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POPS10 Technologies that Will Rock 2010 Most of these devices were designed during the boom times for mobile lifestyles. They do not fit very well with the stay-at-home, thrifty lifestyles being imposed by tough economic conditions and rising travel costs.
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POPSWhat's the Difference Between a "Welfare State" and a "Welfare Society? The social market economy seeks a market economic system, rejecting both socialism and laissez-faire capitalism. The system is universal, covering everyone. In Denmark the government even has a constitutional duty to ensure all citizens can have a home and enough to eat. Health care and social security ensure a high minimum living standard for all citizens regardless of their economic situation. The free education maximizes the social mobility, and strives to make it possible for everyone to better themselves. he Nordic model represents a ladder out of dependence (as evidenced by extremely low unemployment). he Nordic countries have strong economies, a high standard of living, low crime rates and are democracies. he Nordic welfare model is a concept that is embraced by all mainstream parties on both the right and left of the political spectrum in the Nordic countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
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POPSMorales: US Planning Coups in Latin America Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presented a document from the US Air Mobility Command which according to him showed Washington's future plans for the region. The Venezuelan leftist leader claimed that the US wants to use Colombia as a power base, from which to dominate South America.
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POPSMaking lives better by recycling durable medical equipment More: A man has come to pick up a cane and commode for his disabled wife. He knows there is no charge for the items, but he pledges to make a future donation as he walks away, as soon as he can, when "things get better some day." A woman arrives and hopes to find a walker for a friend who "can't stand on her own two feet anymore." Meanwhile, an elderly woman approaches with a large floor mat balanced on the handlebars of her own walker. Susan runs up to greet her — she is a friend and regular visitor who routinely searches the neighborhood for items that Home Cares might use. A volunteer named Wayne offers to assist me, and I discover through conversation that he's an expert mechanic available to help with wheelchair problems. A young man in a baseball cap arrives — there, weekly as usual, with his pick-up truck brimming with donated medical equipment and supplies.
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POPSProsperity Gospel Prosperity Gospel rooted in postmillenialism, American expansion, black culture? How about simple human greed!
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POPSShallow Shouting from The Left "In a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth, they cry 'injustice.' In the names of fantasy worlds and mystical perfections, they have closed themselves to the Western, liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction. Like Marx, they put words like 'liberty' in quotation marks when these refer to the West…."
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POPSThe play's the thing. Playing with children; fun, inexpensive and one of the best things you can do to aid healthy development and learning.
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POPSAdding Up Obama + Pelosi + Reid + Frank Self-serving rubbish. McCain is who he always was. Generally speaking, he sees government as a Rooseveltian counterweight (Teddy with a touch of Franklin) to the various malefactors of wealth and power. He wants government to tackle large looming liabilities such as Social Security and Medicare. He wants to free up health insurance by beginning to sever its debilitating connection to employment — a ruinous accident of history (arising from World War II wage and price controls) that increases the terror of job loss, inhibits labor mobility and saddles American industry with costs that are driving it (see: Detroit) into insolvency. And he supports lower corporate and marginal tax rates to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation. An eclectic, moderate, generally centrist agenda in a guy almost congenitally given to bipartisanship.
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POPSIt doesn't work. You don't have to look at socialist countries to know that redistribution of income punishes success and rewards sloth. We've seen it here. Our welfare system was intended to help the poor — but because it was poorly structured, it wound up discouraging work and marriage, thus prolonging poverty rather than alleviating it for many. Here's another problem for Sen. Obama: He wants to spread the wealth around as if wealth and poverty and “middle-classness” (to use the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's terminology) were fixed categories. They aren't. Economic and social mobility in the United States is the norm, not the exception.
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POPSA Third Way? Social democratic policies actually enhance individual rights by raising the standard of living of the great majority of the population, increasing social mobility, raising the power of workers and consumers in society. The unregulated market that fiscal conservatives advocate is incapable of addressing global poverty and inequality in an equitable way. Social democracy stabilises economic conditions by providing economic security to individuals and eliminating the threat of extreme poverty. By restricting some economic rights, social democracy makes the market more fair (for small businesses and consumers, for example). The argument that social democratic governments spend too much and run up deficits is undermined by the record of conservative administrations (e.g. in the United States and the United Kingdom) which have run up unprecedented deficits.
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POPSThe Long March "much of the wacky, upside-down, right-is-wrong, black-is-white stuff we see in the news these days is directly or indirectly inspired by Gramsci: the attacks on Christianity, the family, individual freedom, morality and moral judgements; multiculturalism; the cult of victimhood, "tolerance," political correctness, the replacement of the roles of family, religion, individual responsibility and choice with government rules, laws, and regs; the expansion of the State and the Welfare State and the Nanny State; anti-tradition, anti-capitalism, anti-success, anti-nationalism, anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism, etc - all the stuff that makes me echo Bob Grant with "It's sick out there, and getting sicker." I am sure Antonio never anticipated that a Green movement would emerge to become an ally of the slow, incrementalist and thus less-alarming Gramscian revolution."
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POPSRising Inequality Has Not Been Offset By Mobility The fact that all three data sources suggest the same conclusion doesn’t necessarily mean it’s correct, but it offers good reason to favor that conclusion. Rising income and earnings inequality in the United States does not appear to have been offset by increased mobility.
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