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Binu Comedian Tim Conway of The Carol Burnett Show dies at 85
We reported last week on the fear and trembling of bond vigilantism, real or imagined that the bond market would punish the country for profligacy by raising the interest it demanded to lend us money, thus making everything from mortgages to car loans more expensive. Therefore, say deficit hawks who refuse to raise taxes, we mustn ;t raise the debt ceiling without drastic spending cuts.Watch Paul report on How Would Raising Debt Ceiling Impact U.S. Bond Market ; above.But what actually happens to Americans if the debt ceiling isn ;t raised And specifically, perhaps because I ;m 66 years old and have a fully vested interest, what happens to Americans on Social Security * Do they keep getting their checks or don ;t they Wait just a gol darn minute, as sidekicks used to say in old TV westerns: Ain ;t there a Social Security t stanley cup rust fund kickin ; around somewhere An ol ; box locked away and jus ; plumb filled to the brim with funds for them young uns when they get long of tooth Well, a decade ago, we actually trekked to the official trust fund repository stanley cup in Parkersburg, West Virginia and here the bad news: it contains photocopies of the assets in the fund: U.S. government Treasuries. That is: bonds IOUs. And that all it contains. Not that the government isn ;t ultimately good for the money. But to get the actual cash to issue Social Security stanley cup checks, Krww WATCH: 13 charged in plots against Michigan government
More than 2,000 people died of drug and alcohol overdoses in Maryland last year a record number that is part of the nations opioid-abuse crisis.As part of their response, Maryland legislators have passed a law requiring that students be educated four times twice in elementary school, once in high school stanley cup and once at the college level for incoming full-time students on the dangers of opioids, including heroin. The law applies to all higher education institutions that accept state money and so includes private colleges as well and requires naloxone which can be used in cases of overdoses t stanley cup o be stocked by campus police and public safety officers.Preventative education for new students is nothing new for higher ed, as colleges often offer or require student participation in programs aimed to prevent drug and alcohol abuse or sexual assault stanley cup .At the same time, despite the widespread use of training and seminars, alcohol abuse and sexual assault which often go hand in hand remain major problems in higher education. Will training to prevent opioid addiction be any different This is going to require a variety of different responses and a variety of different channels to solve, said Tammy Wincup, chief operating officer of EverFi, which is prescription-drug safety and addiction-prevention programming for some Maryland colleges. EverFi is the same company behind the online alcohol education program AlcoholEdu, which many colleges |
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