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A round up of key news stories connected to Liverpool from the past 24 hours.
Liverpool striker Luis Suarez says he's a changed man following criticism of his behaviour last season. Suarez has fitted straight back into the Liverpool first team, leading the attack and scoring vital goals.
"I am aware that in recent matches that I played I've been calmer. I am very self-critical and I realised that playing well, with more tranquillity, is helping me a lot," he told Uruguayan paper El Pais.
Suarez has also revealed that club captain Steven Gerrard was influential in his decision to stay at the club, after Arsenal made two bids for the striker during the summer transfer window.
Daniel Agger has also had something to say, revealing that he is relishing the competition for places at the club. Liverpool have a core of superb central defenders in Agger, Martin Skrtel, Kolo Toure, Mamadou Sakho and Tiago Ilori.
"The other players have done well and it is great that we have competition for places. If we want to be in the top of the league then we have to have competition for all places," he told Danish newspaper BT.
Sakho moved to the club from PSG towards the end of the last transfer window and he's revealed that he already has a nickname at Anfield. Sakho is commonly referred to as 'killer' by current boss Brendan Rodgers.
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Rodgers has had plenty to say about striker Daniel Sturridge, insisting the forward can become one of the best players in Europe. Sturridge has been in prolific form since move to the club earlier this year, bagging 19 goals in 25 matches.
Rodgers has spoken out over another star, current midfielder Jordan Henderson, rubbishing claims the player could have left the club over the summer.
"I never wanted Jordan to leave. He was a player I didn't want to lose. We spoke about the opportunity that was there for him but it was never the case that we wanted him to go. He's still a young player who has really grown in his time here at Liverpool," Rodgers told the Liverpool Echo.
Liverpool's youngsters have been attracting mass praise following their 5-0 demolition of Tottenham Hotspur last night. The Under-21 sides went head-to-head with Liverpool producing five different scorers as they strolled to victory maintaining their position on the Under-21 Premier League table.
In transfer news, the club remain firmly linked with Derby County youngster Will Hughes. Liverpool are thought to be mulling over a big money move for the player this winter and that doesn't seem to have changed with Steve McClaren coming in as Derby's new manager.
In other news, former Liverpool players John Barnes and Sami Hyypia have admitted they would like to return to the club at some point. Barnes has confirmed his desire to coach at Liverpool while Bayer Leverkusen boss Hyypia says it's his dream to be the manager at Anfield.
See also: Manchester United and Liverpool players share this one common goal
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Whiteboard of the Week
May 23, 2006
Lately, I've been loathe to blog out of fear that it'll lead too much procrastination (which would be especially bad since I think the "just right" level of procrastination is roughly a 40 hour a week job in and of itself).
So, in an effort to make sure this blog promotes rather than detracts from my research efficiency, I'm instituting the following feature seen elsewhere around the web, The Whiteboard of the Week. Not only will it me encourage me to produce at least one tangible piece of evidence a week that I've done work, but also it will encourage me to clean up my messy whiteboard writing.
This week I'm focusing on TAing MIT's introductory solid state physics course for first-year electrical engineering grad students, and thus my office whiteboard today looked like this.
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June 2, 2006 at 3:25 am
that is certainly a cool feature, I wish I had a whiteboard!

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USA has REPLACED the term India-administered Kashmir with Jammu and Kashmir in its order designating Hizbul chief Syed Salahuddin as a global terrorist announced during PM Narendra Modi's trip to Washington DC.
MoS external affairs VK Singh in reply to a question on the subject in the Lok Sabha Yesterday 19th July 2017.
"On June 26, during the visit of the Prime Minister to the US, the Department of State designated Syed Salahuddin, leader of the militant group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) as a ...Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). The media note issued by the State Department in this regard on that date had stated "Under Salahuddin's tenure as senior HM leader, HM has claimed responsibility for several attacks, including the April 2014 explosives attack in India-administered Jammu and Kashmir, which injured 17 people," the minister said.
He further pointed out, taking cognizance of this, the Ministry's Spokesperson had issued a statement on June 29, 2017 reiterating the well-known position of India that the entire state of Jammu & Kashmir is an integral part of India.
The matter was also taken up with the US, following which Media Note has been amended by the US State Department in which the reference to ''India-Administered Jammu and Kashmir'' has been replaced by 'the state of Jammu and Kashmir'.
Diplomacy is not merely appeasement.
Finally, under PM Modi, Indian diplomacy has got a spine.


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ANU Science Public Lecture and Dinner in Jakarta
We were delighted to see alumni & friends at the recent ANU Science Public Lecture and Dinner at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta.
