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Export-credit agencies are becoming fixtures in the global satellite market
The French export-credit agency Coface has long provided export financing in support of the French spacecraft manufacturing and launcher industries. But in recent years, the U.S. Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank has stepped up its game in the satellite telecom market as well.
An independent federal agency, the Ex-Im Bank provides government-backed loans and credit guarantees to help foreign buyers purchase U.S. goods and services. In 2001, it authorized $9.2 billion in financing to support U.S. exports, a figure that quadrupled to nearly $36 billion in 2012.
A decade ago, the handful of spacecraft projects backed with U.S. export financing were limited to sovereign transactions. Before the financial crisis of 2008, the bank supported only about one satellite deal every three or four years.
Since 2009, however, turmoil in the banking industry and fluctuating currency rates prompted satellite operators to favor export-credit institutions over commercial lenders for financing new projects. In response, over the past three years, the Ex-Im Bank has authorized more than $3.5 billion in satellite financing for U.S. manufacturers, including $517 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2013 alone.
"U.S.-manufactured satellites and satellite-related equipment are highly competitive internationally," says Marcia Wiss, a partner at Washington-based international law firm Hogan Lovells U.S. who advises export-credit agencies. "As more and more U.S. satellite manufacturers turned to the U.S. Ex-Im Bank for financing their exports, the agency decided it was worthwhile to set up a group within the structured finance department with specialized industry knowledge."
Even established operators not struggling for cash are availing themselves of this now common source of low-cost financing, notably mobile satellite services (MSS) provider Inmarsat of London and Luxembourg-based SES, the world's second-largest fleet operator by revenue.
As satellite operators increasingly seek export financing, however, critics argue that export-credit agencies are distorting the market. MSS providers Globalstar and Iridium are oft-cited examples, as both would have struggled to complete their second-generation constellations without a combined $1.85 billion in financing backed by Coface in 2010 and 2011. While export financing fuels capital investment in manufacturing, opponents say, it could lead to excess capacity in an MSS sector that includes Inmarsat and Abu Dhabi-based fleet operator Thuraya.
In the meantime, increasingly aggressive export financing on both sides of the Atlantic is prompting established and emerging fleet operators alike to pair U.S.-built satellite developments with launches on European Ariane 5 rockets. And Australian start-up operator NewSat just finalized more than $400 million in export-credit financing for its $661 million Jabiru-1 project, one of Australia's first privately owned commercial satellites (see related article, page 48).
NewSat Chief Executive Adrian Ballintine says satellite prime contractor Lockheed Martin Space Systems was instrumental in helping secure $268 million in Ex-Im Bank financing for construction of the nearly 6,000-kg (13,225-lb.) telecom satellite.
Another $116 million has been guaranteed by Coface with help from European launch services consortium Arianespace, which plans to loft Jabiru-1 on an Ariane 5 ECA heavy-lift rocket in 2015.
The Ex-Im Bank says the transaction will directly support 250 aerospace-sector jobs at Lockheed's manufacturing facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif., and Newtown, Pa., and is expected to indirectly support more than 650 jobs among the company's U.S. suppliers.
Wiss says the dramatic increase in U.S. Ex-Im Bank financing for satellites and satellite-related equipment fits nicely with President Barack Obama's mandate in 2010 to double exports from the U.S. to $2 trillion by 2015.
"U.S. Ex-Im Bank's availability of financing, when commercial bank financing is less available at competitive rates, has been attractive to the satellite industry," she says.


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Most cases of harassment against men go unreported, as men tend to enjoy it or do not feel comfortable informing the management about it. If they report it, company managers try to resolve the issue in-house. Men are also less likely than women to speak up about such cases for fear of being mocked by coworkers. Therefore, it is difficult for men to decide what steps to take if harassment happens.
Sexual harassment at the workplace is a serious issue that many companies deal with strictly. There are no statistics about the number of harassment cases filed against females, but many people interviewed believe it exists.
Hani Yousuf, a Saudi employee at an advertising agency, faced harassment from his female coworker.
"My Saudi female coworker followed me around the office. Sometimes, she came to my office and got really close to me, which made me feel uncomfortable. During break time, I avoided staying at the office and went out to smoke, just to be away from her," he said.
Yousuf repeatedly warned his coworker that such behavior was damaging both his and her reputation, but she did not care. He was too shy to report the matter to his boss.
When he told a friend at work about it, he answered that Yousuf should be happy. Three months ago, the woman was transferred to a new and better job, which was a relief for Yousuf.
"Why would I report the woman that harasses me at the workplace? People would find it funny, I guess," said a Saudi flight attendant, who refused to mention his name.
"She smiles more at me than at the passengers. I see the way she interacts with other male coworkers; around me, she is extremely friendly. It became so obvious that people around me started to talk about it. They think I am happy and enjoying it, but I am not," he added.
He tried to get rid of her by saying that he got engaged. He even wore a wedding ring, but it did not work.
Ahmed Badr, an Egyptian employee at a private company in Jeddah, faced harassment from one of his female coworkers. He did not report the case, because he feared that his colleagues would make fun of him.
"Although I do not have a clear definition of the term and what falls under harassment or normal behavior, I believe that I am being harassed. I receive phone calls from her all the time after work hours. At the workplace, she loves to sit next to me and talk about anything for hours. She even started to talk to her female coworkers about a possible chemistry between us," said Badr.
When Badr got engaged, he finally confronted her and threatened with legal action against her if she did not stop.
Commenting on the issue, Saudi lawyer Adel Al-Sagga said that harassment problems at the workplace were best resolved at management level. Such cases were considered scandalous if they reached police and would damage people's reputation.


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Roads to Yosemite to close temporarily, due to winter storm
The Tioga Road (Highway 120 east of the Crane Flat Gas Station), the Glacier Point Road, and the Mariposa Grove Road in Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closing Thursday, Nov. 3, at 8:00p.m. A winter weather advisory has been issued and will be in effect from 8:00 p.m. Thursday until 8:00 a.m. Friday morning. Up to seven inches of snow is expected above 6,000 feet in elevation.
All roads are expected to be reassessed for opening by midday Friday, Nov. 4.
The closure is not expected to impact the Wawona Road (Highway 41), the Big Oak Flat Road (Highway 120 west of the Crane Flat Gas Station), the El Portal Road (Highway 140), or roads within Yosemite Valley.
For updated 24-hour road and weather conditions for Yosemite National Park, please call 209-372-0200.


