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Rick Perry's Plan: $10,000 for a B.A. - Room for Debate
Will a college degree that costs $2,500 a year be worth the paper it's printed on?It could be but diploma mills are well established.The other things associated with the degree are much of the value.The low ball price assumes that most if not all of those things would be cut away.You always pay for what you get. -
First, Stop Destroying Jobs - Room for Debate
The destruction of the middle class was not an accident of the market but rather was driven by policy. It can be reversed by better policy.-
First, Stop Destroying Jobs
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Dean Baker's interest is politics.
He is looking at a result of political manipulation.
A change of policy will remove the initial conditions.
It will take more to stop the cascading events that those conditions set in motion.
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/eej/journal/v37/n3/full/eej20118a.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/opinion/setting-their-hair-on-fire.html?ref=opinion
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Patent Bill Viewed as Bailout for a Law Firm
When cost is no object . . .
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No E.P.A.? Welcome Back Smog - Room for Debate
It’s actually the E.P.A.’s cautiousness, and not over-zealotry, where it has taken its lumps.Industrial management can see the benefits of externalising costs.That looks like what they want to do.It will be done if they can. -
Will Mubarak's Trial Unite or Divide Egypt? - Room for Debate
Is it a necessary step toward democratic reconciliation or does it raise risks of more anarchy and a violent military crackdown?http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/world/middleeast/06egypt.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=hosni%20mubarak&st=cseYes. The trial is going forward. -
A Scandal of Cheating, and a Fall From Grace
There is no good way to recover
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Do We Still Need the Patriot Act? - Room for Debate
In 2001, in the weeks after Sept. 11, the law passed through Congress easily. But has it protected us?It has not been needed. It is just awful precedent. -
Richard Luettgen
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Germany vs. Europe
Everything comes around again. You show distress at a Germany hesitant to contribute to shared prosperity; forced, kicking and screaming, into salvaging a currency regime that they were by far the strongest in muscling others to accept, even with its absurd embedded assumptions of a Euro-sameness sufficient to sustain a common market and currency, with no common language, common culture or even commonly held political tenets. But I'm a lot more concerned about resurgent German nationalism: last time it reared its head a funny little WWI corporal led them to a scorching of the world. Forget Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain (the PIGS); if I were France I'd start thinking how the Maginot Line might be made to work finally in the Twenty-First Century.
The Maginot line never did work. Neither has a German rescue of Europe."Instead of committing to more spending, Germany is now preparing a multiyear program of deep spending cuts. Given its troubled history, we can understand its fear of deficit spending and inflation. But right now more German austerity will likely cripple Europe’s nascent recovery and Germany’s own prosperity. That is another hard truth that Mrs. Merkel needs to tell her party and her country."It has not been done. They have not been told in public.I do not expect war. The disaster will be near silent.
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Matt
- Are Research Papers a Waste of Time? - Room for Debate No they are not. With new questions for which there is no published work they will work as they did.
- TimesPeople recommended an article:Sep 7, 2011
My Unfinished 9/11 Business
"But I have now returned to the opinion business, at a time when America’s role in the world — and in Iraq — is still unsettled. So, let me be the last of the club to retrace my steps, and see if there is any wisdom to be salvaged there."
Three reasons for invading Iraq:
1.) Monstrous regime - “My criterion for military intervention — with a strong preference for multilateral intervention — is an immediate threat of large-scale loss of life,” explained Power, who now advises President Obama on multilateral affairs and human rights. “That’s a standard that would have been met in Iraq in 1988 but wasn’t in 2003.”
"But there are plenty of monstrous regimes that we do not go to the trouble of overthrowing."
2.) Opportunity to modernise and liberalize - "The idea that America could install democracy in Iraq always seemed to me the most wishful of the rationales for war, although some people who knew the region far better than I made that case."
The authors of the invasion "seemed to have in mind a hit-and-run democracy project for Iraq, which was folly."
3.) "- Hussein represented a threat to American security." "Our occupation of Iraq has also distracted us from Afghanistan, furnished a propaganda point for Al Qaeda recruiters and limited the credibility of our support for independence movements elsewhere. It is worth mentioning, too, that our moral standing as champions of civil society has been compromised by the abuses of Abu Ghraib and rendition and torture, byproducts of the war that will long remain a blot on our reputation."
The last big story to break on my watch as executive editor was the upheaval in Libya. The contours weren’t exactly the same, but they involved another entrenched, grotesque strongman; another oil economy; another fractured Arab society; another cloud of misinformation. This time we all — president, public and press — picked our way more carefully through the mess, weighing the urge to support freedom against the cost of becoming part of a drama we don’t fully understand. That is the caution of a country feeling more threatened these days by our own economics than by foreign enemies. "But for some of us it is also the costly wisdom of Iraq."Apology conditionally accepted.
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Blunt E-Mail Raises Issues Over Firing at Yahoo
I am and the Times should be an interested spectator to these events.
Tone of the article is of direct involvement and thus of responsibility for these events.
That power is just not there.
It is interesting that the owners disagree with the executives on corporate operations.
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