It was an opportunity to share stories of, and reflections on people's time at the ANU along with meet new friends. The fondness and high regard that those present have for the ANU was evident.
Science Deans Professor Andrew Roberts and Professor Kiaran Kirk welcomed guests and outlined some of the exciting news in science, environment, medicine and health. Professor Phil Cummins gave a very interesting presentation on 'Earthquakes and Tsunamis along the Sunda-Banda Arc: Why we should worry'.


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"And if I make it there, I'll make it anywhere…" To me, the song New York, New York has always been about show business. It is the most difficult industry to break into and even more difficult to be successful in. But recently, I was talking to the nurse who gives me my allergy shots (really, my parents should have just put me in a bubble like John Travolta in that TV movie), and I realized, life in New York is fucking tough. If you can manage to successfully keep a roof over your head, groceries in your refrigerator and your laundry pile down to a small hill rather than a mountain threatening to consume your 9'x9' bedroom "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout" style, you can make it anywhere.
To do my laundry, I have to crawl in a crevice between my bed and the wall and scoop my clothes out of the hamper in a yoga position I call "Crippled Monkey Seizes".Then I have to schlep it two blocks north, get change, wash it, come back half an hour later (and do not dawdle because your wet clothes will be taken out with no apologies) and chuck that business into the dryer. Then there are the contingencies of the dryer not having dried at all, machines eating your precious quarters, all the machines being full and of course, the elements. I have done laundry in snow and sleet. That really puts perspective on all the times I let my dirties pile up when I had a washer and dryer in my own home.
Groceries are a whole other order of business. I am fairly lucky in the order of grocery store proximity, but carrying home two heavy bags full of seltzer and soup (do not hate on that delicious-sounding dinner), in the rain with a gym bag and a purse is not easy.
I won't even get into navigating the streets lined with tourists or the perils of leaving something on the subway (just last night, I saw a brand new Gap shopping bag lying under a seat on the 2; say good-bye to those new khakis) or the shame of wearing shorts in a non-ironic way in Williamsburg. If you have managed to carve out a life for yourself in New York, consider yourself brave.
And if, instead, you have managed to have a nice quiet life away from all this crazy, consider yourself wise.


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Here's my song for my 4th day: "Sometimes Looking Back is Easier Than Looking Forward"
"So the Gorillaz's new record is being recorded completely on an iPad and a bunch of bands are doing viral videos playing songs using their iPhones, etc so this song was completely recorded using my iPad. Well, that and GarageBand. I started with SoundDrop -- a sound-generator app based off bounding balls off of these lines you draw with your finger. It's a completely live "instrument" if you will in the sense that it's not pre-programmable. That's the confusing off-but-in-time clicking you hear. Then I used JamPad for the synth lead, drums, and guitar. I did live switching on the drums so they have some strange 'choices' for beats but I figured WTH. Then I used QuickVoice to record vocals which i couldn't record straight into GB so I recorded and then synced back to the song after laying it into GB. A fun experiment but I'll try something more tangible tomorrow."


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Monday, July 18, 2016
Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2016
If you read any blogs or you have an Instagram account, I'm certain that you have been flooded with content from the Nordstrom Anniversary sale this year. It seems to be the most trendy sale of the year. I've shopped it for a few years now, and I figured I would show you my top picks. Keep in mind I'm on a college budget however I still wanted to pick up a few great things for fall!
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After the release of the mind blowing teaser video of the upcoming Malayalam movie Tiyaan on March 30, the Prithviraj Sukumaran and Indrajith Sukumaran-starrer has become the talk of the town, with even Bollywood's Karan Johar showering praise on the teaser.
Watch the character intro teaser
Bollywood hitmaker Karan Johar, impressed with the 1-minute-17-second promo video, has congratulated Prithviraj for the same.
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Karan Johar
Hey @PrithviOfficial this looks amazing!!! Congratulations!!!!
Apart from Karan, other celebrities, including Sreesanth, Tovino Thomas have had good words for the video, which gives the feeling that the Jiyen Krishnakumar-directorial could be the first of its kind in Malayalam. The teaser video features Indrajith and Prithviraj, who is also appearing in a dual role in it. The highlights of the teaser are Satheesh Kurup's cinematography and Gopi Sunder's background score.
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@PrithviOfficial great work..,can't wait to c the film..wishing the whole team the very best brothers
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The much awaited teaser of Tiyaan... best wishes to the team.
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Good luck , family ! Indrajith Sukumaran Prithviraj Sukumaran Murali Gopy Jiyen Krishnakumar
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Class !!!
