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Is America Ready for More Old Men? - Room for Debate
The life span gap between men and women is narrowing. What will society be like with more men living longer?More aged are not created from the whole cloth.What does this proposition mean?Men are surviving longer.Medical treatment is about the same. There seem to be few sex specific problems. questionable. child bearing, estrogen related cardiac problems, eating disorders, military service still, Hmm.Tobacco.Most of this is genX whining.Most people will continue as they have lived.Few to no new social problems.Retirement costs will rise predictably because of more retired.Taxes will have to go up on the wealthy.They have gone up on the employed. -
On the Street | Dream Maker
Breakfast at Tiffanie's is a Fifties view of New York bohemia as imagined by Truman Capote. It is a costume drama.
The players are moving a masquerade onto the street. I have no real problem with that but it is not clear from the video. -
Reform China's Private Sector - Room for Debate
The supply of Chinese college graduates is only “excessive” relative to the underdevelopment of its private sector.This description of chinese manufacturing fits well with my understanding.The Chinese will develop independence in sales or they will be destroyed by the depression in the western markets.The fit of their graduates to their near future needs does not look promising. -
Building a More Resilient Male - Room for Debate
Men have been gaining skills and values that make them more capable of caring for themselves and for others."There are plenty of things to worry about in this unstable economy and polarized political climate. Let’s celebrate good news when it comes along!" Yes. -
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‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback
If, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan posited half a century ago, the culture of poverty had its roots in and replicated itself through a lack of family structure and single motherhood, it will be interesting (and probably heartbreaking) to see the future outcomes experienced in this country as 40% of all children in this country are now borne out of wedlock. It is also interesting as recent studies indicate that marriage rates are now higher and divorce rates lower for the college educated as opposed to their less-advantaged brethren. Given this, should we really be surprised that rising numbers of children are in poverty, or that we have growing income inequality, or that social mobility out of poverty in the United States is now less than in much of Europe? It should be clear by now that the deterioration of social mores in the sixties has been an unqualified disaster, especially for the lower social classes. As social acceptance of the unacceptable became commonplace as the chattering classes rejected the staid family based morality of the Eisenhower years, we have only spread the desolation of poverty and deepened the chasm between our poor and the elites at the top of the heap. Frankly, were one to wish to perpetuate poverty and permanently abuse poor segments of the population for the benefit of the wealthier segments of our society, one could not have done better than the mess our Hollywood and societal elites have inflicted lo these last fifty years or so. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll might be temporary indulgences for the children of our elites, but they are terrible prescriptions for our poor.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_povertyI read the Wikipedia article. It gives a very different description of the concept than what is presented by Kurt. I have not looked at the Oscar Lewis article but probably should.The Wiki makes no reference to a form imposed from outside. It makes no reference to any kind of moral judgement or failure. It makes no reference to racism. The concept as presented in the wiki fits with my observations. The description points out that poverty is not causal. There are impoverished people who do not share this culture.Kurt's word choice and assumptions mark him as a Reactionary.
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A Very New York Approach
David Tisch, director of TechStars
In this short write up David Tisch displays his ignorance of the culture of technological innovation. He appears to be ignorant of that cultures existence. The culture is acquired by investigation outside the engineering curriculum. Junk is the most available thing to investigate. Junk is not available in the city because of space constraints and time constraints. Get people space and time
and the rest will follow.
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Leah
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More on the debt records of Hoover and FDR.
