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Jenkins: None Dare Call It Default - WSJ.com: " . . . Under the Paul Ryan plan, the affluent would pay more. Under the Obama plan, the affluent would flee Medicare to escape the waiting lists, shortages and deteriorating quality as Washington economizes by ratcheting down reimbursements to doctors and hospitals. Don't call either default. You don't have a legally enforceable right to the free care you imagined you were promised. "Don't worry" was President Obama's implicit message during the campaign: If cutting subsidies for Big Bird is unthinkable, a joke, how much more so cutting benefits for middle-class voters? Don't go running to a judge when this doesn't pan out. The courts do not overrule changes in government policy just because citizens find their promised free lunch isn't forthcoming. Nor will it be fruitful to appeal to politicians' sense of "fairness." Politicians can be relied on to do what will get them re-elected. And, believe it or not, that is the good news. . . "
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How Japan’s Salarymen Embraced Short Sleeves Through ‘Cool Biz’
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Under “Cool Biz,” salarymen and government workers don short-sleeved shirts
in the summer as offices are kept above 82 degrees Fahrenheit to save
energy.
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