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Legislative Prayer Backed in U.S. Supreme Court Ruling
A divided U.S. Supreme Court gave government officials more room to incorporate religion into civic life, ruling that the Constitution lets a New York town board start most meetings with a Christian prayer.
The justices, voting 5-4, said officials don't have to require prayers to be nonsectarian. Two residents argued that the Town of Greece is unconstitutionally coercing its citizens by inviting local religious leaders to deliver monthly prayers that often explicitly invoke Jesus.
The ruling, the court's first on the issue in three decades, extends a 1983 decision that said legislative bodies could begin sessions with nondenominational blessings. The court today applied that decision to local government meetings.
"Legislative prayer lends gravity to public business, reminds lawmakers to transcend petty differences in pursuit of a higher purpose, and expresses a common aspiration to a just and peaceful society," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court.
The vast majority of state legislative bodies open the day with some kind of prayer, as do both houses of Congress. At the Supreme Court itself, the marshal calls each session to order with the words "God save the United States and this honorable court."
Familiar Split
The case split the court along familiar lines, with the four Democratic appointees -- Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan -- in the minority. Ginsburg, Breyer and Kagan are Jewish, while the court's other six justices are Catholic.
Kagan wrote that the town's practice "does not square with the First Amendment's promise that every citizen, irrespective of her religion, owns an equal share in her government."
The Constitution's First Amendment bans government "establishment of religion." The Obama administration backed the town in the case.
The ruling underscores the continuing impact of the 2006 retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. In deciding against Greece, a New York-based federal appeals court adopted an O'Connor-crafted test for church-state separation questions. The appeals court said the town's practice "must be viewed as an endorsement" of Christianity, violating the Constitution.
'Endorsement Test'
Kennedy's opinion mentioned that "endorsement test" only in passing. Instead, he asked whether the town was coercing its residents into praying, invoking a test that gives government bodies more leeway. Kennedy said residents and board members were free to leave the room during the prayer.
"In the general course, legislative bodies do not engage in impermissible coercion merely by exposing constituents to prayer they would rather not hear and in which they need not participate," Kennedy wrote.
O'Connor's successor, Justice Samuel Alito, joined Kennedy in the majority, along with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
Thomas and Scalia joined only part of the opinion, writing separately to say they would have gone further in allowing government-sponsored prayer. Thomas wrote that only "actual legal coercion" -- such as taxes that support a church or mandatory attendance laws -- raised potential problems under the First Amendment.
Objecting Residents
The two Greece residents, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, said that over a four-year period, more than three-quarters of the town's prayers were explicitly Christian, containing references to Jesus and often seeking audience participation.
"The Supreme Court just relegated millions of Americans -- both believers and nonbelievers -- to second-class citizenship," said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which represented the two women.
The town, a suburb of Rochester, said it doesn't shut out members of other faiths. After the two women complained, officials arranged for opening prayers to be delivered by a Jewish man, a Baha'i leader and a Wiccan priestess who invoked Apollo and Athena.
Kennedy said the town didn't improperly discriminate in selecting its prayer-givers. He said Greece "consistently chose Christian prayer givers" because it "limited its list of clergy almost exclusively to representatives of houses of worship situated within Greece's town limits."
'Religious Diversity'
"Prayers like these have been taking place in our nation's legislatures for over 200 years," said Eric Rassbach, a lawyer with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which supported the town. "They demonstrate our nation's religious diversity and highlight the fact that religion is a fundamental aspect of human culture."
Kagan accused the majority of "blindness" toward the actual circumstances in Greece.
"Month in and month out for over a decade, prayers steeped in only one faith, addressed toward members of the public, commenced meetings to discuss local affairs and distribute government benefits," she wrote.
The Supreme Court has taken up religion cases only sparingly since Roberts became chief justice in 2005. In perhaps the biggest ruling before now, a 5-4 decision in 2010, it revived a federal law designed to protect a Christian cross erected as a war memorial in a national preserve.
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The MIAA tournament action at Gallo Ice Arena won't be the only hockey tournament the Cape is hosting this weekend.
The Women's Hockey East Tournament begins Saturday with the four teams — Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University and University of Vermont — practicing today at the Hyannis Youth & Community Center.
All practices are free and open to the public.
Canadian Olympic gold medialist Marie-Philip Poulin led the Terriers to the Hockey East title last year at the HYCC in a win over Northeastern.