The teaser, which begins with the tagline, "When miracle meets man, epics are born," has gone viral on social media upon its release via Facebook. The video has been viewed over 6.7 lakh times on social media in less than 18 hours of hitting the cyberspace. Many among the audience are of the opinion that Tiyaan will be another epic that will bring a change to the standards of Malayalam movies. Tiyaan is expected to take the Malayalam film industry to a new level.
Tiyaan, which also stars Murali Gopy, Ananya, Padmapriya in significant roles, has been penned by Murali. Prithviraj and Indrajith had earlier said that their characters Aslan Muhammad and Pattabhiraman were the toughest they had enacted till date in their career. The emotional Facebook posts of the actors has raised the expectations of the audience from the upcoming movie.
Check out audience response on the teaser of Tiyaan here:
Bartosz Czarnotta: Epic and so mysterious teaser, Rajuetta. Waitting for the movie!
Arjun Dev: The most "trusted" actor comes again with an astonishing film teaser ..We hope you will grab lots of awards and will give us a blockbuster(which you always do). Who will rule malayalam industry after "Lalettan" The only answer is "Rajuvettan".
IhAs MoHd: Really happy to feel the change of malayalam film standard!! We will soon reach the level of hollywood films!! Raj!! You are the the next super star after mamookka and mohanlal for sure. Hope the level of teaser will be there for the whole film!! Best wishes brother!!
Lakshmi Raghav: Wowwwww ! Extraordinary teaser, couldn't guess the story from this and that's how it should be thrilled. Cinematography seems great. Your entry in both styles are ultimate #Prithvi. Extremely excited for EID to come.
Bharath Kumar Reddy: Woww! Spellbounding. Prithvi and Indrajith the intensity in their looks cinematography is too good. This is gonna be epic. This is raising the standards and setting the bar higher for other movies too excited to watch this movie. All the best prithvi
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Two different takes on unexpected parenthood
Mother and Child
The trailer for this latest Naomi Watts/Annette Bening/Samuel L. Jackson vehicle was, in my view, a mix of predictable, schmaltzy and yet strangely enticing. And ultimately it proved to be all that and more. This tale of interweaving lives (crafted by Rodrigo Garcia, the son of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez) sees unexpectedly nuanced performances from the terrific Bening as an embittered woman who gave up her child at age 14 and Watts as the coldly independent lawyer whose inability to bond emotionally ultimately leads to heartbreak. The third woman, whose story revolves around her desire to adopt a baby and the impact this has on her marriage, is played by Kerry Washington who bakes cupcakes for a living and often tends to overact, though granted she is dumped with some weak lines during the first half of the film.
Bringing up the male contingent, Jimmy Smits is notable as the even-tempered, slightly paunchy colleague whose attentions attempt to win over Bening's prickly pear. However, it's shoutingly obvious that the female characters in this film are, without exception, unlikeable in some capacity, whereas the men are doting, patient and impossible to criticise. (Even Washington's husband doesn't come off as annoying and whiny as she does, despite dipping out before the going gets tough.) Meanwhile, Watts climbs the corporate ladder, onto the boss's lap, and dabbles in home-wrecking, just for the hell of it. Bening is distant from her own mother and mistreats her home-help (who are Hispanic and tolerant, just like Smit's Paco). Bening's mother makes thoughtless comments. Washington's mother nags. The pregnant teen is feisty and unendearing. Only the nun smiles with any degree of warmth!
Despite all this however, I found the story engaging and the essence of the personal crises very affecting. Audiences may consider it predictable or convenient in places, and there's no disputing the strands are tied together at the end so we can leave the cinema feeling ever so slightly optimistic after two hours of angst. Mother and Child will not be for everyone, and the trailer warned as much, but I'm glad I took a chance with it nonetheless.
Life As We Know It
The trailer seemed to give everything away (two people hate each other! are made Godparents! the kid's parents die! they have to bring up the kid! together! will they fall in love??). I wondered who the heck Josh Duhamel was anyway (it turns out he's a soldier in Transformers 1 and 2) and I feared Katherine Heigl would fax in her Knocked Up performance here, and dish out another rom-com about unexpected parenthood foisted upon two incompatible singletons.
