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he is reacting against what he feels inside, which is the steady loss of his power as a man. the faster that power recedes, the more frantically he asserts it. he is raging against the dying of the light. these last embarrassing decisions are in fact his death throes. it is sad, really. unfortunately what happens to men also tends to happen to the systems they create. for the last 80 years our world has been covered by a system formed in the final months of world war ii. its features d...

For one thing, we could modernize our rail system to avoid the 1000th of ailments we have every year and the mushroo clouds over ohio that sometimes result in that. $100 billion is more than five times the entire discretionary budget of the department of transportation. there is just $13 billion in th dot budget for transit and less than $3 billion for amtrak. remember that? the artery that connects the cities on the east coast quick? then there is the faa, the agency that is supposed to prevent...

>> mark, that is the issue . money in social security should be there but it is not. a lot of it isnt because politicians cant keep their grumy fingers off of it and they use it for other stumpt >> the problem with social security we cut the pay roll tax. if we increase it to the level it was, i dont think we would have a problem with social security. entitlements need to be on the table. entitlements are 13 percent of the total budget. the big pot is defense spending. we spend trillions on defe...

You have front runners that become mayor . they will not support it it was a nonstarter and never going to work in the stave . you have a better chance of succeeding. >> at least it was a plan . it is no law that said you cannot change 401 ks. that is future and new hires and for their plans. you dont have ill defined benefits and by the way the private sector doesnt get. there is a pension liability in the state of the california. vicki is right. government services are starting to get cut in c...