The Terriers have won the Hockey East tournament three of the last four years.
The winner of the tournament gets an automatic bid into the Women's NCAA Division 1 tournament, which begins March 14-15.
This year, Boston College, ranked fourth in the nation, enters as the top seed in the Hockey East tournament and will play fourth-seed Vermont in the semifinals. Second-seeded BU will play third-seeded Northeastern.
The championship game on Sunday will be televised on NESN.
Eagles sophomore forward Haley Skarupa (Rockville, Md.) is one goal shy of 50 and six points shy of 100. Meanwhile, Terriers sophomore forward Sarah Lefort (Ormstown, Que.) is
four points shy of 100 for her career. BU senior goalie Kerrin Sperry (North Reading) has been in net for 83 of BU's 100 victories since her freshman year. That's 40 more than any other goalie in team history.
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Since 1959, Artemide has created a wide array of modern table lamps, floor lamps, wall sconces and suspensions. Technologically advanced, and with styles ranging from clean and refined to sculptural and avant garde, many Artemide designs--especially the Tolomeo and Tizio--have become icons of contemporary lighting design.
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The Dirty Dancing musical (bafflingly subtitled "The Classic Story on Stage") will finally be coming to America in September when it kicks off its U.S. national tour in Chicago. This musical version of the 1988 Patrick Swayze film premiered in Australia and is currently playing in London, but it appears that the producers preferred to bypass Broadway entirely and go straight for a tour. Not a bad idea considering that the sharp-tongued Broadway critics aren't too likely to give Dirty Dancing a warm welcome.
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The PhD concentration in Strategic Management (SGM) is a full-time program that prepares students for academic careers at major research universities. The program, which is built around course work in Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and Global Business, adopts an inter-disciplinary approach at the intersection of these areas. Ongoing research in the department includes: work on inter-organizational relationships, knowledge structures, technological innovations, corporate venture capital, industry emergence, venture capital syndication, global knowledge flows, and emerging multinationals.
SGM faculty members have editorial board appointments at leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and Journal of International Business Studies, and many have been recognized through research awards, including the "Best Paper of the Decade" and "Best Paper of the Year" from the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies and Academy of Management Journal. In addition, faculty members also perform high-visibility leadership roles in professional organizations such as the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society and the Academy of International Business. Our vibrant 'visiting scholars' program and research seminar series attract top scholars from the U.S. and around the world, and the SGM department is home to the Institute of Global Management Studies, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute and the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).
Under guidance from our faculty, Strategic Management PhD students explore a wide range of topical issues. Our students regularly present in premier international conferences, and our alumni currently hold faculty positions in reputable institutions such as Univ. of Miami, George Mason University, Rutgers University and the Indian School of Business.
For more information please consult the Strategic Management Department website and program promotional materials.
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All students admitted to our program are considered for full financial support. Funding typically comes in the form of an assistantship and includes full tuition and a competitive stipend for at least four years, based on adequate progress and yearly evaluations. Students who apply before the January 15 deadline will also be considered for Temple's prestigious university fellowships.
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Fortunately it will take a while to analyze the data and to plan which sections of pipe need repairing. They're expecting to continue grading the canyon to access those sections no sooner than this March. That's either good news (we get to keep the s.t. for a while) or bad (the canyon will be graded again) depending on how you look at it.
They say they will try to limit the width of the grading in the canyon and not make it a freeway again, (so they say. Again, this is all unofficial). The last five years they haven't been grading much because of efforts by environmental groups. Otherwise they would maintain a road year round to access the pipeline since they basically own the canyon.
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The garlic cloves planted last month are now showing some nice fat shoots. I think they must have responded well to the several days of frost we had just before Christmas. I've now managed to source some Cristo (my favourite variety) from Walkers Bulbs. I'm particularly pleased about this as I've subsequently found out that the Thermidrome pictured here isn't a good keeper. The Cristo bulbs are due to arrive here in February, so will form my late winter planting out on the allotment.
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Mark Twain Elementary School is located in Springfield, MO and is one of 39 elementary schools in Springfield R-xii School District. It is a public school that serves 457 students in grades PK-5. See Mark Twain Elementary School's test results to learn more about school performance.