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October 4, 2012
The KARE Crisis Nursery is hosting its third annual KARE Affaire at 5 p.m. Oct. 6 at the 200-acre Rincon Del Rio Estate on the Bear River. It begins with appetizers and a hosted bar on the river patio followed by a catered dinner, including wines. The evening continues with desserts and a silent auction at the estate home, followed by the event highlight — a variety of our most colorful local citizens modeling elaborate handmade costumes, which will then be auctioned off. Dancing under the stars around the infinity pool culminates this amazing evening. The proceeds benefit KARE (Kid's Assistance and Respite in Emergencies) Crisis Nursery, a home where families under stress can bring their small children for respite or emergency child care when no other resources are available to them. The ticket price is $70 per person or $600 for a table of 10.
Visit http://www.karecrisisnursery.org for information or call (530) 265-0693 for reservations.
Nevada Union presents college and career night
Learn what students and parents need to know about planning for college and careers at 6 p.m. Oct. 9 at Nevada Union High School's Baggett Theatre. Information about scholarships, arts programs, college applications, military and academic programs and much more will be provided. Representatives from University of Nevada, Reno, University of Oregon, Stanford, Sierra Community College, Chico State University, UC Davis, Humboldt State University, Woolman Semester and others will be presenting.
For the complete schedule, visit http://www.njuhsd.com.
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As a LETU business student, you'll have the opportunity to join clubs and organizations like these to help you navigate the networking web (and have a stellar time doing it):
Sigma Beta Delta Honor Society is for students in business, management and administration. Wisdom, honor and the pursuit of meaningful aspirations are the principles on which the society has been founded. These qualities are of the utmost importance not only for success in the realm of professionalism but in one's personal life as well.
The society encourages its members to live lives distinguished by honorable service to humankind. In order to be eligible for membership, students must be an accounting or business major ranking in the top 20 percent of their class. This society is widely recognized, and membership can be a beneficial asset for students when entering the workplace.
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Talk:Convert your PPC LinkStation into a full-blown Debian system
Why fix_ext2_magic? Is it really necessary?
buffalo invented a way to secure the first partition of the hdd /dev/hda1 by changing the magic_number in the ext_filesystem to something unnatural (all linkstations and i think all terastations, kuroboxes do not have this problem of course). in reality the magic_number is a completely normal one, but because of this change you cannot mount the partition on a desktop. the fix_ext2_magic-app fixes this and afterwards you can mount the partition as normal. In fact i did yesterday after i deleted some stuff as root which made my LS unbootable. before running fix_ext2_magic there was no chance to mount it, afterwards it was working as normal. so the answer is: yes, it is necessary.Mindbender 03:16, 11 July 2006 (EDT)


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Jessica Biel Will Face Off Against Jess in the New Girl Season Premiere
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jessica Biel will guest star in the season premiere of New Girl as the so-called "hottest scientist in the world," who ends up competing with Jess for the attentions of an attractive male guest at a wedding. It's not clear which Jess will be victorious, though Biel does have the advantage of science on her side. Adorkability isn't technically a science, right?


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Clash of Giants contains two separate games (both using the same basic system) covering the two most famous battles of the opening phase of the First World War. Tannenberg was the German victory that halted a Russian offensive into East Prussia and destroyed the Russian 2nd Army. The Marne was the climactic battle of Germany's attempt to defeat France in the war's first six weeks. Arguably a tactical draw, it was a strategic defeat for the Germans as their armies recoiled from the gates of Paris.
Designed by eight-time Charles S. Roberts award winner Ted S. Raicer (whose most recent game was GMT's Paths of Glory), and developed by Krieg designer Steve Kosakowski, the Clash of Giants system is intended to emphasize playability while still providing players with proper historical feel. The games focus on the difficulty of commanding groups of armies, with a system where movement allowance for each army is separately determined by a command roll.
Clash of Giants includes the standard and exclusive rules (including rules for Paris Taxis at the Marne and Geman wireless intercepts at Tannenberg), two full size large-hex maps, two player aid cards, and 264 large counters. Units are divisions and brigades.
Simple but not simplistic, Clash of Giants has a unique combat system based more on a unit's training, equipment, and morale than numbers. In Tannenberg, the victory conditions force both sides to take risks - and the German player will have to use every advantage to avoid being crushed by superior Russian numbers. At the Marne, the Allied player will first have to successfully disengage and rally his French and British armies, before turning to deliver a powerful counterattack. (But don't forget that the Germans can win instantly if they take Paris!)
The two battles in Clash of Giants are similar in size and complexity to GMT's Saratoga and Brandywine games on the American Revolution. Both are good for solo or competitive play. The Marne (which contains an Allied Counterattack scenario in addition to the full campaign) can be played in an afternoon. Tannenberg can be completed in a couple of hours, making it the perfect game when time is short.
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Watching today's game, I'm brought back to 2011/12. The Toronto Marlies opened thier season with one of the most repetative Octobers that professional hockey has ever seen. Most apparent? Five games against the Lake Erie Monsters. In a month. It formed enough hate that now-Avs grinder Patrick Bordeleau decided that his anger was best placed on Matt Lashoff's knees. Thankfully for the sake of the fans, teams, and body parts, the two teams don't see each other again for another month.
Today featured both teams in a bit of a tired state. Lineups stayed similar to to previous games for both teams, and each was on a consecutive night. Toronto of course won their home opener in the same building yesterday; Lake Erie came in for their third straight game after playing a pair against the Abbotsford Heat in Cleveland on Friday and Saturday. Both teams even ran with yesterday's goaltenders, so it became a battle of skill rather than energy. The end result? The Marlies improved to 2-0-0 with a 5-1 win.
The first period lacked two things. The first was scoring, with none of the combined 17 shots beating Drew MacIntyre or Calvin Pickard. The second thing? Late period discipline. Probably a example of the schedules getting to the players already, both teams combined for five separate minor penalties in the span of six minutes.
The scoreboard got a bit more usage in the second period. While on the penalty kill, the Marlies gained offensive control, and Trevor Smith's attempt turned into Tyler Biggs' reward, as he rebounded in his first of the season. The lead wasn't everlasting, however. As Brad Ross sat int he box for a goaltender inteference call, Mark Olver earned himself a breakaway. He lost control, but an unexpectant MacIntyre let it squeak through his five-hole. Not to be outdone though, the Marlies came back with a powerplay goal of their own. Trevor Smith kicked a puck down to his stick and chipped a knuckler past Pickard to leave Toronto ahead after two.
Trevor Smith wasted no time in the third period . Just a minute and a half in, he took in a Spencer Abbott pass to extend the lead to 3-1. From that point on, the pace slowed to a crawl, before the Monsters pulled their goalie with three minutes to go. T.J. Brennan capitalized on the opportunity and scored his 4th of the year with a little over two minutes left, and Greg McKegg followed with his own empty netter to secure the final score.
