a cache acquired in Torment 1 as one acquired in Torment 6.
Two other common Bounty Bag questions.
Q: Does the gear roll when the bag is found, or opened?
A: The level of the gear and the act the bag was earned in is set when Tyrael hands it over, but the actual items roll their stats when the bag is opened. This is why it used to be possible to get Imperial gems from Normal difficulty bags if you opened them in T6. The items in the bag will be at the level of the char who found them. For instance, opening bags found by a lvl 70 DH with your level 60 WD will get you WD-themed items (INT on the mainstat, lots of WD helms and knives, etc) but all the items will be level 70, and all the gems will be Marquise. This means you can cross-class farm a bit with bounty bags; the opening class will get more appropriate items for their class and the mainstat will usually roll correctly.
Q: Which legendary items can only be found from Horadric Caches?
A: There are 20 legendary items that can only be found from Horadric Caches, and they are arranged by acts. We've got a full listing in the Diablowiki.net article, with their special legendary properties, for easy reference. Here's a quick list:
Act One
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No legendary items are specially tied to Act Four Caches, but bounty bags earned in that act can contain the special legendary items from any of the other acts.
Act Five
I don't have that list memorized (yet), and every time I look at it I get a moment of, "oh yeah, I scored that one helm/boots/cloak and didn't realize it was cache-only." I've found cache-only items from every act, despite never split-farming them intensively (not since the beta, at least) but never the Act 1 Ring or the Act 2 Gloves that are the most useful/sought after.
Because RNG! Ever a cruel mistress.
Update: Nevalistis posted some more info about Cache contents and when/how they are determined.
I did bounties with my low level barb and opened them with my 70 wizard. The gear that dropped had int, but was the level of my barb.
Nevalistis: As I mentioned, such coincidences can occur, but should generally be rare. I did experience something similar earlier today, just to check and make sure for myself. A cache obtained by my 70 Wizard gave my 60 Barbarian a set of level 70 shoulders with Strength, but the next cache I gave to my 60 Demon Hunter gave her a level 70 wand with Intelligence.
It would take hundreds of tests to be absolutely certain on an individual level. Luckily, that's something our Quality Assurance team has already been thoroughly over. 😉 Items found within should be dependent on the Horadric Cache's acquirer if they roll smart loot, and the Difficulty in which they are acquired or opened should have no bearing on the loot produced.
I can't say for certain, but all the evidence I've seen agrees with the second poster, and disagrees with Nevalistis. As I said higher up in this post, I recently opened 8 bags, all found by lvl 70 barb and DH, with my lvl 60 WD. And every item was level 70, and almost every item had INT as the stat. Plus there were 3 WD helms and a ceremonial dagger, but zero hand xbows, mighty weapons or belts, etc.
I'd love to know for sure, so if you guys have done some testing share the results in comments, but as far as I can tell/test, 1) cache items set their Act of origin and level when they are spawned, but 2) the actual items and their stats are rolled when you open the cache, and smart drop for the class that opens them.
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Granny, Tweety and Hector accidentally uncover an alien invasion.
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Ice Cube extends the metaphor of MC Ren's being fooled in business, as Eazy-E takes his money and the like, to being fucked sexually, with Eazy-E's dick going into Ren's ass and, thus, coming out smelling of Ren's literal shit.
Eazy appeared to misunderstand the argument, perhaps willfully, saying of the song:
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text: When Ronald Reagan took office in 1980, the US national debt stood at around $2tn. By 2011, it stood at a staggering $15tn and has become one of the most significant problems in American politics. It has revealed the deep ideological splits that run right across the US political landscape and now threaten the health of the entire US economy. Reported over the decades by the Guardian's finest journalists, this is the modern story of America's national debt.


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The political fallout over Attorney General Eric Holder's bad decisions in the past three years, specifically surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, is only beginning. A new Rasmussen Report shows 40 percent of Americans want him gone while 46 percent see him unfavorably.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 27% of Likely U.S. Voters oppose Holder's resignation. Forty percent (40%) are in favor of the attorney general stepping down, but another 33% are undecided.
Only 24% of voters have at least a somewhat favorable opinion of Holder, while 48% view him unfavorably. This includes eight percent (8%) with a Very Favorable view of the nation's chief law enforcement officer and 32% with a Very Unfavorable one. Twenty-eight percent (28%) don't know enough about Holder to venture any kind of opinion.
These numbers are significant. The 33% of "undecided" indicates a lack of knowledge about Holder's decisions (thank you lamestream media!), which Rasmussen also shows.
