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Bob, you made the mistake of dividing eight million by 50. That's the wrong math. The way it breaks down is five million for fifty employees. That's fifty thou a year plus another fifty thou for retirement as they will be safety members and able to retire at 50 years old. The other three million is payment for the administrator and assistant administrator and deputy assistant administrator plus retirement at age 50 because they too will be safety members even though they sit on their fat behinds behind a desk all day. Then there is the administrative costs involved in those three, offices, administrative staff and cars. You can't be an administrator unless you have a secretarial staff. Who do you think would do the work? Certainly not the administrator. And you can't be an administrator unless you have a state owned car.
Bob, you must be from an age where public administrators actually did some work. Get with it, man.
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Sylvester McCoy returns as the Seventh Doctor, the role he played on TV between 1987-89 and in the 1996 TV movie, accompanied by his safe cracking companion Raine Creevy (Beth Chalmers). Alex Macqueen plays a future incarnation of the Doctor (Alex Macqueen), while Tracey Childs is UNIT's scientific advisor Elizabeth Klein.
UNIT: Dominion is a huge saga that spans the globe and different realities. The box set can be pre-ordered for just £30, or as part of a bundle for £65 on CD or £55 on download. This bundle also includes the productions Doctor Who: Love and War, Doctor Who: Dark Eyes, Doctor Who: Voyage to Venus and Doctor Who: Voyage to the New World. That's 15 discs - but hurry, the bundle offer closes at the end of October!
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013It's plastic, practical and can have a price tag that works within your budget – it's a gift card. And according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), 8 in 10 shoppers will be looking to include these as their holiday gifts. With consumers spending an average of $160 on gift cards, Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona wants consumers to be in the know when purchasing and receiving a gift card.
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Nimbus Data Systems, the sustainable storage and Flash storage provider, has added three new executives to its sales management team. The company's newest executive members will lead the company's efforts to expand Nimbus' global sales figures, according to a company press release. What's even more interesting is that Nimbus has taken all of three new hires away from NetApp, another network storage provider. The three new executives are as follows:
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Avere Systems, the network-attached storage (NAS) provider for enterprise IT departments, has released a new version of the Avere Edge Filer as part of the company's new NAS architecture designed to help the company's enterprise customers maximize the benefits of Flash storage and virtualization.
GreatAmerica, a well-known provider of leasing services to MSPs, has signed a relationship with TelePacific, the IP, voice and data service provider. A new TelePacific Leasing Program (TLP), managed by GreatAmerica, will include capital lease and fair market value lease options for customers across California, Nevada and Texas.
Tasktop Technologies, the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution provider for MSPs, has developed Tasktop Studio Sync. The new solution is intended to give the companies' MSP partners and business customers an easier way to connect, configure and maintain their large-scale ALM infrastructures. The development comes during the same week that Tasktop developed a new version of Tasktop Dev specifically for HP.
I hope everyone remembered to push their clocks forward recently. If you didn't, you're an hour behind on the latest job postings on the MSPmentor Job Board! This last week of March brings new opportunities for engineers, account managers and technicians looking for a fresh start this Spring. Here's a snippet of what you have to choose from.
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Tone Software, which provides voice quality, network monitoring and management software for telecommunications and IT infrastructure providers, has released the newest version of its ReliaTel VoIP and UC management platform. The announcement came down down early last week and is a major development for the software provider's international VAR and managed services provider partners.
Earlier this month we brought you news from Gorilla Logic, the Quality-as-a-Service (QaaS) platform provider for the enterprise that released two new solutions aimed at accelerating application development and testing. One was the Gorilla Logic Continuous QA Cloud, and MonkeyTalk, which the company says helps accelerate the development of mobile applications.
Tasktop Technologies, the application lifecycle management (ALM) and automation solution provider, has developed a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) version of Tasktop Dev specifically designed for Hewlett-Packard (HP). The new solution is now embedded in HP's application lifecycle intelligence (API).
Virtela, which provides managed network, security and cloud services, has extended the reach of its IT automation and predictive analytics platform to include support for data centers and for private cloud environments.
