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  • TimesPeople recommended an article:
    May 9, 2011
    For Journalists, a Call to Rethink Online Models
    A report by Columbia University says many journalists have not adapted to digital technology and must reconsider their interactions with readers and advertisers.
    Wrong number.
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    May 9, 2011
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    • Cella65 posted to Twitter an article:
      May 10, 2011
      The Missing Fifth
      “The Missing Fifth of our workforce and communities. - http://nyti.ms/j61dEL” 
      "So Americans should be especially alert to signs that the country is becoming less vital and industrious. One of those signs comes to us from the labor market. As my colleague David Leonhardt pointed out recently, in 1954, about 96 percent of American men between the ages of 25 and 54 worked. Today that number is around 80 percent. One-fifth of all men in their prime working ages are not getting up and going to work." 
      A first statement contrary to fact.
      "This is a big problem. It can’t be addressed through the sort of short-term Keynesian stimulus some on the left are still fantasizing about."   A lie direct.
      "Reinvigorating  No loss of vigour the missing fifth — bringing them back into the labor market and using their capabilities — will certainly require money. If this were a smart country, we’d be having a debate about how to shift money from programs that provide comfort and toward programs that spark reinvigoration.  
      The beatings will continue until morale improves.
      But, of course, that’s not what is happening. Discretionary spending, which might be used to instigate dynamism, is declining. Health care spending, which mostly provides comfort to those beyond working years, is expanding. Attempts to take money from health care to open it up for other uses are being crushed.I would hope so.
      There are basically two ways to cut back on the government health care spending. From the top, a body of experts can be empowered to make rationing decisions. This is the approach favored by President Obama and in use in many countries around the world. Alternatively, at the bottom, costs can be shifted to beneficiaries with premium supports to help them handle the burden. Different versions of this approach are embodied in the Dutch system, the prescription drug benefit and Representative Paul Ryan’s budget."

      "Let’s be clear about the effect of this mendacity: We’re locking in the nation’s wealth into the Medicare program and closing off any possibility that we might do something significant to reinvigorate the missing fifth. Next time you see a politician demagoguing Medicare, ask this: Should we be using our resources in the manner of a nation in decline or one still committed to stoking the energy of its people and continuing its rise?"
      There is not a thought in this closing paragraph that will stand fact checking.   The nations wealth is in the hands of the top ten percent.
      There is no lack of vigour in the missing twenty percent.
      Medicare is financed by a flat tax on wages with social security.
      What resources that are available are not being committed to stimulus.

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    TimesPeople recommended a user:
    May 9, 2011
    jenrab
    • jenrab posted to Twitter an article:
      May 10, 2011
      Hitting the Bottle
      “Great op-ed on BPA-free bottles. And hooray for NJ Sen. Lautenberg -->Hitting the Bottle - http://nyti.ms/iuO5SE” 
      Get it done.
  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    May 9, 2011
    Microsoft in Talks to Acquire Skype for $8.5 Billion
    12:20 a.m. | Updated
    Microsoft is desperate.
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    May 9, 2011
    Roberta
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    May 9, 2011
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  • TimesPeople recommended an article:
    May 9, 2011
    Google Music Beta Will Stream From the Cloud
    The service, to be called Music Beta by Google, is similar to one introduced by Amazon in March, although it will store considerably more 
    music.
    Radio stations stream and I don't have to select the music.
  • TimesPeople recommended an article:
    May 9, 2011
    Stephen Hawking Speaks
    In a rare interview, the physicist Stephen Hawking discusses his work, aliens and living with A.L.S.
    I am glad I read it.
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    May 9, 2011
    Dominic
  • TimesPeople recommended an article:
    May 9, 2011
    U.S. Braced for Fights With Pakistanis in Bin Laden Raid
    President Obama insisted that the force hunting down Osama bin Laden last week be large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by hostile local police officers and troops.
    Everyone knows the situation. There will be no further mention of it.
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