In 2011, Mark Twain Elementary School had 14 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Missouri average is 14 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
In 2011, Mark Twain Elementary School had 14 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Missouri average is 14 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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Middle Child Syndrome:
In the Jones family, older brother Arthur is, truly, an over-achiever, defensive end for the Ravens.
Younger brother was apparently well looked after as he is a defensive end for the Pats.
And middle child Jon has found his niche as the UFC light heavyweight champion.
Sunday is the AFC Championship football game between the New England Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens.
So who does the middle brother Jon hope goes to the Super Bowl?
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1/18/13 12:47 PM by mghan44
Only guys with Nike deals can make impacts in games?Chandler has been a dependable starter for NE so far this season. 45 Tackles, 6 sacks, 3 forced fumbles...those are solid stats for any rookie.
1/18/13 10:08 AM by JeffersonDArcyChoke
Not me. Ravens in the Super Bowl means they could win. I don't want that chance and to have to sit through it with media hype. I'd rather see Brady stop them. As for Jones?NEITHER of his brothers will impact this game at all. Neither. Jon is a champ in his sport but his brothers aren't getting Nike deals. They may be getting stuff Jon has sent to their houses.
1/18/13 10:02 AM by PrinceKee
I'm a fan of Jon Jones, but I think this is one of those times where he shouldn't have gave a direct answer. Why not just say I'm pulling for both of my brothers and I'm just glad the Jones family will have someone playing in the Super Bowl?Just looks like he's favoring Arthur which after watching all the Countdown shows and stuff we already knew...
1/18/13 7:21 AM by UGCTT_Shope
My boys are getting to the Super Bowl this year, laugh it up :) haha!
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Yep! I am a huge Ray Lewis fan but im more of a Pats fan!!
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Ray Lewis retirement party on Sunday. Pats are going to ruin the Ravens.
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The whole "Ray Lewis" thing? Did you even watch the trial? The DA was guilty of trying to nab a bigtime celebrity before a election. The whole thing blew up in his face when AT REAL TRIAL (ya, he didn't "buy his way out") the limo driver said he never saw Ray throw a single punch, let alone stab anyone. As a matter of fact, all witnesses said Ray went BACK to the limo as the fight started (which by the way started when 1 of the dead guys smashed a beer bottle over Ray's cousins head for "looking at him wrong") and told his boys to "get the fuck back in the limo". When the limo driver said he didn't see Ray throw a punch, the DA knew it was over. To avoid getting egg completely on his face he gave Ray a plea bargin of Obstruction of Justice (for throwing his cousins bloody shirt in the trash; ya the cousin who got smacked in the head with the beer bottle aka his own blood). Ray then testified for the Prosecution but really didn't offer much up other than saying he saw a different knife than the one used in his friends hand (1 of the 2 friends he was on trial with) and said he told Ray "he stuck me so I stuck him". The best part of this witch hunt was it STILL didn't help and the case DID blow up in the DA's face and both of Ray's friends were also acquitted of murder. In other words, and no disrespect to the dead but.. it was a situation in which 2 local "tough guys" picked on the wrong group of guys because they thought they could rob them. Ended up they got killed and there other friend who lived actually shot bullets into the limo as it was leaving the club. They were bad dudes who lived terrible criminal lives and paid for their lifestyle with their lives. But it was clear from all evidence presented in court Ray Lewis did NOT stab, kick, punch or lay a hand on a single person that night and thus charges were DROPPED mid-trial by the prosecution.Please get your facts straight before talking bullshit and calling a man who is now also a Pastor a "killer".
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Security reviews are a respected methodology. People know about them, and probably use them semi-regularly. Ask anyone if security reviews are important, and they would all say yes. Ask them if they do it regularly, and most would say no.
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This post discusses the obstacles to implementing security reviews and the secrets to holding effective and successful regular security reviews.
Suppose a large enterprise, Contoso Banking, is building its next generation Internet facing web site. Who's involved and what motivates them?
Now, who cares about security of the project?
Common sense tells us security is the domain of the security guy's, say, the Chief Security Officer.
Consider the following (not uncommon) scenario. The Chief Security Officer tells the team that the system needs to support two factor authentication due to regulatory compliance. That would usually result into the following reactions:
Project sponsor will need to tell the customers that web access won't be as smooth as planned, since they will need to carry smart cards. End users usually get upset with such news. So the project sponsor is unhappy.