In fact, I was very pleasantly surprised. The plot may not be quite paper thin, perhaps more the cardboard of the cake boxes Heigl's character Holly packs her cupcakes in (as in Mother and Child – this shows she is at heart homely and maternal!). But the performances, chemistry and comic timing of our romantic leads make for a fun couple of hours, with a witty script and overall likable characters in every scene. Eschewing the screenwriter's usual habit of making the interim boyfriend some sort of closet egomaniac or secret child-hater, Josh Lucas plays Doctor Sam, a worthy adversary to Duhamel's bumbling but charismatic Messer. The hodgepodge of well-meaning neighbours are hilarious, and new face Sarah Burns puts in a terrific performance as the child welfare officer whose impromptu visits provide the impetus for some of the slapstick.
But it is the family play-acting between Heigl, Duhamel and their onscreen daughter which seals the film's realism, and gets us caring about their future. A public row at a suburban street party, both characters oblivious to their painted animal faces as they deliver heartfelt lines, is a particular delight. The film may be predictable, and as light as Holly's baking, but it's certainly just as delicious.


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As a variant of this , I found the mussel fly-in on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Aeroclub Zeeland a good reason to book the Aquila. This time with Piet de Hondt as an instructor and thus my first flying lesson in "my own" air plane was booked :)
For me, so no $ 100 Hamburger, but mussels , this time !
And : this time the bad weather came only a day later , so I've actually flown my first flying lesson in the Aquila!
My idea had also inspired the KLM Aeroclub event committee to nominate the mussel fly-in as a club flight. Thus, two planes of the club flew to MiddenZeeland, with a total of five men : Rene Bins , Nard Sonneberg and Sergio Moya Boom in the Cessna 172 PH-KBA, and of course, Piet and myself in the Aquila A210 PH -KLQ .
Lesson 1 is about flying straight and level. Sounds so simple, but it is actually quite difficult to do for a longer period of time. The 100nm to Midden Zeeland ( EHMZ ) airport is a good stretch to practice.
Of course, it all starts off with a briefing. What is flying? Where do we go? How do we get there? What's important to watch for? After all that, the walk-around . This time from the heart (Piet's), but next time I'll do it all myself, with the use of the walk-around checklist to make sure that I 'm going to miss anything. See if all bolts are still in place, if moving parts are moving, general condition of the aircraft, things like that. Also very important: how much of which fuel is in which tank, and is there any water in the fuel? Plus of course gauge the oil (turn prop until gargle, then turn until second gargle, and then read the dipstick).
In the cockpit I get information about which gauges do what, and which ones are the most imposrtant to keep an eye on in flight. At first glance, it all seems very complicated, but it isn't, really :)
Piet read the checklists out loud, and I execute them. There is still quite a lot to do before you may turn the key to start the engine. I did the taxiing, after a brake test on both sides, and a check that all direction indicators move in the correct direction when we make a turn. After Piet obtained the latest aerodrome information, we taxied to rwy23 . The take-off and leaving the pattern was done by Piet, because that may not yet be expected of a first lesson student. Then it was my turn to "take the helm".
We both had mapped out a route independently, but as both were exactly the same, that was quickly decided upon. We'd use the VOR beacon PAM ( Pampus ), then along the east side of the Rotterdam CTR (area around the airport where special rules apply becuse of local traffic) and then South-West to our destination . I had added another waypoint too: the home of a friend / colleague Dennis in Almere . That was very close to the route, so the only deviation from the syllabus was that had to make some turns! I started out with a right-hand curve, but Peter suggested to turn left, because then would have better visibility myself.
Dennis even managed to take a photograph of us! :)
The rest of the route went quite as planned . I have yet to develop a workflow in the cockpit where I check my altitude more often, because that varied a little bit to much . If the trim is not quite perfect, or if circumstances change, a very slow climb or descend will result, and I noticed that too late. Of course I can say that there was good 20 knots of wind and there was a strong varying cloud cover, but the bottom line is that I just had to notice the altitude changes earlier.
Point of attention!
At Midden Zeeland the almost 20 knots of wind was almost perpendicular to the runway. At least 10 knots X-wind component, so Piet landed the plane. I had my hands and feet on the controls to gouge his inputs, because X-wind landing requires quite a special technique. Also, Midden Zeeland has a grass runway only, which requires a bit of extra attention not to damage the nodsewheel. I will eventually get to master all those techniques, but not yet today .
Then, of course, it was Mussels Time! I am not even that big a fan of mussels, but these were great! I have eaten a full dish, some 20 odd pieces, where my personal best is about 10 :)
A nice chat under a tent with fellow aviation enthusiasts, while sipping a coke - this is the life :)
After a chat with someone who was interested in the Aquila (of course :) ), it was about time to go back to Lelystad. Lesson 2! Time for another walk-around !