Cormant Inc., an IT infrastructure management provider for the enterprise, is trying to build on its 2011 momentum. The software provider increased both its revenue and international enterprise business customer base last fiscal year. Now Cormant has released the newest version of its CableSolve IT management platform with several new features, including (you guessed it) more mobile device support.


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When I was 13, I was looking at an old Penthouse out behind school and Dale Aiken said, "This is nothing. When you're married, you get to see your wife's tits anytime you want." This seemed too good to be true.
Twenty-eight years later, with a wife and two kids, I can attest that it is. This morning I asked my wife to show me her tits, and without looking up from the paper she said a very curt, "No." When I said, "You have to show me them. You're my wife," she didn't even respond.
I thought getting married was going to be like having a live-in sex slave, but it's just as hard picking up chicks at home as it was in the clubs.
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Chuckles, what did you expect?
When you get married you walk up the AISLE, stand at the ALTAR and you sing a HYMN and this gives the bride her cue – "I'll alter him!"
To quote an Amerrikun fella, 'Don't stretch yer calico on my account sister, mah weakness is liquor.'
"I asked my wife to show me her tits"
Aaahh – true romance still lives.
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It nearly killed me, I became emaciated and delusional from lack of sleep and brain toxicity. It has a nasty, dark energy to it, you could feel the dense heavy blackness that eventually snuffs out all lightness of spirit.
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Sony's announced the price for the upcoming Killzone 2 downloadable content coming soon to the PlayStation Store. The 'Steel & Titanium' map pack will arrive on the PlayStation Store on April 30th for a mere $5.99.
So think three bucks for Wasteland Cruiser and three bucks for Vekta Cruiser. You figure out if it's worth the price or not. Along with the price announcement, they've released an official trailer for the content, arriving next week.


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The Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission approved a waiver for Straub at a meeting Wednesday in Burien, based on his 28 years of experience in law enforcement.
The Spokesman-Review reports Straub could have been required to spend five months at the state Criminal Justice Training Center.
The Spokane City Council approved Straub on Monday as the city's director of law enforcement. He stepped down last month as public safety director in Indianapolis.
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Three full-time and eleven part-time fellowships are awarded to students of exceptional promise. The full-time fellowships automatically renew each semester until completion of the degree and provide a tuition waiver for all ten classes in the program plus a stipend of $5,000 per semester. Students holding full-time fellowships are expected to take three courses each semester until the final semester, when the Master's Essay is typically taken as a stand-alone course. As full-time fellowships provide both a living stipend and tuition remission, students who receive this award should view their studies as a full-time commitment and not maintain full-time employment. Students with full-time fellowships must maintain a 3.7 GPA and may not receive more than one grade of "Incomplete" during their coursework in order to retain their fellowship award.
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Fellowships are competitive and students are advised to prepare their application materials carefully. New students applying to the program may submit a fellowship application with their general application materials. This is a personal statement of approximately 500 words in which applicants should clearly and concisely discuss their eligibility for a fellowship, academic plans, and reasons for pursuing a Master of Arts in English degree.Students already enrolled in the M.A. program are eligible to apply for fellowships as they become available, and must meet the same criteria listed above. In addition to the personal statement, current students are asked to supply at least one letter of support from a St. Thomas faculty member with whom they have studied plus a writing sample from a course taken in the program. Students may re-apply for fellowships in subsequent semesters and are encouraged to revise their personal statements in the light of intervening experience.
Deadlines for fellowship applications correspond with the program applications each year--October1 for the following spring semester, and March 1 for the following fall semester. The English Department will notify applicants within three weeks following these deadlines whether a fellowship has been awarded. Once a student begins classes in the awarded term, it is assumed that both full-time and part-time fellowship recipients will continue their degree progress in consecutive semesters without hiatus (excluding summers) until their award has completed its agreement.
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The Luann Dummer Center for Women offers an annual award of $3,000 to a St. Thomas graduate student conducting research on a topic related to women. Full-time and part-time students in all graduate programs are invited to apply. The research may be conducted as part of a course, a thesis, or a dissertation. It may consist of a credit or non-credit independent study. The research must take place during the grant period and the researcher must agree to present the results in a forum sponsored by the women's center at the end of the grant period. For additional information, contact the Luann Dummer Center for Women at (651) 962-6118.
