How to Navigate This Blog

The contents of each blog post are shown in this portion of the screen. To the left of the post, the reader will see a series of labels. Clicking on a label will bring up all of the posts that have been tagged with that label. Scrolling down a little further and will bring up a series of years with the most recent year at the top. Clicking on the small triangle next to any year will reveal the months in which one or more posts were made. Clicking on a month will reveal the posts themselves and, of course, clicking on a post title will display the post itself.

Table 1 displays the titles of everything posted up until 8/20/2015 along with a brief description of the contents of each post.

Table 1

	Title	Contents
2015
August	HOW TO NAVIGATE THIS BLOG
August	NOTE TO READERS - SOLVING THE DEFICIT HAS BEEN REVISED	In which I proudly report that my prognostications have proven to be surprisingly accurate'
August	A CONSUMER'S GUIDE TO HEALTH CARE REFORM	A detailed examination of the Affordable Care Act (Obmacare)
August	CLIMATE CHANGE	Recommended Reading on Climate Change
2014
August	CHILD REFUGEES - THE EL SALVADOR STORY	How the gangs in El Salvador had their origins in Los Angeles
August	CHILD REFUGEES - THE HONDURAS STORY	How the gangs in Honduras had their origins in Los Angeles.
2013
October	ASSISTED SUICIDE LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
April	IT'S PRIVATE, NOT PUBLIC, DEBT THAT'S THE PROBLEM
March	THE DEFICIT REVISITED - OVERVIEW	Four years later it turns out that my analysis of the causes and the subsequent course of the deficit was on the money.(See Solving the Deficit Parts I - V
January	MEDIA REPORTING ON GUN VIOLENCE
2012
November	WHAT I'M READING
October	ANOTHER ROMNEY WHOPPER
April	THE FAILURE OF OUR MAINSTREAM NEWS MEDIA
January	CBO ASSESSMENT OF PAST DEMONSTRATIONS TO REDUCE EXPENDITURES
January	DOES THE ACA REALLY ADDRESS THE SPIRALING COST OF HEALTHCARE	It didn't look promising three years ago but some of the demonstrations may still bear fruit. Nonetheless, the savings will be on the margins and the ACA does not address the really big problems with the American health care system.
2012
August	THE DEFICIT DEBATE ROUND 3	Email exchanges between liberals and a lone conservative
August	THE DEFICIT DEBATE - INTRODUCTION	Email exchanges between liberals and a lone conservative
August	THE DEFICIT DEBATE ROUND 2	Email exchanges between liberals and a lone conservative
August	THE DEFICIT DEBATE - ROUND 1	Email exchanges between liberals and a lone conservative
July	SOLVING THE DEFICIT - OVERVIEW
July	SOLVING THE DEFICIT PART I	How Reagan, Bush I and Bush II were responsible for 71% of the national debt on the books when Busm II left office. Why social security is not part of the problem
July	SOLVING THE DEFICIT PART II	Why the deficit cannot be eliminated with spending cuts. The reader is invited to try.
July	SOLVING THE DEFICIT PART III	Beyond 2008 - projected deficits.
July	SOLVING THE DEFICIT - PART IV	In which I demonstrate that we have a deficit because we are undertaxed.
July	SOLVING THE DEFICIT PART V	In which I present a common sense plan to eliminate the deficit.
2011
July	WE'RE IN DEEP DOO DOO HERE	American voters don't have a clue about what raising the debt ceiling is all about. 78% think it will increase the deficit.
2010
December	A BRIEF HISTORY OF ASTROTURF PART II	An amazing story of greed, shameless opportunism, and political corruption that resulted in jail terms for a congressman, congressional staffers and lobbyists. How lobbyist Jack Abramoff with the help of Republican House Majority Leader Tom Delay swindled Indian tribes out of millions of dollars
November	A BRIEF HISTORY OF ASTROTURF PART I