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Megan Stern

American Thinker: The Disappearing Middle Class - 0 views

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  • The government is helping out, "redistributing" money to the bottom. "The Rich" can use their money and influence to get in. The middle class gets no special consideration or privilege. Because they do work hard, they get to work harder -- and the Ruling Class calls this "justice."
    • Megan Stern
      Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10
       
      So. True.
  • And this is what the Tea Party is really mad about.
  • And the balance between the lower class and their upper-class leaders is upset by the injection of the middle class and its struggles to carve out its niche.
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  • His Communist Manifesto is nothing more than a rant about the evils of this group and how they have inflicted harm and damage to everyone around them through colonialism and ingenuity.
  • Marx and Engels envisioned a return to the simpler time, where a vast lower class was ruled by its betters. Not surprisingly, they saw themselves as leading the underlings to the new paradise.
  • their opinions are tainted by "greed" (the single biggest sin of the bourgeoisie).
  • The byproduct of this Socialization is the shrinking of the middle class. When you punish people for working hard, those people will stop working so hard.
  • se bailouts are transfers of wealth -- not from the rich to the poor, but from the working middle class to both the upper and lower classes.
  • True: all the
  • Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10
     
    Concisely presents the consensual argument most conservatives adopt against Marx's principles in our day.
Shuan Pai

History Magazine - The Impact of Refrigeration - 0 views

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shared by Shuan Pai on 16 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Refrigeration brought distant production centers and the North American population together. It tore down the barriers of climates and seasons. And while it helped to rev up industrial processes, it became an industry itself.
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      Shuan Pai on 16 Nov 10
       
      Allowed all types of food to be made available year-round
  • Ice was harvested and stored in China before the first millennium. Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans placed large amounts of snow into storage pits and covered this cooling agent with insulating material.
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  • For centuries, people preserved and stored their food — especially milk and butter — in cellars, outdoor window boxes or even underwater in nearby lakes, streams or wells.
  • food preservation used time-tested methods: salting, spicing, smoking, pickling and drying.
  • Shuan Pai on 16 Nov 10
     
    how the invention of refrigerators affected society
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