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Government and "Costs": A Simple but Significant Truth
posted at 4:01 pm on March 16, 2010 by J.E. Dyer
Doctor Zero's latest, excellent as always, reminded me of something I haven't declaimed on for a while.
It's this: government cannot bend a cost curve down. Government cannot "control costs" or "contain costs." Government can do one of the following, and only one of the following:
1. Leave the market alone and let it set prices. Under these conditions, inherent costs will be unaffected, except when technology changes how things are done in a given business. But costs will be undertaken voluntarily, by both buyer and seller, based on the incentive or disincentive of price.
2. Regulate the business and drive prices up (trade policy and tariffs fit here, although we mainly think of things like environmental and employment regulations, and taxes). Regulation drives prices up. It has no other effect. Regulation increases costs. It therefore drives prices up. It does this no matter how much we favor the regulation in question or consider it necessary. Regulation makes goods and services cost more. If we're lucky, this upward pressure on prices is offset by the downward pressure of technological advances and economies of scale. If we're not, we pay more.
3. Set artificial price caps by law, and create shortages. It is literally impossible to make more of something available while decreeing that its price must be capped. Neither private enterprise nor government can achieve this imaginary feat. Nothing government can do gets around the iron law that a capped price reduces the incentive to produce something. Production is usually reduced below the level of what people would be willing to buy. This happens very, very quickly if a business or product is both regulated and price-capped. All businesses are regulated in the US today; price-capping their products would work very fast to induce shortages (and kill businesses and jobs in the process).
4. Set artificial price floors by law, and discourage buying. We haven't tried that in the US since the first years of the New Deal, but it did the same thing then that it would do now: force manufacturers and retailers with unsellable inventory out of business.
5. Subsidize the industry to mask its true costs on the accounting ledger, as government does with commercially non-viable enterprises like "alternative energy" and embryonic (as opposed to adult) stem-cell research. The result here is invariably a subsidized dependency that becomes a political constituency.
If the object of our desire is a decline in costs, government has two options. It can take action 1 and let market forces drive costs, and prices, down over time. If government has already taken action 2, it can back off from some or all elements of the regulation, and release its upward pressure on cost and prices. There is, however, no option for government to "bend the cost curve down." This is a lie we need to stop telling ourselves.
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You forgot #6, which involves prices being set, and purchases being made, at the barrel of a gun.
Not to quibble, but you can have both 4 & 5 at the same time, and the result in either case is a surplus, since the supply-demand relationship is shifted artificially…and usually indelibly…by law or regulation.
Sugar is a good example, and a BIG reason why corn sweeteners are so much used in the US.
Ragspierre on March 16, 2010 at 4:37 PM
How do anti-trust regulations play into this? Aren't they examples of government regulation that can "bend the cost curve down" over the long run – by preventing monopolies from cornering the market and gaining total pricing power? What about limitations on "tragedy of the commons" type actions – over-fishing, for example, or other practices that may be profitable in the short term for a privileged mover, but ruinous to the resource in question (again driving the price up in the long run)? Ditto for actions (toxic waste disposal, say) that impose costs directly on others, often at a relatively great remove in time and space.
You could urge solutions via lawsuit, but, even then, you'd need legislation and government participation of some kind, wouldn't you? Is litigation always more economically efficient than regulation?
CK MacLeod on March 16, 2010 at 5:06 PM
Sugar is a good example, and a BIG reason why corn sweeteners are so much used in the US.
Ragspierre on March 16, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Excellent point and here are some numbers: current world sugar prices are around 18 cents/lb while the price for sugar imported into the US is 35 cents/lb. This 'double price' ratio has been in effect for at least 25 years in the US.
CK, anti-trust regulations are seldom used and are probably needed only when an underlying government condition makes them possible. Windows is a dominant OS, but you can delete it right now and install Ubuntu for free or buy a Mac. Railroads could monopolize due to eminent domain; same with wired services through right of way laws.
Some regulation is necessary, but it is rarely weighted for cost/benefits. Entire industries have left the US because of excessive onerous regulations and these manufacturing jobs are not coming back.
GnuBreed on March 17, 2010 at 2:24 AM
CKM — first of all, in any discussion of monopoly, it's essential to define terms. This being a freedom-of-speech republic, I'm under no obligation to accept the definition that would say, for example, that Microsoft has a "monopoly" or near-monopoly merely because it has a dominant industry position. It's too easy to find competitive alternatives to Windows, as GnuBreed points out.
In a separate but related vein, the LA Times is the only local daily newspaper in LA with any semblance of respectable readership. That certainly doesn't mean LAT has a monopoly on the dissemination of either news or advertising.
Moreover, the "trust-busters'" narrative isn't the only one, and it's largely historically inaccurate anyway.
Monopolies can't be created without government. It's a long-term, long-fostered misapprehension that "monopoly" is something that can develop without the encouragement of government, whether it's de jure or de facto.
No near-monopoly or absolute monopoly (like that of the local power company; very few such monopolies exist in any industry) arises without the action of the government. It takes government to deter the rise of competitors in most industries. Neither business nor organized labor could bring that feat off alone. Both need government to, at the very least, erect cost obstacles to the entry of new competitors into their markets. Heavy regulation and capital gains taxes (which gut the profits used to grow businesses) favor established businesses over new ones.
If business and labor can get other, more direct restraints of competition — tariffs, state closed-shop laws — so much the better.
The railroad barons gained what monopolies they had through the actions of government. It's impossible to get a monopoly position in public transportation without government creating it for you. The desires of labor have been far more instrumental than those of business "management" in fostering the conditions for monopoly in the US steel and auto industries. It's basically because of the unions and their involvement in politics that the auto industry has become one in which new US-based entries are impossible.
Government is behind monopolies in the first place. It's a political action when government undoes its own work and breaks them up. The results are mixed: the trust-busting of the TR era didn't cause prices to go down. (Milton Friedman and others have collated extensive academic documentation of this.) When Ma Bell was broken up in the early '80s, service prices went up for everyone. Deregulating the airlines in the '80s was a slightly different matter, but it was effectively a break-up of an oligopoly situation mandated by government regulation. In that case, service prices went down.