During the return leg, we would have those 20 knots of wind in the back, so the journey would be somewhat shorter. Well, Piet found a solution for that: medium turns, and slow flight.
Above the province of Zeeland already, he made me do some 90 and 180 degree turns. Watch that nose position very carefully! I tend to "over pull" the nose. More in a right-hand turn than in a left-hand turn. That latter is what most people do. So there's another point of attention for me.
When flying slowly, the plane reacts differently. This is because, obviously, the airflow around the wing is slower . Also, the noseneeds to be a little more up, to continue to fly at the same altitude. That is not very convenient. That's why flaps were invented. In the first picture of this article, you see them fully extended at the back of the wings. Flaps in that position provide a much larger "curvature" of the wing, which means more lift. So the nose can be lowered a bit during the approach. They also provide significantly more resistance, so a little extra throttle is needed if you want to maintain altitude. Pushing the nose down also increases speed, so it's a matter of doing it a lot, and developing a "feel" for how the plane responds is all configurations.
We landed safely back at Lelystad . After a total of 2 1/2 hours flown, lessons 1 and 2 are now in my logbook, along with the introduction two flights that I did before. This now totals to 4.5 hours. It is starting to look like something . :)
I've decided that I'm going to take lessons on a regular basis (about once a week) from the beginning of the new year. Meanwhile I have also signed up for a theory course , already about to start in September.
More about that in next reports. Until then !
PS It was not a $ 100 , = Hamburger, but a € 400 , = serving of mussels; that's pretty expensive feed at € 20 , = per piece. Haha! ;)


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Keith Taylor MEP, the Green Party's Animals Spokesperson, joined campaigners in the European Parliament calling for more action on bycatch as a new scientific study reveals 4,000 dolphins were slaughtered as a result of fishing off the coast of Cornwall this spring.
Mr Taylor, the Vice President of the European Parliament's Animal Welfare Intergroup, posed for photos at a campaign event hosted by Humane Society International, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, and the Environmental Investigation Agency looking to raise awareness of the devastating impact of fishing practices on the welfare of various cetacean species.
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"The number of dolphins slaughtered as a by-product of factory fishing is as astonishing as it is distressing. Urgent action and reform must be undertaken to stop the unnecessary bloodshed."
Keith also raised concerns about the cetacean welfare implications of Michael Gove's plans for the UK fishing industry post-Brexit.
Keith added:
"The distressing slaughter of thousands of dolphins is just one of the problems with the UK government's insistence on handing over the vast majority of the country's fishing quota to massive corporations at the expense of small-scale, sustainable fishing operations. More sustainable and ecologically sensitive operations are vital to local economies; for tackling the industrial overfishing of our oceans, and; are supported by EU funding."
"But instead of promising a sea change in Britain's fishing industry and a necessary shift in support away from corporate fishing fleets to local fishing communities and small-scale, sustainable activities, post-Brexit, Gove has promised an intensive fishing free-for-all which would see even more of these beautiful and intelligent creatures needlessly slaughtered, critically deplete fishing stocks, and hasten the destruction of our marine ecosystems."


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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Our economy is in ruins. People are starving. They are going homeless. Their life savings are evaporating. They are losing their health coverage. If the government does not act soon--and boldly--they will suffer even more. Just as Franklin Roosevelt had to act fast in 1933, so too must President Obama act fast today. Roosevelt understood that modern crises demand radical programs, even if those programs ruffle conservative feathers. Republicans in the 1930s, for instance, believed that the government had no power to create a social security office or regulate the stock markets. But national crisis shunted their pedantic criticism aside. Seventy years later, no one would argue that social security or stock market regulation are bad. At the time, however, critics said the government was "going too far" and "exceeding its powers."
Republicans are putting up a similarly doomed fight now. They do not recognize the magnitude of the crisis we face. They apply reasoning that might be sound in a stable economy, not in a depression. Rather than take bold steps, they cling to economic slogans and talismans. I often use the word "talisman" to describe hypnotic allegiance to concepts, even when it does not make sense to apply those concepts. Republican resistance to sweeping economic reform is a perfect example of a talisman at work. This is the talisman: "Government spending is bad. Tax cuts are good." If government action violates this simplistic formula, Republicans start crying bloody murder and threaten to vote against it. They reason that job creation, wealth and prosperity result when private enterprise gets to keep more money, on the assumption that rich people will use it to spend on the rest of us. On the other hand, they reason that government spending does not create "real wealth" because it results in waste and mismanagement. Republicans want low taxes all the time. That is their talisman.
