CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Paul Krugman...
"One question that may be harder to resolve is the extent to which the possibility of insider trading may actually have influenced policy. Are decisions about war and peace in part serving the cause of market manipulation rather than the national interest? If you dismiss this as unthinkable, you just haven’t been paying attention."

"Healthy people cost less.
Educated people contribute more.
Housed people are more stable.

...in a healthy society there are no "undeserving".
There are just people."

From millanglyle...
RUN THE DAMN PROVINCE!
Let me put this bluntly: Alberta is sitting on the edge of another massive oil windfall because the world is on fire, and instead of acting like grown-ups entrusted with the wealth of an entire province, this government is busy playing footsie with separatist fantasies and 51st-state nonsense while dodging the simplest test of political courage — a straight declaration vote in the Legislature affirming Alberta is part of Canada.
If you cannot even stand up in your own chamber and say where you stand on the country you govern inside, why on earth should Albertans trust you to steward billions in resource revenue for the long-term benefit of this province instead of burning it on ideological theatre and grievance politics?
The world may hand Alberta another oil boom, but right now Albertans are being asked to trust a government that seems far more comfortable stirring constitutional chaos than managing the wealth beneath our feet!!