Project manager understands that with such requirement she will never ship it neither on budget nor on time.
Development manager freaks out imagining how many more bugs this requirement brings in.
Development team lead after quick search on the web finds designs that require special skills, tools, and methodologies. More sleepless nights ahead.
Developer never used crypto in any of her projects and now she needs serious ramp up on this cryptic topic. She is seriously considering moving on to a better project.
Let's ask who cares about security once more? All of the project participants suddenly care, but most of them are not pleased with the security focus. Working with my customers I found a proven pattern to get everyone onboard with security. The pattern can be boiled down to the following principles:
This might sound funny but what I witness in the field is that people speak different languages, they might all speak their native English, Hebrew, or Russian, but in the end, even when communicating with the same language, no one understands each other. Consider another example, the unexpected security defect.
Suppose the security tester proudly presents a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability to senior project stakeholders. It goes like this:
- "I found Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in your web site", - Security Tester happily announces.
- "So?...", – Project Sponsor asks honestly.
- "So?!?!, Let me repeat what I just said – I found Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in OUR web site", - Security Tester repeats honestly confused.
- "So?.....", - Project Sponsor asks even more confused.
And it goes on and on. Until Project Sponsor asks simple question about the subject he really cares
- "How are the end users affected?".
- "Their identities can be stolen and abused" – Security Tester explains with huge relief.
- "Oh my!!", - now Project Sponsor understands the severity of the issue, then he continues – "What should be done to mitigate this?"
- "You need rewrite all web pages, with the right encoding, depending on where the data appears in the HTML output" – answers the Security Tester.
The Project Manager comes to life, he understands that he is not going to hit the deadline. He looks at Development Lead asking him silently with his rolling eyes:
- "How long will it take?"
- "Well.. we need to extend the schedule by… 3 months as our developers are not that proficient with such code", - the Development Lead answers.
Everyone is upset. Security Tester comes to the rescue:
- "Let me suggest the following. You run this simple search and find all occurrences of the issue, and use a common library to make the encoding a simple one line fix in each case"
Project Manager sees the light in the end of the tunnel. In the end he might hit the deadline.
Speak the language that people understand.
"No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem." - The Second Law Of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg
"No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem." - The Second Law Of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg
Security means different things to different roles. Understand motivations and show what's in it for me to each one to make everyone buy in.
Consistency is the foundation of effectiveness, which will be discussed later on. Frames of core principles help a lot to be consistent. I found Security Frame very useful. It guides me and the rest of the involved parties, Project Sponsor, Project Manager, Development Manager, Development Team Lead, Developer. It creates a common language that everyone understands. Notice how the Security Frame can be used either for Threats that are relevant to Project Sponsor or for Countermeasures that are relevant to Development Force and more Technical audience.
If you speak common a language, you get everyone to buy in. It is show time, time to deliver.
The answer is simple; you follow proven patterns and practices. Fortunately, patterns & practices PAG team, led by J.D. Meier, has built fantastic tool, Guidance Explorer that maintains more than 3,500 easily consumable items on security, performance, and Visual Studio topics. J.D. also maintains his SecurityGuidanceShare.com wiki where he chunks the guidance in more consumable way. Guidance Explorer allows quick searches, direct access to the information according to Security Frame. But two features that bring me effectiveness is its ability to create Word documents and ability to be consumed via any RSS reader.
Apply proven practices. Avoid approaches that do not work. Do more in less time.
The highest return on investment is achieved when security activities match specific phase of the development lifecycle. These activities must produce results that are relevant to key personas of the phase.
The following table summarizes personas and focused deliverables according to development lifecycle:
Use Guidance Explorer to quickly build guidance and inspection documents.
Bookmark ASP.NET 2.0 FAQs to address security question during the development
Conduct effective Security Code Review asking questions from Security Question List: ASP.NET 2.0
Ideally all these activities should be conducted throughout the whole development lifecycle. In the real world projects this happens rarely. Nevertheless, effective security inspection techniques prove that security bar can be constantly raised. One thing to keep in mind that security bugs can be revealed at any development phase but the cost of fixture climbs exponentially as the projects approaches production environment. It is all about risk management.
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Gemba Kaizen can be distilled to three keys - Housekeeping, Cutting Muda (waste), Standardization.
