Comments on: Quote of the day http://rc3.org/2009/01/29/quote-of-the-day-5/ Rafe Colburn on software development (and other topics) Mon, 21 May 2012 23:52:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Duff OMelia http://rc3.org/2009/01/29/quote-of-the-day-5/comment-page-1/#comment-4507 Duff OMelia Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:49:08 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=9051#comment-4507 <p>Personally, I don't think we need the Federal Reserve system. http://mises.org/books/fed.pdf</p> Personally, I don’t think we need the Federal Reserve system. http://mises.org/books/fed.pdf

]]> By: Chris Adams http://rc3.org/2009/01/29/quote-of-the-day-5/comment-page-1/#comment-4505 Chris Adams Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:24:55 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=9051#comment-4505 <p>My family went through a few rough periods right after my parents divorced - in retrospect the system "worked" in the sense of encouraging the private sector, as my mother had found a job with dependent benefits before we qualified for some of California's child healthcare programs but it's obvious both that the priority was not keeping kids protected and that it could be done with considerably less overhead - the kind of thing we need to be serious about given that it's going to be harder for out of work people to find new jobs with benefits for awhile.</p> My family went through a few rough periods right after my parents divorced – in retrospect the system “worked” in the sense of encouraging the private sector, as my mother had found a job with dependent benefits before we qualified for some of California’s child healthcare programs but it’s obvious both that the priority was not keeping kids protected and that it could be done with considerably less overhead – the kind of thing we need to be serious about given that it’s going to be harder for out of work people to find new jobs with benefits for awhile.

]]> By: Thomas Brownback http://rc3.org/2009/01/29/quote-of-the-day-5/comment-page-1/#comment-4503 Thomas Brownback Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:13:35 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=9051#comment-4503 <p>If you get the chance, ask someone who has collected government assistance what that process was like for them. I've heard horror stories about arcane procedural barriers standing in the way of some of the poorest from accessing the meager resources we've democratically agreed upon.</p> <p>Maybe I've just been watching too much of the Wire, but I suspect our unemployment numbers are being depressed by middle management. It makes the Fed ballasting unemployment all the more creepy.</p> <p>Nice site redesign, natch.</p> If you get the chance, ask someone who has collected government assistance what that process was like for them. I’ve heard horror stories about arcane procedural barriers standing in the way of some of the poorest from accessing the meager resources we’ve democratically agreed upon.

Maybe I’ve just been watching too much of the Wire, but I suspect our unemployment numbers are being depressed by middle management. It makes the Fed ballasting unemployment all the more creepy.

Nice site redesign, natch.

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