Op-Ed Columnist: The Broken Society

New York Times | Mar. 19, 2010 (Opinion)

The United States is becoming a broken society. The public has contempt for the political class. Public debt is piling up at an astonishing and unrelenting pace. Middle-class wages have lagged. Unemployment will remain high. It will take years to Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Lawrence Shore - Mar 18, 2010 - 10:06 PM PDT
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Shawn Kerry Inlow
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 by Shawn Kerry Inlow - Mar. 19, 2010

Mr. Brooks and Blonde are overthinking things. I get what the writer is trying to say. We're in a fragmented society where people no longer control anything. It doesn't look like "Brazil" (the movie) yet but it might actually BE Brazil. If that's the case, what really needs done is someone (like Bruce Cockburn once sang) needs to find a rocket launcher and plant one right in Goldman-Sachs' kisser. Or AIG, or Cigna or BP or any of the other monoliths that think they run the ... More »

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Lawrence Shore
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 by Lawrence Shore - Mar. 19, 2010

Left leads right and right leads left. Time to build a village in the middle.

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