Agile Method gives a very clean view of the process, activities, and deliverables thus eliminating noise throughout the process of building the solution architecture. It seems like it's been build with Housekeeping in mind - Sort, Straighten, Scrub, Systemize, Standardize.
Muda (waste) is anything that does not add value. JD has been writing on it in his Get Lean, Eliminate Waste.
More Kaizen to Agile Method!
The third key of Gemba Kaizen encourages to follow clear process in iterative manner. One picture worth a thousand words. JD shares the following chart that gives an overview of the Agile Method:
Toyota does Kaizen and succeeds. Apply Agile Method and succeed too.
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As part of my quest to become a better consultant I am reading Gerald M. Weinberg's book Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully . It is quite controversial and provocative book. At the same time Weinberg shares real world practices that help folks in the field like myself coping with tough situations. It helps to avoid being eaten alive.It also entertaining and sometimes cynical which only teaches you to not take life too seriously, otherwise you will never get alive out of it. Weinberg shares his story in form of laws. Here are three first laws of consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg.
Weinberg Writes:
"In spite of what your client may tell you, there's always a problem."
"In spite of what your client may tell you, there's always a problem."
This must be a daily mantra for any consultant. Problems are consultant's bread. I think one of the greatest skills consultant should possess is seeing problems everywhere (read "opportunities"). Sometimes these problems ("opportunities") are latent. Consultant's job is to discover it and present it to the stakeholder in such manner so there is no way other than hiring you to solve it. If the consultant discovered fake latent problem she won't be hired again. If the consultant discovered real latent problem and even showed the way to solve it then the consultant's brand gets stronger and she gets more gigs.
Consultant, search for real latent problems.
"No Matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem."
This reminds me a story, my colleague consultant told me yesterday. He was involved with a 6 months project. The project's only goal was improving performance of a software. After few quick researches he solved the problem presenting the whole management and engineering team with the solution. Success? Far from it. He became a center of cross fire:
It is always people problem...
"Never forget they're paying you by the hour, not by the solution".
"Never forget they're paying you by the hour, not by the solution".
Mister Weinberg, you are absolutely right! But I am on my quest to break this law. I truly believe that the better option is productized service. Why? Here is why:
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Follow the House's Lead: Pay for the Extenders
December 10, 2009
Yesterday, the House passed a $31 billion "tax extenders" bill to renew a number of tax rates for another year. The last minute passage of this legislation is part of an all too regular end of year crunch, since a number of expiring tax and spending provisions have not yet been renewed.
Often in the past, in the rush to leave town for the holidays, the House and Senate have simply extended the programs for a year without regard for cost. We commend the House for fully offsetting the costs of their tax extenders bill, but worry that other changes may be deficit-financed. This year, given the fiscal crisis facing the nation, we urge Congress to avoid the easy solution and find ways to offset the full cost of their actions.
"Ideally, policymakers would sit down and make rational decisions about what provisions are worth keeping in the first place," said Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "But if they are going to insist on a band-aid solution, the least they could do is pay for it."
Among the other major items likely to be extended are:
Including the tax extenders bill, renewing these measures could cost more than $225 billion, mostly spent over one year. Fortunately, the tax extenders legislation was passed with offsetting revenue raisers.
"Kudos to the House for paying for this policy" said MacGuineas.
But Congress may use gimmicks to pay for some of these other measures (for example, using TARP money), and might not offset other changes at all. Congress should avoid such tactics and simply pay for whatever legislation they pass.
"Two hundred and twenty-five billion dollars? It seems like every year is worse than the last," MacGuineas said. "When the Bush tax cuts expire next year, we'll be talking about trillions. We're in fiscal trouble here, and I don't see things getting any better without a major change of course. Let's at least make sure we aren't making things worse."
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Op-Ed: Congress' Bad Record of Passing Appropriations Bills Shows Need for Budget Process Reform
The Hill | Dec. 10, 2009
In the next few days, the House and Senate will engage in their usual end-of-year dance and vote on two massive omnibus appropriations bills to keep the government funded. The bills will help avoid another series of stopgap Continuing Resolutions that have kept the lights on in much of the federal government since October 1—the start of the new fiscal year. Lawmakers, anxious to leave for the year and smelling the proverbial jet fumes, will consider the omnibus bills "must-pass" since they include seven of the "regular" appropriations bills needed to fund everything from veterans' benefits to railroad safety.
