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July 4th

  • Yes, we can - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com: Get more or less universal coverage, that is. The CBO scoring on an incomplete bill sent everyone into a tizzy ? and also led to an avalanche of bad reporting, with claims that it said terrible things about the public option. (There was no public option in the bill.) Now the real thing has been scored ? and it?s OK. Something like 97 percent coverage for people already legally here, at a total cost somewhere in the $1 trillion range. Bear in mind that the Bush tax cuts cost around $1.8 trillion over a decade. We can do this ? and have no excuse for not doing it.
  • Cuts package threatens deep political divisions
  • Whitehall lines up ?doomsday? cutbacks - Times Online: Hammond revealed he had recently met a delegation of politicians from Canada, who were responsible for a radical 20% cut in spending imposed by the federal government in the 1990s. ?The psychological tactics they used to get ministers to work together, looking at it as a shared problem rather than a series of departmental problems, were important,? said Hammond. The two architects of Canada?s programme review, Jocelyne Bourgon, who was the country?s top civil servant, and Marcel Massé, a former minister, cut 47,000 civil service jobs. Under the programme review, ministers and officials were required to assess all the activities of the government ?to identify those that no longer served a national purpose or could be delivered more efficiently through other means?.

July 3rd

July 2nd

  • YouTube - Obama Budget Cuts Visualization: Obama Budget Cuts Visualization
  • Price cuts for Innergie universal power adapters: If you've been thinking about consolidating all the cords you have to pick when you travel (IF you travel), you just got a little bit more incentive to do so. That's because Innergie has cut its prices for these gadgets by 20 percent: the multiport mCube90 (which includes BOTH an AC adapter and detachable DC adapter) is now retail-priced at $99.99 while the mCube90DC-only adapter carries a list of $49.99. Both of the cords work with notebooks that have a display of up to 17 inches and that operate at either 18-21 volts or 70 watts or less. It also works with gadgets that meet these parameters such as camcorders, digital cameras, portable game devices, MP3 players, and mobile phones..
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art Completes Round of Layoffs - NYTimes.com: The Metropolitan Museum of Art said on Monday that it had completed a significant round of layoffs and voluntary retirements that it had warned in March would probably be necessary to contend with deep losses in its endowment. Over the last few weeks, the museum laid off 74 employees and gave retirement packages to 95 others who chose to accept them, it said. Though the museum declined to identify or describe the specific roles of employees who have left, it said those departing included some members of the curatorial staff.
  • Baldacci orders new freezes
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