6/29/2017 0 Comments Bad Neighbours 2 NorwayThe Story of Burnt Njal. 1861 translation into English by George W. DaSent from the original Icelandic 'Brennu-Njáls saga'. Chapter 1 - Of Fiddle Mord. World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began. Noise health effects are the health consequences of regular exposure, to consistent elevated sound levels. Elevated workplace or environmental noise can cause hearing. Overview of companies offering sightseeing tours for groups and individuals: by foot, boat, bus, helicopter, etc. Europe after Brexit: A proposal for a continental partnership. This paper leaves aside the issue of EU reform and focuses on the desirable EU-UK relationship after. This article mainly addresses point 2. In the past, we have frequently supported this point by showing that Christianity has been the most powerful force for good in. Similarly they couldn’t cut veteran pensions either. At the end of the session they could hardly find anything to cut that would make a meaningful difference. All of their fancy programs and benefits had become too ingrained in society at that point; and any cut would have proven politically disastrous. I thought of this story earlier this week when the US government released a sweeping budget proposal that aims to cut the deficit over the next ten years. After being taken down twice by Blogger within a single week, we got the message: It’s Time To Go. Gates of Vienna has moved to a new address. Prisons Too many prisons make bad people worse. There is a better way. The world can learn from how Norway treats its offenders.In fairness I’m always happy to see any government cutting spending. But before uncorking the champagne bottles it’s important to understand some basic realities: The budget slashes $3. Defense, Social Security, and Medicare. And that’s the entire point: just between those three programs, plus paying interest on the debt, the US government already spends MORE than it collects in tax revenue. In 2. 01. 6, for example, the government spent $2. Defense, Social Security, and Medicare, plus an additional $4. That totals over $3. In other words, they could cut EVERYTHING ELSE in government: Homeland Security, national parks, funding for the arts, the Department of Energy. Everything. And there would still be a budget deficit. This is the most important thing to understand about US federal government spending: the built- in costs are so extreme that they can’t possibly make ends meet. And the problem becomes worse each year. Every single day, thousands of Baby Boomers join the ranks of Social Security and Medicare, which only adds to those programs’ costs. This isn’t some black magic prediction; the Social Security office has precise data on how many people were born in 1. So they know with a high degree of certainty how many people will be receiving benefits this year, next year, and the year after that. The numbers just keep going up. Point is, if they don’t cut Social Security and Medicare, nothing else in the budget really matters. All of the cuts they’re proposing are financially trivial. Note how the estimates get worse each year.)Look, it’s nice to be optimistic and hope for the best. And any attempt to cut the deficit is certainly better than adding to it. But it’s dangerous (and foolish) to presume that everything is going to work out OK just because some rosy projection says so. The best- case scenario is that they buy themselves a little bit of time. But the most likely result is still the same: default. The US government has $2. Simply put, the government has too many obligations. And their only way out is to walk away from some of them. This means default. Given that the US dollar and US government debt underpin the global financial system, defaulting on their creditors would likely cause a worldwide panic that would make the 2. Meanwhile, defaulting on their obligations to citizens entails deep cuts to. The younger you are, the more you can forget about counting on these programs as you grow older.
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