Once again, the much-vaunted "regular order" has been thrown out the window. But in January, members will return to the Capitol and promise that things will be different. The appropriations bills will be finished on time. But will they? The last time Congress was able to complete all of the appropriations bills individually by the start of the new fiscal year was 1994. Republicans love to blame the Democrats for the mess and Democrats take every opportunity to blame the Republicans. But neither party has managed to find a way to make the trains run on time.
Now, this may all seem like inside baseball, but the impact is serious. Managers of federal programs, already well into developing their next year's budgets, still do not have their final Fiscal 2010 funding levels. Then there's the question of whether lawmakers seriously discuss federal priorities when spending programs are lumped into a huge piece of legislation. If Congress cannot not even pass the annual appropriations bills on time, how can we expect it to deal with the unsustainable fiscal path that awaits us over the next decade?
Is there a better way to do things? Can a process be developed that will work even with sharp partisan divides on Capitol Hill? The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trust and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget believe that there is a better way and have established The Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform This commission will make recommendations for how best to improve the nation's fiscal future.
Five Steps to Cut the National Debt
Sphere | Dec. 10, 2009
Earlier this week, lawmakers confirmed that they will increase the national debt ceiling by as much as $1.8 trillion – raising it to more than $13 trillion – so the federal government can keep borrowing to cover its huge deficit.
As daunting as those numbers are, Congress has no choice. Fail to raise the debt limit and the government would default on its debt, sparking an immediate financial and economic crisis far worse than the one we just experienced.
But raising the debt ceiling only postpones that crisis. And if lawmakers want to avoid it, they have to get serious about bringing the nation's debt under control.
In the last year alone, the total government debt grew from almost $10 billion to nearly $12 trillion. The total government debt is on course to reach 100% of GDP by the early 2020s. Such high debt levels are likely to slow economic growth, dampen wages and harm jobs. Choosing this path is a sure-fire recipe for lower standards of living in this country.
It is true that much of our recent debt accumulation is either a direct or indirect result of the economic crisis, and acting to cut the debt too soon could damage the precarious economy. But the cost of waiting too long to change course would also be dire.
So, how does the U.S. gets its debt under control? The hard truth is that spending has to be cut and taxes have to go up.
I know, I know, that is exactly the opposite of what politicians like to promise, but there is no getting around it. Here are five ideas we should consider:
1) Raise the retirement age. Over the past 50 years or so, life expectancy has increased from 70 years to 78. Yet the average retirement age has fallen from 65 to 62. Raising the retirement age for Social Security would not only reduce the program's obligations, but would likely encourage people to work longer. And a larger work force means more taxable income and stronger overall economic growth.
2) Cap discretionary spending. Over the past decade or so, discretionary spending has grown far faster than the economy, even excluding defense spending. To ensure that politicians make tough decisions in this area of the budget, we must have strong enforceable spending caps in place. Even just limiting growth rates to levels of inflation could save $1 trillion or more relative to what would otherwise happen.
3) Require well-off seniors to pay more of their share of Medicare. To be affordable, there is no question that Medicare needs a major overhaul. But the chances of us getting there with health care cost control alone are extremely low – some benefits will need to be cut. To protect low-income seniors, we need to boost premiums and cost-sharing for wealthier seniors. That's already started in Medicare Part B, but we have to be more aggressive.
4) Don't extend so many of the Bush tax cuts. By the end of next year, nearly all the tax cuts passed over the past decade will expire. Renewing them all will cost around $2.3 trillion. Renewing them for everyone making less than $250,000 annually – with President Obama proposes – would still cost $1.8 trillion. We should go through the tax cuts one by one to decide which ones are worth keeping and which we simply can't afford.
5) Enact an energy tax. We are unlikely to stabilize our debt with spending cuts alone, and the current tax system is too inefficient to raise all needed revenue. An energy tax can make up some of the difference. By taxing carbon emissions or gasoline, as opposed to work and investment, we can reduce deficits and address climate change without hurting the economy too much.
I recognize that few of these options are easy, and frankly none are popular. Getting our fiscal house in order will be an exercise in hard choices. But our fiscal future depends on it.
Troubled Asset Relief Program: Year-End Review
On December 9, Secretary Geithner requested that TARP be renewed through October 3, 2010. Having spent a net of $386 billion, the $700 billion program is generally considered to have helped stabilize financial markets and the real economy. However, problems and risks remain.
