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When empires rise and fall and plagues sweep over the land, people have traditionally cursed the stars. But perhaps they should blame the weather. A new analysis of European tree-ring samples suggests that mild summers may have been the key to the rise of the Roman Empire—and that prolonged droughts, cold snaps, and other climate changes might have played a part in historical upheavals, from the barbarian invasions that brought about Rome's collapse to the Black Death that wiped out much of medieval Europe.
"Looking back on 2500 years, there are examples where climate change impacted human history," says the study's lead author, Ulf Büntgen, a paleoclimatologist at the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape in Zurich. "This kind of information is not only relevant for ancient agrarian societies, it might also impact modern societies."
The study, published online today in Science, examined nearly 9000 pieces of wood, mostly collected over the past 30 years by archaeologists who use tree rings to establish the age of ancient sites or structures, a technique known as dendrochronology. With tree rings taken from living trees as a baseline, dendrochronologists work their way back in time, comparing overlapping samples to edge ever further into the past.
The researchers worked out climate information the same way. First, they compared weather records collected over the past 200 years with samples from living trees to see how temperature and moisture affected tree-ring growth. Then Büntgen and his co-authors looked at timbers from historic buildings, wood preserved in rivers or bogs, and samples from archaeological sites to push the record further back. The study used 7284 oak samples from France and Germany to see how moisture showed up in tree rings and nearly 1500 different stone pine and larch samples from high altitudes in Austria to establish a separate temperature record.
The result was a continuous—and precisely dated—record of weather in France and Germany going back 2500 years. "We were aware of these super-big data sets, and we brought them together and analyzed them in a new way to get the climate signal," Büntgen says. "If you have enough wood, the dating is secure. You just need a lot of material and a lot of rings."
When Büntgen showed the data to historians and archaeologists, they pointed out remarkable consistencies with what we know of past societies. At times of social stability and prosperity, like the rise of the Roman Empire between 300 B.C.E. and 200 C.E., Europe experienced warm, wet summers ideal for agriculture. Similar conditions accompanied the peak years of medieval Europe between 1000 C.E. and 1200 C.E.
The study also showed that climate and catastrophe often line up. In the 3rd century C.E., for example, extended droughts matched the timing of barbarian invasions and political turmoil. Around 1300 C.E., on the other hand, a cold snap combined with wetter summers coincides with widespread famines and plague that wiped out nearly half of Europe's population by 1347.
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We should have paternity leave, so that excuses about "rationally" acting against women could be at least equal among sexes. Singles would still be preferred over married probably, but at least there wouldn't be sexism.
Man, this is going to be bad for busines if this keeps up. Imagine the scenario where more woman than men are in the workforce and demanding these benefits - no need to imagine, the day has arrived!
If women represent more than 50% of the US population, how can they be a minority?
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I wonder if all woman believe that they can "have it a''," or if some wise woman realize that you can't do both really well. Either the career or the chhild will suffer and usually it's both.
I'm just curious, are women really that "in demand" in the workforce? Everywhere you turn these days someone is demanding equal pay, now new moms are being encouraged to demand extra benefits including free money. I guess I wasn't aware that there was such a high demand for women in the workforce.


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But it's hard to see how learning about the location where he painted helps us apprehend his work. Being able to compare, say, Hopper's watercolor of Pemaquid Light to a recent photograph of the lighthouse adds very little, if anything, to the sum total of awareness of either one. Here we have a watercolor of a place mediated by a photograph of it, compared with a camera image of the same place, both mediated again by the biases inherent in one's monitor.
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In both we are seeing the subjects, a lighthouse and a painting of a lighthouse, at more than one remove — the artist's rendering is transformed by the photograph of it, and the photograph of the lighthouse by the nature of digital photography and the photographer's choice of light and position, in this case similar light and slightly different position. We are no wiser for the experience. The museum is sending us on a conceptual wild-goose chase.
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The timeless battle between Lucifer's forces of evil and Michael the Archangel's champions of goodness is brought to thrilling life in the holiday musical La Pastorela del Cielo, San Diego's longest-running professional theater production. Now celebrating its 23rd season, this beloved Mexican-inspired holiday show is a contemporary twist on the traditional story of the shepherds' journey to Bethlehem to witness the first Christmas. An epic morality play full of ethical choices and introspection, it's presented with levity, music, beautiful costumes and dialogue written entirely in verse, much like a yuletide Dr. Seuss story. This bilingual show is performed primarily in English, with additional Christmas carols sung in Spanish. Learn More
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Year Made | 1937 | |
Quantity Manufactured | ? | |
Original Cost | 120 Gns. | |
Number Still in Existence | See Pre-1945 Database | |
Cabinet | Original Finish | |
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This set is perhaps the most unusual pre-1945 English model. It used a 9" vertically mounted with a 45 degree mirror and a huge magnifying lens on the front of the cabinet that made the picture as big as on a 14" set. At the top in the center is a 78 rpm phonograph. It also has a AM/SW radio. Here is the service manual.