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DescriptionThe cave salamander is a rare amphibian with an unusual appearance, shaped by several million years of living in dark, subterranean caves in central Europe (2). Its skin lacks pigment, giving its body a white, pasty appearance. It also has a pink hue due to blood capillaries near the skin, and as its translucency shows the contours of the internal organs. This strange fleshy skin led to this species' common name, the human fish, as people thought this bizarre amphibian resembled a small human (3). This cave dwelling amphibian's four limbs are short and feeble, and its eyes are so poorly developed that it is blind (2). Its head is elongated with a round snout, and on each side of the head there are three distinctive scarlet gill tufts that are used in respiration, although adults develop lungs as well (2). Males are smaller than females, and can be distinguished from females during breeding season by their larger cloaca (3).


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Author Notes: I started making this recipe when my corn loving son's two fron teeth were loose so he could no longer eat it on the cob. He finally lost the teeth, but we are still eating this salad. - rebsilver —rebsilver
Food52 Review: Rebsilver's salad is so simple, only a few ingredients all brought together with a delicious vinaigrette. The grilled corn with avocado and queso fresco are a perfect match and when lightly tossed with the lime vinaigrette this salad really comes to life. Crunchy, sweet, creamy and oh-so-delicious. It works well as a side or on its own (It was my dinner last night). I made one change in the vinaigrette, using the juice of two limes instead of one, I felt that it needed the extra citrus to balance the amount of olive oil in the dressing. Rebsilver really delivered a stellar recipe and I highly recommend you try it -- I know I will be making it over and over again. —sdebrango
Serves: 6
ears of corn
firm/ripe avocado
cup cilantro leaves
cup queso fresco
lime. juiced
teaspoon honey
cup olive oil
salt and pepper
- Grill the ears of corn until nicely charred. Once the corn has cooled slightly remove the kernels from the cob and set aside.
- Prepare the vinaigrette. In a small bowl whisk together the lime juice, honey and olive oil. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Cut the avocado into wedges. Drizzle with a small amount of the prepared vinaigrette. Set aside.
- Assemble the salad. Put the grilled corn on a platter. Nestle the avocado in and around the corn. Drizzle with lime vinaigrette. Sprinkle the queso fresco and cilantro on top. Finish with a good pinch of salt.
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HIST 381 (TH) History of Modern Japan (1)
This course examines the history of modern Japan from the late Tokugawa period (1800) through the Meiji Restoration (1868) and Japan's first industrial revolution, the rise of militarism and the road to Pearl Harbor, and Japan's remarkable growth and development in the postwar era. The emphasis will be on coming to terms with the nature and process of change in Japan's modern historical experience.
- General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Thinking Historically
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I dunno Mark. I think you shoulda gotten some wheels with more chrome, ya know? Then you'd be a real playa!
The only things that aren't chrome are the rivets...
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That show "PIMP MY RIDE" is SSSSOOOOOOOO Stupid!They should change the name to "I need to be kicked in the head"
Mark, I'm so disappointed that you didn't actually buy those dope ass wheels. I think we still need to turn on the bling on your ride though. So, how about I come over this weekend with some metal-flake purple paint and "pimp your ride"? I've been watching that show of the same name on MTV, so I've got some good ideas. Like maybe a fish tank in the back with some piranha? Or maybe an 8mm movie projector so wherever you go, it's like you're at the drive-in?I'll bring the paint and a roller, how's 9am tomorrow work for ya?


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Get help with online job searching Nov 17
Job searching these days can create a difficult Catch 22: Many employers only list and accept applications online, but many job seekers are without a home computer or even computer skills.
That's where the library's Job Smart U comes in. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, November 17, Online Job Searching, will be offered in the McLane Room in the library's lower level.
Presenter Linda Sarauer will cover many aspects of online job searching, such as where to look, filling out applications, how to research a company and how to respond to sensitive questions. Sarauer is an employment counselor and career advisor with the Job Center of Wisconsin in Fond du Lac.
Attendance is limited to 12 persons using library computers, and registration is required for these 12 spots. There also will be room for persons bringing their own laptops. Light refreshments will be provided.
To register, visit www.fdlpl.org/Calendar, call the Reference Desk, (920) 929-7080, ext. 118, or email [email protected].


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To be awarded the degree of Bachelor of Music with joint major in Performance and Theory and Composition, a candidate shall comply with the School's regulations, and successfully complete a minimum of 126 credit hours, including 53 credit hours in the Core Program. The remaining 73 credit hours will be chosen as follows:
Music 3100, 3104, 3105, 3112, and one of Music 3106 or 3108.
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The Guide is designed to help you evaluate your facility signage and assist in making your facility safe and OSHA compliant.
Portland, OR (PRWEB) November 01, 2011
Graphic Products, Inc., the world's leading safety and industrial label printer manufacturer and supplier, has released the colorful, 20-page Best Practice Guide To OSHA Safety Signs to help facility safety managers understand the importance of safety signs in eliminating injuries and fatalities in the workplace.
Every day workers risk machines squeezing, pinching and crushing body parts; falls occurring from roofs and ladders at great heights; being hit by moving objects and excessive noise causing hearing loss. Motor vehicles are injuring and killing workers on the job. Even slips and trips on flat surfaces may be fatal to workers. The list of work-related injuries is long and frightening.
OSHA is tasked with doing everything in its power to prevent these incidents from occurring including specifying safety signs and labels.
The Guide is designed to help you evaluate your facility signage and assist in making your facility safe and OSHA compliant. In addition to OSHA requirements you'll learn about ANSI Z535 Safety Alerting Standards, which govern the design of safety sign design.
The Guide covers the following topics:
- The importance of safety signs
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- Sign classifications such as primary hazard classifications, secondary hazard classifications, non-hazard signs and discontinued headers
- Creating your own safety signs with appropriate colors, style and text
- Sign and label maintenance
- Tools and supplies
- Facility evaluation guide
OSHA is not necessarily breathing down the neck of industry, as some fear. With only about 2,400 OSHA inspectors inspecting the more than 111 million US workplaces, that would be a monumental, if not impossible, task. Knowing OSHA inspections are rare for most companies should never diminish a facility's responsibility to provide a safe workplace and that responsibility includes the use of OSHA compliant signs and labels throughout a facility.
OSHA tracks facilities and serious injuries from many trades. Based on this data, if a notable industry has high risk jobs that get cited every year, they will focus inspections on these injuries.
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THE TRAINING BEGAN when the boy was just 9. His father, a Polaroid executive who prized precision, would tell the boy: Go to the encyclopedia, choose a topic, and then give me a one-minute speech about it. The boy would do as he was told. When he was ready, he would stand in the living room, planting himself between the fireplace and his father's wing chair, and deliver his speech for an audience of one. When the boy was finished, his father's response would always be the same. Do it again.
