Tag: universal healthcare

This is good, but I look at it a bit differently.  I would add “climate change mitigation” to the list of things everyone wants. (I would add “universal healthcare” to the list too.)

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According to the Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of writer Alexis de Tocqueville, born in Paris (1805). He was 25 years old when the French government sent him to America to study the prison system. He spent nine months touring towns and …

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Pictured and quoted here, Rabindranath Tagore “was a Bengali polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.” I’m going to take a moment and let what he wrote here …

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Whatever could this gentleman mean? Well, perhaps it’s a reference to the fact that the will of the people has exactly zero bearing on the way those people are governed. Over 90% of American voters favor universal background checks for …

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Of the 13 billion bushels of corn harvested in the U.S. each year, 27% are consumed in creating ethanol, largely on the basis of the $7 billion in subsidies paid to corn farmers by the U.S. government.

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Imagine it’s January 1, 2015, and you’re given $65 million with the proviso that you must spend every nickel of it by the end of the year, solely to communicate a certain specific message to the world.  What would that …

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My dear friend (and very first marketing consulting client, back in 1985) Terry Ribb writes that she takes heart in the progress that Sweden has made in committing to renewables.  I thought I would publish the conversation that she and …

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Last night, a friend of mine sent me a considerable laundry list of things he thinks everyone, certainly all U.S. citizens, are entitled to as basic human rights.  I don’t know. I see providing all this stuff gratis to a …

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