HMV later made the 902A, which used a 12 inch CRT horizontally mounted in place of the lens and mirror, which were too expensive to make and also had a somewhat restricted viewing angle. Some people found the the 902 unpleasant to watch, like looking down a mine shaft said one person. No 902As are known to exist (Information courtesy of David Boynes).


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Location sharing software has been around for the past 5 years now. In internet years, it seems like this technology has been around forever. Yet over the past couple of years, the burgeoning smart phone industry bolstered by an ecosystem of an app for everything has really transformed the penetration of this technology. Nearly everyone owns a GPS enabled Smartphone and actively uses a few apps on it. So while the technology for sharing your location was available as early as Foursquare, it mostly required someone to understand the service and sign up for it.
A week ago, Facebook discreetly introduced a feature called "Find your friend" on both mobile and desktop versions of Facebook, that showed the real time location of your friends. Three days later, this feature was disabled, with Facebook stating that it was just a test experiment being carried out by a few engineers. With the ubiquity of always on Facebook on Smartphones, users in general need to be aware of how changes affect them. Allowing the Facebook app to automatically track and share your location has raised the hackles of many people who worry that this technology will open a whole Pandora's Box of privacy issues.
The primary purpose of this function is to encourage the real world interactions of friends when they are near to each other physically. Sites like OKCupid with such apps, are popular specifically for this kind of service. Yet there is a difference between choosing into such a service and such a service being automatically enabled on a service that you use constantly.
The main privacy issue that is raised surrounds that of stalking which is banned by law. Reports already abound of misuse of such apps. The main fear is that integrating such a feature into Facebook which allows 13 year old children to have accounts opens the field to all sorts of unsavoury characters who may aim to harm children. Another potential class of people to abuse this system would be jilted lovers. Setting up fake accounts will allow criminals to plan kidnappings of unwary users. On a very personal note, letting all your friends know where you are at all times may just be among the worst forms of creeping invasions of privacy possible.
It has long been said that technology is a double edged sword. It is possible that this feature will help in situations when you are trying to locate a friend with a common surname like Smith. Further, advertising companies may see this as a potential for a new kind of targeted promotional campaigns, thereby helping shore up Facebook's revenue stream. Yet, the dangers need to be fully studied, not least being user acceptance.
A major human weakness is that when we are online, we tend to downplay or neglect the risks that we take. This is evident in the prevalence of numerous scams that plague cyberspace. Users fail to adequately safeguard themselves while online. Also, most people do not spend the extra time required to understand and learn how to activate or switch-off features that they are not comfortable with. In fact, it is common for them to react with outrage when they realise what dangers they have left themselves open to. For example, people do not realise that information that is shared online even through an anonymous account can be tracked by your ISP, traced back to you and could be used as evidence in case of malpractices.
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Such use of mercenary troops, immune from Congressional oversight and legal obligation, may or may not be unconstitutional, but it is, in my opinion, unconscionable.
The contract with Blackwater and its subsidiaries was set to expire in May, however the Obama administration has now decided to temporarily extend it through September, according to The Nation. Barack Obama needs to end this danger immediately. If we cannot raise sufficient troops to maintain our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, we need to get out now, because the presence of heavily armed, privately owned military forces loyal to who knows whom in the United States may be the biggest threat to national survival since the Civil War.
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""Sources say the department has agreed to temporarily continue using the subsidiary known as Presidential Airways to provide helicopter transport for embassy employees around Iraq until a new contract with another security company, Dyncorp International, is fully implemented"
Perhaps this story speaks less of a broken campaign promise by Obama and more about the sorry state of our armed forces. For years, we have known our military forces are stretched thin (almost to the breaking point by some accounts). One implication: It is not easy to simply say to Blackwater, "You're fired," without causing major havoc to an already overburdened military. The Raw Story article makes clear that this contract extension is merely temporary, that a new company, Dyncorp, will take over.
Hopefully, the Blackwater thugs will be investigated and prosecuted in due course and serve time for their crimes. What I am suggesting: Maybe Obama's hands were tied by another artifact of the Bush legacy, and this whole episode will be put behind us once the transition is complete.I agree that he can only do what he can do, but he can distance himself publicly and loudly. I think he needs to because I think we're going to hear an outcry when some more of the obscene details become public. Blackwater has committed war crimes to rival in ugliness the Empire of Japan. You know who are going to try to make this Obama's war.
