tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17206839.post4628384504967791777..comments2023-09-09T09:26:22.175-04:00Comments on Andrew Samwick's Blog: The Need for Efficient Public InstitutionsAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514024573333057559noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17206839.post-57341717638161555172011-12-30T08:23:48.543-05:002011-12-30T08:23:48.543-05:00Andrew Samwick said:
I don't know where Brook...Andrew Samwick said:<br /><i><br />I don't know where Brooks gets this. I wrote it off as journalistic license.<br /></i><br />What you call "journalistic license" I just call "making stuff up". And, he, like many columnists, does this a lot, which is why I try not to spend much time reading op-ed columns.Justafednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17206839.post-15992606468017904792011-12-28T21:37:19.601-05:002011-12-28T21:37:19.601-05:00Stan kicked you off his site? Keep up the good po...Stan kicked you off his site? Keep up the good posting.<br /><br />I have to disagree with #3. Progress requires change and change is moving faster than the culture. The failure of culture to change rapidly enough is not a moral issue, it is an education issue. Not all education takes place in schools. Some education takes place on the job. Allowing high unemployment to prevent too many people from developing skills and networks that make them employable has a high social cost. Denying teens the opportunity to experience the workplace and develop jobs skills is a social failure.<br /><br />If there is a moral failing, it is allowing the 1 percent to accumulate vast resources that should be instead going to improve eduction and health care for the 99 percent. The moral failing is promoting personal aggrandizement at the expense of society. <br /><br />The big moral question of our time is living wage versus cheap labor. The proponents of cheap labor actively undermine efficient public institutions.<br /><br />-jonny bakhoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17206839.post-3534197386154089942011-12-28T16:13:04.877-05:002011-12-28T16:13:04.877-05:00I don't know where Brooks gets this. I wrote ...I don't know where Brooks gets this. I wrote it off as journalistic license.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13514024573333057559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17206839.post-75080050259951648712011-12-28T13:47:01.458-05:002011-12-28T13:47:01.458-05:00Andrew - You quoted the sentence "It spends s...Andrew - You quoted the sentence "It spends so much on poverty programs that if we just took that money and handed poor people checks, we would virtually eliminate poverty overnight." without comment, suggesting that you agree with it. But don't most of the poverty programs - SSI, EITC, TANF - just hand out checks? And most of the housing and food dollars go to cash-like vouchers. So where does Brooks get this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com