CRFB Supports Fiscal Task Force
CRFB Supports Fiscal Task Force
December 9, 2009
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget commends Senators Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) on their proposal - released today - to create a Bipartisan Fiscal Task Force.
With the public debt above 50 percent of GDP and rising steadily, and Americans increasingly frustrated with the inability of Washington to deal with the dire situation, some type of commission, task force, or budget summit would be a sensible approach to break through the partisan deadlock to foster fiscal responsibility.
"A bipartisan commission would greatly help politicians address the nation's long-term fiscal challenges," stated
Another important benefit of a fiscal commission is that it could create a shared fiscal goal as a focal point for achieving real solutions. The bipartisan Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform, a joint venture of CRFB, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts, has been working to develop an appropriate goal for dealing with the growing debt and will release a report, Red Ink Rising: A Call to Action to Stem the Mounting Federal Debt, on December 14 at the National Press Club with a six-step plan.
"Unfortunately, the gridlocked and dysfunctional legislative process has proven unable to deal with the coming fiscal crisis, and time is quickly running out," said MacGuineas. "Establishing a bipartisan task force that promotes collaboration and honest discourse with an expedited process for considering its recommendations can overcome the polarization and disorder in
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Where Are Those Appropriations Bills?
Where Are Those Appropriations Bills?
December 7, 2009
More than two months after the start of Fiscal Year 2010, only five of the twelve appropriations bills necessary to continue government functions have been enacted. Congress's continued poor track record in fulfilling its fundamental obligation to fund the operations of government in an efficient manner exposes the need for budget process reform.
"If we can't do something as simple as passing the appropriations bills we review every year, how are we supposed to do any of the heavy lifting on the budget?" asked Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Although the House has passed all twelve of its appropriations bills, three have not been passed in the Senate, and another four are still being negotiated in Conference committee. Since October 1, these government functions have been sustained by stopgap continuing resolutions (CR), the latest of which is set to expire on December 18th.
"With the health care debate set to take up much of the floor time in the Senate, it's looking likely that Congress will either pass another CR or again rely on an end-of-year omnibus to wrap up all of its unfinished business just before leaving town," said MacGuineas. "Budgeting is one of the most basic functions of governing—there really is no excuse for failing to pass these bills."
"How can federal agencies develop realistic 2011 budgets if they don't even know what funds they'll have in 2010? We need to have a serious discussion of how to improve our country's budget process so that spending bills can receive the attention they deserve."
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Paying for Afghanistan Should Move Beyond Playing Politics
Paying for Afghanistan Should Move
Beyond Playing Politics
December 2, 2009
Last night, President Obama announced a plan to increase troop levels in Afghanistan by 30,000 - a change which would cost tens of billions of dollars per year. A number of Democrats opposed to this troop build up have called for a surtax to fund those operations. While politics, as opposed to fiscal responsibility, may be the impetus for the proposal, the idea of paying for the plan should not be dismissed.
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Senate Health Bill Needs Stronger Focus on Cost Control
Senate Health Bill Needs Stronger Focus on Cost Control
November 19, 2009
Late yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The $848 billion bill would reduce the deficit by $130 billion over the next decade, although $72 billion comes from the CLASS Act, which most experts do not consider an authentic offset. In the next decade, the bill would reduce the deficit by around one quarter of one percent of GDP.
Although this deficit reduction represents an important step in controlling the debt, this bill does not go far enough in controlling long-term health care costs or bringing Medicare and Medicaid under control.
"The original Senate Finance bill was projected to save half a percent of GDP in the second decade, the next version a quarter to a half, and this version only a quarter," said Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "Considering the dismal state of our budget, we need to do better."
The Senate bill includes two important offsets which that are not in the House bill, which are likely to slow health care cost growth: a tax on high cost health insurance plans and a commission to reform and reduce Medicare payments. Unfortunately, the scope of both provisions has been narrowed in this bill. It reduces the strength of the commission by increasing the cost threshold the commission has before it can cut costs, and it amends the tax to apply to plans of $8,500 ($23,000 for families), as opposed to $8,000 ($21,000 for families). Replacing these pay-fors is an increase in the Medicare payroll tax for high earners. Additionally, some of the deficit reduction to meet the $900 billion threshold comes from timing delays that push back the start date for most of the coverage provisions.