Even if they are no longer employed by the government, the existence of a far-right army controlled by amoral extremists and of a size to rival the armies of many larger nations is a significant danger to this country.Here's what we're fighting when you bring up this abomination Captain. The deluded morons that cheer on the abuse committed by rogues employed by Blackwater. These nuts cheer on torture. They cheer on warrentless wiretapping. They view the deaths of thousands of innocent women and children as mere collateral damage.
The right have become experts at villifying people regardless of innocence or outlook.
There are instances that bad things happen attributable to the horrors of war. The psychopathic creeps that commit despicable acts try to cover themselves in that blanket. Idiots choose to believe them.Captain:
Blackwater is a criminal empire. Ditto.
Has committed war crimes. Ditto.
Blackwater needs to be dismantled. Ditto
Indictments and prosecutions. Absolutely.
How can Obama distance himself publicly while extending a contract out of expediency? Not really possible until Blackwater is gone.
For the moment, I give Obama the benefit of the doubt. After all, we did elect him. Undoing the damage of the last 8 years is an enormous task, notwithstanding the contradictions and criminal wreckage with which he must deal. We owe it to ourselves to be patient and hold our fire until we have more evidence. Too early to tell whether or not he betrayed our trust.The last thing I want to do is to blame Obama for not busting Blackwater on Jan 20. It's his enemies that are saying he's betrayed our messianic faith in him.
They're going to blame Blackwater on him the way they've blamed the recession on him and the previous recession on Clinton.
These are more than just drivers and helicopter jockies -- we have more Blackwaters in Afghanistan than real troops - something like 45,000 of them.
What I want to hear from him is that he's shocked by the accusations and is working to get rid of them ASAP and that the guilty will be punished.
Iraq wants to hear that too after years of these monsters prostituting their children, shooting people for sport and all under legal immunity."What I want to hear from him is that he's shocked by the accusations and is working to get rid of them ASAP and that the guilty will be punished."
When the last of the drivers and helicopter pilots have received their pink slips, that is when Obama, or preferably Attorney General Holder, can pounce. "Playing it close to the vest," as they say, is the only practical recourse until the day arrives when you don't need them anymore.You may have seen on the news the latest contractor scandal -- this time the culprit is an organization named "ArmorGroup North America, Inc" or AGNA. They were hired to provide security at the U.S. embassy in Kabul Afghanistan.
According to "The Project On Goverment Oversight" (POGO), "When they weren't on duty, some guards - and even supervisors - turned to lewd hazing rituals. Some of these antics occurred in the immediate vicinity of the supervisor's quarters on Camp Sullivan..."
The lewd behavior included, as Rachel Maddow put it, drinking vodka out of [another dude's] "slot B". The story was complete with nude pictures (with black bars, of course).
Apparently, even though AGNA has received repeated warnings, their contract was recently renewed.
Get the full story here.w-dervish, I saw that story too. There is an irony here. The lunatic rightwing keeps insisting government can't do anything right, although our foreign and military services seem to conduct themselves with more integrity than these private contractors. We experience quite the opposite of contemporary RW rhetoric: It seems the private sector is corrupt as hell, forcing government to step in and clean up the mess.


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The pension reforms that San Jose voters overwhelmingly
approved just more than a year ago come to a key test with a trial starting
Monday before a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge.
No one expects the weeklong hearing to be dramatic. There won't be celebrity
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But much is riding on the outcome. San Jose's current budget already relies on
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$48 million in yearly savings. Workers, though, want to keep the city from
grabbing even more of their paychecks to pay for their pensions. More broadly,
the judge's ruling will affect similar debates over government pensions
throughout the state and across the country.
"There are a lot of eyes on this case," said Arthur Hartinger, the lead lawyer
representing the city. "The stakes are high."
Added Gregg Adam, a lawyer representing the San Jose Police Officers'
Association, one of several unions suing to block the measure: "It's the opening
round, but opening rounds are important."
The core arguments remain unchanged from even before the city took its pension
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City employee unions say that under a "vested rights" doctrine, established
through a series of court decisions dating back more than half a century,
government employers cannot cut employees' pension benefits. They insist pension
rates are protected both for work already rendered and for the rest of their
The city is challenging that doctrine, arguing it has been stretched to extremes
that voters never intended. City lawyers point to San Jose's charter language
and argue it reserves the right of voters and their elected officials to make
future changes to retirement plans.
