Daily Topics - Tuesday - April 27th 2010
Hour One - What the hell is going on on Wall Street? Chris Hayes Washington, DC Editor of The Nation Magazine www.thenation.com
Plus...Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) http://brown.senate.gov on the Financial Hearings today and reform
Hour Two - Steven Hill author of "Europe's Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age" www.newamerica.net
Plus..."Labor Segment" Karen Nussbaum www.notyouratm.com Calling out Wall Street to bail out Main Street...and the I am "Not Your ATM" campaign
Hour Three - Will conservatives ever recover their rationality or electoral majorities? R. Emmett Tyrrell, author of the new book "After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery" http://spectator.org
Comments
You got the Robin Hood reference right Maxrot. The question is what is the carrying capacity of the Earth and what is a reasonable amount of resources to be slated for each individual on the planet.
OMG!! - here's another quote from Tyrell's book -
"... another of my propositions concerning conservatives - they do not do politics as well as Liberals. They can be energetic, resolute, unprincipled and ad hominem, but rarely as energetic, resolute, unprincipled and ad hominem as their Liberal opponents."
Once again - SAY WHAT!!!??? Which ERA of conservative vs. liberal politics is he talking about? In the late 60's, early 70's that MIGHT have been true, but TODAY?? The gang that sits back waits for the left to state a policy initiative and then says "NO!", without even bothering to HEAR the proposal, that uses the filibuster as a means to but the brakes on EVERY agenda on the table, is LESS unprincipled and ad hominem?
Who does he think he's kidding?
Foodfacist, I believe the consensus on Earth's carrying capacity is 12 billion, and that there is reasonable expectation that around about 2050, population will reach an apex of 9 billion then start to decline based on population pyramids of the Developed and developing world. There are basically 4 stages to population expansion:
Stage 1, High birth rate matched with high death rate (common to most third world countries).
Stage 2 High birth rate and a lowering death rate (common to countries that are beginning to develop health standards)
Stage 3 Stabilizing birth rate and lowering death rate (common to developed countries, USA is a good example of this)
Stage 4 Declining birth rate and stablized death rate (further developed countries, Germany is one country that is in this stage)
Just took a class in Environmental Geography last semester in which this topic was covered. My facts may be a bit off, but what I listed there I stand by as being correct in concept.
Excellent Maxrot-
Have you a citation and reference for me? In the book Dialogs with God, this pyramid is also explained. I am sorry the typical environmental sciences books seem to be bereft of this. Interesting that you gained this information through a geography rather than pure environmental sciences venue.
I forget the name of our text book for that class. Let me google population pyramids, if I remember right there was references out there, but it wasn't necessary to do such research, it was both covered in the book and in the Professor's lecture. Give me a minute.
Here's a wikipedia entry, its a little more in depth than what I wrote. I didn't read it all and being wikipedia, I know there is credibility concerns. I did a cursory look over, I'm not seeing anything that is blatantly BS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid
If only they would consider that, which I think is a perfect analogy, Maxrot. Liberals identify with Robin Hood and Conservatives identify with Prince John.
Try to get people to listen to what is being said, rather than deconstruct it as "supporting Marxism" because it sounds "foreign".
Try to get the ear of Tea Party people to consider going there to ponder awhile.
I posted my comments on the story Louise wrote on today's show, quoting George Washington:
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/government/oligarchy.htm oligarchy is just about the same as the despised monarchy, or royals we fought for independence from.
I was just on the ferry from New Jersey to New York City (a 9 minute ride). While waiting to depart a pigeon walked down the ramp (why he didn't have to give a ticket I do not know - maybe he was a regular). He them walked into the boat, went up one aisle across the back and returned down the other aisle. We were about to dock when he came out, marched across the deck and walked (hopped) up the stairs to the upper level! I left before he noticed me :)
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