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http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/23/1343214/Your-State-University-Doesnt-Want-You

Submission: Your State U. Doesn’t Want You
Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 23, @10:13AM
money news education
from the unless-you’re-good-at-the-football dept.

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theodp writes

“According to a new survey of college admissions directors by Inside Higher Ed, the admissions strategy judged most important is the recruitment of more out-of-state and international students, who can pay significantly more at public institutions. Ten percent of those surveyed also reported admitting full-pay students with lower grades and test scores than other admitted applicants, and a majority of schools either use or plan to use controversial commission-paid agents to recruit foreign students (commission-based recruitment is barred in the U.S.). ‘This isn’t about globalization or increased educational diversity,’ asserts USC’s Jerome A. Lucido. ‘They need the money.’ So, should employees of a public university where the President’s annual compensation exceeds $1 million receive a full state-funded pension for educating 16,000+ out-of-state students?”

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Guess this is yet another reason why the Gooferment shouldn’t be in “education” business?

The bureaucrats work for their own best interest; not that of the taxpayers.

Think that “We, The Sheeple” will ever wake up?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/opinion/krugman-free-to-die.html?_r=1

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Free to Die
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: September 15, 2011

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The second is that very few of those who die from lack of medical care look like Mr. Blitzer’s hypothetical individual who could and should have bought insurance. In reality, most uninsured Americans either have low incomes and cannot afford insurance, or are rejected by insurers because they have chronic conditions.

So would people on the right be willing to let those who are uninsured through no fault of their own die from lack of care? The answer, based on recent history, is a resounding “Yeah!”

Think, in particular, of the children.

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http://krugman-in-wonderland.blogspot.com/2011/09/krugman-and-new-moralizing.html

Krugman-in-Wonderland

Analysis and criticism of America’s most prominent public intellectual and champion of Keynesian economics. I am part of the Austrian School of Economics, and I critique Krugman’s writings from that perspective.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
Krugman and the New Moralizing

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According to Krugman, ONLY the Welfare State can ensure the moral outcomes; anything else is immoral, and those who object to any aspect of the Welfare State are immoral monsters who just want to see others suffer and starve. Am I exaggerating? Read the column and you will see what I mean.

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Upon reflection, it seems to me that:

(1) The Welfare / Warfare State fueled by the Federal Reserve Bank’s printing press and controlled by all the “BIG” groups (i.e., the military industrial complex, Wall Street, the trial lawyers, Big Unions, Big Banks, Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Gooferment, …) impoverishes everyone. The elite rich have the capability and resources to ride the storm that the poor, old, and middle class don’t.

(2) American’s are the most generous people on the planet. Even with inflation and high taxes, they continue to support charities. Why would that change when more wealth is retained by those who create it?

(3) The Gooferment is excluding all private efforts and transferring that control to bureaucrats. How can that be good?

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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2011/09/read-their-lips-no-new-taxes-on-rich.html

Sunday, September 18, 2011
Read their lips, no new taxes — on the rich;
the rest of you, you’re on your own

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The Republican plan for addressing the long-term deficit can be summed up this way: Leave the rich alone and pass along the costs to the rest of us.

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I believe what they are saying is: “No new taxes”. I’d prefer them to say: “No taxes”, but that will never happen as long as they have the guns.

Taxes are an immoral theft.

But over and above that, raising taxes in a down economy is economic suicide.

They will have to cut spending. Before they “drive” the economy into total collapse.

Everyone is looking at the uncertainty ahead — how much will an employee cost me? — what are the economic prospects ahead? — what are these idiots in DC doing? — and waiting for the storm to pass.

I personally like Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan. At least it’s easy to understand. I doubt we can ever pass it. Since the politicians and bureaucrats will be fighting for pennies. That’s not a bad thing. Just never going to happen.

Everyone is ALWAYS on their own. We need more “rowers” and fewer “free riders”.

Argh!

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http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

Real Unemployment
by Karen De Coster

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Of course the US Government tracks real unemployment. It’s called an “alternative measure of labor underutilization.” 16.1% for August 2011.

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I’m not give to profanity, but WTF!

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2011/sep/8/obama-invites-ges-immelt-jobs-speech/

Obama invites GE’s Immelt to jobs speech
by Dave Boyer
Published on September 8, 2011

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The White House’s invited guests who will hear President Obama speak to Congress tonight about creating jobs for the common man include a CEO under fire for moving jobs to China and a mayor who recently built a six-foot wall around his mansion.

Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of GE and head of the president’s jobs council, tops the list of invited guests who will listen to Mr. Obama’s speech from the first lady’s box in the House chamber.

Mr. Immelt has been criticized for GE’s plan to move the headquarters of its x-ray business to Beijing; Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, has even called on him to resign from his presidential post promoting U.S. jobs.

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This guy, Immelt, is a perfect example of what’s wrong with this picture.

Crony capitalism, globalism gone awry, and tax breaks for “friends”.

The original intent was that the Government was funded from tariffs. Those tariffs would have prevented GE from taking those jobs to China.

