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This was a really great

Michael Maiello — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:27:56 +0000

This was a really great entry. So sad how we've created a system where a guy has to work 3-4 back to back shifts just to make ends meet and when finally biology prevails we punish him for it. Such a clever fascism we've invented for ourselves.

Stay logged in and keep

Michael Maiello — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:26:37 +0000

In reply to He and Frank Rich are both

Stay logged in and keep clicking around nyt.com -- Lincoln is sponsoring something like 200,000 2011 subscriptions for active users.

He and Frank Rich are both

Richard Day — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 01:18:30 +0000

In reply to Bob Herbert is great, isn't

He and Frank Rich are both leaving; but not leaving the biz and I see no evidence that they were 'asked' to leave. I think Frank and Bob get the highest ratings anyway.

Besides, in two or three days, NYT shuts me out. hahahaha

Bob Herbert is great, isn't

Ramona — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:48:17 +0000

In reply to Bob Herbert, NYT: Arthur

Bob Herbert is great, isn't he? This paragraph upset me most, though. We need his publc voice even more now:

This is my last column for The New York Times after an exhilarating, nearly 18-year run. I’m off to write a book and expand my efforts on behalf of working people, the poor and others who are struggling in our society. My thanks to all the readers who have been so kind to me over the years. I can be reached going forward at bobherbert88@gmail.com.

Bob Herbert, NYT: Arthur

Richard Day — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:05:30 +0000

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Bob Herbert, NYT:

Arthur Miller, echoing the poet Archibald MacLeish, liked to say that the essence of America was its promises. That was a long time ago. Limitless greed, unrestrained corporate power and a ferocious addiction to foreign oil have led us to an era of perpetual war and economic decline. Young people today are staring at a future in which they will be less well off than their elders, a reversal of fortune that should send a shudder through everyone.

The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities. When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely.

Nearly 14 million Americans are jobless and the outlook for many of them is grim. Since there is just one job available for every five individuals looking for work, four of the five are out of luck. Instead of a land of opportunity, the U.S. is increasingly becoming a place of limited expectations. A college professor in Washington told me this week that graduates from his program were finding jobs, but they were not making very much money, certainly not enough to think about raising a family

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/opinion/26herbert.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB

Great diary, Barth. I

we are stardust — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:01:00 +0000

In reply to Perfect Timing

Great diary, Barth. I especially liked hearing the sleeping airport contoller story; I'd never heard it.

You would like these portions from Democracy Now! I think:

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/25/labor_rights_legacy_of_the_triangle

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/25/100_years_after_triangle_fire_tragedy