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In today’s letters to the editor: defence spending; productivity; natural gas; built environment; the housing crisis; transgender policies
Gypped, but, in fact, life is pretty good. >> you know, it's interesting, because it is kind of a paradox. because when you put it that way, obviously, it sounds pretty good compared to what has been the kind of grind for most of human history. and even folks back in the '30s were writing famous essays about what we would do once the prosperity problem had been solved. how would people use their time. but at the same time, with the rise of china and india, the sense that these rising countries really do pose a threat to our standard of living, even though what you say is true in the broad hist...
Getting the heck out of there. the jobs they can find, they don't pay much. >> the only answer here is growth. you must grow the economy to lift all boats, we must do that. we don't have growth. we've had three years of very little growth at all but a lot of spending and a lot of debt. those policies have failed. they must be reversed if you really want to fix this prosperity problem which we clearly have a prosperity problem. >> the states don't lie. 146 million americans are considered poor. that's about 46% of the u.s. population. >> i got to say, that's not my view of america. is it yours?...
Any chance any deal that gets the debt metaphor, but is not made, i don't care whose name is the most important thing right on it is anything but a now the prosperity problem and short-term band-aid? the jobs problem? is that not the broken leg? >> the president compared this, working a rope line at an event the acute problem? we'll normally talk about fuel efficiency standards. someone said i'd like to go and >> still >> dylan, i agree. we keep talking about the cuts. play poker. there need to be cuts and the president said i'm in a reforms. we agree. high-stakes game of poker right we also n...