San Jose's pension troubled are rooted in benefit increases, flawed assumptions
and market losses for the city's pension fund. As a result, the annual cost to
the city more than tripled in a decade, consuming more than a fifth of its
general operating fund. City officials cut everything from police and fire
department staffing to library and community center hours to cover growing
costs. And with the retirement funds still $2.9 billion short of promised
benefit costs, the bill continues to rise.
"At the time these benefits were enacted, did voters think they'd face this $2
billion-plus exposure and there's nothing we can do about it?" Hartinger asked.
"We don't think that's right."
The stakes are huge for Mayor Chuck Reed, who championed the measure, and the
City Council members who supported him. He and many of his council allies
complete their last term in office next year, and a loss in court could sap
political support for the controversial reforms as well as upend the budget.
"If we lose," Reed said, "we'll have to go right back into cutting services."
The case is being argued before Superior Court Judge Patricia M. Lucas. Before
former Gov. Gray Davis appointed her to the court in 2003, Lucas specialized in
litigating high-stakes intellectual property cases and headed the litigation
department for Fenwick & West.
Lucas already has some familiarity with the Measure B case. Before it went to a
vote, she ruled that a ballot argument against the measure slightly overstated
concession offers from police and firefighters. But she dismissed a host of
other complaints about the opponents' argument.
Measure B reduces pensions for new hires and makes current employees contribute
up to 16 percent more of their pay toward their pensions unless they switch to a
lesser benefit. Retirees could see annual 3-percent "cost-of-living" raises on
their pensions suspended if the city declares a "fiscal emergency."
San Jose was one of two major California cities where voters overwhelmingly
approved pension reforms in June 2012. San Diego's Proposition B called for
replacing pensions for all new hires except police with 401(k)-type retirement
savings accounts, and a five-year freeze on current employees' pay that would
count toward their pensions. San Diego has since negotiated the five-year pay
freeze and put new hires on 401(k)-type plans after defeating unfair
labor-practice challenges.
San Jose's legal road is longer because the city is taking direct aim at the
"vested rights" doctrine. Said Jack Dean, vice president of California Pension
Reform: "all of the state's pension reform activists are watching this case with
great interest."
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When you die, you leave an estate that consists of your property, as well as unpaid bills and debts. Your property must be distributed to your heirs or to your beneficiaries and your unpaid bills and debts must be paid.
You can appoint someone in your will to administer your estate, who is usually referred to as an executor, or sometimes, when the executor is a woman—executrix. However, if you do not appoint an executor in your will or you die intestate, then the court will appoint an administrator (or administratrix) for your estate who performs the same functions as the typical executor. Because the executor and the administrator perform the same functions except that one is appointed by the will and the other is appointed by the court, the term personal representative is increasingly used as a gender-neutral term to describe either. However, the term executor is still most frequently used for either sex.
When you die, your will is submitted, usually by someone in your family, to the probate court of your domicile at the time of your death, even if you died in another county or state.
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You can select almost any adult who has reached the age of majority to serve as your executor. There are only a few legal restrictions: no minors or incompetent people, and many states prohibit convicted criminals from serving as executor.
However, another requirement is that the executor must be willing to serve. Hence, you should discuss the position with the person before naming them as the executor in your will. You should also specify a successor executor so that if your 1st choice is unable to serve for whatever reason—because he changes his mind or because he died, or for any other reason—then the successor executor would take over. Even if the executor is a lawyer, a bank or trust company, they may go out of business and be unable to accept the position, possibly because of a conflict of interest.
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You can also make conditional appointments, such as requiring that the person attain a certain age or completing college. You can also choose someone to select the executor when you die.
Although not a requirement, your executor should be a resident of your domicile because he has to collect and distribute your property and may have to appear at the probate court. Hence, if he lives out of state, then he will incur greater travel expenses that would have to be paid out of the estate, and if the executor is not a resident of the state of your domicile, a resident agent in the domicile state may have to be hired to transfer real estate.
If your estate is modest and your property is liquid and you do not anticipate any family disputes, a family member may serve as the executor; otherwise you should nominate someone outside of the family to lessen the probability of family disputes or resentments. For larger estates— and for proportionally larger fees—professional executors, such as an attorney, or a bank or trust company, can serve as the executor. If you do appoint a professional executor, then you should also name a family member to act as co-executor with the professional, with the power to remove or change the professional executor without going to court, so that your family retains more control. Otherwise, dissatisfied beneficiaries will have to go to court to remove the executor and appoint another.
Appointment of the Executor
Note that although you can name an executor in your will, the court must approve of the executor. However, in most cases, the court will accept the person that you nominate.