The Master of Arts in English Program funds six Teaching Mentorships each year for students interested in teaching. These Mentorships carry a stipend of $500, paid at the end of the semester, but do not carry course credit. Applications are due March 1 for the following academic year.
The Center for Irish Studies at St. Thomas publishes the quarterly journal New Hibernia Review and offers a year-long editorial internship to on Master of Arts in English student each year. The student intern works with the managing editor on all aspects of producing the journal, including proofreading, copyediting, editorial review, and author relations. Responsibilities increase as the intern gains familiarity with scholarly publishing. Student interns with Web site creation and maintenance or database skills may have an opportunity to use those skills.
The position begins in October and carries a stipend of $300 per issue, for four issues, published in December, March, June, and September. It does not carry course credit. Applicants must have completed at least two courses in the Master of Arts in English program. A research interest in Irish Studies is desirable, but not essential. In addition, preference will be given to students who do not hold fellowships or teaching mentorships. Availability to work on the internship during the summer is a definite plus, but not a requirement.
Benefits of the internship include the following:
Applications are accepted through the month of September and should include a letter outlining interest, qualifications, and hopes for this position, along with a list of courses taken in the Master's program. Applications should be submitted to the Graduate Program Director.
Housed at UST and published by Johns Hopkins University Press, the Victorian Periodicals Review seeks applications from English graduate students for a year-long editorial assistantship. The selected student will work with the editor, Dr. Alexis Easley, in all aspects of producing the journal over the course of an academic year. This will include proofreading, copyediting, editorial review, and author relations. The assistantship begins July 1st and work will be concentrated during the weeks leading up to quarterly publishing deadlines: 1/25, 4/25, 7/25, and 10/25. The position will require approximately 10 hours a week and pays $10 an hour; no academic credit accompanies this position. For more information about VPR see: http://www.rs4vp.org/vpr.html.
Qualifications. Applicants must have completed at least one semester of graduate English coursework at UST. A research interest in Victorian studies is desirable. The successful candidate will be available to work over the J-term and during the summer months. Enrollment in Dr. Easley's fall graduate course on professional editing is strongly encouraged. Experience working with images in Photoshop and working in online publishing/social media is also desirable. Benefits of this position include the following:
Applicants should outline their interest, qualifications, and hopes for this position in a 300- to 500-word personal statement and submit electronically to Dr. Alexis Easley, firstname.lastname@example.com by June 1st. Please include the names of two faculty members in the English department who are willing to serve as academic references. Contact Dr. Easley with any questions.
Students are strongly encouraged to present papers at academic conferences. Calls for Papers (CFP's) are frequently posted in the English department and forwarded to students by email; additional information about conferences can be found on our Conferences web page. Students attending conferences and presenting a paper may request a conference participation grant once each academic year. Conference Participation Grant Application forms must be submitted to the Graduate Program Director for prior approval and should include written confirmation of the student's participation. The maximum amount of Conference Participation Grant Award per academic year per student is $500, pending the director's approval. The grant will be disbursed after the paper has been delivered at the conference and the original receipts have been submitted to the Graduate Program Coordinator for processing.


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Waddaya mean "a 3 star pun" Mr Ronay?!! There's an en-suite bathroom and overpriced Toblerone in the fridge...
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Wouldn't a de-ISA cause financial melt-down and liquidation?
