- Labor pains: Shortages ahead talks about the labor shortage that will happen as boomers start to retire, and how the current policies encouraging early retirement just won’t make sense anymore. As someone who’s technically on the very tail of the baby boom, I never really planned on retiring from a traditional job. I figured there’d be work for me to do as long as I feel like doing it, and Social Security will be long bankrupt before I get a chance to collect anything from it. [press-patch]
- From soundgenerator.com news:
on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003 at 12:00 PM PST the MP3.com website will no longer be accessible in its current form.
That’s a drag. [instapundit] - Why Microsoft wants to buy - then trash - Google:
Of course Bill Gates has denied having any discussions with google, so who knows. Maybe google’s playing the hype game because they’re thinking of doing their IPO. Maybe Microsoft hasn’t had any discussions with google, but still wants to buy ’em up. Who can say? [vowe]Search Google for Linux Windows That gets you about 14 million pages (I saw 8.34 million), even with the English preference or filter turned on. Now, go to msn.com and search the Microsoft way for the same two words. You get exactly 18 pages. (I got 16)
- A mini section on Medicare reform and Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs):
- For Middle Class, Health Insurance Becomes a Luxury, which is why I think the current proposals to change the health insurance system are good. The most important thing is letting people like me get affordable catastrophic health insurance, and pay for regular visits out of pocket.
- Congress Nears Medicare Drug Deal which looks like it includes medical savings accounts, which is the right direction they should be heading. MSAs would change the balance from the bureaucrat laden insurance companies that are the preferred choice today toward a system where people could make choices about health-care, such as buying insurance for catastrophic health problems, but paying small, routine expenses out of pocket, which I think is a better answer. A “Demonstration Project” = No Medicare Reform details some of the problems with current MSAs, but the biggest problem is that there are so few choices for a small employer like me.
- G.O.P. Begins Push for Medicare Bill, but the article doesn’t say whether the MSA provisions are still in there or not.
- Finally, in a follow-up to a post I made yesterday, an anonymous contributor says case re-opened. Well, the problem is that the original article didn’t mention
transfer of weapons of mass destruction,
it mentionedtraining in explosives and weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi financial support for Al Qaeda,
none of which is refuted in the article from the Washington Post. Y’think it might be possible for both articles to be correct? All I know is that there’s a hell of a lot of spinning going on, and I still suspect a connection. If I were feeling more paranoid this morning, I’d probably figure the connection had been brokered by the CIA, which is why they’re not coming forward with evidence.