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To: Snowshoe who wrote (103492)	10/29/2013 7:56:41 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218085

too many guns about too many folks good w/ guns too many folks good w/ guns and okay w/ cars too many credit cards too much temptation too much entitlements to scale back

To: Snowshoe who wrote (103492)	10/29/2013 10:49:24 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218085

Cheaper and better. Decades ago I knew somebody [Bruce Pasalich] who was vegetarian, very healthy [an airline pilot] and he had made a bean pie. It was really delicious. <That’s where the beans come in, since they provide all the nutrition of fancier food at a fraction of the cost. “Don’t scoff at the beans,” Cowen encourages readers who might feel unsettled by his dystopian view of America’s future. Cooked with freshly ground cumin and pureed chili peppers, he insists, they can be quite tasty.> Decades before that I was working on Auckland's wharves as a wharfie and a man there was vegetarian, which was a novelty to me in those days. I had thought that vegetarians were sort of sickly [a stereotype I had believed, because I didn't actually know any]. This man was like a Greek god. He had long hair in a pony tail [before long hair was a big deal] and had a very muscular physique and for all I know, seemed to be as healthy as humans could be. It's only a reduction in lifestyle to be vegetarian and eating beans if somebody thinks it is. Cultures change, people adapt. Maori ancestors liked to eat "long pig" [human]. I doubt that many modern Maoris are disappointed that they are no longer permitted to eat people. I'd bet that given the choice, they'd stick with KFC. Give them another decade and they might switch to bean pie [for health and happiness]. Mqurice

To: Snowshoe who wrote (103492)	10/30/2013 11:55:33 AM
From: Gemlaoshi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218085

Snowshoe, I'm just surprised that anyone is still surprised by the structural changes that the American economy is going through! Twenty years ago (1993), Peter Drucker identified the structural shift from a capital/labor intensive manufacturing economy with a well-paid blue collar middle class to a "mobile capital" model based on knowledge and skills. amazon.com As with all major structural shifts (e.g. agricultural to industrial in the last century) there will be many individuals and groups who fail to adapt. Drucker refers to this as a "barbell economy" with the former large blue-collar middle class either adapting and moving into the new economy, or falling into constant decline (and beans). Wishing for a return to manufacturing dominance is a pipedream, and hope that the untrained and unskilled will make a "living wage" just won't happen. Going back is not an option, and going forward is often uncertain and the best one can do is to remain adaptable. Drucker, in his wisdom, declined to "predict" what that future state would be. It will up to us to create it! David