Maybe the car industry could have saved itself from the unfair competition of social costs on them but not on imports.

We need a little economic nationalism here.

People and products need to cross borders easily. But that doesn’t mean stupidly!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Crummey

Today, I listened to Crummy argue that SS was NOT a Ponzi scheme.

Au contraire … …

In a very technical sense, it’s not. In a Ponzi, the victims have a the choice NOT to participate; in “social security insurance”, there’s no choice.

A caller challenged and he objected to the word “fraudulent”. He’s wrong! SSI was sold to the American people that it would always be tax free. It’s not! It was sold as “insurance”. It’s not! It was sold as retirement savings and disability insurance. It’s not.

It IS a fraud because the “lockbox” is full do IOUs. And, the “terms” change at the whims of Congress.

In last night’s debate, Herman Cain correctly cited Chile in the 1970’s escaping the trap of “social security becomes welfare”.

We need to learn from Chile. We need to call things as they are.

Screwed Up!

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http://www.keywestlou.com/2011/09/yesterday-morning-golf-terrific-time-i.html

My Life in Key West
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
Key West Lou

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Included topic wise will be some comment on the many CEO’s of major corporations whose pay is greater than what their companies pay in taxes. In most instances, the major coprporations pay no taxes.

Which…..proves the point that our tax system is out of whack and needs replacing. Too many loopholes. I say throw the whole thing out and go to a flat tax.

Another item to be discussed is the proposed law in California to require minimum wage to be paid adult babysitters. That does not bother me. Most babysitters are well paid. Much more per hour than minimum wage.

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The correct corporate tax rate is ZERO! Corporations don’t pay taxes; only real human beings pay taxes. A corporation is a fiction. All it does it pass along its costs in its products and services. For real people to pay. The Gooferment loves this because it hides taxation. Buy a can of beans. How much tax did you pay hidden in that can? Don’t forget the gasoline tax to deliver those cans. You’ll never be able to figure it out and that’s exactly the point. If the corporation can’t cover its costs, it goes out of business. It’s a joke.

If people knew the true cost of Gooferment, it’d be the French Revolution all over again.

Minimum wage laws are dumb. If you and I agree on a wage, what right does the Gooferment have to tell us we can’t? It ensures that we have unemployment. When is “nothing” better than “something”? When the Gooferment can “give” welfare under the guise of “helping”. Argh! To preempt the argument of “living wage”, don’t we have the “earned income tax credit”? Argh!

Minimum wage is a tax on business which gets passed along in higher prices. Argh!

And, don’t forget inflation. The cruelest tax on people. Especially the poor, those on fixed incomes. Your wealth is stolen silently. And, don’t tell me there’s no inflation. Like 9% unemployment, zero inflation is a cruel Gooferment joke. Save your cereal boxes, write the price paid on the box, compare a few boxes. Watch the contents go down as the price goes up. Then tell me there’s no inflation.

Liberals are so naive.

September 1, 2011 8:56 AM

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And, as far as the Flat Tax or the Fair Tax, that’s just the politician’s smokescreen for MORE taxes.

Luddite and I squabble about this all the time. (Or at least every time he brings it up!)

The net result will be the USA will have both a INCOME tax and a VAT. Just like in Europe.

Our problem is NOT taxation.

Our problem is the Welfare / Warfare State funded with dishonest fiat money.

“We, The Sheeple” are too stupid to understand that they are getting shorn, <synonym for the past tense of the procreation act>, and tattooed!

And when “they” are herding “us” on to the rail cars for a ride to the camps, everyone will be praising the politicians and bureaucrats for the “free vacation”.

Secession!

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What is a “mandatory” diktat?

If the bozo refuses to evac, then they have to be aware that there’s not any help coming if the need it.

Politicians, may — although I doubt it — have the best of intentions, “strongly advise”, but “order”.

Argh!

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http://lewrockwell.com/kohls/kohls12.1.html

Duty to Warn
The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: Another Example of Christians Killing Christians in the Name of Christ
by Gary G. Kohls

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So, at 11:02 am, August 9, 1945, in the middle of morning mass, the Christians of Nagasaki were boiled, evaporated and carbonized in a scorching, radioactive fireball that was several times hotter than the sun. The vibrant center of Japanese Christianity was wiped out. It had become Ground Zero.

And what the Japanese Imperial government could not do in over 250 years of persecution, American Christians had done in 9 seconds. 8,500 of Nagasaki’s worshipping community of 12,000 perished that day. None of those who died were combatants.

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Perhaps the next military atrocities like Nagasaki, Fallujah and My Lai can be prevented if a substantial number of Christian churches courageously and publicly start to resist the militaristic policies of their nations by actively refusing their government’s call for the bodies and souls of their sons and daughters.

If the churches start to exercise their sacred duty to warn their parishioners about the soul-destroying nature of war, it may not be too late to save our dying, war-torn, morally and financially bankrupt planet.

Heeding the lessons of Nagasaki is a good way to start.

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Hard to read this or see the picture.