A substantial number of voters also are not familiar with the Fast and Furious controversy. Only 50% say they are following news reports about it at least somewhat closely, with 24% who are following Very Closely.
This helps explain why 11% of voters say the Fast and Furious operation was a success, while 45% think it was a failure. But 44% are not sure. Similarly, only 11% think the Justice Department has been honest with Congress about the operation, but 45% do not. Again, however, 44% are not sure.
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Farm business owners and managers should have a basic understanding of the various laws that apply to agricultural labor. This section is intended as a guide for agricultural employers only, not an official presentation or interpretation of any of the laws and regulations discussed within. Readers should recognize that new laws are created, other laws amended, and that State laws vary. Please consult an attorney for legal advice.
An overview of laws specific to agricultural employers can be seen here:
Dairy employers that hire a foreign born work force have to follow the same agricultural labor laws as any other ag employer. For more information on immigration law, social security mismatch letters or what to do in the event of a raid:
- Introduction to Immigration Law
- No Match SS Letters
- Employment Eligibility and Enforcement Resources
All employers are required to verify the eligibility of each employee hired to work in the United States.
Cash wages that you pay to employees for farm work are generally subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes. If the wages are subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes, they are also subject to federal income tax withholding.
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If you hire one or more full or part-time employees in Vermont, or hire employees outside of Vermont and they work for you in Vermont, you are required to carry Workers Compensation. The Vermont Department of Labor pursues all valid claims regardless of an individual's documentation status.
An employer cannot remove wages from an employee's paycheck unless the employee has signed an authorization allowing employer to do so or the employer sufficiently documents the employee's intention to repay. An employer cannot withhold a week of pay, pay for "damages", or food without the signed authorization. Employers who make purchases for an employee should provide employees with a receipt at which point the employee can pay the employer the amount due. "An employee who voluntarily leaves employment shall be paid on the last regular pay day, or if there is no regular pay day, on the following Friday. An employee who is discharged from employment shall be paid within 72 hours of the discharge." "Employers must pay employees on a weekly basis. However, after providing written notice to its employees, an employer may issue paychecks on a bi-weekly or semi-monthly basis. Payday shall be within six (6) days of the last day of the pay period." "Employers must provide a wage statement to its employees with each payment of wages. This statement must set forth, at a minimum, the total hours worked, the hourly rate, gross pay and each deduction fully itemized."[Vermont Dept of Labor]
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"Forget everything you think you know about the direction of the American economy, about our growing need for foreign oil, about the rise of the service economy and the decline of American manufacturing. The story of the next thirty years will not be a repeat of the last thirty." One of the most respected voices on Wall Street, Meredith Whitney shot to global prominence in 2007 when her warnings of a looming crisis in the financial sector proved all too prescient. Now, in her first book, she expands upon her biggest call since the financial crisis. Whitney points out that it wasn't just consum-ers who binged on debt for the past twenty years but state and local governments too. She explains how the fiscal sins of the past are beginning to transform the U.S. economy along regional lines. And she shows how we are moving into a new era in which wealth, power, and opportunity flow away from the coasts and toward the central corridor. The housing boom was initially great for states such as California, Nevada, and Florida. State and municipal coffers overflowed, unemployment shrank, and local governments spent their tax revenue windfalls on pay hikes and pension increases for their public employees. But when the boom dried up in those parts of the country, so too did the tax revenues, forcing tax rate hikes and cuts to essential public services especially education and infrastructure. In contrast to those doom and gloom head-lines, a much different trend was developing in interior states such as North Dakota, Indiana, and Texas. They survived the housing crisis relatively unscathed, avoiding mass foreclosures and bud-getary chaos. As a result they've had the money to retrain workers and offer tax incentives to companies willing to relocate. Coupled with the recent booms in natural gas and oil extraction and a resurgence in manufacturing, these states are poised to become the new powerhouses of the American economy. Whitney offers a sobering vision of the next few decades, with the coastal states continuing to struggle while the central corridor contin-ues to thrive. She explores the consequences of roughly half the country stuck in a vicious cycle of decline while the other half enjoys a virtuous circle of growth. Whitney also offers practical ideas to help the struggling parts of the country before the fate of the states becomes irreversible."