That is why Republicans voted against the Obama stimulus plan to a man. It violated the talisman: Too much government spending; not enough tax cuts. Perhaps they are also just a little spiteful that a Democratic black man is so popular among the populace; and this is their chance to "sock it to him" in whatever institutional way they can. Motivations aside, Republican critics all say the same thing: "This plan is insane because there is not enough tax relief for business." They ignore the fact that the bill sends billions to Americans who need mortgage relief, health care, unemployment benefits and social help. In the Republicans' view, these desperate people don't matter; only tax cuts matter. That's it. There is nothing subtle about it. No tax cut, no vote. Too much government spending, no vote. That's how Republicans think when it comes to economic legislation.
In theory, businesses should create jobs and invest more money in the public when they do not have to pay as many taxes. After all, if a company has gross receipts of $15 million and must pay $6 million in taxes, one would think the company could hire more workers if it only had to pay $4 million in taxes. But there is a fatal assumption here, namely, that companies and wealthy individuals will spend their savings on others, rather than on themselves. In the preceding scenario, what if the company owner preferred to take his $2 million tax savings and redo his living room? What would make him hire 5 more employees, withhold their taxes and pay their health benefits? Why not enrich himself with the money? In other words, tax cuts do not necessarily lead to the public good. They could lead to reinvestment and job creation. Or they could lead to mere self-aggrandizement and personal consumption. I would venture that human beings are more likely to spend extra money on themselves than on others. Admittedly, this is a cynical view. But experience confirms that it is usually true.
Republicans are right that government spending can result in waste and mismanagement. But they are incorrect that tax cuts are a magic potion that automatically cures economic ills. In our private enterprise system, people do not spend money to help others; they want money to enrich themselves. What is the point of success if you must take your winnings and give them to others? That defeats the whole point of capitalism. The whole point is to get richer and richer, not to diffuse your money to others. Charity might be a reason to spend money on others, but that ultimately inures to the capitalist's benefit, since it lets him pay fewer taxes at year's end. Self-interest does nothing selflessly. Yet Republicans assume that tax cuts will make business owners act selflessly voluntarily. That is a pipe dream. If you give more money to a rich man, he will not transform into a saint. He will go buy a new house.
We need government spending now, not tax cuts. Government must approach this economic crisis the way Roosevelt approached the Depression in 1933. Government must take a more active role. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan said that "government is the problem." That is not the case today. Unfettered private enterprise created this mess; winking government lassitude only exacerbated it. In 2009, we need strong government to rein in cowboy capitalism. Tax cuts will only worsen current problems. If anything, the government needs more revenues to rebuild the economy. This may chafe against Republican virtues--"it's wealth redistribution, by God!"--but rigid allegiance to private enterprise will lead only deeper into Depression. Tax cuts may be appropriate when the economy is relatively stable and the government does not need to intervene. But today the economy is not stable, and government must intervene. In crisis, people turn to the government. Government cannot ignore them. After all, despite all the technical squawking about whether we are in a "recession" or a "depression," economic strength really depends on popular faith. When people panic, lose their savings and go homeless, they think they are in a depression, no matter what the numbers say on CNBC. In the 1930s, government intervention restored public faith. Today, government must do the same.
Most people in America today have lost their faith in unfettered private enterprise. That is why they voted in Obama and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress. They want economic reorganization, even if that means "more government spending." It is no coincidence that the Republicans--who want tax cuts--are in the minority. Congress reflects the popular will better than any other national institution. The stimulus bill is an aggressive push for change. That is what the people wanted. They have no more faith in pure private enterprise for economic strength. Only strong action will restore national faith in the economy. The stimulus bill is a good measure to begin that work. Like it or not, economic strength is as much about perception as it is about numbers. When people feel that their government is doing something about the economy, their perception will improve. That is the first step to recovery.
5 comments:
You attack the fatally simplistic arguments of the Republicans with your own fatally simplistic arguments.
Example: you argue that the tax cut theory only works because we assume altruism. In truth, it is the exact opposite, and it is your model depends upon altruism. The tax cut theory is, if the government allows people to reap the benefits of their own economic activity, more economic activity will occur. The tax cut theory assumes that if you take a higher percentage from someone's earnings, that is a disincentive for them to earn beyond their required standard of living, and less economic activity occurs. Those who believe the government can stimulate the economy must believe that if you take from Peter to pay Paul, that Peter will continue to produce at the level he would have before, i.e. that he will "altruistically" donate his labors to Paul and continue to produce at the previous pace. Your own example is a perfect one if you will read it again. If a guy takes his $2 million and remakes his living room, he just provided employment for about 50,000 contractor hours, or employed 25 people for a year. That is stimulus.