So young Grover Norquist would do as he was told. Again. Again. Again.
Fifteen times the boy would repeat this exercise, honing his message a bit more and referring to his index card of notes a bit less with each run-through. Only after the 15th attempt would the father begin to offer his firstborn son detailed critiques.
As the night wore on, the boy's mother would charge into the living room, complaining: "Enough! This is child abuse! It's time for him to go to bed."
Her husband would wave her off, and she wouldn't protest too much. Although she wanted Grover to get his sleep, like her husband she tended to view her children as budding adults who should be challenged, not delicate creatures who should be coddled.
With that, the training regimen would resume. Again. And this time make eye contact. And use your hands to emphasize the point.
In time, the boy could claim a supreme confidence in public speaking that matched the confidence he felt in his own intellect and his emerging view of the world. Compared with his grade school classmates, who sweated and stammered and fumbled through their class presentations, young Grover was an outlier of Gladwellian proportions. After he delivered one flawless talk, his teacher approached him to inspect the index card he was clutching, perhaps expecting to find the full text of the speech somehow crammed onto the card. She was stunned to find it was blank. He had held it just for show. After all that practice in front of his father, notes were no longer necessary.
Still, elementary school offers only so many opportunities for public speaking. So Grover remained on the hunt for others.
He loved nothing better than to leave his home in the affluent west-of-Boston community of Weston and start walking, along the hilly block of handsome houses, through the woods dense with vines and thick with pines, and finally up a rocky ledge. There, the precocious boy who had so much to say would find a receptive audience, and one that couldn't fit into a single wing chair. The ledge led to a cliff overlooking a pig farm, which sat just over the town line in Waltham. Grover learned that simply by standing on the cliff and speaking clearly and confidently, he would attract the notice of the pigs that were fenced in on a muddy, rooted-up plateau 30 feet below him. So he would give speeches of all types. As the words left his lips, 40 or so of the swine would give him their rapt attention. "They'd come listen to you," he recalls. "I liked that."
This desire to be listened to would remain undiminished as that boy grew into a Harvard student and then into a sharp-elbowed Washington activist and lobbyist. Over the years, he has refined his speeches and toughened his attacks, but the substance of his message has not changed across more than three decades. It's the same message that first gestated in his mind when his parents would take him and his younger siblings for ice cream after church on Sundays and his dad would confiscate large bites out of each of their cones, explaining, "This is income tax" or "This is property tax." And it's the same message that came into clearer focus when Grover was at Weston High School in the early 1970s and read with admiration about a colorful New Hampshire politician named Meldrim Thomson, who rode an "Ax the Tax" campaign of bumper sticker simplicity straight into the governor's office.
Through the decades, as president of the advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), Grover Norquist made his case against taxes to anybody who would listen. With his willingness to spend liberally to support politicians who backed his views, and even more liberally to punish those who didn't, he became a player in Washington, admired by some and loathed by others. Yet outside the Beltway, he remained largely unknown. Until last year.
As bipartisan attempts to confront the government's yawning deficit broke down, one after the other, from the Bowles-Simpson debt reduction commission's recommendations to the "grand bargain" negotiations between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, to the debt-ceiling brinksmanship, to the congressional supercommittee charged with making the excruciating decisions the full Congress had dodged, 55-year-old Grover Norquist somehow became the face of the crisis. That's because whenever someone floated a compromise involving any tax increases, even in exchange for far deeper spending cuts, Norquist was there to remind Republican lawmakers that their answer had to be no.
The Senate majority leader, Democrat Harry Reid, complained publicly that Republicans were being "led like puppets by Grover Norquist." Senator John Kerry blasted his Republican counterparts on the supercommittee for allowing the unelected, unappointed Norquist to function like their leader, and he told me that he repeatedly heard Republicans on the panel talking about how they needed to "check with Grover" for his Solomonic ruling on whether he would sanction or reject various proposed tax code changes. But criticism came from Republicans as well. Boehner, trying to beat back the suggestion that Norquist's power had eclipsed his own, referred to him as "some random person in America," a curious phrase that seemed only to suggest the House speaker viewed him as anything but that. And Alan Simpson, a Republican former senator who cochaired the bipartisan debt commission that bore his name, called Norquist a "zealot" who had somehow become "the most powerful man in America."
NORQUIST'S MEANS OF ASCENT was something he calls the Taxpayer Protection Pledge but which everyone else in Washington calls simply "the pledge." By signing it, politicians commit to: "ONE, oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses; and, TWO, oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates."
Norquist devised the pledge in the summer of 1986, the year after aides to President Reagan tapped him to start Americans for Tax Reform. The nonprofit advocacy group was formed to seed support for Reagan's massive overhaul of the federal tax code, which closed loopholes and lowered the top individual tax rate from 50 percent to 28 percent. Once the overhaul passed, Norquist saw the pledge as a way to prevent congressional backsliding on taxes. Signing it would be particularly valuable to little-known candidates looking to advertise their fiscal conservatism. And if they won, their signed pledges would be extremely useful for Norquist in reminding them of their commitments, should they ever entertain second thoughts.
Norquist was just 29 at the time, though he had already run a similar group called the National Taxpayers Union before returning to Harvard for business school and working in the trenches for Reagan's election. Like many prominent Republicans these days, Norquist plays up his personal connections to Reagan and downplays those areas where Reagan departed from the contemporary GOP's Rushmore-ready biography of him. Norquist keeps a large bust of the Gipper in his office, and ATR literature stresses how he started the organization at the personal request of Reagan. But when pressed, Norquist concedes his dealings with Reagan were limited, and he doesn't talk much about the 11 tax hikes the Gipper signed into law during his occupancy of the Oval Office.
In 1986, after the dust had settled on that first midterm election of the pledge's existence, Norquist could count 100 congressmen and 20 senators who had signed. The pledge faced its biggest test six years later when President George H.W. Bush, who had signed it during the 1988 presidential campaign, ran for reelection after having broken his ATR pledge and, more memorably, his "read my lips" vow. Norquist, the definition of a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, was pleased when Bill Clinton ousted the elder Bush. It proved there were consequences for breaking the pledge.
But as long as politicians fall into line and sign the pledge, Norquist holds no grudges. After Bush's son signed it in the 2000 campaign, Norquist threw his support behind George W. Following Bush's win, Norquist enjoyed the most robust access to power of his life, conferring regularly with the president's chief strategist, Karl Rove, and becoming a frequent behind-the-scenes visitor to the White House and a public defender for administration policies. From the younger Bush, Norquist got what he was looking for: huge, sweeping tax cuts, including an end to the estate tax.
