Actually, the federal budget does, too. We need to institute zero-based budgeting. But neither is likely to happen, given the nature of the interests involved, and their ability to donate to campaign coffers.
Category Archives: Business
Public-Sector Unions
They’ve been making war on us for decades and, as FDR said, they should be abolished as an atrocity against the taxpayer.
[Update a few minutes later]
This seems related: how the National Labor Relations Act was written by a stealth communist.
Color me shocked. It’s one of those many federal laws that need repealing.
Saving ObamaCare
Is that what all the race baiting is about?
Detroit’s Impossible Situation
You can only defy economic gravity for so long. And California is on the same, course, as is the country itself, if we don’t come up with new policies.
Life In The Fast-Pass Lane
Some thoughts on elite privileges, from Megan McArdle (who is now blogging at Bloomberg).
As someone who fast passed at California Adventure on Monday (without paying extra, I might add), I didn’t notice this phenomenon. But perhaps it’s different, because they aren’t rationing by price, but instead by first-come, first served.
The Broken City Of Detroit
It hasn’t for decades. Its profligacy has finally caught up with it.
If I Had A City
“…it would look like Detroit.”
The Senate Launch System
The latest analysis of the programmatic disaster to come. With bonus Orion problems.
This is simply insane.
Bad News For Boeing
Another 787 has caught fire, at Heathrow. Here is some BBC video. Fortunately, no one aboard, and it was on the ground. As noted, they are announcing there that another Dreamliner has just returned to Manchester, though its unclear if the incidents are related.
That Terrible Pollutant, CO2
…allows trees to get by on less water. Of course, this can’t possibly be allowed to be good news:
The immense volume of water that trees pull out of the ground winds up in the atmosphere, helping supply moisture to farming areas downwind of forests. So if trees use less water, that could ultimately mean less rain for thirsty crops in at least some regions of the world.
It could mean lots of things — good, bad and indifferent — and the vast majority of them unpredictable, given the non-linear nature of the equations and our lack of understanding of the complexity of all the interactions, which is why it’s crazy to be attempting to make costly public policy on the presumption that Carbon Is Evil.