Your choice for executor must be clear and definite in your will; otherwise the court will appoint an administrator, who will also be allowed to collect administrator fees from your estate, instead of, for instance, a family member who may have been willing to serve for free.
Even if your nomination for your executor is clear, the court appoints an executor only after notice is given to all interested parties so that they can contest the appointment if they object. If no one objects, then the appointment of the executor usually accompanies the notice for the probate of the will. If an interested party does object to the appointment, they must have a valid legal reason. Simply because the beneficiaries think that the executor will not be good enough or may be unfriendly to family members is not enough to prevent the appointment.
In most states it takes 30 to 60 days for the court to appoint the executor. However, a temporary executor or administrator may be appointed if an estate matter requires immediate attention. However, the temporary executor only addresses what needs to be done immediately until the named executor takes over.
When the appointment is made, the court issues letters testamentary to the executor (or letters of administration to an administrator selected by the court), which legally allows the personal representative to act on behalf of the estate.
In most states the executor must post a bond or promise to pay for any damages that may result from the mismanagement of the estate. In many states, the bond or promise will have to be backed up by a surety, who guarantees that if the executor cause losses to the estate and doesn't pay them, then the surety will pay. Most states allow the testator to dispense with the executor's bond, which most testators do because the executor is often a family member or a personal friend. But if the state does not allow the dispensation of a bond then it may allow the dispensation of the surety bond, instead. But if a bond or surety is required, then the executor will not be appointed by the court until the bond is paid or posted.
Executor's Duties and Powers
Although Probate Estate Administration provides more detailed information about the powers and duties of the executor, here is a brief overview.
Your executor collects all the property of your estate, from which he pays all estate expenses and taxes, and distributes the remainder of your property according to the terms of your will.
If you have property in another state, then the ancillary administration required to dispose of or transfer the property under that state's laws can only take place after the will is validated and your executor is appointed. Your executor then handles the ancillary administration of the property.
Generally, the law provides the executor with all of the powers necessary to carry out the terms of the will. Sometimes the testator will explicitly list the executor's powers in the will or in a document incorporated by reference, or the testator may grant the executor the statutory powers which many states provide in their legal code. However, even if no powers are granted, the courts presume that the executor has the basic powers necessary to carry out the terms of the will. However, an executor must obtain formal permission from the court to sell real estate.
Generally, executors can employ agents, attorneys, stockbrokers, and anyone else necessary to effectively administer the estate. The executor is also usually granted:
- the power to exchange, mortgage, or lease property;
- to lend or borrow money on behalf of the estate;
- to file a claim for the estate;
- or to defend against a claim against the estate.
However, if the testator had a business, then the executor must be given the specific power to continue the business; otherwise the court may require it to be sold.
If the executor resigns, then he must provide a final accounting to the court and the beneficiaries at the time of his resignation.
Executor Fees
Executors generally charge a fee for their services; however, the fees must be reasonable. Generally, the executor's fee is commensurate with the size of the estate, even when its administration is relatively simple. The executor's fees should be approved by the court prior to payment and is usually taken from the residuary estate. However, after the executor files a report with the court and with the beneficiaries, a beneficiary can object to the fee if it is deemed excessive.
In many cases, a family member will often serve without compensation, but if the estate is large enough to be subject to the estate tax, then it might be prudent for the executor to take his fee, even if he is a beneficiary under the will, because it could save on taxes if the executor's tax bracket is less than the estate tax rate.
Executor's fees are usually established by state law as a sliding percentage, ranging from 2% to 5% of the estate. In some states, co-executors would each receive the full fee, while in most other states, they would have to divide the fee. Executors could also get more compensation over the standard fee if they provided extraordinary service, such as selling real estate, defending a claim against the estate or defending will contests, or for handling a complex tax situation.
The testator can also specify the amount of the executor's fee, or even specify that the executor be paid an hourly rate, and the executor will generally be bound to accept the fee if he accepts the position. However, some states will allow the executor to take a reasonable fee if the court deems that the testator's fee was too low for the amount of work required.
If the executor is an attorney, then he has a right to collect an executor's fee for administering the estate and an attorney's fee for providing any legal work for the estate. However, all fees must be approved by the court before they are paid.
Removing An Executor
Removing an executor requires an adversary proceeding where both parties and their counsel must argue before the court to determine whether the removal of the executor is justified.