Yet for someone who had always presented the tax pledge as one part of a two-pronged formula for reducing the size of government, Norquist found some complications from his close association with Bush. The size of the federal government and debt both grew dramatically during his presidency. The administration pushed through the costly new Medicare prescription drug benefit, which went so far as to forbid the government from negotiating better prices with pharmaceutical companies. That law prompted some longtime conservatives to break with Bush, notably supply-side economist Bruce Bartlett, a former official in the Reagan and elder Bush administrations. Norquist, however, remained firmly in the George W. Bush camp.
During a recent interview in his Washington office, when I ask Norquist to explain how the president he had so enthusiastically supported had turned out to be a big-government guy, he points the blame elsewhere. Responsibility, Norquist contends, lies with Congress during the early and late parts of the Bush presidency, when Democrats controlled one or both houses, as opposed to the middle period, when Republicans controlled everything. "You had bad, good, bad — driven by Congress, same idiot president — spending too much."
The idea that Norquist, an ardent backer of George W. Bush, might now casually dismiss the man seems so shocking that I worry I might have misheard him. So I ask, "Did you just say 'same idiot president'?"
Norquist flashes one of the knowing grins he regularly deploys during his cable TV appearances. "I overspeak," he says. "He isn't what changed. Who runs Congress — that changed."
"But weren't you over at the White House all the time, advising them?" I ask.
"Oh, yeah," Norquist agrees. "That doesn't mean they took my advice on spending. They clearly didn't."
At the time of its passage, ATR took no official position on the prescription drug bill, although just days before the House approved it, Norquist told the National Journal he was inclined to support the measure "if it's structured as it's explained to me."
For the record, Bush's prescription drug benefit — estimated at the time to cost up to $2 trillion over 20 years — passed in 2003, during the first year of the period Norquist calls the "good" Congress, when Republicans controlled everything.
Following our lengthy discussion about runaway spending under Bush, Norquist stresses that ATR's "ultimate goal is to reduce the size and scope and cost of government as a percentage of the economy, so we want to spend less and not raise taxes."
"So," I ask, "that has been a complete failure, right?"
"No," Norquist replies and begins to speak extra slowly. "The line in the sand on taxes has been very successful."
At my urging, Norquist checked with his accountant to determine what his tax rate was, based on his $200,000 salary and other income, minus deductions. For his 2010 return, his marginal tax rate was 25 percent and his effective tax rate — the amount he paid in taxes as a percentage of his taxable income — was just above 15 percent.
Through the years, Norquist has spoken often about the need to starve the Washington beast. His comment about shrinking government to the point "where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" has become a fixture on the Grover highlight reel. Yet he has traditionally focused his fight much more on keeping taxes down. In that way, he heeded the "Two Santa Claus Theory" advanced in 1976 by the conservative writer and thinker Jude Wanniski. The Democratic Party was best suited to be the "Spending Santa Claus," Wanniski argued, and the Republican Party would fare much better at the polls if it avoided being viewed as a Scrooge obsessed with cutting spending in order to balance the budget. Instead of being painted as a taker, Wanniski stressed, the GOP should re-brand itself as a different kind of giver, as the "Santa Claus of Tax Reduction." (Norquist says he had a similar branding idea years earlier, when he was in the seventh grade.)
Wanniski's advice took hold with Republicans, helping fuel their rise to national dominance. But things changed with the 2008 financial crisis and the enormously unpopular government bailouts that came in its wake. With the emergence of the Tea Party, there was suddenly a political potency in being seen as a government slasher — in deed rather than just in name.
What is remarkable about Norquist is his ability to adapt to changing conditions without altering his central message. While many of the bright lights on the right from the 1970s and '80s have long since passed or faded to black, Norquist, simply by shifting his emphasis, was able to position himself perfectly to tap into the Tea Party foment. He emerged more relevant and powerful than ever.
Norquist's group spent nearly $8 million to help influence the 2010 midterm election. It was money well spent. The election broomed out moderates and swelled the ranks of Norquist allies in Congress to 238 pledge-signers in the House and 41 in the Senate. That means a stunning 97.5 percent of the current Republican members of Congress (including the House speaker) and 85 percent of Republican senators (including the minority leader) have signed on to Norquist's no-tax-increase pledge. Add to that tally 13 Republican governors, nearly 1,300 state legislators, and all four remaining GOP presidential candidates. Regardless of what you think of Norquist's politics or his priorities, from a purely tactical perspective, his performance has been brilliant.
What's more, the 2010 election infused the pledge with new power that went beyond the increased congressional head count. "For many years, the pledge was just something you signed and you didn't really give a crap about it," says Bartlett, author of a new book on tax reform titled The Benefit and the Burden. "Now, all of a sudden, Grover was this guy in Washington with an army of people who were looking to him for leadership."
When the Tea Party revolutionaries arrived seeking Norquist's direction, Republican incumbents began paying him a lot more attention for fear that if they didn't, they would find a Tea Party challenger waiting for them in the next primary. That, Bartlett says, explains how Norquist, with his virtual veto power over whatever tax code proposals get circulated in Washington, has become for the Republican caucus the equivalent of "an old Roman emperor, turning thumbs up or thumbs down."
As with any emperor of note, the chatter about him has now turned to how long his reign might last.
EMPEROR GROVER rules not with sword but with Sharpie.
On nearly every Wednesday morning since 1993, Norquist has presided over a confab of conservatives who gather in his downtown Washington office to trade notes and coordinate strategy. Anyone who's seen Norquist dominate the discussion during his cable TV appearances might expect him to turn this weekly forum into a one-man act. Yet he keeps the spotlight on the other speakers, taking seriously his job as moderator and time cop. He insists on a brisk pace, keeping speakers to three minutes and reining in those who might be tempted to bloviate. He twirls his marker like a TV stage manager motioning a wrap-up and, if necessary, will bark, "You've got 30 seconds!" He injects one-liners into the discussion with a comedic timing he has sharpened in his extracurricular work as a stand-up comic.
He calls his movement the "center-right coalition," though representatives of the center seem to be decidedly less visible and vocal than those from the right. Nonetheless, Norquist has been remarkably successful in attracting people with diametrically opposed positions on one issue or another and getting them to work together by focusing on the one thing on which they can agree, namely that life would be better if taxes were lower and the government were less intrusive. So his meetings attract Republicans who are prochoice and antiabortion, gay and straight, Jew and Muslim. Extending his big-tent approach, Norquist has served on the board of the National Rifle Association and the advisory council of the gay Republican group GOProud. Still, he has his limits. Although he can count a few Democrats among his pledge-signers, he leaves no doubt that he is playing for the GOP team, referring to "R's" and "D's" in the context of "us vs. them."