When government releases the controls it exerts, prices can and often do go down. But government has no record of "breaking up monopolies" that either fits the narrative of the Progressives, or stands up to scrutiny in terms of the promised result as opposed to the actual one.
Ragspierre on March 16, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Actually, I don't take this as a quibble at all, since it illustrates my point. Government intervention in the sugar industry has guaranteed for years that the American consumer pays way more than the world price of sugar, as CKM points out.
No near-monopoly or absolute monopoly (like that of the local power company; very few such monopolies exist in any industry) arises without the action of the government.
That actually approaches the classic progressive critique – that actions against trusts are in the highest sense conservative because they remove what would later be called the corporatist subversion of democracy and the free market. Thus, Woodrow Wilson, rejecting the charge that he was anti-business, could ask whether farmers and smaller merchants – anyone who employed anyone in productive labor or sought supplies on the market in competition with trusts and powerful, government-entangled corporations – weren't equally "business men."
In contemporary politics, the Tea Party in its criticism of financial industry, auto, and other bailouts is echoing this element of progressivism, and today's nominal progressives under Obama-Pelosi-Geithner are betraying it, a problem not lost on the Obamaist's far left critics.
Under your view as well as under the classic progressive view, history suggests that it's in the nature of economic power, on the way to becoming corporate power, to establish and exploit political power.
You say that no monopoly could arise without government action, but a) infrastructure projects of any kind have required government action, so the observation approaches the status of truism and b) even if, e.g., a railroad monopoly, a dam, a nuclear power plant, or a corner on the gold market could not exist without government permission and action, we're still still left with a situation in which a monopoly or other concentration of economic power (or power pure and simple) cannot be dealt with except by assertion of a countervailing (democratic, political) power.
Whether we call the removal of the corrupting and distortive government involvement "progressive" or "conservative" is immaterial except as a matter of convenience or tactics. As you know, I believe it's conceptually valid, and would potentially be politically effective, to accept both characterizations.
The theoretical impact on price of the dismantlement of corporatism, under whatever name, might be disruptive compared to the status quo ante – in some cases raising prices, in others lowering them. Over the long term, the benefit of a competitive and prudently regulated market goes well beyond price – not just, for instance, in relation to the baby bells, on the narrow issue of phone rates, but in the transformation of telecommunications and the creation of services that couldn't be purchased at any price. Similarly, in the area of some environmental and resource regulation, the impact on particular prices might be to cause them to rise, and stay higher than they would have been otherwise indefinitely, but prevent scarcity situations (leading eventually to "not available at any price," in other words "pricelessness") or imposition of hidden costs on others.
CK MacLeod on March 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM
CKM — the "classic progressive" view you refer to had no mouthpiece or exemplar that I know of. You're arguing this from a separate perspective anyway; we're not using the same meanings for all the terminology.
The original point was that government can't make costs go down. Nothing you've said, even if it were all valid in the context of meanings shared between us, demonstrates that it can.
You do, I note, proceed by what we can accurately call a classic Big-P Progressive method, which is to assume "costs not in evidence" — theoretical costs theoretically imposed on people by human life not conforming to a theoretical vision.
If we wanted to, we could say that government bends cost curves down by providing national defense and police. The people still have to pay for that out of their earnings, but doing so probably is a lower-cost proposition than having to fight bandits as they forage for resources, or post guards on the roof 24/7 to protect inventory and make customers feel safe.
What government can't do is what the left is always proposing that it can do: force the aggregate assessment of what things are worth to us — the basis of calculating "cost" — into a theoretical mold. The cost of something is what people are willing to forego to have it, whether that amounts to their time, or the other material resources they may exchange for it. Government can distort this calculation in various ways, but government can't change the fact that cost is a measure of voluntary desire or effort.
Cost is a factor that shifts over time as technology advances and people live and work in different ways. The cost of raising an acre of wheat has been transformed in the last 150 years from the human perspective. It still takes good soil, planting, and the right amount of water, but we've figured out how to get better and more regular results using less direct human labor and more chemicals and strategy. On the other hand, since we now use the chemicals and strategy, greater cooperation from other industries that carry their own costs — manufacturing, transportation, education — is required today than was 150 years ago.
In all of this, the "cost" of the inputs comes from what we are willing to exchange for the benefit of growing wheat. For government to think it can intervene and artificially manipulate those costs to somehow make them lower is a pipedream. At any given level of technology and social cooperation, production and consumption settle out at the costs voluntarily undertaken by the humans in question.
If the "voluntarily" is removed from that equation — as it is, period, if to a greater or lesser degree, when government intervenes — then we're no longer even talking about "what something costs." What it costs is what all the people in the equation are willing to forego for it. The end-consumer is just one of those people, and his decision based on price at the point of sale is only one of the relevant decisions.
Government can add to the costs in the economic cycle, but it can't subtract from them any cost that it didn't originally add. This doesn't mean government isn't involved in any element of our economic life, or that there's some realistic condition in which it might not be. Government has always been involved in various ways, across peoples and times. But the nature of government is to increase the cost of anything it interests itself in, except for the use of corporate armed force for defense and order. In those latter cases, we have few examples of non-governmental practice anyway.
So I take your answer to mean that all you're really talking about is a very narrow issue – the one defined by the administration's incoherent arguments on bending the cost curve – while excluding any form of externality from the overall economic calculus. It's not entirely clear to me how on that level what you're arguing goes beyond being a truism, according to the law of conservation of energy: Every government decision or action entails a cost.
As for the rest:
[T]he "classic progressive" view you refer to had no mouthpiece or exemplar that I know of.
I gave the example of Wilson. He made numerous statements along those lines, as did many progressives more radical than he was, who felt that the political system and values bequeathed to the people of their time required refurbishment and improvement in order to withstand rising corporate/industrial power – that the forms, customs, traditions, etc., mostly adequate to protect the rights and freedoms of an agrarian/mercantile nation were insufficient under massively altered conditions.
