[DallaNews] Now that Ebola is in America (an event, you might remember, that was labeled “highly unlikely” just weeks ago) the relentless drumbeat from the CDC and our president can be summed up in six words: “Don’t panic! It’s no big deal!” The second part of that, invariably delivered in a smug, clinical tone, is essentially this: “There’s no way you can ever catch Ebola, you dummies, unless you regularly mainline raw sewage, like they all do in Africa!”
Early on, official narratives from the CDC and the president loudly assured Americans that they could catch Ebola only from “close contact” with exotic “bodily fluids” like blood and semen. Americans were simultaneously assured that there was no way you could catch Ebola on, say, a bus or a plane, and that they were silly and paranoid to think otherwise. Later, of course, the CDC quietly admitted that the Ebola virus can survive on dried surfaces for hours and could even potentially be passed through a sneeze.
Oh, well. Details, details. The official, high-level strategy to combat Ebola — which, it bears repeating, is a contagious virus that can literally liquefy your insides — appears to be the same foolproof strategy that was recently used to not lock the front door of the White House. It is, in other words, completely devoid of common sense.
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People are just now seeing the consequences of Obama & Clinton's abandonment of Iraq for the 2012 election cycle. And they are dire. And what's worse, there is damned little we can do about it.
To Europe, all bigotry's furrin',
So who will she blame for the murrain?
No nation to battle,
For all are God's cattle:
Her beef is with Israel's chirrun.
h/t Instapundit
Imagine a system of college education supported by high and growing government spending on elite private universities that mainly educate children of the wealthy and upper-middle class, and low and declining government spending on public universities that educate large numbers of children from the working class and the poor.
You can stop imagining. That's the American system right now.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them. In economic terms a tax deduction is the same as government spending. It has to be made up by other taxpayers. Wrong but let him keep rambling for now...
These tax subsidies are on the rise because in recent years a relatively few very rich people have had far more money than they can possibly spend or even give away to their children. So they're donating it to causes they believe in, such as the elite private universities that educated them or that they want their children to attend.
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In further news, water found to be wet at least 90% of the time, and wild bears being given an EPA fine for, well...
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Keep in mind that Mr. Reich is a 'Limousine Liberal' to the n'th degree.
Ivy League indoctrinated (Dartmouth & Yale).
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Easy problem to fix. I like fixing problems --
1) draw a line above which endowments are taxed as ordinary income
2) tax all endowment earnings at the capital gains rate
3) require an endowment to spend donated principal within a fixed period of time or else have it be subjected to a penalty. If Mr. Megabucks gives Harvard $100 million, spend the money on the institution -- new buildings, programs, faculty, etc -- or watch (say) $30 million of it taken away.
Part of the reason for an endowment is to protect an institution against a rainy day. Well then, Harvard's $32 billion will protect it from a category 5 hurricane. But once you get to a certain point you're weather-proof, as it were, and the money should be spent.
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using the liberal methodology of solving inequity problems the endowment of ivy leagues should be taxed at 39% and sent to community colleges.
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Sorry dumbass. If you are poor, black, brown, Disadvantaged woman, these donations pay for you. If you are white middle class or upper class, they do not pay. So this Reich dude is just spinning class warfare. Take away the ability to get tax free charitable donations and watch the minorities dry up on the Ivy League campuses.
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Last I read, Reich taught one class a week at Berkeley for about 250K a year.
So fuck him...
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Weak-smiling, unbusinesslike tyke,
A gnome-of-Zurich lookalike,
Gives speeches and leeches
And teaches: O'erreaches!
His shortfalls have not deterred Reich.
#12
What are you complaining about Robert Reich, you got yours, they made you.
And look at you, you are pond scum making more than most when you worse than useless. You are actually detrimental to everyone but they pay you anyways.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