During a Wednesday Meeting in late January, I watch as Norquist takes his post at the head of a conference table while more than 100 people fill the seats around him or stand at the edges of the large room, holding their overcoats folded over their arms. There is one silver-haired guy wearing a 10-gallon cowboy hat and a few older women dressed up in their Talbots best, but otherwise middle-age white guys in navy suits dominate the crowd. Norquist has taken off his own navy suit coat and conducts the meeting in his powder-blue shirt sleeves. As he speaks, a fleet of interns distributes a seemingly endless stream of handouts promoting a pet cause of one attendee or another.
In appearance, Norquist could easily pass for one of those emperors you see playing the supporting role in a swords-and-sandals flick. He is not tall — 5 foot 7 — and he appears well fed without being overweight. He looks younger than his 55 years, though his reddish-brown hair is thinning and his closely cropped beard is threaded with gray. Despite his polished public speaking skills, his voice is light and a bit thin, friendly, not intimidating.
Channeling his father, he has carefully studied the dynamics of the meeting, tweaking it to maximize efficiency. He has the interns float around the room with microphones, and the sound system is piped outside the room, so that all audience questions can be heard without requiring Norquist to police the many side conversations taking place. He sees those side conservations as evidence that genuine networking is taking place, which, after all, is the whole point of the gathering. (The meeting is considered off the record except for those speakers, like those quoted here, who consent to having their comments used.)
The Wednesday Meeting often attracts eager new Republican candidates passing through Washington, and on this day there are two congressional hopefuls in the crowd. New Mexico's Gary Smith stands up and announces: "I did sign the pledge this morning. I wish I could have signed it three times."
"Once is enough," Norquist cracks.
After a lively debate about the Internet anti-piracy legislation known as SOPA, the meeting concludes with a presentation by pollster Scott Rasmussen, who hammers home the point about voters' worries over government spending and still-simmering anger over the bailouts. The big expenses that have to be tackled, he argues, are national security and the entitlements. "When was the last time spending went down in America? 1954," he says. "The last time it grew slower than the rate of inflation? 1965."
Throughout the 90-minute meeting, Norquist peppers his comments with non-threatening throat-clearers like "thank you" and "okaaaay." One of his favorite words is "cheerfully." After someone mentions that Pennsylvanian Todd Platts, one of six House Republicans who refused to sign the pledge, will not be seeking re-election, Norquist smiles. "We will cheerfully replace him with someone more cooperative," he says. Lest anyone doubt his seriousness, Norquist's office hallway features a gallery of framed "LEAST WANTED" campaign posters, ads he ran against politicians who broke their commitment not to vote for tax increases. He says he plans to raise and spend $10 million this year to help get more of his team elected.
When I reach Platts later, the six-term congressman stresses he is an upstanding Republican who voted against the stimulus package and in favor of the entitlement-cutting budget crafted by Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan. "I'm not champing at the bit to raise taxes," Platts says. "We're spending too much." Still, he's always felt signing Norquist's pledge would be irresponsible. "I'm not going to lock myself into a position that is randomly made as opposed to what the facts are going to be a year from now."
Then Platts tells me he decided on his own not to seek reelection and acknowledges the chances are good that he will be replaced by a pledge-signer.
IF NORQUIST HAS NO TROUBLE playing hardball with politicians who defy him and keeping his thumb turned down at any hint of a tax hike, there is at least one area where his steely spine goes a little soft. As a dad.
"He can't say no," says his wife, Samah Norquist. "I'm always the bad cop."
She stresses that Grover is a wonderfully engaged father to their two daughters, Grace, who just turned 4, and Giselle, who will turn 3 next month. "But he can't discipline." (The girls' closeness in age wasn't exactly planned. Not long after the couple adopted Grace as a baby from Bethlehem, they learned Samah was pregnant with Giselle.)
She recalls how they were shopping once in CVS when Grace found a toy she liked and asked whether she could get it. Samah said no — their daughter needed to understand limits — but Grover decided it would soften the blow to let her carry it just while they shopped. Samah predicted that approach wouldn't end well. Sure enough, at the checkout, she looked over and saw Grover struggling to persuade Grace to relinquish the toy and Grace steadfastly refusing. Watching her husband try to reason with a strong-willed 2-year-old, Samah couldn't help but roll her eyes. Then, when she looked at his, she ached for him. "I see," she recalls, "that he has tears coming down his face."
Norquist, it turns out, is a very sensitive guy. Samah says it doesn't take much for him to tear up, and I see that for myself. At one point as I am interviewing them together, she is describing a time when Grover warmly allowed Grace to sit on his lap during one of the Wednesday Meetings. It's a cute though not particularly emotional anecdote. But as I turn to Grover, I see his face reddening, his eyes closing behind his small rectangular glasses, and then tears begin to streak down his cheek.
Later, after he's left the room, Samah mentions that Grover was equally emotional when he proposed to her. It was June 2004, and they'd been dating for about a year. They made for a surprising pair, because Samah is his junior by 16 years and exudes a certain international style and elegance, calling to mind a more youthful Arianna Huffington. After dinner, she was driving him to his home on Capitol Hill. As they approached the Taft Memorial, a handsome 100-foot marble tower behind a bronze statue of the late senator Robert Taft, Norquist suddenly asked her to pull over. "Let's go for a walk," he said.
"Now, Grover?"
When they made it to a bench near the memorial, she could see him beginning to choke up. As he began talking about how much she meant to him, she saw his eyes welling up.
"Grover," she said finally, "are you asking me to marry you?"
"Yes!" he said.
So she said yes, too.
I ask her why he chose to propose at the Taft Memorial.
"He's a Taft admirer," she says, referring to the New Deal-fighting senator who lost the battle to the centrist Dwight Eisenhower for control of the GOP.
"Are you?" I ask.
"No, it wasn't a special place to me."
The choice, she says, reveals her husband's inner wonk, which she traces back to those speeches he made as a kid to the pigs. "He's a nerd," she says.
Actually, it might even be traced all the way back to his birth. His mother explains that she named her firstborn after her father, Grover Floyd Lutz, a man who changed his own middle name to Cleveland, as in the president. If you think back to seventh-grade history, you'll probably remember that Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms. You might even remember that he was a Democrat. That, of course, begs the question: Could Grover Norquist really be named after a Democrat?
But if you're a true student of history, like Norquist, you'll remember much more about Cleveland, including his views on monetary policy. "He was a gold standard Democrat," Norquist says. "He was a good Democrat."
After Samah had agreed to marry Norquist, she wanted to make sure he knew what he was getting into. This, after all, was 2004, less than three years after the 9/11 attacks, and people of her heritage were contending with heavy political baggage.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" she asked. "This could be a problem for you, since I'm a Muslim Arab."