"While this bill does a better job than the House version at reducing the deficit and controlling costs, it still doesn't do enough," MacGuineas concluded. "Given the political system's aversion to tax increases and spending cuts, I worry about what the final bill will look like; politicians need to refocus their energy on the critical priority of controlling costs."
In the coming days and weeks, the Senate will debate the current bill, and if it is passed, will need to reconcile it with the House bill. CRFB has put together several charts comparing these two bills.
|Comparison of Senate Bill to Finance and HELP Committee Bills
|Comparison of House and Senate Health Reform Bills


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They teach Latin at Starfleet Academy?
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Re: They teach Latin at Starfleet Academy?
Timo wrote:
To get at true meaning, you need to go back to primary sources and original language.
Only if the translation is imperfect. But the Universal Translator gets puns and nuances across all right - and even translates an alien term for a cave-dwelling slave race as "troglyte", inserting suggestive Greek roots where there originally were none, to demonstrate that it is way smarter than its users!
The UT makes language a completely outdated concept. Not just the
of languages, but their very
. It is the new thing that replaces language.
Or at least it should damn well suffice for one. No hero ought to require even a native language in order to be perfectly understood and to perfectly understand everybody else, across lightyears and millennia and cultural and biological borders if need be. Every time this does not happen is an inconsistency in Star Trek, really.
...Perhaps the UT only replaced language in the 24th century?
Timo Saloniemi
What a depressing way to look at it.
I used to type essays and term papers for college and university students. One of my clients was from a Cree reserve. Her first language was Cree. She told me that she sometimes had trouble completing her assignments because some of the concepts she wanted to discuss simply had NO WORDS in English to adequately describe them and convey the meaning she wanted to get across.
If the concept itself doesn't exist in a language, good luck with that universal translator.
And consider this: Latin is mainly used by doctors and scientists, and people who want to learn it so they can read the old Roman poets, playwrights, and historians in their original versions (that's why I'm trying to learn it). But just because very few people use it NOW, who is to say it won't ever go through a
? I can just see a bunch of historical re-enactors who decide to go off and set up their own "New Rome" colony somewhere. It would be entirely natural that they would want to learn Latin and use it in their daily lives.
Besides... Patrick Stewart did a masterful job of portraying the villainous Lucius Aelius Sejanus in the BBC series
I, Claudius
. Star Trek and Latin are a natural fit.
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Illuminati Secret Plan to Fake Alien Invasion
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Listening to the rhetoric of presidents, experts and the mass media it is clear to see that the population has been brainwashed and conditioned to expect an alien invasion to occur on the earth as a way to force us to form a one world government, a New World Order in which the Illuminati Cabal secretly pulls the strings. Ever since Orson Welles broadcast "The War of The Worlds" The Illuminati has seen that the concept of an alien invasion is one where people will respond with immediate panic and mindless fear, which gives the Illuminati to opportunity to take control. Throughout history we have seen how the rulers did this by conditioning people with religion to perform ritual sacrifice, witch burnings and now the cult of UFO and alien abduction has been developed to such an extent that people could be conditioned to expect an alien invasion. After 9/11/2001 we have seen how the government responded by engaging in a war which lasted over a decade and a destruction of the Magna Carta, the basis of the western justice system, with the Patriot Act which made everyone a target for constant surveillance. 9/11 killed only 3000 people, so imagine what sot of depraved acts the Illuminati could commit in the name of security if an alien invasion was seen as an imminent to millions and even billions of people. By using such a threat, mass panic and fear would be widespread and from there lies how they will control us. In reality, the invasion of a superior alien force would be quick and subtle, not a quaint battle of "David VS Goliath" the media has brainwashed us into. The fact is that there was already an infiltration of this planet, thousands of year ago which makes sense given that it is easier to invade a planet of primitive inhabitants than ones with nuclear weapons. These reptilians were rogues which had gone against the galactic community and as a result were dying out and decided to use the earth as a colony to produce food. Using genetic engineering they tried to breed apes and humans into a renewable food source but had failed due to a lack of their numbers. To survive they needed to propagate with humans and using what little numbers they had they interbred with humanity, hoping to create a pure enough bloodline so that they could amass enough power to recreate their empire on earth and use humanity as slaves and food.