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Opinion - Disputations
Posted by Jeff (Saturday August 13 2005 @ 12:08PM EDT)
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I just wanted share a couple letters to the the New York Times. A reader from Oakland finds an apogee in Crawford, Texas:
The war has come to this: a lonely grieving mother, initially standing alone, joined now by people of all classes and backgrounds, demanding an end to the war. In opposition stands the most powerful man in the world, who never admits mistakes. The tipping point has arrived.
Tom Miller
Oakland, Calif., Aug. 12, 2005
While wealthy Republicans like to clamor about the lazy and the down trodden, they're suddenly smitten by new employment numbers. For them the economy has reached equilibrium. Unemployment is low enough to sustain growth about but not so low as to drive up labor costs. A Brooklyn man chimes in:
Three cheers for rejecting the triumphal tone of business and government analysts who are content with a 5 percent unemployment rate because it is perceived as good for stock- and bondholders.
Not only would further strong job growth be good for middle-class wage earners, it is also crucial for the continued success of the welfare-to-work policies and for integrating "at risk" groups like ex-offenders into society's mainstream.
These important social benefits from a high-employment economy are well worth a small increase in inflation rates.
Robert Cherry
Brooklyn, Aug. 7, 2005
The writer is a professor of economics at Brooklyn College and the author of two books about jobs, race, gender and the economy.
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Enlighten me, Marge
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The most formidable weapon against errors of any kind is reason.
-- Thomas Paine
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We Did Our Job!
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