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I hosted some guests last weekend, including a teacher in the Newark, New Jersey school system. She described to me how she is constantly having to buy school supplies for her students, especially notebooks– if she tells them they need a notebook for class, the kids’ reply (every single one) is “I can’t get a [...]
Even Matthew Yglesias admits it.
That’s the equivalent of what he asked Cabinet agencies to save when he requested they each cut $100 million out of their billion-dollar budgets. Economist Greg Mankiw compares it to saving $3 a year and putting $30,000 on the family credit card. Megan McArdle is sympathetic.
The AP writes:
” The thrifty measures Obama ordered for federal [...]
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Courtesy of The White Rabbit Cult.
In the “it could definitely be happening here but I’m so glad that it’s not” category, I bring you some of The Daily Mail’s tales of life across the pond.
A mother of eight lives in a £2.6 million rented townhouse, paid for by the local council, because her huge family didn’t fit in council housing. [...]
You’d think that the United States’ primary missile detection system might have important things to do at all times, including Christmas Eve. However, tonight NORAD’s central mission involves being “in charge of the annual Christmas mission to keep children informed of Santa’s worldwide journey to their homes” or in other words, helping you track Santa [...]
Everyone’s been worried about Social Security for a long time and how to make it “sustainable” in the long term. We could cut spending on other programs and try to make a go of it, or we could cut benefits, or just watch the whole thing collapse. Or…
Why not make it means-tested?
Why should rich people [...]
Leave it to Joe the Plumber to explain, essentially, the fundamental problem with many of Obama’s economic plans.
Joe the Plumber is the perfect messenger: he’s not a Wall Street banker or a lawyer or even a doctor. His name is actually Joe, and he provides an important, if un-glamourous, service: plumbing. No one becomes [...]
Note: Libertarian Girl is off to Europe, but while she’s away she’ll be updating with previously written posts about politics and life in the places she’s visiting. She’ll soon be back to her regularly scheduled Libertarian Girl programming.
The Vienna Opera House is beautiful for sure, and it sells out virtually every performance far in advance. [...]
I recently helped a friend find flights he could redeem with Air France miles he’d collected a few years ago, and I was shocked to find that even on a “free” award ticket that he had earned by flying Air France flights, he was expected to pay close to $400 in taxes alone. When I [...]