If we wanted to, we could say that government bends cost curves down by providing national defense and police. The people still have to pay for that out of their earnings, but doing so probably is a lower-cost proposition than having to fight bandits as they forage for resources, or post guards on the roof 24/7 to protect inventory and make customers feel safe.
Why wouldn't the defense exception that you imagine apply to defense against "white collar crime" and corporate negligence?
You do, I note, proceed by what we can accurately call a classic Big-P Progressive method, which is to assume "costs not in evidence" — theoretical costs theoretically imposed on people by human life not conforming to a theoretical vision.
I don't see anything particularly big or little P progressive about understanding that it's sometimes to an individual's or business's short term profit to behave in one way, but to other individuals', businesses', or the community's longer term profit for that individual or business to behave in a different way, and that government action is preferable to other alternatives for settling disputes and preventing irrevocable damage.
If you're going to define all defense against costs not immediately in evidence to or directly economizable for, say, a producer of toxic wastes or the operator of a hazardous factory workshop, as merely "theoretical," part of an attempt to force conformity to a "theory," then I think you're going to confine your radically non-progressive version of conservatism to a very small segment of the political community.
CK MacLeod on March 17, 2010 at 8:37 PM
We're probably beating a dead horse at this point, but perhaps you'll indulge me in an example that may clarify some concepts.
Suppose the left proposes to "bend the cost curve of health care downward" by, to take one of your examples, eliminating the "white collar crime" of Medicare fraud.
Before proceeding, we can first inspect this proposition for its applicability to private medical transactions, to see if it might bend down the cost curve of medical care, period. That, after all, is the basic, general proposition: that action by the government can lower cost. In this specific case, the theoretical argument would be that there is fraud in private transactions that makes medical care more expensive in general.
By definition, fraud in commercial transactions is already illegal, and can be prosecuted and punished where it is found. If it weren't, the very definition "fraud" wouldn't exist.
So the first question in this theoretical detour into the private sector is what government might do, beyond what it already does, to "eliminate fraud." This is a very serious question, and it gets at the heart of what we think law is supposed to be and do. What else can government do that will actually "eliminate fraud"? If we say, "step up enforcement," that's one obvious, logical suggestion, but (a) it doesn't require government controlling or making new laws about the transactions in question, and (b) it does cost more money to engage in more vigilant enforcement. We either take it from other program expenses, tax the people more, or go into greater debt to fund it.
What I have just outlined here is the classical Western liberal view of the proper use of law and its accountable execution.
Will doing this literally lower the cost of health care? Hard to say. It adds a resource cost to government, for a purpose that might or might not lower the cost of health care overall.
What we haven't really looked at is how much — or how — private-sector fraud adds to the cost of health care. If it's going on, that may increase the price of services for the patients of specifically fraudulent medical businesses, but what evidence is there of an enterprise across the industry to bilk patients through fraud?
And if there were such an enterprise, is it the case that patients would have no choice, or no recourse? If they have no choice, the reason for that is government constraints on their options. If they have no recourse, it's because government isn't enforcing existing laws against fraud.
The going-in position of the Progressive left, however, is that it is somehow possible to use government force to deal the possibility of undesirable behavior out of the equation. The Progressive view of law is that it should be hortatory and prescriptive rather than punitive and deterrent.
The classical liberal says, "We will punish fraud in the private sector, because we want less of it." The Progressive says, "No one should be injured by fraud in the private sector, and to preclude that outcome, government will intervene whenever and however we deem it necessary." There are two anti-liberal theses in this approach: first, that there's any way to preclude all bad outcomes, and second, that government's charter to preclude them should be indefinite and open-ended.
Where is "cost" in all this? I hope it's obvious that government can't preclude all fraud forever and ever by taking a stand against it, in the forms favored by Progressives (e.g., chartering agencies, hiring bureaucrats, regularly suspecting fraud and making veiled accusations about it that never quite make it to actual indictments or court proceedings). Are government agencies making more headway against fraud than we would be making if we just left it to the courts and law enforcement? Is the "cost" of fraud to society — let alone to the customers of one particular industry — being driven down by this approach?
(Keep in mind, if Bernie Madoff is leaping to your mind, that we not only have laws against what he did, we have federal agencies and bureaucrats dedicated to preventing what he did. To assume that there would have been a thousand more Madoffs without the agencies and bureaucrats, but that the law-enforcement aspect has no influence on the prevalence of securities fraud, is to take a position for which there is no support from evidence.)
So: maybe government enforcement has a significant effect on the cost of fraud to the private sector in the health industry — but that's hard to quantify. There's certainly no alternative historical reality to judge it by. It's not like there was some period before fraud enforcement in which people were staggering under the cost burden of fraud on what they paid for medical care.
If we turn to the original proposition — eliminate fraud in Medicare claims — the first thing we have to notice is that Medicare is a government program. If we didn't have Medicare, we wouldn't have Medicare fraud. Government reducing the fraud incident to its own programs shouldn't impress us as a cost-reduction measure.
How much cheaper would life in general be for everyone, if we didn't have the Medicare program, as it operates today, at all? Its cost burden hits everything. Through its impact on individual salaries and the cost of employing people, it affects everything else in the economy, from the prices poor people pay for groceries to the amount of disposable income available to anyone with a salary. Through its impact on the national debt, it affects our currency and our future economic prospects.
This is an artificially imposed cost. It's not a cost inherent in the economic cycle of "health care." Reducing this cost, through changing the program's practices, isn't a case of lowering the overall cost of health care, either individually or to society. The cost of the actual health care — the attentions of doctors and nurses, stays in the hospital, evaluation with machines that use electricity — remains what it is.
None of this means we shouldn't have a program of some kind to help the elderly out with medical expenses. None of it even means there shouldn't be a government program. It does, however, mean that the prophylactic approach of the Progressives is, in this case as in so many others, based on a false premise. People aren't sitting around thinking, Gee, I'll commit fraud today because government has failed to take a noble stand against it. Government has already done that, with the prosaic list of laws on the books. There is precious little evidence that enlarging government to prophylatically supervise more and more of our lives somehow "lowers costs." Look at each theoretically lowered cost in turn, and you find that either nothing was lowered, or that what was lowered was an artificial cost imposed by government anyway.
