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Are 'Good Enough' Parents Losing Custody to Abusive Ex-Partners? By Stephanie Dallam for the Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence. GENDER BIAS REPORTS a. Official State Reports.My Quick and Simplistic Essay on the Pending Collapse of the United. States Last Updated February 6. My Unfinished Essay on the Pending Collapse of the. United States. Bob. Jensen at Trinity University. Looking ahead is difficult, especially when the. Old Chinese saying. To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the booked. Half of all. American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics. That’s. because nobody thinks they’re the problem. Nobody ever wants to think they’re. But that’s not the truth. The truth is, as long as we continue to. America as someone else’s problem. Steve Tobak - -- . BBR Named to 2016 Inc. 5000 List (Lafayette, La.) – Louisiana advertising agency BBR is one of only three Lafayette-based businesses to be included on this year’s Inc. 5000 list, ranking No. Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions - -- . Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements- -- . Entitlements. htm. Bob. Jensen's health care messaging updates - -- . Health. htm. Externalities of Aging (More Disease and. More Entitlements Expense)World's Population Is Getting Sicker, Study Shows - -- . Greenspan: Worried About Inflation, Says “Entitlements Crowding Out. Investment, Productivity Is Dead,” by Mike Shedlock, Townhall, March. Greenspan was critical of. ECB. He. is also worried about interest rates and the. Entitlements now. United States. Rate cuts. Gross domestic. savings as a percent of GDP has been. You just can’t. print money and buy the infrastructure. So we are here sitting. Dr. Alan Greenspan, who led the Fed for. I ask him, he’s very. So welcome to Bloomberg GO. Beyond that, he’s. So we had the Bank of. England just hold their rates. We had the Fed. yesterday, we’ve had the Bank of Japan. It’s all. about central banks right now. Everyone one of. those central banks, whatever their approach, is. Entitlements - -- . Entitlement. Harvard, Dartmouth: Social. Security forecasts have been too optimistic — and increasingly biased - -- . Republicans have. Social Security system, warning that the. Bush proposed limited privatization options, and the 2. GOP reform efforts. Studies. from Harvard and Dartmouth this week corroborate Bush’s warnings on Social. Security, and further accuse the SSA of. New studies from. Harvard and Dartmouth researchers find that the SSA’s actuarial. These biases are. Gary King, co- author. Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative. Social Science. Then, they compared the forecasts the agency. Forecasts from trustees reports. In that. time, the administration made overestimates and underestimates, but. After 2. 00. 0. forecast errors became increasingly biased, and in the same. Trustees Reports after 2. Trust Funds,” wrote. Dartmouth professor Samir Soneji and. Harvard doctoral candidate Konstantin Kashin. How bad is. it? Barron’s notes that the estimates are. Continued in article. Jensen Comment. If Tom Brady had cheated like that he'd be expelled for good. There will. however, be no punishments for the liars who gave false estimates of the. That type of deflation goes unpunished. Washington DC. In health care, Singapore started an extensive. Medisave Accounts” in 1. Richard Rahn and I proposed “Medical IRAs”for. America in the Wall Street Journal. Today, 7 percentage points of. Singapore’s 3. 6 percent required savings rate is for health care and is. Medisave account for each employee. Individuals are. also automatically enrolled in catastrophic health insurance, although they. When a Medisave account balance reaches about $3. For many years, the only two scholars in the. Western world who paid much attention to Singapore were Washington. University economist Michael Sherraden and me. Michael approached the. Singapore experience from a left- of- center perspective and I came from the. We both ended in the same place: this is an alternative. Lately, quite a number of other scholars have. Singapore, especially its health care system – again, with both. It’s taken almost three decades, but. Singapore is now the subject of. Brookings Institution, a whole slew of. Austin Frakt and Aaron Carroll, and a good. Tyler Cowen, with links to other studies and. In the world of social policy, it would be hard to overstate. During the past. 2. Singapore policy has taken important steps toward lifelong. These innovations include. Edu. Save, the Baby Bonus, Child Development Accounts, and related. For John Fund, Singapore’s most significant. I believe that the least appreciated part of. Lee Kwan Yew’s legacy is his method of ensuring that one generation. Moreover, despite the. GDP growth in the United. States and the European Union. However, it is not all that great. Let's start with statistics. A number of. researchers have conducted studies that indicate that the official U. S. The work of Professor James Hamilton of the. University of Economics, California who analyzed the size of the public debt. United States particularly stands out. According to official data. U. S. The debt is repaid by. This huge sum emerged due to the fact that in an. Federal Reserve in coordination with. U. S. Accordingly, the amount of state debt increased every year, and the. Given these figures, Professor Hamilton has. U. S. The. resulting figure is a staggering 7. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner informed Congress. If this research is only half true, it means. U. S. The fact that this assumption is not far from the. American cities. Hundreds of cities. According to. the World Bank, this may lead to their bankruptcy, putting the country on. As of August 1, 2. U. S. Nearly 3. 50 small and medium- sized cities. New. York, are close to doing that. In mid- July, the City Hall of the former. United States Detroit has filed for bankruptcy. The overall deficit of the pension fund in the U. S. The lack of money in the pension. Illinois is 2. 5 times the amount of annual tax. Connecticut - 1. 9, Kentucky - 1. The largest bankrupt city is currently Stockton. California, with 3. The situation in this city can. This year, 5. 6 murders. New York with the 1. Meanwhile, Stockton, like another bankrupt city of. San Bernardino, is located in the richest state of California. What can be. said about other states when Los Angeles has a budget deficit of $2. Continued in article. Jensen Comment. Note that the dispute between $1. USA National Debt. Zimbabwe, err I mean the Federal Reserve, will print greenbacks. USA obligations. With deficits projected to reach heights not seen since World War. Two, the spin doctors have been out in full force trying to turn around. One such man is New. York Times columnist Paul. Krugman. Armed with a Nobel Prize in New Trade Theory, Mr. Krugman’s opinion. Medicare doesn’t pass the smell test upon closer examination. Krugman recently wrote of the “Medicare. Miracle” about how the growth of Medicare spending. This slowdown he argued shows. America’s long term fiscal outlook is not as. The problem with Krugman’s analysis is that. His rationale took a further hit when CBO. Medicare savings he championed just a week ago would be erased five. According to. the CBO, spending on major health care programs. Medicaid as well as costly subsidies to. Obamacare. Contrary to the opinion of Mr. Overall Health Care Spending is projected to. Medicaid. spending increased by 1. Obamacare subsidies. While therate of. Medicaid and Obamacare spending has. GDP to 5. 9 percent of GDP by 2. By telling only one. Mr. Krugman is simply peddling talking points for ideological reasons. Continued in article. Jensen Comment. Two of the things that created enormous drains on the Medicare insurance plan. Medicare coverage to disabled people of any age coupled. Medicare D program enacted by George W. The lifetime. disability program is costing hundreds of billions annually, much of it for. Medicare D is costing hundreds of billions for medications for. Surely nobody who has studied the future of Medicare, including Professor. Krugman, thinks the program is sustainable as currently written. Whereas Social. Security entitlements can be paid off, if necessary, with inflation in the. Medicare. obligations with inflation as the law is currently written. As. written Medicare is just not sustainable. Either future benefits have to be. The occupiers' frustration was real, but their ire was. They should have launched an Occupy the AARP movement instead. Government policies that transfer cash from the. In 1. 97. 0, Social and Medicare accounted for 2. They have since grown to 4. And these numbers understate the level of federal spending for. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Medicaid, a program designed to offer health. Americans. But these days, unlike in the era before Social. Security and Medicare were created, most seniors are doing just fine, with. When Social Security was born in 1. Census Bureau. found more than 3. Americans 6. 5 and older living below the. In 2. 01. 3, the percentage had dropped to 9. According to a. report by the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging- Related Statistics, the. Americans over the age of 6. Today's seniors are healthier, better. Of course some seniors remain poor. But as the. University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer wrote in 2. In short, a group that's better off than ever. Americans. Looking at both consumption and income data to. Meyer and the Notre Dame economist James. Sullivan find that Americans 6. According to the Pew Research Center, as of 2. But the authors were. In 1. 98. 4, when the. Census Bureau began tracking these numbers, . By 2. 00. 9, it had ballooned to 4. Younger Americans are getting poorer. According. to Pew, the net worth of households headed by people younger than 3. Meanwhile, a 2. 