"Yes," he told her. "I love you."
Norquist had been working to attract Muslim Americans to the GOP for years before he met Samah. In fact, they connected when she began attending the Wednesday Meeting while working for a conservative Muslim organization. Still, she knew some on the right were far less welcoming than Norquist of Arab Muslims into the GOP and would probably hold it against such a prominent conservative leader for marrying one.
In the early years after their wedding — which was attended by Newt Gingrich, among others — Samah would occasionally see puzzled looks cross people's faces when they met her for the first time. "Oh, you're Grover's wife?" they would ask.
"What did you expect," Samah would wonder, "that you were going to see me in a burqa?"
Samah is a Palestinian-American who comes to her political conservatism by way of her life experience. She spent her early years in Kuwait, where she learned to distrust governments that try to "shove things down your throats." Her family fled around the time of the invasion by Iraq, when Samah was 17. They ended up, coincidentally, in Weston, although they never crossed paths with the Norquists. Not long after that, her father, a physician, died suddenly. He had worked hard to provide for his wife and Samah and her two younger sisters. But because he had died without a will, what followed was a stressful, costly probate period during which Samah's mother struggled to gain access to the family funds. Norquist often talks about how a central bond of his coalition is its belief that the government should "leave us alone," and the unsettling probate experience was enough to make Samah a charter member. (Leave Us Alone is the title of Norquist's 2008 book; his new one, a critique of Obama policies, is called Debacle.)
Norquist's process for choosing a wife was considerably different from the one his father, Warren, employed. During his junior year at the University of Michigan, Warren set about to find a mate from a yearbook photo of the school's top 40 female academic performers. When first-on-the-list Carol Lutz came to the sorority house phone, he began asking her his prepared questions. He had a mental list of 36 qualities he wanted in a wife, including that she be blond, blue-eyed, and Republican. After just this first conversation, he was able to make 15 check marks on his list. They were married the day after they graduated.
After Grover, they had a daughter and two more sons. The youngest, David, says Grover is a perfect blend of their parents, who are both charmingly quirky. He has his father's facility with systems and gift for innovation. (As vice president of purchasing for Polaroid, Warren pioneered an influential approach called zero-base pricing.) And he has his mother's curiosity and eagerness for engaging all kinds of people. (Although she and Warren were always Cold War hardliners, she exposed young Grover to both Mao's Little Red Book and Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.)
Grover shares another trait with his father. Sitting in the cream-colored living room of their Weston home, as we discuss all the public speaking drills he put Grover through, 80-year-old Warren mentions that he just did the same with one of his older granddaughters with similar success. Before he can finish the story, I notice that familiar pattern of face reddening and tears forming. I turn to 79-year-old Carol, who keeps her silver hair pulled back with a ribbon, and mention that I had seen a similar display from their oldest son. "Grover gets that from his father," she says. "I don't cry."
ON THE SECONDFRIDAY morning of February, they file into the auditorium of a gray office building off Interstate 95 in Lexington. There are about 60 men and women, almost all of them either middle-age or in their sunset years. This is Grover's gang in Massachusetts.
Norquist says half his focus is working to prevent tax hikes in legislatures across the nation. As he has worked to replicate versions of his Wednesday Meeting in every state of the country, Norquist has often cited this monthly Friday Morning Group in Massachusetts as both carrot and stick. When a conservative organizer in some red state complains about the difficulty of attracting a good turnout of anti-tax foot soldiers, Norquist will smile and say, "They're getting 50, 60 people to the meeting in Massachusetts!"
The Grover equivalent as moderator and time cop for this conservative confab is Chip Faulkner, an easygoing 66-year-old whose roots in the anti-tax movement run as deep as Norquist's. In 1979, shortly after Norquist had catapulted himself into running the National Taxpayer Union when the ink on his Harvard diploma was barely dry, Faulker applied for a staff position with the new Massachusetts group Citizens for Limited Taxation. Two people interviewed him for the job. One of them was the head of CLT. The other was Norquist, who had used a half-million-dollar donation from one of the industrialist Koch brothers to support anti-tax advocacy groups in states across the country. Faulkner got the job, with Norquist directing some of David Koch's donation to help CLT cover the $175 weekly salary.
Ten years ago, Norquist urged Faulkner to begin holding a monthly meeting in Massachusetts, part of his plan to strengthen his state-level reach. Faulkner resisted, unsure of who would come. But ultimately Norquist wore him down. "He's very persistent," Faulkner says. The first meeting was held in the conference room of a Ford dealership in Needham. Nine people showed up. Last year, Faulker's meetings attracted an average of 53 people.
The monthly gathering in Lexington unfolds much like the Wednesday Meeting in Washington, except it's a far more casual affair. Instead of bagels, Honey Dew doughnuts are served. While the heavyset Faulkner wears a tie and a blazer with khakis, there are lots of jeans and sweaters in the crowd. One exception is Norquist's representative from Washington, a stiff young man with trendy eyeglasses, an extra-slim wool suit, and a pocket square.
An older Westborough activist named Len Mead sits in front. He wears a tricorn hat that bears a sign reading: T.E.A. (Taxed Enough Already). When I ask him why he attends these meetings, he smiles and says, "For therapy."
"If you're a conservative in Massachusetts, you've been beaten down," he says. "Grover comes up here and can't believe how many we have. I think it's because we've been so pounded here." According to an ATR map showing attendance figures for recent meetings in 48 states — Norquist's group has been unable to gin up meetings in either South Carolina or South Dakota — Massachusetts's numbers dwarf those from places like live-free-or-die New Hampshire (which attracted 11 people) or North Dakota (just eight).
In the back row sits Barbara Anderson, Norquist's white-haired Bay State counterpart as the face of the anti-tax movement. "As bad as things are, without Grover things would be worse," she says, crediting him with keeping "taxpayer activists from feeling alone and helpless."
Jon Golnik, a Republican pledge-signer who was unsuccessful in his 2010 bid to unseat Democratic congresswoman Niki Tsongas, tells the crowd he's running again and rails at the out-of-control spending of the Obama administration. He rattles off a host of statistics about the implications of the national debt that are so sobering they might give even a Keynesian pause.
When Golnik begins taking questions from the audience, the first comes from a North Shore man named Edward Purtz, who asks with furrowed brow: "We've seen the Navy cut to levels it hasn't been since the 1800s. How do you stand on these defense cuts?"
Without missing a beat, Golnik replies, "I oppose them."