Might as well beat the horse. If it's dead, it won't mind.
It's my impression that the "bend the cost curve down" stuff was based on DLC-ish, market-like reforms and marginal incentives. Lotso libs tried to sell the public option BCCD, on the theory that the generic public health insurance brand would compete with private insurance. More conventional BCCD would be measures encouraging collaboration for quality of care rather than quantity of care payment, taxing Cadillac plans, efficiency research, measures, and incentives, etc. BHO loved data-sharing and paperwork reduction, but stopped talking about it because I don't think anyone took it seriously and because there is no dependable way to "score" it against the sticker-shock inducing bottom line.
Attacking fraud might have BCCD effects, especially in the ideal case of actual major reductions in fraud and establishment of effective disincentives. It would yield most of its savings to the government where at the public-private nexus – Medicare and Medicaid fraud by doctors, labs, etc., which is said to be rampant. I think it's mostly sold as flat out, direct cost-cutting, though, not BCCD.
As you say, it's a saving within an already established government program – the elimination of waste that wouldn't exist if the government wasn't there to cause it. However, once we agree that some bottom-line commitment to the care of the poor and vulnerable is an appropriate role for government (OMG – social justice!), as I think you do and as almost all conservatives other than radical libertarians do, then you've got a pretty expensive proposition, and a set of cost and other challenges. (BTW, please be careful with phrases like "How much cheaper would life in general be…" – some ornery lefty might someday turn that back at you for debating points: There you have it, JE wants a world in which "life is cheap" – typical heartless conservative…)
I don't accept your characterization of the typical progressive approach to a question like fraud – "chartering agencies, hiring bureaucrats, regularly suspecting fraud and making veiled accusations about it that never quite make it to actual indictments or court proceedings." There were and remain significant differences among progressives over whether a mainly legal/deterrent approach to fraud or other ills or a regulatory/administrative one was better. It was the crux of the difference between Wilson and Roosevelt on trusts, for example, or, 80 years later, between Clinton and the hardcore libs on Welfare. Obamacare is such a grotesquerie that one hesitates to use it as an example for anything, but the differences between single payer and public option, and public option versus mandated purchase illustrates the range of differences even among the current, decadent breed of neo-liberal corporatist prog.
It's my position, as I've stated before, that, by the definitions of the radical constitutionalists, we're almost all progressives: We almost all accept and approve of something more from government – such as a social safety net – than the absolute minimum this side of anarchy. So even for conservatives the public policy question turns on making a mixed economy in something like health care work better.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The Green Bay volleyball team rallied from a 2-0 deficit to force a fifth set on Thursday night at the Kress Events Center, but visiting Butler (13-13, 9-5 HL) held off the Phoenix (10-15, 6-7 HL) and earned a 3-2 win (25-22, 25-19, 23-25, 21-25, 15-10) in Horizon League action.
Senior Abbey Gitter (Hortonville, Wis.) led four Phoenix players with double-digit kill numbers with 13 in the match. Senior Carlie Willison (Greenfield, Wis.) had 11 while junior Carmen Leitermann (Schofield, Wis.) and sophomore Leah Van Zeeland (Kaukauna, Wis.) each added 10 kills. Despite the kill numbers, Green Bay hit just .117 for the match.
Defensively, Green Bay had five players reach double figures in digs and held Butler to a .117 hitting percentage, with junior libero Brittany Groth (Oak Creek, Wis.) totaling a team-high 25. Willison (19), Van Zeeland (14) and sophomores Sabrina Marunowski (12) and Leah Poel (11) also had more than 10.
Butler posted wins in the first two sets to put the Phoenix in an early hole, but the hosts were able to regroup at the intermission and come out strong in set three.
After falling behind 7-4 in the third, Green Bay scored 10 of the next 12 points to move ahead 14-9. Willison recorded kills on three of the 10 kills. The lead was 21-16 before the Bulldogs scored six of the next seven points to tie it at 22. Willison and Gitter each tallied kills to help the Phoenix close the set.
A back-and-forth fourth set was knotted at 20-20 before the Phoenix stormed in front to take the set. Willison had two kills and a block during a stretch that helped Green Bay score five of the final six points. Van Zeeland, Willison and Leitermann each had four kills as the Phoenix hit .300 in the set.
In the decisive fifth set, Butler went ahead 3-1 and never relinquished its lead, although Green Bay trailed just 10-9 after a Van Zeeland kill. The Bulldogs scored back-to-back points and escaped with the set and match win, 15-10.
The Phoenix will host Senior Day on Saturday in its home finale at the Kress Center. Green Bay welcomes Wright State at 2 p.m. and will honor four seniors - including Willison and Gitter and seniors Kelly Mischler (Kaukauna, Wis.) and Alison Bohnen (St. Germain, Wis.).
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posted at 12:35 pm on January 29, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
So argues Ralph Benko at Forbes, in a column yesterday that takes a (ahem) different view of the strategies employed by the House Republican caucus and the Speaker over the last few weeks. Benko may score on a few of his points, too:
In retrospect, at the Battle at Fiscal Cliff, Boehner took President Obama to the cleaners. He did it suavely, without histrionics. While Obama churlishly, and in a politically amateurish manner, publicly strutted about having forced the Republicans to raise tax rates on "the wealthiest Americans" Boehner, quietly, was pocketing his winnings.
Dazzled by Obama's Ozymandias-scale sneer most liberals failed to notice that Boehner quietly made 99% of the Bush tax cuts permanent. As Boehner himself dryly observed, in an interview with TheWall Street Journal's editorial board member Steve Moore, ""Who would have ever guessed that we could make 99% of the Bush tax cuts permanent? When we had a Republican House and Senate and a Republican in the White House, we couldn't get that. And so, not bad.'"
That's true, but it doesn't take into account the GOP pledge to never raise taxes. Republicans had argued that tax hikes would damage the economy, cost jobs, and drive down overall revenue, but they effectively lost that argument in the presidential election anyway. Democrats committed a couple of years ago to permanent extensions of the other rates. At best, this was a narrow loss, especially if the higher taxes drives down investment and pushes capital outside of the US.
