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• • 26 Nov 05
  • 2:20 pm

  I largely agree with the premise about mobility and overpaid corporate CEOs ... but I would note one misleading section, and one which seems to belie your contentions: You say, and I quote, that "More than 40 percent of children born into the poorest fifth of families remain in the poorest fifth as adults; less than 10 percent make it to the top fifth. But 30 percent of children born in the top 10 percent remain there." You cite this as an example of stagnation classwise. But simple math says that therefore, about SIXTY percent from the bottom fifth therefore DO …

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• • 19 Oct 05
  • 12:29 pm

  I would strongly recommend to Mr. Moberg, and to other readers of this site, Claire Wolfe's "How to Kill the Job Culture (Before It Kills You)," a review of which I completed recently at: http://www.rationalreview.com/content/1822 . it addresses the personal/individual level of this issue. Steve Trinward, Editor Progressive News Digest http://www.rationalreview.com/pnd

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• • 13 Oct 05
  • 4:24 pm

  I don't which is more "disinformation" -- calling the Republicans "libertarians" (the very meaning of which has been "anti-authoritarian" for at least a century and a half or so ... or claiming that the government grants rights under the Constitution (when the exact opposite is true: the Constitution BEGINS with the premise as outlined in the Declaration) that our rights pre-exist, and that government is constrained by the list of things it CAN do, rather than permitted anything not listed (read the danged Ninth and Tenth Amendments for clarity!). All in all, it makes me continue to wonder if anyone actually …

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• • 13 Oct 05
  • 4:40 pm

  OOPS! Corrections (and slight expansion): I don’t which is more “disinformational” — calling the Republicans “libertarians” (the very meaning of which has been “anti-authoritarian” for at least a century and a half or so) ... or claiming that the government grants rights under the Constitution (when the exact opposite is true: the Constitution BEGINS with the premise (outlined in the Declaration) that our rights pre-exist, and that government is constrained by the list of things it CAN do, rather than permitted anything not listed (read the danged Ninth and Tenth Amendments for clarity!)). Meanwhile, the consistent reference to the "libertarian right" …

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• • 13 Oct 05
  • 10:50 pm

  No real argument here; I agree that those are the meanings that have been imposed on those terms. I'm trying to salvage both "libertarian" and "progressive" from that slag-heap, before they go the way of "liberal" ... "conservative" ... "left" ... "right" and even the original meanings of "republic" and "democracy" ;( both terms have very specific meanings that should survive the attempt to trivialize them.

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