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They aren't. There, now you know.

thank you. It was never a matter of funding the pension plan . it was how to reasonably do it. That Bill was clearly designed to cripple the Postal Service.

Go to Bernie's website. It's got lots of information. Cruz is very smart. But dangerous, in my opinion, in a very self serving way. He gives me the creeps.. I'd rather have Trump as president than Cruz. Cruz, scares me. Bernie is a University of Chicago Political Science Graduate, he is well...

I had the idea of ECOM years ago and wondered why the post office hadn't implemented it. It was so obvious. Now I know why. Republicans! None of us have any right to criticize the Post Office. Our Congress does everything they can to keep them from succeeding, and we put those people in...

You've done an excellent job of identifying the root cause here! Well done. Another reason we should both be supporting Bernie. His approach is exactly what you've described would be the best we can do.

This is why I think we should both be supporting Bernie. We don't agree with all his positions of course. We will never find a politician where that is the case, unless it is ourselves running , of course. But if we can get the money out, then everything else will fall in place. Bernie can't do...

The odds are very low that the total numbers of hurricanes and typhoons will set an all time for the period over which we have reliable records. The likelihood is that the number will be near the average for the past few years.

Actually I'm not. I am trapped here by U.S. government policy.

I would think that you of all people would understand that no one who thinks clearly -- and I think you do think pretty clearly, and that's what's surprising me about your post -- would use an anecdote of a wealthy Arab coming to the U.S. for medical care as an indicator of the quality of care...

Medical care in the U.S. is a disaster. Obamacare hasn't changed that significantly. It is still a disaster in terms of costs -- ~100% or more higher than any where else on the planet and substandard outcomes -- the worst health outcomes in any modern, developed nation. This is not a record to...

I live in the Deep South. I can't recommend it.

I tend to agree with part of this, but that means little. It is just another opinion, though it is more informed than many other opinions because I have the time to think about these things and study them in some detail. I'm not sure you have the source of these problems you mention quite...

Can you give me a citation. I'd like to read up on this. I was totally unaware there was "left theory on insurance policies."

Can you give us the source that statement is based on? I'd be interested. Or is it that the additions to medicaid and medicare (baby boomers) account for the difference, although most medicare recipients carry supplemental insurance. Maybe your source is not including supplemental insurance...

sounds like you are pretty firmly in the "anti-establishment camp."

As Marx said, "capital displaces labor."

Opps, I meant we've got to get back to demand side economics. Oh well. Consider yourself lucky if you didn't bother to read the above post. Iv'e been out typing my computer lately. That's one reason for so many typos. Another is my terrible typing. But the mistake above isn't a typo, it's...

We've let pigs decide the price of pork in an inelastic market, and now we're complaining that the price of pork is too high. Very funny. http://healthcare-economist.com/2009/07/22/is-health-care-demand-elastic/

good for you. let's drop the nationalist rhetoric and speak of sensible immigration policies.

I've read Piketty's book, but know relatively little of his personal politics. It makes sense to me that , if he could, he would be a supporter of Sanders, as am I. Sadly Sanders is not going to get the nomination, but I still am glad he is carrying his message forward. Sanders is addressing...