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Following last week's release of its 2014 Bib Gourmand picks for the Bay Area, Michelin today released its broader list of the top restaurants in our area. As was the case last year, only two restaurants in the entire Bay Area earned the coveted 'three star' rating and both are located here in the Napa… Read More
Five Napa Valley restaurants make Michelin's 2014 Bib Gourmand list
It's mid-October, which means it's time for the annual Michelin awards for top local restaurants. To get things started, Michelin released its 2014 Bay Area Bib Gourmand list yesterday, which honors those establishments that "...serve two courses and a glass of wine or dessert for $40 or less, plus tax and tip." 2014 #SF #BibGourmand… Read More
Gluten free bake shop coming to Oxbow Public Market mid-November
In December 2011 partners Joël Hoachuck, Barbara Schwartz Hoachuck and Fabrice Penet opened La Crepe in Oxbow Public Market. The three brought quite the pedigree to the business, which had a goal of bringing an authentic French crepe experience to the valley. When La Crepe closed at the end of September, it didn't take long… Read More
11 stunning photos from the 2013 Napa Valley wine grape harvest
It's only early September, but this year's annual wine grape harvest is already in full swing. There's a frenetic vibe across the Napa Valley as winemakers, vineyard managers and crews keep close tabs on Brix levels, current temperatures and weather forecasts, among many other things. Below are eleven stunningly gorgeous photos snapped by those on… Read More
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Anyone who's ever spent time in wine country during the annual wine grape harvest will recognize a familiar scent in the air. As grapes come in across the valley and the fermentation process begins, the early morning and late evening air is often filled with an enchanting (at least for us wine lovers) aroma from… Read More


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"Kid Still In The Car Seat" Awareness
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
20 months.
About 24 hours ago, I published "How Do Parents Leave Their Kids Alone In A Hot Car?!"
To summarize it, I basically said that I feel like every time I hear another "parent left their kid alone in the hot car" story, it's always that the parent was a bit looney to begin with.
I ended it with this:
"But really, I don't know, do non-crazy parents end up leaving their kids alone in the car? Do they?"
The answer is yes.
Good, normal parents who are respected in their community have unfortunately accidently left their kids alone in a hot car.
The most common way this seems to happen: They simply forgot to drop off their kid, who was quiet in the back seat.
Here are a couple of links to prove it:
As I mentioned in this post's prequel, I totally see how I could forget my son in the back seat of my car, on a morning when he is really tame on the drive and while I am very preoccupied with 17 random thoughts and 8 that actually are important.
But I want to make sure I never do forget.
I read this statement from the Safe Kids Worldwide CEO, Kate Carr, who had some advice for parents to prevent forgetting their child in the car:
"Create reminders by putting something in the back of your car – a briefcase, your purse, or better yet, your cell phone – that is needed at your final destination. This is especially important if you're not following your normal routine."
So, yeah, I'm going to start doing that. Starting today.
Now that I know it's not just a stereotype of a parent who accidently leaves their kid in the car seat on a hot summer day, I'm ready to spread awareness.
What better way to do that than with another one of my glorious awareness ribbons?
For the record, I think awareness ribbons are annoying by now and are well past the "jumped the shark" point. And for me, that's why they work. They spread awareness, even if through sheer tackiness like an infomercial.
So as I look at this orange "Kid Still In The Car Seat" Awareness ribbon that took me about 90 seconds to create on PicFont.com, I will be reminded to start leaving my cell phone in the back seat next to my son from now on.
Not to mention, I don't need the added danger of tempting myself to text my wife while I'm driving.
I want to set good, preventative habits as a parent.
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His name is synonymous with building the best boats in Australia, winning national awards every year for the past decade but Steve Shaw is gearing up for a new title – Grey Nomad.
Steve Shaw, Retiring Boatie.
For 25 years, Steve's Powercat Marine near Caboolture has had a client list of who's who of the corporate world and seasoned boaties – among them Keith Williams but now he has decided to enjoy retirement while he is still young enough to enjoy it.
While the economy is still bouncing back from the GFC and spending on luxury items is not what it used to be Steve is quick to point out his decision was lifestyle based.
'My older brother retired then died a year later. I have worked hard all my life and now want to enjoy it with my wife Lynda as much as we have enjoyed working together for all these years,' he said.
'I have a number of overseas buyers from India and Dubai who are interested in the business, I would hope to keep it in Australia, but I am ready to leave the industry in a positive way.
'The last few years have been tougher that's for sure and I have been able to hold on because I bought my own real estate over the years, so it makes it easier when you own the buildings and the factory.
'I really believe the Government needs to do more to keep the marine industry viable in Australia – starting with legislation against grey imports – boats that can be imported and sold here even when they do not meet the Australian standard – everything made has to reach an Australian standard and be certified – stuff from the US doesn't have to.