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Yet his biggest win may have been in making the Alternative Minimum Tax patch permanent. This changes the baseline with profoundly positive implications for future tax reform and economic growth.
Boehner thereby won a triple jackpot, a bonanza for conservatives and supply-siders … while Obama, giving up all that for a trivial symbolic victory, lost his Progressive shirt. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions such as Howard Kurtz at the Daily Beast, was too deep in the tank to report that the Emperor has no clothes.
That much is true. No longer can Congress or the White House pretend to "cut" taxes by assuming an AMT patch won't happen, and the CBO won't have to project revenues without an annual patch. It would be akin to statutorily eliminating the "doc fix" in order to get an honest analysis of Medicare/Medicaid costs, rather than the easy manipulation provided by the statutory ambiguity.
Benko then predicts even bigger victories ahead for Boehner:
The Democrats, apparently, still don't know what Boehner has hit them with. Thanks to the Sequester anti-profligacy conservatives now negotiate from strength. What are the implications of putting the Sequester fight before the debt ceiling fight? Steve Moore:
"The Republicans' stronger card, Mr. Boehner believes, will be the automatic spending sequester trigger that trims all discretionary programs—defense and domestic. It now appears that the president made a severe political miscalculation when he came up with the sequester idea in 2011.
"As Mr. Boehner tells the story: Mr. Obama was sure Republicans would call for ending the sequester—the other 'cliff'—because it included deep defense cuts. But Republicans never raised the issue. 'It wasn't until literally last week [columnist's note: just before the deadline] that the White House brought up replacing the sequester,' Mr. Boehner says. 'They said, 'We can't have the sequester.' They were always counting on us to bring this to the table."
"Mr. Boehner says he has significant Republican support, including GOP defense hawks, on his side for letting the sequester do its work. 'I got that in my back pocket,' the speaker says. He is counting on the president's liberal base putting pressure on him when cherished domestic programs face the sequester's sharp knife. Republican willingness to support the sequester, Mr. Boehner says, is 'as much leverage as we're going to get.'"
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Miner, Rottier Pick Up Horizon League Swimmer of the Week Honors
By: Ryan Hartwig (@RyanHartwig)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - After winning three events apiece on Saturday against Wright State, Green Bay juniors Robert Miner (Madison, Wis.) and Kendra Rottier (Green Bay, Wis.) both picked up Horizon League Swimmer of the Week honors on Tuesday for the period of Oct. 22-28. The awards marked the first for both swimmers, and also marked the first time in Phoenix history that both a men's and a women's swimmer were honored in the same week.
Miner's wins were crucial in helping the Green Bay men pick up their first victory of the season on Saturday with a 158-140 result against the Raiders. Miner swam on the winning 200-yard medley relay in the meet's opening race, and then went on to claim the 100 (52.22) and 200 (1:56.40) butterfly events.
"The effort that Miner put forth in helping our guys with the medley relay against Wright State was awesome," Phoenix head coach Jim Merner said. "He had a great butterfly leg. Then his 200 fly, to go 1:56 this early in the season was very impressive. I think he is going to have a great season as the year goes on. He's been working very hard, and winning those races was really important in helping us beat Wright State in a classic, back-and-forth dual meet."
Miner is Green Bay's first weekly award winner this season, and the first Phoenix male to win the award since teammate Ben Loeffelholz (Dubuque, Iowa) was honored last December.
Rottier won all three of her individual events on Saturday in the women's team's 177-110 domination of Wright State at the Peter F. Dorschel Natatorium. The junior edged out WSU standout Justyna Hampel (10:26.09) in the 1000 freestyle with a season-best time of 10:24.65 before winning the 200 butterfly in 2:11.07 and the 500 free in 5:09.87.
"It's really nice that Kendra was able to achieve the swimmer of the week award this week," Merner said. "As we all know, she had such a great year last year and was never awarded, so for her to come through on Saturday and win three different races was very good for her. She is really showing how strong she is in the distance freestyles, and she's becoming more confident all the time. Her work ethic is outstanding, so I'm very happy for her. She definitely deserves this award."
Rottier is the first Green Bay women's swimmer to be honored by the Horizon League this season, and the award marks the first by a Phoenix female since Shannon Demrow nabbed swimmer of the week honors on Dec. 7, 2009.
The Green Bay swimming and diving squads hit the road for a pair of contests in the state of South Dakota this week. The Phoenix teams first travel to Brookings, S.D., on Friday to take on South Dakota State at 5 p.m., and then head to Vermillion, S.D., to face South Dakota on Saturday at noon.
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It's Back!!!!!! *runs up and down the stairs yelling Wooooooooot*
+$1 for AA?!!! Damn it, just take my money!
I'd definitely buy the $13, but am waiting for another design.
Obligatory Youtube.
(Not yet Sir) Bedevere: What do we burn apart from witches?
Crowd: More witches!!!!
Good idea, not so good implementation IMHO
How are you so wise in the ways of science?
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computermd82 wrote:It's Back!!!!!! *runs up and down the stairs yelling Wooooooooot*
Indeed. Read more about it here.
Burn Her!
Burn Her!!
Burn Her!!!
Warning: Wearing this shirt summons the Rabbit of Caerbannog
Not trying to be negative, but how do shirts with the same color on the design and the background keep winning. First we had Mizayaki brown on brown, then yesterday white-ish on white, now we have grey on grey. Isn't it a design 101 lesson never to do this?
BEDEVERE: So how can we tell if she is made of wood?
CROWD: Make a bridge out of her.
BEDEVERE: Ah, but can you not also make bridges out of stone?
CROWD: Um. Yes, of course, um, err...
BEDEVERE: Does wood sink in water?
CROWD: No! No, it floats. Throw her in the pond! Tie weights on her. To the pond!
BEDEVERE: Wait, wait, tell me, what also floats on water?
CROWD: Bread! No, no, no. Apples! Gravy. Very small rocks!