IT HAS BEEN THE GENIUS of the small-government Santa Claus of Tax Reduction crowd to fix in our minds, when we think about government and taxes, our memories of witnessing cases of gross inefficiency. After all, we've all felt the frustration of standing in a long line at the post office and seeing the clerk take a leisurely stroll into the back room for an indeterminate task of indeterminate duration. And those maddening memories come to mind more easily than the time when the government paid for our grandmother's cataract surgery, or even that time when the letter carrier trudged through a snowstorm to deliver a birthday card to our door, all because a cousin in California paid 45 cents and dropped it in a box.
The fact is, there is considerable inefficiency in the government, and it's really hard to root it out. Norquist's brother David, a former chief financial officer of the Department of Homeland Security, says his Washington experience taught him that, unlike in the private sector, "there is no incentive in government to do more with less, except to see your budget cut." Yet, as a numbers guy, he acknowledges how difficult it is to argue Golnik's point that we need to tackle our debt before it consumes us, and then, in the next breath, reflexively oppose cuts in defense. He says he agrees with his brother's argument that you have to hold the line against tax increases as a starting point, to force lawmakers to summon the political will for cutting spending. If you don't, Grover Norquist has long contended, lawmakers will always go the tax hike route because it is the easier path.
But the question now is whether Norquist, thanks to the pledge and all his pressure, has helped fundamentally change that equation. How else to explain the way congressional Republicans can devote time and fury during hearings to a modest Obama administration tax on tanning salons, as though that's something that will negatively affect the lives of most Americans. When a tanning-bed tax becomes the new line in the sand, you have to wonder whether any kind of tax increase has by now become more politically radioactive than cuts in government services.
With the noose beginning to tighten thanks to our national debt — which has ballooned by nearly $5 trillion during Obama's presidency — there have been signs of some restlessness in Norquist's ranks. Late last year, six Republicans and one Democrat in the House who had all signed the pledge told the congressional newspaper The Hill that they no longer felt bound by it. They argued that times have changed and that they could no longer afford to keep any kind of revenue increase off the table. Norquist, who insists that those lawmakers made their commitment to the taxpayers and not to him, refuses to release them from their pledge. "It lasts as long as you're in office," he says.
Here's the math: A few Republicans break the pledge at their own peril. If 40 or 50 of them break with Norquist, however, that may well come at his peril.
There's also the question of whether the corporate interests who help pay Norquist's salary were as pleased as he was with the brinksmanship over the debt ceiling controversy last summer and might pressure him to avoid an encore. (He refuses to release the names of his contributors, though he acknowledges that ATR has received support from the tobacco, liquor, and casino industries, which have no doubt appreciated Norquist's work fighting taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, and gaming.) As much as corporations dislike taxes, they tend to dislike rampant uncertainty even more.
As with so much in Washington, a lot will probably be determined in November. "If the Republicans win, Grover will enjoy more influence," says economist and ex Norquist ally Bruce Bartlett, "especially if it's someone like Romney, who will need to shore up his right flank." But if the Republicans lose, even in the face of such a bad economy, he predicts, there will probably be recriminations against the Tea Party and Norquist for their hard-line stances.
After spending so much time drowning in the data about the country's dire finances, Alan Simpson says if America doesn't change course, and fast, we'll reach the point of no return. "You're going to see the rating agencies hammer us, you're going to see interest rates and inflation go up, hitting the little guy." Then, he says, people will stop and ask: "Who screwed us into this hole? And they're going to zero back on the wizard himself, Grover Norquist."
Norquist dismisses such predictions as the fanciful wishes of irrelevant Republicans who've lost their way.
As a boy, when he finished delivering his cliff-top speeches and tired of the pigs and all their dutiful listening, Norquist would dramatically raise his voice. That would startle and scatter the pigs. Yet in the past year, when he found himself with the nation's rapt attention, he realized he had no similar ability to control it, even when his elevated profile produced some troubling anonymous death threats. Then again, such unpleasantness aside, now that all eyes are on Norquist, there is absolutely no evidence that he wants anyone to look away.Neil Swidey is a Globe Magazine staff writer. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him on Twitter @neilswidey.


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The sale of the low-end server business included IBM's System x, BladeCentre and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers, and associated software, blade networking, and maintenance operations.
Workers from the International Systems Technology Company are slated for transfer, but these employees are objecting to offered terms, which, at least according to IBM, give employees a choice between a job with terms that are comparable to what they are receiving or an "equitable severance package." To date, the strike has suspended business at the Shenzhen factory for four days, but so far it has done little to change the decision of the technology behemoth. Workers, all dressed in blue factory smocks, have gathered in front of the factor with homemade signs and banners, with slogans that included "Workers are not a commodity," and "Give us back our respect," the New York Times reported.
"So far, we've heard nothing from the management or the government in response to our demands," said Hou Hongbo, a 10-year worker at the factory, according to one Reuters report. "The company's attitude so far is to ignore us, but the entire production remains shut down."
The workers plan to continue the strike, the report said. The strike points to an emerging trend in China around workers embracing protests and factory shutdowns in an outcry against worsening labour conditions or poor terms offered during an international takeover. A February 2014 report released by the China Labour Bulletin has recorded 1,171 strikes and worker protests in the period from mid-2011 until the end of 2013.
For example, in November of last year, more than 3,000 workers at a Nokia factory in Dongguan, China, launched a series of rolling strikes and sit ins in protest of changes made in the wake of Microsoft's takeover of the company's mobile phone business. The issue was finally resolved with a combination of carrot (in the form of bonuses for those who did not participate in the strike and a new contract offering for employees) and stick (a threat of firing for those who did not return to work).
Further, economic, population, and business changes in China have strengthened the position of workers. For example, the country's well-known One Child programme has created a decline in available workers, while at the same time a substantial increase in college enrolment has further eroded the availability of workers. A report from the International Labour Organisation titled Global Employment Trends 2014 said it this way:
China's potential pool of workers for the manufacturing sector is not growing any more. This decrease in the potential workforce is narrowing the production base, which has led China to forge a growth model that is based more on technological upgrading, productivity enhancements and the development of stronger domestic consumption.
At the same time, the cost of manufacturing in China is on the rise, which is causing some manufacturers to look for greener pastures in other parts of the world. In the past decade, China enjoyed strong growth of more than 10% annually, but now that growth has decelerated to an average of just 7%, the report said.
This current upheaval, meanwhile, is just one element in IBM's ongoing labour challenges as the company rebalances its product and manufacturing portfolio. "The restructuring process could see as many as 15,000 jobs being cut globally, including India, Brazil, and the European region," EE Times reported. Earlier in the month, for example, IBM started cutting jobs in India, with an estimated layoffs of 1,000 workers in its Bangalore factory, according to an EE Times blog.
Clearly, labour force challenges for Big Blue, as well as for China, have only just begun.
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