The 26-Year-Old Health Insurance Limit
It’s hilarious to see the amount of whining across the country about the health care bill allowing young adults to stay on their parents heath care plan until 26. Lots of going on about “slacker children” etc etc.
This is one of the parts of the bill that does make sense, purely from a depressionary perspective. Currently 50% of college graduates are unable to find work, not because of a lack of trying, but because of a lack of jobs.
This is, of course, in a large part, courtesy of the same merry band of unbridled-capitalism-or-busters that’s losing it over this bill.
Wait until you see the joint-family dynamic kick in. These guys won’t be able to adapt. They’re completely unequipped to deal with a world where they aren’t the chosen few.
(The global norm is 2-3 generations of a family living in the same home, splitting expenses and getting by, with several members of the family focusing 100% on internal tasks.)
Stein’s New Blog Home
Friend Jeff Stein is now blogging for WaPo on intelligence issues. Great!
Interactive Infographic: Risk Connectivity
Risk Browser. Very cool visualization of how global risks (financial collapse, pandemic, oil prices etc) are connected.
Police Collapse
Chicago –
A sheriff’s department in suburban Chicago has been shocked to find a roomful of evidence left behind by a village police department that shut down two years ago — including a moldy sexual assault kit that authorities said linked a man to the 2006 rape of a 13-year-old girl, nearly 200 guns and hundreds of bags of narcotics, officials said Friday.
In all, seven rape kits had been left rotting in an unplugged refrigerator in the former Ford Heights Police Department, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said. The guns had not been registered with the state as having been seized by police, and Dart’s spokesman Steve Patterson said none of the DNA evidence found matches anyone in the state’s database.
“You’re not talking about ineptness, neglect, you’re talking about outrageous conduct of a police department that didn’t care about the residents out there,” Dart said.
His deputies have been patrolling Ford Heights for the past few years after financial problems forced the village to lay off most of its 16 police officers. The sheriff’s department took over completely in 2008, after two years of sharing duties with what was left of the police department, because the last few Ford Heights officers simply stopped showing up for work, Dart said.
“They just vanished,” he said.