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Part Seven: Trade didn’t create inequality, and then it did.

2011-02-02T08:33:00.000-08:00

Trade didn’t create inequality, and then it did.Part Seven: I typed this article on a laptop that was made in China. Everything I own was made in China. Everything you own was made in China, too. In 1979, when the Great Divergence began, you and I didn't own anything made in China. With Mao only three years in the grave, China still had a sluggish centrally planned economy. In that year, Mao's

Man looking for marriage!

2011-02-02T08:04:00.000-08:00

I have a friend that I have met on the WWW that would like to get married to an American woman. I some info on him that I have been meaning to write down and post as well as pictures of him. Unfortunately, illness and time has gotten in the way of me doing ANYTHING on my blog or Facebook for some time. I am getting back in the swing and wanted to give everyone a heads up that I will be composing

The Great Divergence and Organized Labor

2010-12-07T10:22:00.000-08:00

Part VI The Great Divergence coincided with a dramatic decline in the power of organized labor. Unionmembers now account for 1983. When you exclude public-employee unions (whose membership has been membership has dropped to a mere 7.5 percent of the private-sector workforce. Did the declineof labor create the income-inequality binge? The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of

Happy Holidays! Delay in Posting the Great Divergence

2010-12-07T10:14:00.000-08:00

SOOOOO Sorry for the delay in posting the next chapter in the Great Divergence. I do plan to do this soon. That is one thing about having a couple of diseases. Crap happens! We did adopt a new member to the family that is about 10 months old and FULL of UNBELIEVABLE ENERGY. But, I knew when we got him that he would be a hand full and was willing to deal with it in order to help myself

Can we blame income inequality on Republicans?

2010-11-22T01:52:00.000-08:00

Part VThe Great Divergence by Noah 9 The percentage of the labor force that used computers increased at a faster rate in the 1980s than in the 1990s, but it wasn’t until the mid-to-late late ‘90s that a majority of workers used computers. Overall, pre-tax income increased 1.42 percent annually for the 20th percentile (poor and lowermiddle-class people) and 2 percent annually for the 95th

Part Four: Did computers create inequality?

2010-11-14T19:30:00.000-08:00

For some reason, no matter what I try, the alignment on my blog is getting messed up. Hope it isn't too hard to read. "What you earn," Bill Clinton said more than once when he was president, "is a function of whatyou can learn." That had always been true, but Clinton's point was that at the close of the 20thcentury it was becoming more true, because computers were transforming the marketplace.

Did Immigration create the Great Divergence? Part Three By Timothy Noah for Slate

2010-11-13T17:13:00.000-08:00

Picture From http://www.immigrationdnatesting.us/ In June 1970, when I was 12, my family moved from New York to California. We didn't know itat the time, but our migration came at the tail end of a historic trend that predated California'sentry into the union. Starting with the 1849 Gold Rush (which prompted Congress to grantstatehood), California had been a place whose population grew mainly

The Great Divergence

2010-11-11T11:43:00.000-08:00

Part Two: Most discussion about inequality in the United States focuses on race and gender. That makessense, because our society has a conspicuous history of treating blacks differently from whitesand women differently from men. Black/white and male/female inequality persist to this day.The median annual income for women working full time is 23 percent lower than for their malecounterparts. The

How gullable People are and WANT to be....Too funny!

2010-11-09T10:18:00.000-08:00

It's been Reported....It's gotta be true!!

The Great Divergence

2010-11-09T09:40:00.000-08:00

First in a series of 10 chapters written by Timothy Noahfor Slate.A real wake up call to what has happened in our economy and with our money. It is all about The War of the classes. The Great Divergence By Timothy Noah Part One: Introducing the Great Divergence In 1915, a statistician at the University of Wisconsin named Willford I. King published The Wealth and Income of the People of the

The Deer have come down from the hills....

2010-11-08T10:25:00.000-08:00

We have our favorite Doe that we try and make sure we give an apple too and make sure she gets grain and fresh water. She is solitary except for lately she has had a young Buck with her. Something is different with her back left ankle. It has a huge round growth. She favors it only a little but, we wonder if it is a break that healed wrong or not. It does not seem to be growing. She usually

Some Pictures for Kait

2010-11-08T10:04:00.000-08:00

Kait I know you wanted to see some pictures of Mason as a kid. Here are the ones we posted in his year book. I have others I have to still scan. You should see some of the old video's. Guess you will have to wait to see those. This one is my favorite when he was older. Sharp looking in his robe. I made his "Robin Hood" costume and his sisters Maid Marion. They looked

Bullies, we are their creators

2010-10-07T08:47:00.000-07:00

Our kids are what we teach them. Take a look around at what the adults, even our Pastors, Ministers, Politicians, and other powerful people are doing today. Especially when it comes to the disrespect and pure hatred being spewed by our politicians and the different parties. Radical religious groups, the rich complaining that the poor are the ones that need to pay more taxes, and cutting care or

Yes, it has been a long time

2010-10-02T06:24:00.000-07:00

It is almost like my knitting...for some reason, I put it down, right before summer and do not pick it up again till fall. I guess this is how the blog has been. But, I think being so ill the last year has had a lot to do with it also. I am hoping it gets better soon. But, if anyone wishes to talk with me about their diabetes, kids that have leaft the nest or anything else..let me know.

Journey

2010-10-02T06:19:00.000-07:00

Let your memory be your travel bag. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn All know the way, Few actually walk it. - Bodhidharma

Peace

2010-10-02T06:05:00.000-07:00

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Congrats Michael!

2010-10-02T05:51:00.000-07:00

My favorite quote from Michael is: “The tragic irony here is that if she (the mother) had been more willing to accept the fact that he was suffering from a serious mental illness, it might have resulted in her not getting killed," http://www.gazette.com/articles/insane-100695-springs-death.html after winning a landmark case against a man who beat his mother to death with a guitar. Rings

Congrats to Greg's Brother!

2010-09-28T18:52:00.000-07:00

He was just appointed by the Governer of Colorado as a Fourth Judicial District Judge! Looks like it didn't take as long, CONGRATS TO YOU!! And to your kids who are doing some pretty amazing things! Mike and Terry in Italy

Trust

2010-09-27T08:12:00.000-07:00

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. - Friedrich Nietzsche How can anyone love a pebble in their shoe? -Ever After

2010-09-24T11:42:00.000-07:00

Study the past if you would divine the future. - Confucius

A Rich Man

2010-09-21T14:44:00.000-07:00

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. ----Anonymous

Expectations

2010-09-21T13:47:00.000-07:00

Sorrows are our best educators. A man can see farther through a tear than through a Telescope. -----Unknown

Friedrich Nietzsche

2010-08-28T08:07:00.000-07:00

"The individual has always had to struggle from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

Tick-Tock

2010-08-21T09:32:00.000-07:00

Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment. ~Amelia Barr

Tess Gallaher

2010-08-19T06:37:00.000-07:00

The past is not only that which happened, but also that which could have happened but, did not. Kauai, Hawaii