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Key Developments: Aviva PLC (AV.L)
19 Dec 2013
12.00p (+2.83%)
Latest Key Developments (Source: Significant Developments)
Aviva Plc announces dividend payment
Aviva Plc:Says on Mar. 31, 2014 it will pay dividend for 8 3/8% Cumulative Irredeemable Preference shares of 1 pound for the half year period to Mar. 31, 2014.Says record date is Mar. 7, 2014. Full Article
Aviva Plc's Aviva Investors To Cut 6% Of Global Staff-Reuters
Reuters reported that Aviva Investors, the funds arm of Aviva Plc is cutting 6% of its global staff, including a number of senior managers as part of a restructuring. Among the approximately 60 staff leaving the firm are the head of credit Mark Wauton and the head of equity solutions Iyad Farah. Full Article
Aviva Plc to Sell Stake in Italian Insurer Eurovita
Aviva Plc (Aviva) announced that it has reached a conditional agreement to sell its entire 39% stake in Eurovita Assicurazioni S.p.A. (Eurovita) to JC Flowers (JCF)1 for a total consideration of €33 million, payable in cash. Proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes.The sale is subject to approval by IVASS, the Italian insurance regulator. If approved, the transaction would increase Aviva's economic capital surplus by £0.1bn and will have no impact on Aviva's IFRS net assets. The agreement represents further progress in Aviva's strategy to focus our Italian business on more profitable, capital efficient products. Eurovita is an Italian life insurer which distributes guaranteed savings products through a network of local and regional Italian banks. Eurovita contributed £6m to Aviva's IFRS profit after minorities in the first half of 2013. Eurovita had ca. £3bn IFRS total assets at 30 June 2013. Eurovita is majority owned by Aviva and Banco Popolare. Banco Popolare has agreed to sell its entire stake in Eurovita to JCF. Full Article
Aviva Plc Completes Sale Of Aviva USA
Aviva Plc announced that it has completed the sale of Aviva USA Corporation, its US life and annuities business (Aviva USA), to Athene Holding Ltd (Athene). The transaction proceeds are USD2.6 Billion [1] (GBP1.7 Billion) and are subject to customary completion adjustments. Full Article
Spirit Pub Company PLC Announces Holding Interest Of Aviva plc
Spirit Pub Company PLC announced that Aviva plc holds 20,341,587 shares in the capital of the Company which represents 3.08% of the total voting rights in the Company as at that date. Full Article
Faroe Petroleum Plc Announces Holding Interest Of Aviva Plc & Subsidiaries
Faroe Petroleum Plc announced that Aviva Plc & its Subsidiaries holds 15,336,982 direct units which represents 6.19% of the voting rights of the Company. Full Article
Aviva Plc Announces Interim Dividend
Aviva Plc announced that the Board of Directors of the Company has declared an interim dividend of GBP0.056 (2012 - GBP0.10). Full Article
Aviva Plc Considers Sale Of India Life Insurance Stake-Business Standard
Business Standard reported that Aviva Plc is planning to pull out of its Indian insurance joint venture, valued at more than $500 million, as the British insurer retreats from less-profitable markets where it has struggled to grow its business, sources said. Aviva is in the process of hiring corporate advisors to find buyers for its 26% stake in Aviva Life, its venture with Dabur Group, which owns personal care and food products manufacturer Dabur India Ltd . Aviva is considering various options, including the sale of its stake to Dabur Group if it fails to find a foreign insurer to buy it, one of the sources said. Full Article
Aviva Plc Announces Holding Interest Of Legal & General Group Plc (L&G)
Aviva Plc announced that Legal & General Group Plc (L&G) holds 88,517,940 units representing 3% of the voting rights of the Company. Full Article
Morgan Sindall Group PLC's Muse Developments in Joint Venture with Aviva PLC 's Aviva Investors Appointed Preferred Bidder for Redevelopment of St Nicholas House in Aberdeen
Morgan Sindall Group PLC announced that Muse Developments, its Urban Regeneration division, in joint venture with Aviva PLC 's Aviva Investors, has been appointed as preferred bidder to work with Aberdeen City Council on the redevelopment of the St Nicholas House site in Aberdeen. The project will be fully funded by Aviva Investors, and has an overall value in excess of GBP 100 million. Muse Developments proposes to develop a mixed-use quarter for the city on the brownfield site which previously housed the local authority's corporate headquarters. The proposal is for a development which will house offices, a boutique hotel, cafes, restaurants and retail space, as well as creating public space including a small civic square and pedestrianising Broad Street. Provost Skene's House is also included in the proposals. The Council will lease the development from Muse and receive a proportion of the rental profits for 35 years, after which the site and development will transfer into council ownership. A public consultation lasting 12 weeks will be carried out before any planning application is submitted. The site will be developed in a single phase and Muse aims for completion during 2016. Full Article
UPDATE 1-Aviva pledges $820 million for UK infrastructure projects
LONDON, Dec 19 - British insurance group Aviva has made its first commitment since joining five peers in pledging to spend billions more on UK infrastructure projects, lining up 500 million pounds ($820 million) for immediate investment.