KING ARTHUR: "A duck!"
BEDEVERE: Exactly, so... logically...
CROWD: If she ... weighs the same as a duck...she's made of wood.
BEDEVERE: And therefore?
CROWD: A witch! (Crowd nods in agreement.)
CROWD: A duck! A duck! Fetch a duck.
MAN: Here is a duck, Sir Bedevere.
BEDEVERE: We shall use my largest scales.
(Woman and the duck are placed on the scales.)
BEDEVERE: Remove the supports!
(The girl and the duck swing slightly but balance perfectly.)
CROWD: A witch! A witch!
GIRL: "It's a fair cop."
CROWD: Burn her! Burn her! Let's make her into a ladder.
Oh Monty Python. I wonder if they knew they would end up becoming such a source of great and endless nerd t-shirt material.
My boyfriend and I saw this movie on our first date (though we'd both seen it before.) We just celebrated our Anniversary last Saturday. Yet, I cannot purchase this shirt, because the sizes stop at a 3x. I weigh more than a duck, and I feel left out.
Thirdbase9 wrote:She turned me into a newt.
I got better......
LOVE LOVE LOVE the AA option. I have been lamenting the change for a while. I am more than happy to pay the extra dollar for better quality and American made!!!!
Good one.....Excuse me, I have to go laugh quietly somewhere.
Really?? So it's cool to laugh at innocent women being burned alive? What's next???
I got better
Love the design and the choice of tees! Any chance Woot will ever carry W2XL in AA? I love the fit of that shirt, as it's longer than the equivalent Anvil WL, and the quality seems to be better (I have several of these blanks in various colors... they're my go-to basic tee). I would definitely pay any price difference. Seems kind of unfair that you give men all of the love with large sizes.
Burritoclock wrote:Really?? So it's cool to laugh at innocent women being burned alive? What's next???
The humor stems from the woman's line right after the scales balance when she says, "it's a fair cop."
It's a fair cop (British & Australian very informal)
something that you say in order to admit that someone has caught you doing something wrong, as in "It's a fair cop. I was driving way too fast."
Now I can go back to pulling the wings off butterflies.
There is a really great bit on the soundtrack which sends up Sir Bedevere in a very funny way. It starts like this:
"Good evening. The last scene was interesting from the point of view of a professional logician because it contained a number of logical fallacies; that is, invalid propositional constructions and syllogistic forms, of the type so often committed by my wife.
"All wood burns," states Sir Bedevere. "Therefore," he concludes, "all that burns is wood." This is, of course, pure bull$hiite. Universal affirmatives can only be partially converted: all of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan. "Oh yes," one would think.
However, my wife does not understand this necessary limitation of the conversion of a proposition; consequently, she does not understand me. For how can a woman expect to appreciate a
professor of logic, if the simplest cloth-eared syllogism
causes her to flounder."
It goes on. The full bit is here:
Scroll about a third of the way down.
In any event, I'm going to have to buy this, mainly to go along with the swallows and coconut t-shirt.
I second Aggiechick's request for W2XL in AA. I prefer the anvils in WL or WXL, but only because they fit me more loosely. I'm not super slim, I have a large chest and I'm not 17 anymore. I need a shirt that doesn't look like I stole it from the high school kids down the street. As was stated higher upthread, with the variety of bodies out there, not everyone likes the same fit. Thank you for realizing that you can make more money by accommodating that variety.
Are all future shirts going to be available on american apparel? Sweet!!!
Well, dang it. I just bought 3 random shirts and 2 shirts from the Reckoning last week. I would've definitely bought the AA versions for a dollar more, each.
Actually, the logic is not complete, one step is missing. It should be "She weights the same as a duck; so she is made of wood, and therefore, a witch!
Corrected logic :o)
Not my kind of design...but if AA will be an option for all shirts going forward... I'll be buying a lot more shirts than I have since the switch..
That is all.
SHE IS NOT INNOCENT! She didn't pass the duck test, don't you see?!
jaimelobo wrote:Actually, the logic is not complete, one step is missing. It should be "She weights the same as a duck; so she is made of wood, and therefore, a witch!
Corrected logic :o)
Mmm... cinnamon buns!
She wasn't innocent; she was obviously made of wood...
Would have been better without the text.
btw its 1870 not 1970...
olcubmaster wrote:The humor stems from the woman's line right after the scales balance when she says, "it's a fair cop."
It's a fair cop (British & Australian very informal)
something that you say in order to admit that someone has caught you doing something wrong, as in "It's a fair cop. I was driving way too fast."
Now I can go back to pulling the wings off butterflies.
Thanks for that, always thought she was saying 'thats a fair court' sort of sarcastically but now i know what shes saying plus the meaning. Haha awesome.
We can't prove it isn't a team-building exercise that includes walking on coals.
Congrats Anna! XDXD hilarious!
hypnotiqphil wrote:btw its 1870 not 1970...
1970s is correct.
Great design, Anna-Maria!
I'm conflicted; it's missing steps in the logical sequence of Weighs same as duck-->made of wood-->floats-->witch. But the art is cute.
AND HOLY EFF, AA IS BACK. It's about time. If you always have the option, I will gladly pay $1 extra for it.
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William F. Orr Professor of New Testament
Year Started at PTS: 2002
Contact Info
Ph.D., McGill University / New Testament and Christian Origins
B.A., Victoria College, University of Toronto / English and Classics
A.R.C.T., Royal Conservatory of Toronto / Piano
Dr. Edith M. Humphrey is the William F. Orr Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (2002-present). Prior to her service at PTS, she taught at several colleges and universities in Canada, and was professor of Scripture at Augustine College, Ottawa, Canada, from 1997-2002, where in her final year she served as dean. She earned her bachelor's (with honors) from Victoria University (University of Toronto) and received her doctorate from McGill University, Montreal, where she was awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal. The author of numerous articles on the literary and rhetorical study of the Bible, she has also written seven books: Further Up and Further In: Orthodox Conversations with C. S. Lewis (St. Vladimir's Press, forthcoming), Scripture and Tradition: What the Bible Really Says (Baker Academic, 2013); Grand Entrance: Worship on Earth as in Heaven (Brazos, 2010); And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament (Baker Academic, 2007); Ecstasy and Intimacy: When the Holy Spirit Meets the Human Spirit (Eerdmans, 2005); the Sheffield Guide to Joseph and Aseneth (Continuum/Sheffield, 2000); and The Ladies and the Cities: Transformation and Apocalyptic Identity in Joseph and Aseneth, 4 Ezra, the Apocalypse and The Shepherd of Hermas (Sheffield, 1995).
