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I am working on up dating this system.  I have left it as it was too long.

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  TimesPeople recommended a blog post:

  Aug 21, 2011

  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?

  
  

  I have been saying not much change. 

  The first agrees

  
  

  • A Blip vs. the Long Haul

    Susan Jacoby, "Never Say Die"
    
    "Unless they possess vast wealth, Americans grow poorer with every decade after retirement — and women grow poorer than men. Among Americans over 65 living below the official poverty line, three-quarters are women. The cruelest gender paradox is that while women generally outlive men, their risk of serious age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and diabetes is two-and-a-half times greater." 
    
    "Being very old in America is tough. Being old and female is tougher. Disentitling the old, whatever the gender ratio, can only make that reality harsher than it already is."
    
    I would like as much of your presence as I can get.
    
    

The problems of education and training I think must be left to individuals.
Learning should never stop.  Training for a profession must be the individual's choice.  I think all the professions are primarily teaching.  All of them are entrepreneurial or monkish.  These seem to be the models for existence in our culture.
Children will exist and they will recover from childhood. What they do while existing will be their choice consciously or otherwise.  A parent's job is to discover a constructive direction they can lead and encourage their development. 
Bonsai is for pet plants. 
Doing it to people makes them unhappy and hard to like.


The understanding of the re-industrialisation of America seems to be wrong.
The "liquidity trap" of the early thirties was very real.  Manufacturing was dead or dying. What pulled our nation out was the government spending for the run up to the war.
Industries were not restarted in general.  They were reinvented.  I have been learning that the science and engineering was done in the slack period of the thirties when time on task was relatively cheap.  With the war effort there was a different priority.  Production design was the new thing.  A great many of standard products had to be made with novice workers.  Workers who came with no special skills.  The automotive companies had been working on the problem as a way to control labour costs.  In a designed environment a worker could learn a task in a very short time.  These very finite tasks could be and were organised to produce a finished product without a skilled workforce.  Production design put America to work.  Eliminating production has put us out of work.

Time to get ready for the morning.