tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post1108828660110960100..comments2024-02-25T08:16:25.546-08:00Comments on Exurban Nation: Balanced Budget Math, College EditionRob Dawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10042154106850545479noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-21363938586977878732013-12-03T09:47:01.079-08:002013-12-03T09:47:01.079-08:00"Don't worry. Ben and Janet can always pr..."Don't worry. Ben and Janet can always print more." ~ WCV<br /><br />I just cannot get the Rocky Horror Picture Show out of my head. Not that she ever looked like her. [mind bleach] Rob Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10042154106850545479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-89932467918036158482013-12-03T09:45:15.217-08:002013-12-03T09:45:15.217-08:00"Certainly funding certain infrastructure imp..."Certainly funding certain infrastructure improvements is an acceptable reason, but to fund continuing operations with such should carry a prison sentence." ~ Cinco-X<br /><br />QFT. I wish there were some simplified budget language that couldn't be distorted they way it is now. There are any number of old sayings that are useful. "Eating your seed corn." "Mortgaging your future." "Investing for your grandchildren." Even "casting bread on the water." Plus and minus. There's even "dipping for emergencies" and "precipitating change" but as you say preserving bad habits is criminal. Rob Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10042154106850545479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-84751983137393164312013-12-03T09:06:54.359-08:002013-12-03T09:06:54.359-08:00"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exerci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/526469-of-all-tyrannies-a-tyranny-sincerely-exercised-for-the-good" rel="nofollow">"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals." -- C.S. Lewis</a>Cinco-Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15728355130009280564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-1186431537480896022013-12-03T08:43:24.292-08:002013-12-03T08:43:24.292-08:00The college-for-all model isn't working: After...<a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-jacoby-college-vocational-training-cte-20131203,0,7927246.story#ixzz2mQmKWRsP" rel="nofollow"> The college-for-all model isn't working: After years of disfavor, vocational education is being transformed for young people seeking jobs that require more than high school but less than college.<br /></a>Cinco-Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15728355130009280564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-54034606390336253342013-12-03T08:40:39.251-08:002013-12-03T08:40:39.251-08:00Rob Dawg wrote:
Set aside that we have a Constitut...Rob Dawg wrote:<br /><i>Set aside that we have a Constitution that forbids deficits. Set aside enough wiggle room for dynamic budgeting, optimistic projections, etc. What's the real story? It's an old story, you may have heard it before. Borrow, lie and spend. </i><br /><br />Federal deficits and debt actually serve a useful purpose. They resulting bonds and bills function as currency for the banks. Since state debt doesn't serve as well in this function, carrying it is less acceptable. Certainly funding certain infrastructure improvements is an acceptable reason, but to fund continuing operations with such should carry a prison sentence.<br /> Cinco-Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15728355130009280564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-45614647990248333012013-12-03T08:39:14.646-08:002013-12-03T08:39:14.646-08:00Fortunately, no one has to actually pay back all t...Fortunately, no one has to actually pay back all that student debt.<br /><br />Just get a slacker government job for 10 years and make minimum payments, and <a href="http://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/charts/public-service" rel="nofollow">it's all forgiven</a>.<br /><br />Don't worry. Ben and Janet can always print more.W.C. Varoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17663570682958847976noreply@blogger.com