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By the way, although the book sounds an alarm about the collapse of the welfare state, its long-term outloook is optimistic. Its sub-title is: “How the collapse of the middle-class welfare state will reawaken values in America”.
From “The Return of Thrift” by Phillip Longman in 1996:
“While debate rages in Washington over dismantling welfare, few realize that the “welfare state” properly understood encompesses much more than aid to the poor. There is a vast and hidden “middle calass welfare state” in this country, which provides comfort and security for tens of millions of Americans in the form of home mortgage deductions, Medicare, Social Security, veterans’ benefits, and well-paid government and military jobs. It is precisely this huge entitlement structure that is the source of our most serious long-term economic problems. As the Baby Boom generation ages, public and private pension systems will be taxed to their limits, government spending will spiral out of control, and health care will be priced as a luxury good.”
Pretty prescient, no?
If I were to urge folks to read one book, it would be this one.
Don’t mean to change the topic and don’t know if this is the place to ask but what’s everyone doing on New Year’s Eve? Anyone going to Grand Army Plaza? It’s my first year here in the city. I’m in Boerum Hill.
I normally don’t pay attention to video games but there’s one out now for the PS 3 that is set in Philadelphia and is apparently that rarest of video games: one entirely set in a real world environment, without the idiotic shooter elements or fantasy/magic junkola.
The plot is something about a father saving his son from a serial killer.
By Arkady on December 30, 2010 4:56 PM
Fireworks! Granpa Grucci shot his grandson in an argument this a.m. Kid’s going to be o.k.
I bet they’ve been arguing since the Feast of the Seven Fishes!!!! Probably started over whether or not to put parmesan cheese on the seafood pasta!!!!
By the way, although the book sounds an alarm about the collapse of the welfare state, its long-term outloook is optimistic. Its sub-title is: “How the collapse of the middle-class welfare state will reawaken values in America”.
From “The Return of Thrift” by Phillip Longman in 1996:
“While debate rages in Washington over dismantling welfare, few realize that the “welfare state” properly understood encompesses much more than aid to the poor. There is a vast and hidden “middle calass welfare state” in this country, which provides comfort and security for tens of millions of Americans in the form of home mortgage deductions, Medicare, Social Security, veterans’ benefits, and well-paid government and military jobs. It is precisely this huge entitlement structure that is the source of our most serious long-term economic problems. As the Baby Boom generation ages, public and private pension systems will be taxed to their limits, government spending will spiral out of control, and health care will be priced as a luxury good.”
Pretty prescient, no?
If I were to urge folks to read one book, it would be this one.
Don’t mean to change the topic and don’t know if this is the place to ask but what’s everyone doing on New Year’s Eve? Anyone going to Grand Army Plaza? It’s my first year here in the city. I’m in Boerum Hill.
I normally don’t pay attention to video games but there’s one out now for the PS 3 that is set in Philadelphia and is apparently that rarest of video games: one entirely set in a real world environment, without the idiotic shooter elements or fantasy/magic junkola.
The plot is something about a father saving his son from a serial killer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Rain
Public unions are a blight on the country. And pretty much all countries.
State or federal?
By Arkady on December 30, 2010 4:56 PM
Fireworks! Granpa Grucci shot his grandson in an argument this a.m. Kid’s going to be o.k.
I bet they’ve been arguing since the Feast of the Seven Fishes!!!! Probably started over whether or not to put parmesan cheese on the seafood pasta!!!!
^^^or I should say Commonwealth?
NY. She was a secretary in Albany for a judge.