Health Care Now

Paul Krugman's column this morning urges chides the Obama administration for their apparent willingness to "let a good crisis go to waste" and reminds me of the excellent New Yorker piece I read last week.    It is no more a brief history of universal health care in the UK as it is a lesson in "path dependence", the idea that how you achieve a goal has to consider where you are starting from  - or it won't work.   Or something like that?  Maybe I need some more coffee and get back to real work rather than trying to be an amateur social scientist...but this stuff is pretty important and interesting to me.

Transportation Priorities

My company, part of the "highway lobby" would not be happy about me promoting this.  To hell with them, especially since I'm in the rail group anyway.

Remember back in 2007 when the bridge collapsed
in Minnesota? It turned out that thousands of bridges across the
country were deemed "structurally deficient," and in almost two years,
little has changed.

With billions about to be committed for a new economic recovery
package, you'd think Congress would prioritize fixing what's broken.
But the powerful highway lobby is pressing hard for nearly all the
money to spent on building new roads and bridges.

I just signed a petition to the new Congress, asking them to make
sure that our tax dollars are going to repair and maintenance, instead
of wasting our money on expanding a crumbling road and highway system.
Will you sign on, too?

http://action.smartgrowthamerica.org/t/3224/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=206

We can't afford for Congress to write a blank check to the states.
The economic recovery package they're working on right now needs to
include transparency and accountability, so we can see where the
money's going and ensure that we fix what's broken before starting to
build even more.

Why should we spend billions to build new roads to crumbling bridges?

Please, sign the petition today. All you have to do is click here:

http://action.smartgrowthamerica.org/t/3224/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=206

Thanks.

Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade

I'm addicted to the NYT and it's liberal bias.   What will I do when they go out of business?

Anyway, here's an article about a book that the anti-vaccine wing-nuts are NOT very pleased with. 

A less controversial post from a lesser bastion of the liberal elite media

Check your credit card statements! Don't let them get away with this!

What you don't know about Gaza

Every American should read this. And then call your congressman about that $3 billion and those security council vetoes.