Re: Will Russia make it?

2002-01-24 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray, I think you made my point, Ray. You said: There were still 1,300 opera houses in Iowa in 1900 but America is now and has been since the Wall Street 1929 crash a secular cultural desert with banal, cliché formula music substituting for any real thought. How much Federal support did those

Re: The Health Care Workplace in Crisis

2002-01-24 Thread Keith Hudson
I'm extracting just two sentences from Sally's posting of The Health Care Workplace in Crisis - What to Do ?: Recent surveys show health professionals [in Canada] are the least likely of all occupations to describe their work environment as healthy. Their job satisfaction is also below the

Did our paths cross?

2002-01-24 Thread Keith Hudson
Hi Harry, Good gracious! We seem to have more in common than I thought. When you wrote in your latest posting: (HP) I have taught from 7th grade to post doctoral. However, I have never been a public school teacher. I teach teachers to teach Classical Political Economy. They are the ones who

RE: The Health Care Workplace in Crisis

2002-01-24 Thread Michael Gurstein
It sounds to me Keith, that these problems in the UK Health Sector have much less to do with any structures of management whether State supported or not, but rather that somehow this sector has managed to maintain rather traditional British systems (to use the Sociological terms) of status based

Follow up (was: Will Russia make it?)

2002-01-24 Thread Keith Hudson
As a follow-up to my posting yesterday about the liquidation of TV6 in Moscow, there are wider repercessions in that TV6 served as the parent station to 156 further regional TV stations. FWers might be interested in Putin's message to the Media in today's New York Times: January 24, 2002

Re: How long the recession?

2002-01-24 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith, You'll recall my discussion of a collectible market - the one that isn't controlled by the price mechanism. (The price mechanism is the engine of the free market, constantly bringing changes in supply/demand back to an equilibrium.) In a collectible market, when the price goes up, there is

Objective Truth and Liberty with Keith and Harry

2002-01-24 Thread Ray Evans Harrell
Hi Guys, I guess you should call this my cafe conversation time.I do have three projects today as well as two coaching rehearsals but I thought I would comment on the first thought that struck me about both Harry and Keith's postings. First I wondered if that Liberal club was what we call

Re: Did our paths cross?

2002-01-24 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith, I left for Canada in 1954 (leaving a family of 4 children in England). We acquired a Canadian in Ontario before leaving for the Golden State. I found what minor political power was as chair of the Young Liberals - you were young until you reached 35. If a candidate wanted 30-40 Young

Re: Public intellectuals? ( was: Re: Will Russia make it?)

2002-01-24 Thread Ray Evans Harrell
Keith said: Hi Ray, I'm grateful to you for posting the NYT article Thinkers in Need of Publishers by Rick Perlstein (appended below). I tried to download this myself but my G-box crashed both times, and then I forgot to return to the task later. Anyhow, it goes well with my first pot of

RE: Fwd: The Genius of Capitalism

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Leier
Brad, -Original Message- Not being schooled in Economics, I have come to see capitalism as just one form of human sociability: That is 1 way to look at it. However, I don't choose to socialize that way and those who do try to destroy those who choose other ways to socialize. That

Re: Fwd: The Genius of Capitalism

2002-01-24 Thread Steve Kurtz
My cafe time, too! Bruce L: Brad, -Original Message- Not being schooled in "Economics", I have come to see "capitalism" as just one form of human sociability: That is 1 way to look at it. However, I don't choose to socialize that way and those who do try to destroy those who

RE: Fwd: The Genius of Capitalism

2002-01-24 Thread Harry Pollard
Bruce, To me Capitalism is a mixed economic system, not a lot different from the mixed system of the socialists. On one side of them are the communists, on the other the free market. Harry __ Bruce wrote: Brad, -Original Message- Not being schooled in

Re: Public intellectuals? ( was: Re: Will Russia make it?)

2002-01-24 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray - and Keith, I disagree with your assessment of Bush. The propaganda of the Democrats during the election turned on the lack of intellectual capacity of Bush. As Goebbels pointed out, if you tell a lie often enough it will be believed. I know that many Europeans believed the Democrats, and

Re: FW: [ffdngocaucus] Invitation to online discussion forum on FfD (The Bankruptcy of Nations)

2002-01-24 Thread Steve Kurtz
Gee, except for our friendly disagreement about pop-envir balance (scale of humans on earth; 400% growth in 1 Century), I find I continue to agree with Harry. Privelege of the landed aristocracy, importance by birth..has had horrendous impacts on human well-being. But...continue dividing a

Re: The Health Care Workplace in Crisis

2002-01-24 Thread Christoph Reuss
Keith Hudson wrote: Harry commented that the situation seems similar to that of the National Health Service in England. Yes, indeed, very similar. The language is also very similar. Does that mean it can be generalized to all other countries? Since last week, when we starting exporting

Re: Fwd: The Genius of Capitalism

2002-01-24 Thread Ray Evans Harrell
It occurs to me that having you define your terms often eliminates disagreements. So Harry, in today's world with the type of Information and instant electronic exchanges how would you define a "free market?" How, also would the complicated machinery of modern industry be used and still

The Jobs Letter Website is Upgraded

2002-01-24 Thread vivian Hutchinson
T H E J O B S L E T T E R W E B S I T E -- essential information on an essential issue http://www.jobsletter.org.nz The Jobs Letter website has been upgraded, re-designed and re-launched for 2002. Since we went