Dr. Krugman refuses to answer his critics on this point, forcing the conclusion that he has no answer. First, PK keeps insisting that FDR's policies, setting aside the Constitution, civil liberties, and the rule of law, establishing a central command-and-control DC bureaucracy to interrupt terms of trade, raising marginal tax rates by a factor of three, and setting up various Federal employment programs "helped", and would have helped more had he only done more of it. His ideology is impervious to facts, such as those documented by Amity Schlaes in her book ("The Forgotten Man") with thousands of footnotes. The Great Depression was created by Hoover and FDR because of these mistaken policies. The excuse that both great men can use is that we did not understand in 1932 how destructive these policies are. Neither Dr. Krugman nor President Obama have this excuse. Further, Krugman's impervious ideology disregards the contemporaneous example of successful government policy: Doing nothing. This is what the government did in response to the great 1920 slump (except, of course, cut taxes). The 1920 recession was NOT converted into a depression by government inaction. Recovery was rapid, robust, and prolonged, at least until the bursting of the next bubble caused by the Fed. http://mises.org/daily/3788 If the United States is to survive the current calamity, policy makers must begin by learning the histories taught to us by the Great Depression. Not by ignoring the historical facts because their ideology cannot accept the fact that no problem is so big that Government cannot make it bigger.Another Reactionary.It would help a great deal if Sean were to comment on the Blog entry he refers to.Paul Krugman examines the relationship between public debt and GDP. He makes no reference to the policies of Hoover and of FDR.The conclusion Krugman draws, That the ratio grew very much faster under Hoover, is obvious from the well documented charts.Sean should fight with Keynes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynes
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DawnGartin
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A Tool to Help Business Owners Struggling With Social Media
“A Tool to Help Business Owners Struggling With Social Media - http://nyti.ms/nZnQFD”" So when Ms. Betts started her own recruiting company in San Francisco in 2009 to find sales executives for start-ups, no one had to tell her to make social networks part of her operation."I have no intention of hiring one any time soon.Roost is not called for in my business model.
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Kurt
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‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback
If, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan posited half a century ago, the culture of poverty had its roots in and replicated itself through a lack of family structure and single motherhood, it will be interesting (and probably heartbreaking) to see the future outcomes experienced in this country as 40% of all children in this country are now borne out of wedlock. It is also interesting as recent studies indicate that marriage rates are now higher and divorce rates lower for the college educated as opposed to their less-advantaged brethren. Given this, should we really be surprised that rising numbers of children are in poverty, or that we have growing income inequality, or that social mobility out of poverty in the United States is now less than in much of Europe? It should be clear by now that the deterioration of social mores in the sixties has been an unqualified disaster, especially for the lower social classes. As social acceptance of the unacceptable became commonplace as the chattering classes rejected the staid family based morality of the Eisenhower years, we have only spread the desolation of poverty and deepened the chasm between our poor and the elites at the top of the heap. Frankly, were one to wish to perpetuate poverty and permanently abuse poor segments of the population for the benefit of the wealthier segments of our society, one could not have done better than the mess our Hollywood and societal elites have inflicted lo these last fifty years or so. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll might be temporary indulgences for the children of our elites, but they are terrible prescriptions for our poor.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_povertyI read the Wikipedia article. It gives a very different description of the concept than what is presented by Kurt. I have not looked at the Oscar Lewis article but probably should.The Wiki makes no reference to a form imposed from outside. It makes no reference to any kind of moral judgement or failure. It makes no reference to racism. The concept as presented in the wiki fits with my observations. The description points out that poverty is not causal. There are impoverished people who do not share this culture.Kurt's word choice and assumptions mark him as a Reactionary.
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The Games the Nazis Played
“Hitler’s Olympics” offer a cautionary tale for today’s Games.The I.O.C. Is quite capable of making its own mistakes. It must not make ours. The games are theirs and they run them. The games are toxic enough.
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Rioting Widens in London and Spreads Elsewhere
The riots have a political cause
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Manufacturers Are Coming Back to the U.S. - Room for Debate
Corporations large and small are moving production of off-shored products back to the U.S. at lower overall cost and better quality.http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?date_select=full&query=new+factories&type=nyt&x=13&y=9http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/the-factory-age-isnt-over/?scp=4&sq=new%20factories&st=cseNo evidence here. -
Two Classics, One Car
She can love it so I can enjoy it.
It is a triumph of aesthetic design. -
Nurture the Difference Between New York and Silicon Valley - Room for Debate
New York can never become Silicon Valley; and it shouldn’t.Nothing new will happen while costs are so high.Not all costs are cash. -
Alicia
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A Tool to Help Business Owners Struggling With Social Media
“A Tool to Help Business Owners Struggling With Social Media - http://nyti.ms/nZnQFD”I have no intention of doing that.
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Publishing Gives Hints of Revival, Data Show
"The printed word is alive and well whether it takes a paper delivery or digital delivery."
“It shows that the industry as a whole is really healthy,” Ms. Raccah said. “That, I think, is exciting. You’re seeing an industry that is transforming itself.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/
http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/
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