In her popular writing she has addressed such subjects as the Jesus Seminar, the Trinity, sexuality and the human person, music and theology, the authority of Scripture within the Great Tradition, and Christian spirituality. Humphrey is a also co-author, along with other members of the Primate's Theological Commission (Anglican Church of Canada), of a series of theological workbooks for congregational use, titled Wrestling with God. She is currently working on two research projects: Mediation and The Immediate God and the reading of the Church fathers on justification language in St. Paul's letters. An active member of the Orthodox Church (attending St. George's Antiochian Church, Oakland), she retains strong ties with friends in various denominations, and is a well-known as a popular speaker at church retreats, ecumenical conferences, and seminary events. An accomplished musician who was the musical director and organist at St. George's Anglican Church in Ottawa, she now helps with her parish choir, participates in the PTS Taizé ensemble, and plays oboe in the North Pittsburgh Symphonic Band. She and her husband, Chris, have three grown daughters and 12 grandchildren.
Church Associations
Ordination: Salvation Army Lieutenant, 1979-1984
Local Church Membership: St. George's Antiochian Church
Professional Competencies
- A.R.C.T. in piano performance
Areas of Expertise
- New Testament
- Hellenistic Jewish Literature
- Biblical Theology
- Music
Professional Service
Board Service
- Development Council for "Book of Two Thousand Tongues" (a project of the Canadian Bible Society)
- Commission on Ministry for the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh (former)
- Primate's Theological Commission, Anglican Church of Canada (former)
Leadership for Professional Societies
- 2006-present: Steering Committee, Paul's Theology and 2 Corinthians Seminar, Society of Biblical Literature
- 2004-present: Steering Committee, Biblical Hermeneutics Seminar, Society of Biblical Literature
- 2003-2009: Steering Committee, Rhetoric and New Testament Section, Society of Biblical Literature
- 1998-2001: Programme Director, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
- 1998-2000: Executive, Canadian Evangelical Theological Association
- Joachim Jeremias Essay Prize (Canadian Society of Biblical Studies)
- Lieutenant Governor's Gold Medal (for Ph.D. thesis)
Additional Resources
Complete CV
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Personal website *
Radio Interview: Ancient Faith Radio Dr. Humphrey spoke about her recent book Scripture and Tradition: What the Bible REALLY Says.
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Chapel Audio 2
Chapel Audio 3
Chapel Audio 4
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Hi guys,
I am looking for a free downloadable MS Windows based multicast testing tool which uses multicast streams from source to the listeners connected across the MPLS service Provider test Lab.
Please help
Thanks in advance,
From my experience, IPERF is a good tool for testing throughput. Perhaps this tool could be used for testing multicast too but seems a lot of extra work just to see if multicast is functional across the network as Cisco IOS has ping built-in on each router/switch. Also from my experience, I believe IPerf requires a host PC and is mostly command line. It's your call through.
Hey Anil,
Ping does works very well to test multicast throughout the entire multicast enabled domain.
If you need assistance setting this up to work, just let me know!! I use ping for testing all the time as-well-as wireshark.
Also, I use VLC version 2.0 Twoflower to stream and receive videos and this also works very well.
I do have issues with T1 circuits as I cannot seem to get MPEG4 videos or VLC is not correctly converting or it is just my limited understanding of Video itself. I know for MPEG3, I need at least 2.4Mbps of bandwidth and I thought MPEG4 could be supported on less than 1.544Mbps - hopefully will figure this out soon.
My setup is MPLS Hub and Spoke. I control the Hubs, Spokes, and all the MPLS cloud so I am able to test most any scenario.
Perhaps we could collaborate on multicast over MPLS????
Also, I use Sparse mode throughout the entire Hub/Spoke/MPLS domain.
Let me know.
Hi Anil ,
I saw that iperf has multicast capabilities, so you might give it a try.


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To help provide guidance on where to properly locate a mudflap, we contacted Bob Raybuck, technical services director at the National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA). Raybuck advises body manufacturers and dealers on the most current federal rulings regarding equipment.
The federal government currently has no regulations pertaining to mud-flaps or splash/spray suppression devices for commercial motor vehicles (CMVs), says Raybuck. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't pay close attention to mudflaps.
"Many states have enacted their own regulations governing the type, size, and location of mudflaps and/or splash and spray suppression devices on CMVs," says Raybuck. To help understand these rules, NTEA recently published the technical report, "State Requirements for Mud Flaps."
The report is available to NTEA members under the Technical Resources section at the association's Web site, www.ntea.com. The document details regulations for mudflaps and splash/ spray suppression devices for CMVs for all 50 states.
Many states require fenders, covers, mudflaps, or other splash/spray suppression devices that minimize the splash or spray of water, rocks, mud, or other materials from being thrown onto the windshields of following vehicles. These regulations vary by state.
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The "Ovum Philosophicum," which can be translated as the Philosophical or Alchemical Egg, is the principal vessel used in alchemical operations. During the alchemical process, the material, Hermetically sealed in the Egg, is put through a symbolic death and rebirth. When the Egg was cracked, a new mystical substance emerged which was an elixir that prolonged life and acted as a catalyst capable of improving any substance that it came in contact with. This substance, called the Philosopher's Stone, could change lead into gold and change an ordinary person into an enlightened master.
