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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Road Walker who wrote (294716)7/22/2006 3:08:40 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1573981
 
The other revelation is that being highly educated was no guarantee of sharing in the benefits of economic growth. There’s a persistent myth, perpetuated by economists who should know better — like Edward Lazear, the chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers — that rising inequality in the United States is mainly a matter of a rising gap between those with a lot of education and those without. But census data show that the real earnings of the typical college graduate actually fell in 2004

There are so many myths that Americans have been fed over the last 100 years. People believe this crap like its gospel. Its part of the reason they can accept what we are doing in places like Iraq and Lebanon. How do you undo all of that? To acknowledge that they are myths means the US is not nearly as great as many Americans have believed. It also shows how easily we can be duped. How do you get Americans to face the truth?
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