| ODEC: A Modest Proposal |
[May. 19th, 2013|10:43 am]
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The Federal Reserve has been trying to stimulate the economy by creating $83 billion dollars a month. They make the money so they can do that. So far it has been going to banks who just sit on it. Because why lend it and take the risk when they can get 0.5% interest just letting it sit in their account at, you guessed it, the Federal Reserve. Charging negative interest would not help. Then banks would just let cash sit in their vaults.
There is a better way to stimulate the economy with $83 billion dollars a month. Run a lottery. A lottery where one million winners each month get $83 thousand dollars each. Make it open to everybody who files a tax form. That way you know you have a way to get the money to them once they have won. Anybody can win; the rich and the poor, the tall and the small, the just and the unjust. Because that way you are sure to get a lot of that money into the hands of people who will spend it. And those people who get the money will themselves spend it. And so on and so on. Eventually it will wind up at the banks anyway. But before that it will grow the economy and make people's lives better. And isn't that what this is all about? |
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| The doctor... Doctor who? |
[May. 19th, 2013|04:25 pm]
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The current Doctor in Doctor Who is the youngest ever actor cast in that part.
Despite being bewildered by his abilities as the Doctor, I was slow to warm up to him.
Not that my warming up to him in any way has anything to do with anything, but.
I'm trying to figure out why and/or how this has happened. Perhaps it had little to do with that particular actor and more to do with the companion's companion. Last year, the clueless boyfriend/fiancé/husband of the Doctor's then-companion seemed so...ill-fitting in any story.
Ah well...
I know, not that I have anything in any way to do with anything...
This post was originally made at http://misschili.dreamwidth.org/105154.html. Feel free to comment here or there, as you will. |
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| Books into movies |
[May. 19th, 2013|06:55 am]
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On Facebook a reader asked why none of y other books (besides The Forever War) have been made into movies . . .
Russell, so many factors are involved in "Why hasn't X been made into a movie?" that the answer has to be a helpless shrug. Books that seem like naturals fail time and again – look at "The Great Gatsby," for goodness's sake! – and obscurities like Clarke's "The Sentinel" make history.
One factor may be that I don't care desperately enough. Hollywood is full of writers constantly pestering producers, doing lunches, sending scripts around wholesale, and investing blowjobs real and metaphorical in pursuit of The Deal.
I'd rather just write books and hope that the Deal finds me. If it doesn't, well, I will have written books.
Joe |
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madbodger
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