The 'SustiNet' shuffle; and Herbst knows all
The only person in authority who has claimed that state employees would be put into "SustiNet" is a state employee union leader himself, Sal Luciano, executive director of AFSCME Council 4, who also serves as a member of the board that proposed the "SustiNet" system. Advocating the "SustiNet" legislation in a letter to the governor in April, Luciano wrote, "The state employee health plan will become part of SustiNet." Luciano seems to have declined to ask his own union constituents how they felt about that. As it turned out, fear among state employees that "SustiNet" might reduce their medical insurance benefits was a major cause of the union coalition's rejection of the contract union leaders negotiated with the Malloy administration, a contract whose supposed concessions were no more than a matter of slowing the growth of state employee compensation, not reducing it. So now, to clarify things for a second vote by the unions, the governor, at their behest, has put in writing that state employees will not That is, many state employees are very attached to the medical insurance provided to them by state government under their contract. Most people outside state government consider that insurance gold-plated. Many state employees also apparently figure that any government insurance system for the masses, and particularly a system meant to coerce society into a government "single-payer" system, will surely not be gold-plated. That is, "SustiNet," if ever enacted, could be the mechanism by which Connecticut political leaders, including AFSCME's Luciano, an influential Democrat, limit the medical care available to common people and shift and conceal costs just as Medicare and Medicaid do, causing serious delays and declines in treatment. State employees would only lose that way. Now Herbst herself has hired a consulting firm to study the performance of UConn Athletic Director Jeff Hathaway, apparently to contrive justification for her decision already made to dismiss him. Speculation is that UConn men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun is sore at Hathaway for not having defended him enough amid the recent men's basketball recruiting violations, which drew a heavy penalty from the NCAA. Calhoun has been a great coach but he's very close to the end of his career, and is he really to be bigger than anyone assigned to supervise him?The Journal Inquirer - News
The first reported the athletic department's review of Hathaway a week ago. "President Herbst and Robert Burton met last week," university spokesperson David Martel said. "The meeting was scheduled some months ago as UConn's new
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Shall Connecticut shrug that off too? With all these consultants running around UConn to figure out what should be done, the university administration itself looks redundant. Chris Powell is managing editor of the .
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Convulsed over whether and how to raise the federal government's debt ceiling, Congress, the president, and the public are prisoners of a misapprehension -- that the federal government could run out of money.
But it is the government itself that issues money, and for the many decades since the United States abandoned commodity money -- gold and silver -- there has been no limit on how much money the government can issue. Indeed, the federal government needs neither to tax nor to borrow to obtain money; the government can simply issue it, as it did during the Civil War. A currency not formally convertible to a commodity like gold or silver is constrained only by currency devaluation through over-issuance.
When he was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1945, the economist Beardsley Ruml noted that the federal government no longer needed taxes for revenue and that taxes now were important mainly as instruments of social policy. That is, taxes determine not how much money the federal government has but rather [ITALICS] who else has money and how much.
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An independent resource report on the Wellgreen project in the Yukon Territory in Canada has just confirmed that it as one of the largest platinum group metals projects in Canada and one of the few outside South Africa, Prophecy Platinum Corp. Chairman John Lee says.
The report, compliant with Canadian National Instrument 43-101, was written by geologist Todd McCracken of Wardrop Engineering Inc., a Tetra Tech company. It incorporated drill data from 701 diamond drill holes (182 surface and 519 underground) totaling more than 53,222 metres. Using a 0.4 percent nickel equivalent cutoff grade, the Wellgreen deposit now contains a total inferred resource of 289.2 million tonnes at an average grade of 0.53 g/t platinum, 0.42 g/t palladium, 0.23 g/t gold (1.18 g/t PGM and gold), 0.38 percent nickel, and 0.35 percent copper. Separately, the deposit also contains an indicated resource of 14.3 million tonnes at an average grade of 0.99 g/t platinum, 0.74 g/t palladium, 0.52 g/t gold (2.25 g/t PGM and gold), 0.69 percent nickel, and 0.69 percent copper.
Prophecy Platinum Corp. trades on the Toronto Venture Exchange under the symbol NKL, on the pink sheets in the United States as PNIKD, and in Frankfurt as P94P.
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