And, the various churches, who supposedly revere the Prince of Peace, seem to be out sync with the meme.

How does one reconcile this militarism, empire, and killing?

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/19/gm-impala-lawsuit-idUSN1E77I0Z820110819

GM says bankruptcy excuses it from Impala repairs
Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:47pm EDT
* New GM said not responsible to fix Impala made by old GM
* Suspension problem said to cause excessive tire wear
By Jonathan Stempel

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NEW YORK, Aug 19 (Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit over a suspension problem on more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impalas from the 2007 and 2008 model years, saying it should not be responsible for repairs because the flaw predated its bankruptcy.

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Argh! So it wasn’t just the bondholders that got weenied. But I but the Big Unions are whole!

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8712701/US-troops-may-stay-in-Afghanistan-until-2024.html

US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024

America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

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Yah gotta be kidding me.

From the “hope and change” ersatz peace candidate!

Vote Ron Paul!

What the <synonym for the act of procreation>!

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http://brownlovesgreen.com/2011/08/10/hopeful-green-job-facts-to-lift-your-spirits/

Hopeful Green Job Facts to Lift Your Spirits

AUGUST 10, 2011

by Lindsay E. Brown

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Bike Lanes Create Jobs. You did indeed, read that correctly. A recent study from the University of Massachusetts found that bike infrastructure projects create more jobs than road infrastructure. Their latest study showed that bike and pedestrian projects generate 46 percent more employment than roads. Researchers looked at 58 projects in 11 states, and found that cycle-oriented infrastructure created 11.6 jobs for every $1 million spent, versus 7.8 for road-only projects. There you have it! Building the U.S.’ bike infrastructure to solve the job crisis. Voila!

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Argh! Typical muddy thinking. Divide 11 into a million = 900K PER JOB!!!! For an infrastructure that no one in their right mind would build at those costs.

That’s what’s wrong with thinking that the Gooferment can do anything. The oft said maxim is that the Gooferment can’t do ANYTHING right. This just demonstrates it.

The Tea Party is right. Cut the Gooferment’s spending. Go Ron Paul!

Did anyone study economics in a business class?

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http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/27/owensboro-kentucky-students-to-receive-2200-macbook-airs/

Owensboro, Kentucky students to receive 2200 MacBook Airs
by Chris Rawson
Jul 27th 2011 at 8:00PM

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Man, talk about lucky in Kentucky. Students and staff in the Owensboro, Kentucky district will all be issued Apple’s newest ultraportable MacBook Air thanks to US$5 million in stimulus funding, Electronista reports.

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Ya gotta be kidding me!

Argh!

Why am I paying for that? Why are you paying for that? Why is ANY one paying for that?

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http://www.foxbusiness.com/index.html

FBN’s Stuart Varney got excited this morning about Dunkin Donuts’ IPO.

Played the old commercial.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt),

(1) They don’t make donuts in their stores now. Hence they ain’t fresh and they ain’t always available.

(2) Their coffee stinks.

Argh!

And, there is no way to give them real time feedback.

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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/21/letter-from-a-marine

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 | Posted by Robert O’Dowd
LETTER FROM A MARINE
Marine reports on life in the Afghanistan sandbox.

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My son’s FIRST birthday was July 12th. My 3 year anniversary is August 14th. When I left my son, he could barely roll over flawlessly and now he is just doing all types of things. I was skyping with my wife, my son was in her arms, I forgot that he was all grown up and he jumped out of her arms. The first thing I think is OH NO my son fell, BUT NO!! He jumped out of her arms and WALKED away. Like he thinks he’s grown. He might as well get a job and get a license while he’s at it. I did get him a birthday present. I hope he will like it.

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I’m hard pressed to explain why this fellow has missed so much.

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http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2011/07/shared-sacrifice-fiscal-crisis/

Shared Sacrifice in the Fiscal Crisis
David Boaz – July 18, 2011

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Currently the top one-tenth of 1 percent of American taxpayers pay 18 percent of the income taxes. The top 1 percent pay 38 percent of the income taxes, and the top 5 percent of taxpayers pay 59 percent of all income taxes. Just what percentage do President Obama and his allies think would be appropriate?

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But here’s a way to satisfy both those who see spending as the problem and those who want the highest-taxed Americans to pay yet more: Start cutting subsidies to businesses and the rich. Let’s cut out the big-business subsidy machine, the Export-Import Bank. Let’s get rid of farm subsidies. Let’s tell affluent people who build houses in coastal flood areas to pay for their own flood insurance at market prices.

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I like to point out that “corporate taxes” are a sham. Only “real people” pay taxes. Corporations either pass along their costs or fold. When Exxon pays taxes, they pass it along in every gallon of gas. Also, every corporation, that uses that gas with taxes built in, adds that cost to their cost. So when you pick up a can on bean in the supermarket, you are paying all those taxes. We can’t even figure out what we are paying in taxes. imho

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Let’s get this right. I pay for Verizon FIOS and I have to watch the their announcement. Argh!

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