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LONDON (Reuters) - With Greece's second bailout seemingly in the bag at last, Spain is shaping up as the next big test of whether euro zone policymakers can keep striking the right balance between carrot and stick to reconcile the very different interests of lenders, debtors and markets. Fine-tuning incentives and getting policy sequencing right is key to tackling the euro zone's debt and banking crisis. Imposing losses on Greek bondholders before erecting a firewall to shield other vulnerable sovereigns was an example of how not to do it. ...
Analysis: Question of balance as euro zone crisis mutates
Berlin berates Athens for bureaucracy stopping investment: paper
BERLIN (Reuters) - Athens' failure to accept Germany's help on reducing bureaucracy and boosting private investment is disappointing, German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler was cited as saying by a newspaper on Thursday. Germany pledged last October to advise Greece on cutting red tape and attracting investment to help its economy get back on its feet and have a fighting chance to cope with its debt. The agreement was struck during Roesler's visit to Greece as head of a 70-strong delegation of German industry representatives seeking business in the country. ...
Conservative Republicans seek deeper spending cuts
Greek bond swap prospects lifted by fresh pledges
ATHENS (Reuters) - Major banks and pension funds threw their weight behind Greece's bond swap offer to private creditors on Wednesday, making it increasingly likely that the deal will pass and clear the way for a bailout package to avert an immediate default on its debt. A group of banks and funds representing 40.8 percent of Greece's 206 billion euros of outstanding debt said they would take part in the deal, joining other Greek and foreign banks and pension funds which have already pledged to accept the offer. ...
NY's Suffolk County seeks to avert April cash crunch
The Stock Selloff Is Just Getting Started
Stocks fell early and often Tuesday as the situation in the eurozone continued to deteriorate. The Greek Bailout 2.0 plan is being jeopardized by weaker-than-expected" participation in the country's debt swap offer and fears that its failure would result in â¬1 trillion in losses for European banks. Also adding to concerns is word that Ireland could require a second bailout package -- something that might not be forthcoming if the Irish reject a strict new fiscal austerity pact.Â
Spanish town wants to grow cannabis to pay off debt
Hitting the Ceiling
If you liked last year's battle over raising the debt ceiling, just get ready for the fight to come.
Last summer's agreement, you will recall, raised the federal government's debt limit from $15.194 trillion to $16.394 trillion in exchange for promised future reductions in spending. Until recently, the consensus has been that federal borrowing will bump up against the new limit sometime between late November of this year and early January 2013.
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Athens, creditor group turn up heat on Greek bondholders
LONDON/ATHENS (Reuters) - Athens turned up the heat on its creditors on Tuesday as it sought to secure a bond swap that will cut its mountainous debt, while the main bondholders group warned a disorderly default would cause more than a trillion euros of damage to the euro zone. Greek private creditors have until Thursday night to say whether they will participate in the exchange that is a key part of a bailout program to help Greece manage its wrecked finances and meet a debt repayment on March 20. ...
Four Greek pension funds refuse to join debt swap: official
Detroit's Date with Bankruptcy
To say that Detroit has seen better days is an understatement. After years of struggling with decreasing auto sales, the city has recently had to deal with extremely high unemployment rates, increasing crime, and an exodus of taxpaying residents from its city limits. In the last decade alone, the New York Times reports that the city has lost a quarter million of its residents. Many have moved out of the city to surrounding suburbs where many of the Big 3's plants remain, after the major restructuring of their companies in 2009. With only 2 plants left in the city limits, Detroit has lost its industrial base and with it, the tax revenue it once generated.
Many of the plants today are located just outside the city limits, while some are located across the river in Ontario, and as a resulttheir employees have moved with them. Though these companies are returning to profitability, Detroit has lost much of its tax base and revenues have dropped considerably in the past years. Since 2005, the city has taken on deficits to maintain its services. This year the city hired a third party firm to come and evaluate the worsening situation. The group has estimated that the city will run out of money by April of this year.
