However, I GUARANTEE that even if we go to universal health care here in the US, it will be the worst bureaucratic nightmare ever.

. I”m a nurse and the Medicare rules and regulations are stupid, bloated, ludicrous and every day a total waste of my time. They will probably be the model for a larger system, if we go there. Watch out below. We will drown in
inane paperwork, emphasis on drown and inane. Regards.

All, “a Quinn Martin Production”

http://www.technocracy.org/

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900220&slug=1057116

‘This shows the ending of the era of scarcity here in North America.’

http://www.technocracy-think-tank.org/addenda.htm#graph0

Technocracy makes a good point about how there’s more than enough food than people can eat, more than enough clothes than they can wear, etc. If falls down when it comes to savings. The energy credits advocated expire. Kind of like food stamps, I think. No motivation to accumulate capital.

Nonetheless, technoracy is notable for trying to introduce engineering methods, and in particular energy accounting, into macroeconomics. Steve keen is moving in a generally similar direction. It would be very interesting to see Max interview a representative of Technocracy, Inc.

This as the country continues to experience severely dry conditions.

Barbados has not had any significant amount of rainfall since late last year.

The increasingly dry conditions have forced the Barbados Water Authority to set up a task force that will monitor the drought situation and coordinate a three phase action plan.

BWA says the action could range from night time shut offs, prohibition or even day time shut offs.

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IDB expects Caribbean remittances to stabilise in 2010
http://www.cbc.bb/index.pl/article?id=6177687

Money transfers from Latin American and Caribbean migrants to their families back home are likely to stabilise in 2010 after suffering a 15 percent drop in 2009, according to a new report issued by the Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund (FOMIN).

Last year, remittances to the region fell to US$58.8 billion, below the level reached in 2006. It marked the first time in which the volume of remittances was lower than the amount sent the year before since FOMIN started tracking these flows in 2000.

“Until 2009 the average annual growth had been 17 per cent, although it started to slow in 2006 and diminished considerably in 2008, as the global economic crisis hit migrant employment and income levels in countries such as the United States, Spain and Japan,” FOMIN said.

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http://www.metamute.org/en/content/debt_the_first_five_thousand_years