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...Reagan. The national debt, the CBO calculated, would go from 41% of the size of the nation's economic output in 2008 to 82% of the economic output in 2019. In other words, if the CBO estimates play out without a change in policy, Obama is on track to accomplish exactly what he promised to change during the campaign, creating a massive burden for the next generation to fund politically popular policies in the short term, like tax cuts and spending programs. (Read "How to Understand a Trillion-Dollar Deficit...
...that attacking a problem which happened in the past is better than simply ensuring, as best the government can, that it will not happen in the future. People will make money for things that they did not do from now until the end of time. And, suckers who actually accomplish something will often get nothing. Christopher Columbus died in relative affluence, claiming to have discovered what would become known as America. The first non-natives to actually set foot in the New World were Vikings, and they were probably eaten by black bears...
...into place. Though the reader knows how the story will end, the sense of foreboding and the emotional impact in the final cataclysm does not diminish. The florid effervescence of the rest of the work ends on a genuinely somber and powerfully affective note, hinting at what Boyle might accomplish if all his work could be as tightly constructed as this last segment. Boyle does not shy away from portraying every dimension, and every sordid detail, of his characters. Much is made of how often the characters sweat in the novel. They sweat while driving, lost in the steppes...
...part. So I urge you to get involved, right now, at this defining moment in history. I'm not going to tell you what your role should be; that's for you to discover. And I won't promise that it will always be easy or that you'll accomplish all your goals all at once...
...Without living accommodations, students will even be denied the liberty to participate in self-directed J-term activities on campus, whether that is research, an internship, or an extracurricular. January has also been an incredibly important time for senior-thesis writing—which could be deeply difficult to accomplish at home. Furthermore, it is shortsighted to believe that only specific groups of students will be excessively inconvenienced by a forced eviction. In short, J-term was not meant to be a College-wide shutdown...