The city's financial crisis has prompted speculations that the city will either enter into a municipal bankruptcy, much like Vallejo, CA, or an emergency manager will be sent from the state to help resolve the fiscal issues. Currently there are 3 other cities in the state working with such a manager. The problem here is that though a municipal bankruptcy may be the preferred option politically for Gov. Rick Snyder, it may not be possible. In the case of Vallejo in California, it took nearly 3 years for the federal judge to finish the case- and Vallejo is only 1/8th the size of Detroit.
So how did Detroit, after the auto bailout and the stimulus package, end up in this situation?
- Detroit currently has $2 billion dollars in outstanding debt as a result of deficits from 2005 to today.
- The city owes more than $5 billion dollars in retiree health care costs over the next thirty years and currently has no funding behind these costs.
- While its revenues have been decreasing from its moving population, the city has not made major spending cuts to services or to city employees to offset the lost revenue.
- Though the state's unemployment rate stands between 9.3% and 14.1%, Detroit's city officials estimate and unemployment rate close to 30%.
With gas prices on the rise and the auto industry still struggling, the road back to prosperity will be a rough one, but without major reforms to their local government, the services provided by the city and its healthcare/pension programs, the city will continue to run deficits. We can only hope that which ever path the city takes, it will reduce its spending and bring its budget back in line so that the motor city can start to rebuild.BA
B.A. Spending Daily
Here's a roundup of this morning's must-read budget and economic stories:
- The Financial Times says companies are scrambling to sell off "dollar-denominated debt."
- Reuters looks at AIG's efforts to find money to pay back taxpayers for the bailout the company received.
- CNBC says businesses are wary of a flat tax.
- Bloomberg takes a look at how wealthy "multinational" families are trying to reduce their tax burdens.
- The Wall Street Journal reports that some companies are asking Congress to reduce the amount they have to contribute to their pension programs.
IIF sees 1 trillion euro fallout from Greek default
LONDON (Reuters) - A disorderly default in Greece would probably leave Italy and Spain needing outside help to stop risks spreading, and cause more than 1 trillion euros damage to the euro zone, the Institute of International Finance said. "There are some very important and damaging ramifications that would result from a disorderly default on Greek government debt," the IIF said in a document obtained by Reuters. "It is difficult to add all these contingent liabilities up with any degree of precision, although it is hard to see how they would not exceed 1 trillion euros. ...
Grand Bargaining, not Grandstanding: the House quietly negotiates deficit reduction legislation
The Hill reports that a bipartisan group of 10 negotiators in the House are currently drafting a "grand bargain" piece of legislation that would reform entitlements and raise new revenue for the federal government. The goal of this legislation is to "make sure debt is not growing bigger than the size of the economy".
These renewed efforts are likely to be based off of a deficit reduction plan, which was proposed last year in the Senate by a select committee nicknamed the "Gang of Six," after its members. If the new legislation being drafted follows the outline of this proposal, originally based upon the Bowles-Simpson Fiscal Commission Report, we can expect to see:
- An initial bill with immediate deficit reduction measures
- A process for budget reform
- A plan for Social Security reform
- Fundamental reforms to the U.S. taxcode
The proposals made by Bowles-Simpson and the Gang of Six, were both published before the Super Committee failed to pass a deficit reduction agreement in November 2011, ensuring automatic spending cuts in Jan, 2013. We hope that the members of Congress involved in these new negotiations will remember the failure of the Super Committee, and will focus less on political battles and more on their stated purpose. Reduce government spending and stabilize our national debt.BA
Debt hawk to US: You may soon 'have your creditors basically controlling you' (Daily Caller)
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Key investors sign up for Greek debt relief (AP)
Asia stocks down after Obama's tough talk on Iran (AP)
Red, White and Blue Fund: Mitt Romney "left Massachusetts $1 billion in debt."
An ad sponsored by the Red White and Blue Fund -- a pro-Rick Santorum super PAC -- attacks former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney over his record of fiscal stewardship while in office. The ad says that Romney "left Massachusetts $1 billion in debt." We decided to see if that was accurate. In the ad, the Red White and Blue Fund cites three articles that were included in an opposition-research document attributed to the campaign of Arizona Sen. John McCain, who faced Romney in the Republican presidential primary four ...
