The old people don't equate to the old culture. There's a fairly large
intersection of the two, but neither is a subset (proper or improper) of the
other.
Old people, or more to the point, their lobbies (think AARP) wield a fair
amount of political power right now. That's where the Social
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Julia ju...@zurg.net wrote:
The old people don't equate to the old culture. There's a fairly large
intersection of the two, but neither is a subset (proper or improper) of the
other.
I understand that, but as you say, there's a fairly large
intersection of the
There's also people like me who figure I'll not see much, if anything out of
them but don't grouse too much about paying for those already in their golden
years.
- jmh
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On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:53 AM, John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at
Besides which, we greedy geezers will pass our ill-gotten wealth down to you
hard-pressed Xers and your children in due time via the normal process of
inheritance, if the medical bills needed to keep us functioning don't eat every
last bit of it up.
http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Pat Mathews mathew...@msn.com wrote:
Besides which, we greedy geezers will pass our ill-gotten wealth down to
you hard-pressed Xers and your children in due time via the normal process
of inheritance, if the medical bills needed to keep us functioning don't
Better engineers, and more of them?
Lots of Stanford and Berkeley engineering graduates to hire?
When I talked about this last year with the Google people, they said that
they still believed that you got more dollars for your money hiring
engineers in Mountain View than in Durham or Austin.
From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Brad DeLong
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:21 AM
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
Subject: Re: Down with the government
Better engineers, and more of them?
There is NO WAY an ordinary wage-earner could have saved enough to cover the
sort of insurance-inflated medical bills common today. Call around and ask what
various procedures and prescription medications cost. I have insurance because
I worked for a University. A lot of people were unable to
Bruce Bostwick wrote:
In other words, we have a continuing culture ware against a backdrop
of change that is rapidly making the old culture obsolete.
Well put. I might add that the old culture is becoming at least
vaguely aware of their increasing marginality, irrelevance, and
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Pat Mathews mathew...@msn.com wrote:
There is NO WAY an ordinary wage-earner could have saved enough to cover
the sort of insurance-inflated medical bills common today.
If true, then by what magic of aggregation can a group of such people afford
something
There is NO WAY an ordinary wage-earner could have saved enough to cover
the sort of insurance-inflated medical bills common today.
If true, then by what magic of aggregation can a group of such people
afford something that most individuals cannot afford?
There are only two possibilities I can
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote:
I have tended not to answer you John because I have not been able to solve
the problem of dialog with you. Whenever I use facts or correlations to
support an argument you point to the causal density of economics (not your
Okay. Have it your way. We/they didn't save enough and consume health care with
reckless abandon. May you never be in the workplace where the clerk, knowing
that one must never, ever, consume health care one cannot afford, comes to work
with the flu.
http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/
I'm not saying that everything coming out of Garrett's interview with Bernanke
is not worth considering only because of his party affiliation. I am saying
that from my perspective his agenda sucks, so I am judging him by his group, as
far as that goes. These are people who know how to twist
On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:18 AM, anar...@gmail.com wrote:
There's also people like me who figure I'll not see much, if
anything out of them but don't grouse too much about paying for
those already in their golden years.
For many years, this is how I have understood Social Security: It's
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Pat Mathews mathew...@msn.com wrote:
Okay. Have it your way. We/they didn't save enough and consume health care
with reckless abandon. May you never be in the workplace where the clerk,
knowing that one must never, ever, consume health care one cannot afford,
On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:53 AM, John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Julia ju...@zurg.net wrote:
The old people don't equate to the old culture. There's a
fairly large
intersection of the two, but neither is a subset (proper or
improper) of the
other.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Bruce Bostwick
lihan161...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:53 AM, John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Julia ju...@zurg.net wrote:
The old people don't equate to the old culture. There's a fairly
large
Well, I decided to answer my own question. At
www1.salary.com
they give the average starting salary for an EE in the US as 59,646, but in
the SF area it is about 74,700. So, that is about a 25% premium. At
simplyhired.com they state that the average EE salary in the SF area is
$87k/year.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote:
they give the average starting salary for an EE in the US as 59,646, but in
the SF area it is about 74,700. So, that is about a 25% premium. At
simplyhired.com they state that the average EE salary in the SF area is
Don't get me wrong.
I like Austin a lot.
But if--after her last summer's trip to Austin and dinner at the Salt
Lick--I were to propose to my wife that we move from Berkeley to Austin so
that we could double the size of our house and live fifteen minutes closer
to the center... well, I don't want
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