Let's pretend, instead, that the government took that $2 million. First, they have to collect and disseminate it, creating $100,000 of work between his accountants (trying to minimize what they get) and their accountants to make sure they get it. Of the remaining $1.9 million, about 15% will be sent to made up beneficiaries of the thing the government was trying to subsidize (i.e. corruption), and that $150,000 will be spent on the living rooms of the folks that tricked the government into giving them the money. Of the remaining $1.75 million, $175,000 will disappear in government oversight to ensure that the people receiving the money are in fact the people who should receive the money. The remaining $1.575 million will probably be distributed to the intended recipients who will probably spend some of it on the intended stimulus item.
You may think you know where I'm going with this, but I doubt it at this point. Does $2 million taken from Mr. Rich Bags yield net economic spending of $1.575 in the above scenario? NO. It is $2 million spent in both scenarios.
This is the fallacy of both sides, yours and theirs, - it doesn't matter if the government takes it, he spends it, he saves it, he buys stock with it, etc. The only thing he can do to substantially affect the equation is to hide the money under his mattress - and rich people DON'T do that. Anything else anyone does with that money puts the money into the economy, and it is utilized. He may not spend it, but through distribution of risk it will be spent (e.g. he puts it into a low-risk savings account which is then loaned downstream by a bank).
Therefore, the difference between stimulus on the spending side is zero, even assuming 25% of the government dollars seemingly go "poof" because those accountants and grafters are part of the economy as well. So what is the stimulus difference? It is on the wealth creation side.
There is not a fixed quantity of money in the world, and either you have it or I have it. Rather, the amount of money in the world is the total sum of goods and services provided that matched up with goods and services wanted. If you can provide a good, but no one wants it, there is no transaction and that is not measured as an economic event. Likewise, if I want a good but no one can provide it, there is no transaction and that is not measured as an economic event. If I provide too many goods for what people want, but they will take them if they are cheap enough, the economy is diminished because the price of fewer goods would have been higher, leaving leftover production that could have been better utilized. Likewise, if I produce to few of a type of goods that are wanted, the economy is diminished because, although I sold the few I had at a high price, somebody else could have stepped in and made more of these goods at a higher price than they did something else that they probably did at a lower price.
- January 30, 2009 at 2:08 AM
So now the question is, are tax cuts better for economic stimulus or is the government better for economic stimulus. Now that we know what economic stimulus is, the answer is quite clear (you believe that, right? :-) ).
We have to match a production event with a consumption event to produce an economically measurable transaction. Further, that transaction has to occur in the daylight or it will not be measurable. Taxes distort the economic picture in several ways.
First, they create a want for goods and services that, in the absence of taxes would not be desired (namely, accountants and attorneys to reduce tax burdens, and to follow and enforce tax laws) (diminishing event).
Second, they deprive producers of some of the value of the goods they produce, not related to the merits of the transaction making producers less likely to create as many such production events (diminishing event).
Third, they cause the recipients of the tax money to spend with limitations that would not be present in the absence of the government stipulating how the tax money is spent. This means they may be buying something they don't want very much, they may be spending just to avoid losing the money, and in any event they are not spending the money exactly the way they would want to spend the money (diminishing event).
Fourth, they cause some transactions to occur out of the daylight. This puts an overhead on the transaction for efforts to hide it, and further the transaction itself is no longer a measurable event. (diminishing event)
There is only one possible stimulating effect from taxes. The distribution of the taxes creates liquidity for the need event of a person to be met by a production event where that person may lack money to otherwise effect the transaction. However, we must subtract out the value of the transaction that would have occurred with that money previously. It's clear that we took the money from someone who was good at meeting needs and gave it to someone who was not good at meeting needs. Therefore, even though a need is now met that was not met before, it is likely that this is still a diminishing event, but it is not as clear as the above points and I think it would be fair to say that some individual transactions probably would be stimulating rather than diminishing.
Therefore, from the perspective of growing the economy, taxes are a loser every time. Taxes can create the above benefit - namely helping those who cannot have a need met due to lack of liquidity, however we must accept overall diminishment to do so. Therefore, where the need of someone is great, and their individual ability to produce a benefit for someone else is small, there is a case to be made that taxes should be utilized to meet that need. The case would have to compete with a competing private charity case, but that is much more back in the realm of opinion then as to which is better for meeting those types of needs.
(one more - on Social Security...)
