ET, your kid has you for endless entertainment. For now anyway. It won’t be long before he knows more than you and is a wise guy and then he will be amazed how much you know. That will probably be in about 40 years.
“My own feeling is that we are heading to a sort of re-set on what is expected of each of us as citizens and what we can truly expect from government in return.”
Ah, but Legion, the devil’s in the details there. I think you would find as many definitions of “expected of us as citizens” as there are citizens, same with what gobment is up to, depending on one’s political leanings. I don’t think there will be a consensus.
“My own feeling is that we are heading to a sort of re-set on what is expected of each of us as citizens and what we can truly expect from government in return.â€
I just hope someone invents another internet and the country is flush with cash again.
On a totally different note, I am really loving Linkedin.
Facebook, no. (I am doing everything to hide myself from everyone but family there).
But on Linkedin, I am reconnecting with all kinds of people and I love it. I just got an invitation to link from my old Spanish teacher, a super great Argentinean guy, who was finishing up his doctorate in clinical psychology at NYU when he was my tutor. I lost him when he moved back to BA.
standard of living, educational attainment/quaility, health measurements, etc are others.
Yet also difficult to try to separate state policies/programs from federal whose policies may favor one region from another.
And who gets to claim what policy is ‘pro-growth’ or not?
“The issue I have is the attempt to connect certain policies or attitudes to population growth by hand-picking examples that agree with the ideas you already have (and yes, I can be guilty of this as well).”
I dispute your notion that I have cherry-picked a statistic. Fifty years is not a short-term trend. I focused on New York State, but is it different than its neighboring states in this regard?
Moreover, my arguments above pertained to states, not cities. If you look at it at the state level, you integrate various types of regions (cities, suburbs, rural, etc.). It factors out the fate of particular types of locales, and one can focus on the overall efect of policies.
The answer to your question about NYC is easy. Most of the large cities that were tied heavily to manufacturing have declined, and they did little to encourage new industries to replace them (think Detroit and Pittsburgh, for instance). New York City was fortunate enough to have a broad economy, and some industries boomed (Wall St., especially) while its other traditional industries like shipping and manufacturing declined.
My own feeling is that we are heading to a sort of re-set on what is expected of each of us as citizens and what we can truly expect from government in return.
Et, that is a very ambitious idea. PLUSAs by their very nature resist these kind of rules, though, I’ve discovered.
ET, your kid has you for endless entertainment. For now anyway. It won’t be long before he knows more than you and is a wise guy and then he will be amazed how much you know. That will probably be in about 40 years.
“My own feeling is that we are heading to a sort of re-set on what is expected of each of us as citizens and what we can truly expect from government in return.”
Ah, but Legion, the devil’s in the details there. I think you would find as many definitions of “expected of us as citizens” as there are citizens, same with what gobment is up to, depending on one’s political leanings. I don’t think there will be a consensus.
“My own feeling is that we are heading to a sort of re-set on what is expected of each of us as citizens and what we can truly expect from government in return.â€
I just hope someone invents another internet and the country is flush with cash again.
Having a kid is a total act of hope.
On a totally different note, I am really loving Linkedin.
Facebook, no. (I am doing everything to hide myself from everyone but family there).
But on Linkedin, I am reconnecting with all kinds of people and I love it. I just got an invitation to link from my old Spanish teacher, a super great Argentinean guy, who was finishing up his doctorate in clinical psychology at NYU when he was my tutor. I lost him when he moved back to BA.
standard of living, educational attainment/quaility, health measurements, etc are others.
Yet also difficult to try to separate state policies/programs from federal whose policies may favor one region from another.
And who gets to claim what policy is ‘pro-growth’ or not?
“The ability to support the kid without having to take advantage of social services (public schools excepted)”
That’s a relief. I can afford to have my kid then. But he’s wearing hand me downs (from cousins) and doesn’t have lots of toys. Poor kid.
“The issue I have is the attempt to connect certain policies or attitudes to population growth by hand-picking examples that agree with the ideas you already have (and yes, I can be guilty of this as well).”
I dispute your notion that I have cherry-picked a statistic. Fifty years is not a short-term trend. I focused on New York State, but is it different than its neighboring states in this regard?
Moreover, my arguments above pertained to states, not cities. If you look at it at the state level, you integrate various types of regions (cities, suburbs, rural, etc.). It factors out the fate of particular types of locales, and one can focus on the overall efect of policies.
The answer to your question about NYC is easy. Most of the large cities that were tied heavily to manufacturing have declined, and they did little to encourage new industries to replace them (think Detroit and Pittsburgh, for instance). New York City was fortunate enough to have a broad economy, and some industries boomed (Wall St., especially) while its other traditional industries like shipping and manufacturing declined.
That’s it for me today.
jessibaby,
My own feeling is that we are heading to a sort of re-set on what is expected of each of us as citizens and what we can truly expect from government in return.