The World is Alive
The principle behind Alchemy is that everything thing in the world is alive and that all living things share a common purpose. Additionally, every living things seeks the desire or need to evolve into a higher state of of being. The means of fulfilling that evolution is through awareness, communication with our inner wisdom, developed intuition, and consciousness. This is not only evident in spirituality, but we are surrounded by this evidence, as demonstrated by Leonardo da Vinci. Alchemy is intended to speed the process of this evolution by creating a mystical agent, also known as the Philosopher's Stone.
In Mythological Tradition
Greek mythology tells us the story of Psyche, the wife of the god Eros (or Cupid), and her journey. Psyche a mortal, one of three girls born to a king and queen. When her elder sisters were married, men from all over began swooning over Psyche, but she did not meet a man she fell in love with. The goddess, Aphrodite, or Venus, was displeased that men's attention shifted from her to this mortal girl, and out of jealousy, she sent Eros, her son, to make Psyche fall in love with the most undesirable man and marry him. However, in the process, Eros accidentally shot himself with his own arrows of passion and fell in love with Psyche himself. Aphrodite highly disapproved of her son's desires for Psyche and as punishment, Psyche was sent on four impossible missions, an attempt to break the girl.
The final task Aphrodite imposed on Psyche was to travel to the underworld and deliver a box to the goddess of the underworld, Persephone, which contained Aphrodite's secrets to beauty. The tasks had left Psyche weary, and she feared she would not be beautiful enough for Eros, and made the mistake of looking into the box herself. Aphrodite knew that Psyche would not be able to resist looking into the box, and rather than the secrets to beauty, Psyche was met with death. Eros had secretly been watching over Psyche over her journeys, so when Psyche had died, he brought her to the other gods and made her immortal, transforming her into the goddess of the soul. It was then that the two had married bore their daughter, Hedone, meaning "pleasure."
The journeys of Psyche is an allegory of the process of the soul, demonstrating that the spiritual world and the material world are connected. With her journeys through earth, the spiritual realm, her dreams, her death, and her ultimate transformation, Psyche represents totality of the unconscious and conscious life, each symbolic of what makes us who we are.
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The Human Psyche
Every individual in this world has a psyche. The psyche consists of the entire human mind, both consciousness and unconsciousness, and the totality of the psychic process, in the terms of Carl Jung. The total psyche is is considered the Higher Self, representative of the true personality, connected to the infinite intelligence of the universe. Jung accepted Alchemy as Alchemy as the precursor to depth psychology, which explores the unconscious and transpersonal aspects of the human experience. Jung studied this depth psychology through studies of images from Alchemist texts and images of patients' dreams, believing that dreams were mystical journeys that brings our consciousness to places we physically can not go.
Many individuals are not in tuned with their psyche completely, mainly due to our ability to completely detach ourselves from consciousness. With the rise of the digital era, the detachment will be enabled further. The consciousness we do have is known as the Ego. The Ego is successful and effective in separating from the unity of the psyche, or the Higher Self. For many who have never experienced their Higher Self, it may seem as though their Higher Self is a separate personality. This may seem true, for those who have never experienced what is in their unconscious state. The idea behind Alchemy is to bridge the gap between the Ego and the Higher Self by using our inheritance to develop intuition and allow our unconsciousness to merge into our consciousness.
The Tarot
Traditionally, dating back millennia, divination was used to develop intuition, gain access to our unconscious state, and get in touch with our Higher Self. Methods have included, but are not limited to, consultations from oracles, the reading of omens, the throwing of dice, the watching of birds, and the reading of animal entrails, especially of the liver. It should be noted that these methods were not intended to be used as predictions for the future, but used as guide lines for improvements to communication with our Higher Self and to keep in favor of the divine.
The tarot is a common tool used for divination for unveiling the transformed wisdom of the Higher Self. The Alchemy tarot is considered on the best tools suited for the task of developing intuition and connection with one's unconscious state, thus connecting us to our inner wisdom. The particular cards in Alchemy tarot were drawn to capture Alchemist symbols clearly and concisely in harmony to the aesthetic balance of the composition.
The origins of the tarot card is often clouded in mystery, but there is evidence and theories about the History, Symbolism, and Divination behind the practice.
The Alchemical tarot has decks and cards that include:
- Chariot: The chariot is one of the most traditional card in tarot decks. Faced upright, it is associated with control, will power, victory, and determination. Faced reversed, it is associated with lack of control or direction and aggression.
- Empress: The empress is typically an archetypal of mother earth. Faced upright, it is associated with fertility, beauty, nature, and abundance. Faced reversed, it is associated with a creative block or a dependence on others.
- Priestess: Faced upright, the priestess is associated with intuition, high powers, mystery, and the subconscious mind. Faced reversed, it is associated with hidden agendas or a need to listen to one's inner voice.
- The Buddha Tarot
- Vampire Tarot
Robert M. Place
Robert M. Place is the creator of Alchemy tarot. Place is a gifted teacher of Western mystical tradition, interested in the history and philosophy of tarot. In addition to his studies and teachings, Place has created and contributed many images to the decks, including the Buddha Prints and the Celtic Prints.
More can be read about the life of Robert Place.
Even further information can be found at Robert Place's personal website, www.robertmplacetarot.com.
If you have further thoughts or questions, there is a Forum where like minded individuals can discuss the tarot cards of Robert Place.


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Memories of Bicester
Wonderful Scones And Coffee
My Mum and I would call in to Mary's Cafe on a Friday morning to have scones and coffee. A wonderful experience in beautiful surroundings. Such a shame it no longer exists.
Nicester International Stores
My first job was at Bicester International Stores in August 1966. I was an apprentice grocer. My wages five pound ten shillings a week and I worked an extra half a day most weeks for thirty-seven and a half pence extra. I lived near Middle Claydon and used to cycle to Steeple Claydon railway station, leave my ...Read full memory
Bicester Secondary School 1964 1965
Did anyone go to Bicester Secondary School? I went there in 1964-1965, I was 14-15 years old and would have been in the 10th grade. I was the only American student, my father was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford. I had many friends, if you remember me.. Millie Venezia.. please email me.
Getting Married
I remember marrying my first husband at The Garth on 10th July 1982, now a registrar's office. The grounds are not as well kept now, but it is still a lovely park.