Live while you are alive
Continued from yesterday: The core promise of the American dream has always been that you can do better than your parents. But we have to deal with the fact that our values have been hi-jacked. We decided that we needed more democracy in our politics. What better way to do that than to allow people to …
Over the past 50 years, lots of things have changed in the United States. Here are a few examples. 1) A child’s chance of earning more than his or her parents has plummeted from 90 to 50 percent. 2) Earnings by the top 1 percent of Americans nearly tripled, while middle-class wages have been basically …
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The trolley problem To The Sunday Times, London The obvious answer to the pandemonium at supermarkets is to ban trolleys. One shopping basket per customer would alleviate the greed of selfish customers. Lisa England, Lindfield, West Sussex
It’s the taking part that counts. That used to be the great mantra of school sports at Britain’s old private schools. You don’t hear it so much in the fee paying sector these days. The focus today has dramatically shifted to the importance of winning at all costs. Where school sports were once run by …
My wife and I qualify for being in the “vulnerable” section of the population, owing to our ages. Over the last two or three days, kind neighbors have come to our front door and have offered to run any errands we need in order to avoid us endangering ourselves in crowded food stores and long …