- January 30, 2009 at 2:32 AM
I have to take issue with "no one would argue that social security ... [is] bad"
Social Security is not just bad, it's a form of social insanity. The Social Security system takes 12.4 % of your income - which most financial planners will tell you is enough of your income to fully fund a comfortable retirement - and they basically destroy that money. They provide current seniors with maybe 30-40% of their reasonable cost of living, and this from 12.4% of the income of a larger pool than the seniors themselves!
Social Security is the largest Ponzi scheme ever operated, and the evidence for that is public and clear. Yet somehow, it is now revered in the public conscience as a social good that is untouchable. I will never buy that, just as if the public conscience decided that day was night or the earth was flat I wouldn't buy that either. Sorry, no can do.
Social Security is an admission to our grandchildren that we just can't plan and they're going to have to foot the bill. Of course, there will be more of us than them by then, and like all Ponzi schemes this one will collapse at that time. It will collapse, despite our current vast capacity for collective suspension of disbelief.
Even as a charitable enterprise for the poor elderly, Social Security is awful. It's our one regressive tax that the poor pay and the rich don't. The poor will not live as long as the rich, so they won't even collect as much. Further, the elderly (as a group) are the wealthiest segment of our society, so the scheme is already set to pay the rich. If it were really intended for the stated purposes, all of the above problems could be fixed with some simple corrections. Uncap the upper limit, put in a wealth/income test to collect, have a large deduction at the low end that does not pay, and just like property taxes at the local level have the rate variable to zero out every year. There is no need to run a deficit or surplus in Social Security, it's supposed to be a pay-as-you-go system. I wouldn't support even a corrected social security system, but I would at least believe them that it was intended for the stated purposes in that case.
I'm convinced the purpose of the actual Social Security system is to create a Congressional liquidity fund where they can get their hands on some unmarked bills that can be spent without either raising taxes or reporting large deficits. So, yeah, I argue that Social Security is bad. :-)
- January 30, 2009 at 2:52 AM
- Balthazar Oesterhoudt said...
Steve, I can tell simply by the volume of your response that I touched a nerve with this one! As usual, I must start by saying that my essays always make sacrifices in detail for easily understandable rhetoric (which is always simplistic). Here, my main goal was not to justify taxation or even to utterly reject tax cuts. Rather, I really wanted to criticize "talismanic" arguments. It just seems to me that Republicans take a categorical stance on this issue. They never list all the beneficial arguments about tax cuts (as you did...and they are compelling). Instead, they simply say: "Tax cut good; federal spending bad." I think that is funny. That is why I wrote about it. I do not know enough about economics to offer detailed solutions to our crisis. All I know is that I have a sense that people are fed up with Bush-era policies and want more government intervention. Even during the New Deal, plenty of people criticized interventionism. Yet history remembers the era for interventionism. However well-intentioned the conservative arguments may have been back then, they did not prevail. I think the same thing will happen under Obama. The New Deal is historically analogous to our situation.
Thanks for your detailed analysis. I think it is a good supplement to the article itself... which is admittedly more parts rabble-rousing than cogent economic policy. But I am just an agitator, nothing more.
- January 30, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Just to be clear - I engage in a bit of reverse satire by generally presenting my comments with a more serious nature than they deserve and than I actually intend. But I am having as much fun as you are.
It's tough work defending Republicans, because they may say tax cuts and reduce spending, but where is the reduced spending? At the time, President Clinton set records for the rapid rate of growth of the government. Those records were exceeded only by Bush (and probably will be exceeded yet again by Obama). Where is a Libertarian girl to turn?
So, when defending Republicans, I often end up defending some idealized Republican-like position that doesn't actually exist. Real-life politicians always seem to be ideologically confused, and most real Republicans could not actually explain what some undesirable characteristics of a tax might be - only that they are "bad."
- February 2, 2009 at 2:33 AM


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Hexham Market Place designs drawn up by Sustrans under an initiative supported by Hexham Town Council and Northumberland County Council will be displayed in Hexham this Saturday 24th and also on 1st July.
Hexham Civic Society has long campaigned for improvements to the Market Place although we recognise that finding a mutually agreeable solution is difficult, given the competing demands of parking, circulation, pedestrian use and
the role of the Market Place as a historic area in its own right and as the setting for our fabulous Hexham Abbey and other important listed and historic buildings.
With twelve initial ideas now whittled down to 4, residents, workers and visitors can now have further say.
The proposals range from renovating the existing space to pedestrianising the whole area.
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And, finally, the fourth suggestion fully pedestrianises the Market Place and surrounding streets, leaving the town centre free for use during public events, but maintaining access and loading arrangements for homes and businesses.
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