The court will remove the executor only if he is incapable of performing his duties or is unsuitable for the position or otherwise becomes disqualified, such as being convicted of a crime, or he is incarcerated. Generally, the executor's behavior, such as paying too slowly, being unfriendly, or not investing funds the way beneficiaries want is usually not enough to remove the executor. Unsuitability may result from a conflict of interest or misconduct by the executor, which could include stealing from the estate, failing to file an inventory, failing to file a report either with the court or with the beneficiaries, or from failure to obey a court order, or to perform duties as an executor. The executor can also be removed for mismanaging the estate.
If the court approves of the executor's removal, then he must pay his own legal fees and may have to make restitution to the estate for any damages, including the return of fees previously paid to him. The successful party will have their legal expenses reimbursed by the estate — either the beneficiary or other interested party that was successful in removing the executor or the executor if he prevails.


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Showing 1 Comment(s) Subscribe by RSS How about prohibiting public unions from making campaign donations either directly or indirectly? Or if they do donate force them to make equal donations to both parties, since it is taxpayer funds they are donating. If that won't pass legally, then provide for city matching funds to donate to anyone the unions don't donate too. How about prohibiting city employees from politicking period as a condition of employment? How about geting rid of the public unions period? Never happen, the "Working Families Party" is too powerful - and so the City will, once a Democrat is elected to the Mayor's office, resume its slide, that was oh so temporarily put off with Rudy Guiliani's election. And once the financial industry is chased out of town, as will inevitably happen under a Democratic Mayor, New York City's "detroitification" will begin in ernest. |


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The Investments Approach and American Values
Anyone can, of course, trot out a series of social policy measures that sound encouraging to sympathetic ears. That is, however, not the point of the foregoing. Rather these proposals not only address a broad range of the social hazards prominent in contemporary America, but they do so in a fashion consistent with the five general principles discussed at the outset of this chapter. These principles are, in turn, consistent with important values of the American political culture. I will argue the case for these claims by applying the questions used in the case studies of chapters 5–7 to these proposals. Since my proposals cover a broader gamut than
any of the individual programs examined earlier, I will only sketch out the highlights, both encouraging and discouraging.
Distributive Justice
As important as any characteristic that this package of proposals offers is a set of criteria for the distribution of benefits that is more rigorous than either contemporary public assistance or some aspects of American social insurance. The dominant distributive criterion realized through these proposals is the exertion of effort in the paid labor market. Benefits are earned through prior or concurrent contributions of effort, which are recorded in individual accounts. The investments approach thus affords vulnerable citizens a dignified means for coping with a variety of social hazards. The distributive criterion of results (vertical equity) characterizes these proposals as well, since benefit levels reflect past earnings, just as current social security benefits do. This effect, however, is diluted by the taxation of benefits paid to middle- and upper-income households. Taxation also reinforces the fairly strong linkage of benefits to the provision of basic resources, a tie established by the supplementary character of the benefit levels. That benefits are intended to supplement recipients' efforts at self-support both precludes total dependency and enhances dignity.
Considered collectively, these proposals involve enough vertical redistribution to represent an assault on property more extensive than that entailed by existing social programs. Both the child allowances and the medical-care proposals, for example, address distinct concerns by redistributing resources toward our most vulnerable and needy populations. But these proposals temper vertical redistribution with the constructive-efforts requirement for working-aged adults; only children and the severely disabled are excused from this rule.
In summary, these proposals do not assure every citizen of support; rather, benefits are a quid pro quo. In this regard, these proposals have more in common with the market than with a system of distributive justice based on need. But whereas the market represents a results-oriented struggle, the survival of the most capable, these proposals operate on the basis of effort. Under the invest-
ments approach, market forces are supplemented by a measure of public provision so that people who apply themselves to support their households will have a much better chance of being able to afford basic goods and services.
Negative Liberty
One drawback of relying more heavily on social insurance is that its compulsory character would pervade life more thoroughly. As noted in chapter 5, however, the compulsory nature of social security has not provoked even moderate opposition. Indeed, in chapter 7 we found an example of people jumping at the chance to participate in a voluntary program of publicly subsidized insurance, SMI (Part B of Medicare). We do need to keep in mind, of course, that most social security beneficiaries to date have received far more in benefits than they have paid into the program,[20] and far more than they might have reasonably expected from committing similar amounts to private investments. But, for the programs I am proposing, the ratio between contributions and benefits will be less heavily weighed in favor of benefits, which may create more reluctance about compulsory participation. The breadth of social hazard coverage and its inclusivity regarding potential recipients may, in turn, offset this reluctance to some degree. Apart from compulsory taxation, these proposals do not restrict the liberty of recipients in formal ways.
The private professionals most obviously affected by these proposals are physicians and other providers of medical services. My proposals require that, in return for reasonable income guarantees, these providers will increasingly have to share decision making about the ends and means of medical care with public officials. Like other basic service industries, the medical-care industry will become increasingly regulated.
