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The South Plainsman: 7/17/11 - 7/24/11
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A blog about politics, foreign affairs, military affairs, retirement and related issues, and things of general interest. Friday, July 22, 2011. On Eating Our Seed Corn; Or, Why Gross Domestic Product Measures May be Deceiving. Those raised around farms will probably know what eating one's seed corn means, but what does that have to do with Gross Domestic Product? Read on, and I will try to make the point. This brings us to the current debate over the huge and growing deficits and national debt. Borro...
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The South Plainsman: 6/10/12 - 6/17/12
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A blog about politics, foreign affairs, military affairs, retirement and related issues, and things of general interest. Sunday, June 10, 2012. Are the Good Times Really Over? At the end of the recession, the good times started back as a result of tax cuts and more deficit spending under Reagan, but this was again briefly halted by a real estate bust and the failure of most savings and loan institutions around the country. Volcker was not reappointed, and Greenspan replaced him as chairman of the Fed.
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The South Plainsman: 6/9/13 - 6/16/13
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A blog about politics, foreign affairs, military affairs, retirement and related issues, and things of general interest. Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Reflections upon my 74th birthday. Nothing much important happened in June of 1939. America was still mired in a long running Depression. Much of the rest of the world was as well. Around the world, many of the great powers were marching toward war, but it was not until September that the Second World War broke out with Germany's invasion of Poland. The war ye...
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The South Plainsman: 8/3/14 - 8/10/14
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A blog about politics, foreign affairs, military affairs, retirement and related issues, and things of general interest. Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Great Changes, Delayed. I started a series called Great Changes in Progress a while back intending to bring the discussion decade by decade to the present. Unfortunately, that has been delayed a bit. My sweet bride has been having a bout with breast cancer. Mammograms, biopsies, two surgeries, and she will start radiation treatments next week.
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The South Plainsman: 5/11/14 - 5/18/14
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A blog about politics, foreign affairs, military affairs, retirement and related issues, and things of general interest. Tuesday, May 13, 2014. On my twelfth birthday, my family and I moved into our new home on the west side of Lubbock. We came from Austin, where I was born and completed elementary school. The move, of course, meant that I was leaving behind all of the friends of my lifetime to that point, and coming to a town where I knew not a soul. She now lives in the area just south of Ft. Worth...
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The South Plainsman: 1/27/13 - 2/3/13
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A blog about politics, foreign affairs, military affairs, retirement and related issues, and things of general interest. Sunday, January 27, 2013. Making Believe; Or, What if You Suddenly Became President? That interesting thought occurred to me this weekend as I sat on my back patio watching my English Setter make the rounds in the yard. What if an ordinary person suddenly became Presdident of the United States? What would ordinary folks want to do policy wise if they had the power? C A requiremnt that ...
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The South Plainsman: 1/13/13 - 1/20/13
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A blog about politics, foreign affairs, military affairs, retirement and related issues, and things of general interest. Saturday, January 19, 2013. Saturday, January 19, 2013. I see that the true perp in the Katrina fiasco in New Orleans is finally getting his comeuppance. The media blamed Bush, but Mayor Ray Nagin was the one responsible for not evacuating folks or otherwise preparing for the disaster. Remember all of the underwater school busses? More at the New York Times. My view is that the gun iss...
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The South Plainsman: Great Changes, Delayed
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A blog about politics, foreign affairs, military affairs, retirement and related issues, and things of general interest. Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Great Changes, Delayed. I started a series called Great Changes in Progress a while back intending to bring the discussion decade by decade to the present. Unfortunately, that has been delayed a bit. My sweet bride has been having a bout with breast cancer. Mammograms, biopsies, two surgeries, and she will start radiation treatments next week.
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The South Plainsman: Great Changes in Progress; Part I
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A blog about politics, foreign affairs, military affairs, retirement and related issues, and things of general interest. Friday, July 11, 2014. Great Changes in Progress; Part I. I do not know whether anyone is interested in my thoughts. I am doing this as an exercise for myself. But readers and comments are welcome. If you think I have made a factual error, please let me know and I will correct it if I agree. That world ended on November 23, 1963 when President Kennedy was assassinated. From that da...
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The South Plainsman: More Reflections, After My 75th Birthday
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A blog about politics, foreign affairs, military affairs, retirement and related issues, and things of general interest. Sunday, June 15, 2014. More Reflections, After My 75th Birthday. Three quarters of a century have come and gone, and there is much to reflect upon. There are new scandals in our government since the last birthday, and some that we knew about then appear much worse than we thought back then. A lot of those same politicians amazingly acquire fortunes while on the government payroll.
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