After reading Vennochi this morning, I keep thinking about the "bigger is better" mantra that is pushing nationalized health insurance. Bigger doesn't always bring costs down. And people don't always flock to bigger. How do they decide? In … [Read more...]
Paulson has been given $700B. Now what?
The crash can be traced back to the collapsing housing market. It make sense to try to shore up housing. If people can stay in their homes, avoid foreclosure, or simply get out of their subprime loans into more favorable terms, the … [Read more...]
Where are they living now?
In the early 1990s, there was a burst of a housing bubble that preceded the S&L fiasco. I'm not surprised that the recent housing bubble -- larger than that of the 1980s -- resulted in a correspondingly worse result. Where are all those … [Read more...]
What we can learn from the MBTA
[Apologies in advance for not supplying the link to the full article. If you have that link, I'll gladly update this post.] I've heard the excuse of "it's what the union gets" before. In negotiating non-union salaries in our town, the Board … [Read more...]
Ethanol — what gives?
Gas prices are up, so this isn't saving me money at the pump. Food prices are up, so I'm getting paying the corn industry more there, too. I checked the latest Consumer Reports issue for recommendations of cars with better mileage. Today's … [Read more...]
The Progressive Pulse
I believe the farther away my tax dollars are sent, the less efficiently they are used. That is part of the reason I do not voluntarily pay the 5.8% state income tax rate.If the typical democrat-voting BMGer is a Progressive, then … [Read more...]
Abstinence: Just the facts, BMGers
I propose we take a look at the report from MPR, Inc.. For the sake of trying to have a more civil dialog -- one that might even bring about greater understanding of those who disagree with you -- let's limit citations to this one report. … [Read more...]
Why you should care about Microsoft and their OOXML
OOXML is Microsoft's spec. It was not developed out of the goodness of MS; it was done only because they thought they would lose market share. It is riddled with so many errors that they have had to stack with their own lackeys the … [Read more...]
Subsidizing “families”
From IssueSource:The Connector subcommittee working on establishing a figure for a minimum credible coverage agreed to recommend that the full board cap the out-of-pocket maximum at $5,000 for individuals and $7,500 for families, cap the … [Read more...]
What is in a name?
Cirignano sounds like it's a fairly uncommon name. I could see how some might think "the Cirignano" being discussed on BMG recently was "their Cirignano".But what about John Walsh?Does anyone know if he's the same John Walsh who … [Read more...]