A Real News Hole
They are trying to fill it with the belligerent propaganda flowing out of North Korea, but it is sort of difficult when people keep noting that North Korea can’t do most of what it says it is going to do. South Korea is certainly in danger, but that’s about it.
North Korea definitely can detonate nuclear material, but it isn’t certain that they actually have a self-contained, readily delivered nuclear bomb, or are simply doing large scale lab experiments. They certainly do not have anything they can put on one of their missiles, and the missiles cannot reach Hawaii.
Most of this is theater for internal consumption and part of the process of establishing a new leader in North Korea. They have a large army, but it is unknown what kind of condition its soldiers are in given the limited food available in North Korea. They ate their seed a long time ago.
Obama is still pushing to screw up Social Security and Medicare. The FICA tax was doubled under Reagan’s Greenspan Commission, so the policy holders have a hell of a lot more ‘skin in the game’ than the hedge fund managers, as the FICA tax is actually higher for self-employed people than the capital gains tax that the fund managers have been paying.
Any Congresscritter who votes for chained CPI or higher copays for Medicare had better have another job waiting no matter what letter appears after their name. It should be noted that not only are seniors the most likely group to vote, they also dominate the staffing of polling places, and are over-represented on juries.
March 30, 2013 4 Comments
