Sometimes, it is really frightening to read ultra-right wing opinions. The
truly frightening thing about this platform is how uneducated the authors are
as to the genesis of public education and as to the interests of the
"founding fathers" in educations.
1. the basis for the modern nationwide
>
> Last Friday I posted on the network a query on your recommendations for
> good books on the redistribution of income and wealth in the U.S. over
> the past (say) quarter century. The original query came from a
> progressive woman in our American Studies/Women's Studies Dept. I only
> re
Pen-L'ers,
Any radical assessment of the prospects for today's left agenda seems
to begin and end with a discussion of "globalization." I know that some
good deal of theorization has hinged on the question of "what is globalization"
and "how new is globalization," and to a lesser degree, some of
At 11:28 AM 11/2/95, Gilbert Skillman wrote:
>Jim Devine quoted Robert Peter Burns quoting Rep. Fred Heinaman
>(Republican from North Carolina) thusly:
>
>"When I see someone who is making anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000
>a year, that's middle-class. When I see anyone above that, that's
>uppe
Someone from outside the US - can't remember who or from where - posted a
query here the other day wondering with some astonishment why our dear
Republicans want to abolish the Department of Commerce. They also want to
abolish the Department of Education. Here's an argument for that, from the
scar
Treacy: The half in and half out of the Federation is a rather awkward
posture to maintain. The trick is to see if a multilingual
country can be held together. It might be better to adopt Spanish
as the offical language of Canada so that no one could feel
aggrevi
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Dear Pen-L'ers:
There is an article available by A.B. Atkonson, Nuffield College, Oxford on:
"Income Distribution in Europe and the United States", Sept.1995
address: http://hicks.nuff.ox.ac.uk/brant/econwp.htm
It can be downloaded as a .ps-file
re:
> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 12:32:04 -0800
I am going to speak about the advantage of the Internet for union
activists to a seminar with around 150 people from the most activist of
all types of unions in norway. I want to give them some web pages that
are useful, and some ditto mailing lists and newsgroups. Please keep in
mind that these p
I thought the discussion on intellectual property was very good.
Maybe this think-piece will interest the participants. It
was commissioned by the CSE executive for its 1994 conference
but never got taken. To their credit, Pluto Press asked the Bookseller
if they would carry it; it was sent to th
On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >As distasteful as it may sound, has it occured to anyone to read the "other
> >side"?
>
> I highly recommend Mein Kampf, though I don't have the time to be its
> official representative.
_Now_ I can suggest my reading `The Memoirs of General G
Can someone give an estimate of what percentage of US households
or families earns within this range? above this range? below this
range?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I don't have data on the $300K to $500K range, but according to the
1994 Stat. Abstract, in 1992, the b
Jim Devine quoted Robert Peter Burns quoting Rep. Fred Heinaman
(Republican from North Carolina) thusly:
"When I see someone who is making anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000
a year, that's middle-class. When I see anyone above that, that's
upper-middle class."
Perhaps no other single quote f
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