Additionally, these proposals have disconcerting consequences for social workers. Apart from the scaled-down program for psychological and physiological disability, my proposed programs do not call for caseworkers. The role of caseworkers in the public sector would be reduced to activities in the criminal justice system and medical institutions.
Economic Efficiency
These proposals embody strong work and savings incentives. By and large, contributions in the form of paid labor would be necessary for program eligibility, and benefit levels would be designed to supplement household efforts at self-help. The proposed limitations on the use of individual hazard provisions and the blanket maximum-use provision represent safeguards against abuse and malingering.
The starkness of the work incentives would appear to strengthen the hands of corporate managers and entrepreneurs, although program costs would offset to some degree whatever advantages accrue to managerial risk-takers. The higher payroll taxes would surely increase the cost of doing business in the United States, but they would not raise such costs beyond those now incurred by some of our important international competitors—the Federal Republic of Germany, for instance.
A less sanguine possibility is that these proposals might reinforce either of two disturbing trends in the labor market: the bifurcation of the labor market between highly skilled, well-paid workers and relatively unskilled, minimum-wage workers or the exportation of jobs offshore.
Without doubt, these proposals would cost more than we now spend for social security, Medicare, Medicaid, AFDC, unemployment benefits, workers' compensation, and SSI. One cannot predict how much more. While the social insurance components would dominate expenditures, the greatest proportional cost increases are likely to come in the social merging programs. Relying more heavily on social insurance would shift the costs of public social provision more thoroughly to those who enjoy its benefits; the increased costs of social merging would represent the price of dignity, the price of creating conditions that facilitate dignified self-help.
The heavy reliance on social insurance and the supplementary character of benefits would create a life-cycle redistribution pattern. Substantial vertical redistribution would be injected by the child allowances, the proposals to expand the labor market, and the benefits for adults enrolled in training programs. These elements are essential for social merging, however, and each requires
formally or informally some type of quid pro quo from program recipients.
Through their inclusivity these proposals generally avoid the problems associated with focusing public social provision on particularly disadvantaged groups. Even the child allowance program is universal, albeit income variable, thus affording higher target efficiency.
Administrative Complexity
The social insurance proposals would require a substantial escalation of administrative activities within SSA and related bureaucracies. For this reason, the programs should be phased in over time rather than implemented simultaneously.[21] The income-maintenance programs call for precisely those activities we already accomplish fairly well; they would require an increase in the quantity of administrative activities, but not a change in their nature. Other proposals, such as job training and child-care in particular, would require a greater degree of decentralized complexity. In dealing with particular recipient groups, these programs are likely to confront the difficulties identified in chapter 4. But even here we have some encouraging experience in each of these areas,[22] and my proposals are generally tailored to these experiences.
Overall, these proposals attempt to come to grips with the major limits and harmonization issues. With respect to limits, different mechanisms apply to income maintenance and medical care. For the former, the principle of supplementary benefits and the progressive taxation of benefits assure that most benefits will be used to purchase basic material resources and that households with high incomes from other sources will receive only limited benefits.
In the case of medical care the limits problems are more severe. Rapidly expanding technological capabilities and growing uncertainties about the cost-benefits of existing practices create systematic dilemmas about the appropriate limits of medical care, particularly the public provision of care. Social programs cannot resolve these problems, but my proposal for a bargaining council provides a mechanism for focusing national policy discussion of limits issues. More importantly, the bargaining council's initial
recommendations and decisions—controversial and inadequate as they might be—could prompt a much-needed ongoing national debate on these issues.
One harmonization benefit of the investments approach lies in the complementary nature of the distinct provisions. The independent programs mesh together to avoid gaps or duplication of coverage and to provide consistent incentives for self-support.
But other harmonization issues may be exacerbated by the investments approach. The cost will create new budgetary difficulties, and the denser public policy environment may provoke unforeseen problems. Additionally, these proposals would stimulate aggregate demand and employment, thereby raising inflationary pressures. Despite selective measures to constrain these pressures—the supplementary character of benefits, the focus on high-unemployment populations, and the regulation of medical costs—these proposals are inflationary.
Overall, however, the investments approach represents a practical realization of the five principles central to American values in the area of socioeconomic rights. As national programs, though, these proposals do not operationalize concepts of limited and local government.
