tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post5369139136503403773..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Read Stuff, You ShouldJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-14410009843725893902013-06-05T00:22:56.252-05:002013-06-05T00:22:56.252-05:00Jared Bernstein bemoans even small cuts to federal...Jared Bernstein bemoans even small cuts to federal programs, hyping those cuts as having dire consequences. No mention of how cuts to taxpayer budgets (higher taxes) can lead to real hardship at the margin. <br /><br />The idea that having more stuff taken from taxpayers can lower living standards sounds so gauche and unscientific to his ilk.backyardfoundrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-74944611639294660012013-06-05T00:15:35.925-05:002013-06-05T00:15:35.925-05:00Cohn is not a very careful writer:
We also noted—...Cohn is not a very careful writer:<br /><br /><i>We also noted—as we had noted before—that some young and healthy people would have to pay more. Again, a health insurance system that no longer discriminates against the old and sick can no longer discriminate in favor of the young and healthy.</i><br /><br />Because young men use less medical care than do women, Obamacare is forcing men to subsidize womens' care, a fact that he doesn't bother to mention <a href="http://healthblog.ncpa.org/obamacares-war-on-men/" rel="nofollow">in his article.</a><br /><br />And Obamacare still allows for price discrimination "against" the elderly, but changes the ratios insurers are allowed to charge between young and old so that they have no connection to market rates.backyardfoundrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-20792847663568316862013-06-04T15:13:04.190-05:002013-06-04T15:13:04.190-05:00Wow. To think I was looking at Mamas and Papas vi...Wow. To think I was looking at Mamas and Papas videos on her birthday without knowing it was her birthday. There's one on youtube at some awards show of the surviving original members at the time (less Mama Cass) singing California Dreamin, and it demonstrates what a strong voice Michelle actually had. She was overpowered by Cass in the 60s.<br /><br />But I agree: her Star Trek TNG performance is the way I think of her. She was so very young with the M&Ps, and with such a damaged biography.Captain Futurehttp://dreamingup.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-17576056180044169682013-06-04T12:03:39.118-05:002013-06-04T12:03:39.118-05:00Can we nominate Ta-Nehisi Coates for a Pulitzer fo...Can we nominate Ta-Nehisi Coates for a Pulitzer for this analysis?<br /><br />http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/a-religion-of-colorblind-policy/276379/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com