'Many different bureaucratic government policies and changes have at times made things quite hard. The marine industry, with the GFC, has been reduced by more than 50%. You never find a boat on a wrecking yard; they are not replaced - the more we build the more that are out there. The overheads in the industry are massive. The strings are getting pulled tighter.
'There is still plenty of life in the marine industry I just don't want to have to reboot the business at 60 – I always planned my life in 3-5 year progression and I want to start travelling in small trips to start off with.
'I guess my last project will be building my own boat. I stand by my product so I would actually be happy buying one of my own second hand boats.
Steve's most recent awards include 2010 Trade-A-Boat Group Top 20, Best Ever Power Boat, 2009 Modern Boating Family Boat of the Year (7m-9m Australian) and 2008 Modern Boating Best of the Best Award.
'I bought Power Cat Marine back in 1996, but the company started in the early '80s. We are currently the oldest existing manufacturing catamaran company in Australia,' he said.
'It has been part of our philosophy to put a lot of time and money into research and development –I think that is why we have stayed in business as long as we have by reinvested in the business and not overcapitalising.
'We have always been very hands on. We have also got our business structured so that we do everything in-house - design, manufacture market and retails sales, all from our factory - so our percentages are much greater than any opposition.
'The boys are still buying toys, we sold 28 new boats last year, it was a good year but buyers are pulling back from the $700,000 boats to the $200,000-$300,000 range.
'Every new model we have released has won an award – so there is certainly plenty of life left in the business.'
With testimonials like, 'I am an ex-naval officer who has owned more than a dozen yachts and power boats, ... none have given me more satisfaction and extreme pleasure as this stunning boat,' from Rhys Hanly-Jones (ret R.N) in Sydney Harbour to Colin Venter in Vanuatu who wrote how 'jaw dropped' dealers in Vanuatu were with Steve's commitment to service – in his words everyone was 'stunned' : Steve will be missed by the industry.
'I will always love boats but right now I am planning to take the van to the Atherton Tableland onto Darwin and the West Australian coast,' Steve said.
'I have worked hard all my life and don't feel guilty about retiring early – not one little bit.'
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Estevan López
Estevan López has 25 years of experience in the public sector including being appointed by Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, as the Director of the Interstate Stream Commission in January 2003. He was re-appointed to that position by Governor Susana Martinez in 2011. As Director of the ISC, López oversaw water management within New Mexico and negotiations with other states over interstate water matters. He represented New Mexico as the Governor's Representative on Colorado River Compact matters and as Commissioner to the Upper Colorado River Compact and Canadian River Compact Commissions. While at the ISC, he also served as the Deputy State Engineer for New Mexico. Previous public sector positions included serving as County Manager and Land Use and Utility Department Director for Santa Fe County, and Public Utility Engineer for the New Mexico Public Utilities Commission. López also worked for several years in the private sector as an Engineer for ARCO Alaska, Inc.
A native New Mexican, he earned two Bachelor of Science degrees from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; one in chemistry and one in petroleum engineering. López is a registered Professional Engineer in New Mexico.
López and his wife Susana live in Peñasco, New Mexico. They have two grown children, Victoria and Juan, who attend college in New Mexico.
The Bureau of Reclamation is a contemporary water management agency and the largest wholesale provider of water in the country. It brings water to more than 31 million people, and provides one out of five Western farmers with irrigation water for farmland that produces much of the nation's produce. Reclamation is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the Western United States with 58 power plants.


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"Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another."
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"Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called "leaders" lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions."
"Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out."
"Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."


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Polynesian Salad Loaf
19 Oct 2009
|Cubed cooked chicken
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Canned bamboo shoots
|5 Ounce, drained (1 Can)
|Sliced celery
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Chopped green onion
|2 Tablespoon
|Hard cooked egg
|1 , chopped
|Mayonnaise/Salad dressing
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Frozen orange juice concentrate
|2 Tablespoon (Thawed)
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|French bread loaf
|1 (Unsliced)
|1 , softened
|Bibb lettuce
|Mandarin oranges
|Green pepper slices
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Toasted slivered almonds
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
Combine first 8 ingredients; chill.
Cut thin slice from bottom of loaf to make it sit flat.
Cut loaf in half lengthwise; wrap top half of loaf for later use.
Scoop out center of bottom half of loaf to make a slight hollow.
Spread with butter.
Arrange Bibb lettuce on bread.
Top with chicken salad.
Garnish with mandarin oranges, green pepper slices, and almonds.
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