>> MoreWorldwide Debt to GDP
The Economist has released an interactive map of the world displaying Debt to GDP ratios for each country. The map highlights a growing problem worldwide. As the world sinks further and further into debt at a rate of $403,052 dollars every 5 seconds, the stability of financial markets begins to come into question.
As we have seen with the most recent situation in Europe, debt can stagnate economies, skyrocket interest rates and cause high unemployment. While Greece wrestles with new austerity measures designed to bring their change in annual debt to near 0%, the United States currently is projected to have an annual debt change of 16.5%. By ending fiscal year 2011 with a deficit of $1.3 trillion dollars, we are not making much progress toward reducing the burden on our economy. (Take a look at our newest Infographic here to see where that money went.)
China in the mean time is adding debt at an annual rate of 13.2%. While the two rates are not drastically different, our % of GDP to Debt is 76.3% instead of China's low 17.3%. With public debt added by governments each year, it is the citizen's of those nations who end up paying the price later to stabilize their markets. With such a blatant example of what can happen when debt gets out of control taking place in Europe, we can only hope that our leaders will begin to reign in spending.
Right now the countries with the Highest Debt to GDP ratio are:
Japan : 204.9% of GDP – $11,059,346,575,343 dollars in debt
Greece : 141.0% of GDP – $349,915,616,348 dollars in debt
Lebanon : 131.4% of GDP – $57,990,410,959 dollars in debt
Iceland : 128.7% of GDP – $13,476,438,356 dollars in debt
Italy : 121.6% of GDP – $2,312,663,835,616 dollars in debtBA
Highlights: Leaders' comments from European Union summit (Reuters)
EU argues over balance between austerity, growth (Reuters)
Our Debt, Not Our Children's
When explaining the dangers of America's ballooning national debt, fiscal conservatives unwittingly sabotage their cause by invoking "the children." They should spend lots more time discussing how federal red ink harms adults today.
Tying debt reduction to future generations causes two problems:
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"Mother, mother,
There's too many of you crying.
Brother, brother, brother,
There's far too many of you dying.
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some loving here today.
Father, father, father,
We don't need to escalate.
War is not the answer…"
[We've got to negotiate.]
What does Valentine's Day mean to you? Is it the commercially created holiday that urges you to go out and spend money on once a year tokens of affection? Is your focus on erotic love or on an important loving relationship that's more complex than any one feeling or activity? Is it a time when you appreciate your friends, family and co-workers?
Do you honor the holiday created by playwright Eve Ensler called V-Day, a day to remind us to end violence and rape against women? This year she's touring several US cities to highlight rape and mutilation as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the healing opportunities provided to these women.
Or is it a time when you think of the suffering of the people of the entire world as Marvin Gaye did in the song above? Saint Valentine historically ministered to prisoners and expressed another kind of love: agape. It's also described in 1 Corinthians 13.
If you view people with this kind of love how do you feel about all of the innocents who are losing their lives as our government tries over and over to bring about peace through purely military means?
We could take Afghanistan as a good example of where a change from a purely military approach is being urged by most current military and diplomatic leaders. Its complex problems and tribal/territorial divisions will need to be dealt with through diplomacy and by meeting basic human needs if a lasting peace is to be achieved.
If the military is going to be a part of the solution then it needs to behave as a provider of safety and security akin to law enforcement protocols. Dropping bombs on populated areas only increases potential and actual violence. It costs many human lives and creates new enemies.
It's difficult to negotiate with people when you've already judged them as unable to listen, learn and change. The constant repetition of words such as "terrorists," "jihadists," and even "Taliban" and "Al Qaeda" coupled with specific stories and ideas is caculated to strike fear into our hearts. Hearts and minds that need to be open, practical and creative. Fear and hate don't leave space for listening, structured negotiations, or real change.
We need to sit down and talk with everyone, including the Taliban, the war lords and most especially representatives of the Afghan people, including the women who have suffered so much during 30 years of war and abandonment.
As Laura Love sings:
"…Put a little love in your heart. And the world will be a better place…"
It's not an impractical dream to negotiate and do the hard work of bringing about change and a lasting peace. It just takes a change of plan and the will and energy to keep on listening and setting goals. Are human lives and well being worth that commitment?