>> "Emlpoyment below 5%, 4 years of solid (and occasionally spectacular
growth), and the government revenues up following a tax cut (surprising only
to the NYT)?"

Heh heh.  Stand by for "sure, but what KIND of jobs?" arguments, along with
the ever-popular "war-based economy" dodge.  C'mon, Blake, wake up; the
glory years of the Carter administration must not be forgotten.  We have
seen paradise.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blake" <blake at kingdomrpg.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: An interesting view on social groups and their problems


> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:52:27 -0800, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
> > Makes a worrying amount of sense to me.
>
> I'm not sure why it should be worrisome; It wouldn't exactly be tragic to
> have to implement some controls for managing a community. Maybe when all
> those OLPC kids come 'round....
>
> > Happily a lot of us are gainfully employed right now (which amazes me
> > considering the  dreadful state of the US economy, but there you are)
>
> Hmmmm. Maybe it's not so surprising.
>
> http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.us.htm
> http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdp_glance.htm
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/washington/09econ.html
>
> Emlpoyment below 5%, 4 years of solid (and occasionally spectacular
> growth), and the government revenues up following a tax cut (surprising
> only to the NYT)?
>
> I could live with that kind of dreadfulness.
>