Conflicts of Interest and Compliance
For beneficiaries the investments approach provides broad humane incentives for cooperation in that programs would respect and reinforce the dignity of individual beneficiaries and their membership in society. Inclusivity and reciprocity should also reduce conflicts of interest between public officials and beneficiaries, while enhancing popular perceptions of public social provision. All constituencies would realize that prospective beneficiaries would include a broad cross-section of the American voting population, not just small categories of the particularly disadvantaged, and that through social programs the nation's public policy would be encouraging responsible behavior.
Conflicts of interest between private providers of medical care and public officials over costs and professional autonomy are likely to be aggravated, however. The best that the investments approach offers physicians, hospital administrators, and insurance com-
panies is the tradeoff of fairly lucrative financial returns in exchange for a loss of autonomy with respect to the ends and means of medical care.
While social workers may protest their reduced role in the new programs, these programs would expand opportunities for third-party providers of employment, job training, and child-care services.


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ROCKS IN LARSON BAY TEAR BOTTOM OFF SHIP; PASSENGERS ARE SAFE VESSEL WENT TO THE BOTTOM EARLY SUNDAY MORNING IN DEEP WATER—SANK IN SEVEN MINUTES AFTER HITTING ROCK—PASSENGERS AND CREW BROUGHT TO SEWARD BY GOVERNMENT BOAT—ONE MAN DROWNED The Alaska Steamship Company's palatial passenger liner Aleutian, which arrived at Seward Friday afternoon from Seattle and which proceeded from Seward to the westward, struck a rock in Uyak bat at 5:30 o'clock Sunday morning and sank in seven minutes, plunging to the bottom bow first. All of the 15 passengers and crew of 135 made their escape in the life boats with the exception of Manual Dorras, janitor of the crew's quarters, who climbed back aboard the sinking liner to rescue a lucky horseshoe and who was in the forecastle when the Aleutian went down. The survivors were later taken aboard the coast and geodetic survey ship Surveyor and should reach Seward this afternoon, having been delayed en route by rough weather. SURVEYOR REPORTS WRECK The sinking of the Aleutian was reported to Captain F.H. Hardy, inspector of the coast and geodetic survey, by Captain Luken of the Surveyor. He said the force of the impact ripped great holes in the steel hull of the steamer, permitting the engine room to fill rapidly with water. The disaster is reported to have occurred in Larsen bay, near Uyak, on the Shelikof side of Kodiak island, but details of the wreck were not contained in the message. The weather is said to have been normal at the time. NORD MAKING SURVEY Captain John G. Nord, master of the Aleutian, returned to the scene of the wreck in a launch to make a survey of the spot to ascertain the possibility of salvaging the vessel. The first message received in Seattle stated that the Aleutian had 250 passengers aboard but officials of the Alaska Steamship company later issued a statement in which it was claimed that there were only 15 passengers on the vessel and that the crew numbered 135 men. FINEST IN SERVICE The Aleutian formerly was on the Havana run and was valued at $1,000,000 by the company, being rated as the finest in the Alaska Service. Captain Nord, who was in command, had a record of more than 30 years in Alaska waters without a mishap. The Aleutian entered Alaska service two years ago, during which time two accidents occurred before the fatal encounter with the Kodiak reef. On one trip a fire caused considerable damage and early this year the vessel was put out of commission by a rock in Southeastern Alaska waters. The vessel had a displacement of 7400 tons, a gross tonnage of 5863, measured 375 feet in length and had a beam of 50 feet, the exact dimensions of the steamer Yukon. The steamer Alaska is 366 feet in length. The Aleutian was built in Philadelphia in 1898. FIRST CLASS MAIL LOST All of the southbound mail which reached Seward from Anchorage and other interior points on Friday, with the exception of register, second class and parcel post matter, went down with the Aleutian, according to information received at the Anchorage post office today. The first class mail was placed aboard the boat presumably to give the mail clerk an opportunity to work it over while on the westward trip. The mail which was left at Seward to await the return of the steamer, southbound, will be taken out this evening by the Admiral Evans. EVANS HAS FULL LOAD The local office of the Pacific Steamship company has been advised that the Admiral Evans will carry a full load south from Seward this evening, all accommodations having been sold out to those who were awaiting the return of the Aleutian. The Evans will leave for the south this evening following the arrival of the train from the interior. FLICKINGER ON BOARD Reports received from Seward state that J.H. Flickinger, Seward agent for the Alaska Steamship company, was among those on board the Aleutian, having left Seward on Friday intending to make the round trip on the vessel. It is expected that he will return to Seward this afternoon with the other passengers aboard the Surveyor. BODY IS SAFE The body of Smith Huggins, which was shipped to Seward on Friday, by
the Anchorage Funeral Parlors, to be placed aboard the Aleutian for the
voyage south to the states, was held at Seward pending the return of the
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