01. Jeffrey Thompson of the. University of Massachusetts Amherst and Timothy Smeeding of the University. Wisconsin–Madison shows that households whose head was under 3. Thompson and Smeeding also found that younger Americans. And the situation will get worse as spending on. Medicare and Social Security explodes. Without reforms today, vast tax. Fortunately, numerous workable solutions are. Way back in 2. 00. Cato Institute scholars Chris. Edwards and Tad De. Haven listed several sensible reforms, including adding a. Social Security, liberalizing Medical. Savings Accounts, and making the latter permanent . And since taxpayers remain in. In the September 2. While lounging on the beach some lowered the swimsuit straps from their shoulders, rolling their tops to their waistlines to bask in sunshine. Police promptly arrested them for indecent exposure. From 1. 91. 0 through the 1. Advertisement for men’s and women’s swimwear. Surprised? Today, we expect men to swim in some type of suit bottom–full trunks, fitted trunks, jammers, mini Speedo briefs, or high tech new compression suits (more on that to follow). Whatever the style of swimsuit, Americans accept that men will swim and sunbath topless. But, in the scope of history, our culture sanctioned shirtless swimming for men a relatively short time ago. Los Angeles rescinded its ordinance against shirtless swimsuits in 1. Vogue ad illustrates how men rolled the tops of one- piece suits to expose their backs and chests. But most US cities retained and enforced rules prohibiting men from being topless in public. Courtesy Peggy, Iva Rose Reproductions. Initially in America, men–like women–wore heavy swimsuits made from wool or flannel. Most women sewed or knitted swimsuits for themselves and their families from patterns published in magazines. Zehntbauer and Carl Jantzen, the owners of the Portland Knitting Company (PKC), that their homemade suits felt too heavy and fitted poorly. They inquired if PKC could create a snug and stretchy swimsuit–mimicking the one- piece suits worn by Olympians and serious competitive swimmers like Leo “Bud” Goodwin and Charlie M. Daniels. Olympic medalists Leo “Bud” Goodwin and Charlie M. Giannini, manager of New York Athletic Club, 1. Section of photo by Jessie Tarbox Beals, courtesy of Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Both swimmers were legendary sports figures and heroes of the era. After the 1. 90. 8 Games, Daniels held the highest number of Olympic medals won by an American in swimming until Mark Spitz in 1. Young men idolized him and hoped to imitate him–if not in swimming, at least in style and confidence. Zehntbauer and Jantzen developed a one- piece suit knitted with lighter- weight wool in a tight rib stitch that provided elasticity, allowing the suit mold to the body and conform to movement. The suits became popular locally–men reported swimming faster which bolstered confidence–so PKC expanded sales nationwide. In 1. 91. 8, the company changed its name to Janzten and began manufacturing new form- fitting swimsuits for women as well. Men continued to wear one- piece swimsuits throughout the 1. But Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller helped to forever alter styles of men’s swimwear and social norms in the 1. Following his Olympic career, Weissmuller starred with Esther Williams in Billy Rose. In 1. 93. 2 he began a long career starring as Tarzan in Hollywood films. He also became the celebrity endorser for B. V. D. Men, too, favored his films. The primitive and powerful masculinity Tarzan embodied reinforced traditional gender roles. The average man might never resemble him physically, but he could purchase a B. V. D. Realizing that conservatives needed to be persuaded to accept the suit, B. V. D. Ads stressed that trunks . They have an exactness of fit and proportion that makes for speedy, effortless swimming. In Boston, New York and Chicago, women often complained in editorials about the new shirtless trunks for men. Curiously, women weren’t affronted by male nudity but by the appearance of men’s bodies. Accustomed to seeing Johnny Weissmuller’s smooth, tanned chest and lean, muscular physique, women criticized that real men were “anything but handsome with their hairy spindle- shank legs. And as the publicity photo of Weissmuller and O’Brien illustrates, Hollywood highlighted male physicality and sexuality. However, as a whole, cultural norms do not condition men to associate their self- worth with their appearance. Steve at Conneaut Lake, PA, 1. Beauty pageants like Miss America and Hollywood’s bathing beauty films fused the cultural association between swimsuits and beauty for women by presenting women as docile objects to be admired or evaluated. Hollywood films like the. Bathing suit- clad women became passive pinups whereas men in swimming trunks symbolized strength. By the end of the 1. American public embraced shirtless swimming for men. As a young man, my grandfather sported swim trunks at Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, in 1. Even the playful pose–flexing his biceps–reflects a larger association between swimsuits and confident action for men.
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