http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/2011/02/02/the-value-of-humanities/ Tue, 14 May 2013 18:04:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/2011/02/02/the-value-of-humanities/comment-page-1/#comment-954 GetpIaning Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:23:28 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/?p=781#comment-954 Conservatives are always crying "cut the spending." What they really mean is, "I've got mine, now cut the spending!" Conservatives are always crying “cut the spending.”
What they really mean is, “I’ve got mine, now cut the spending!”

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/2011/02/02/the-value-of-humanities/comment-page-1/#comment-918 DrJJJJ Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:01:53 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/?p=781#comment-918 Our National debt is now over 100% of our GDP and represents 25% of all the debt in the world FYI! Doesn't include the trillions more that will be added when the bill arrives for unfunded entitlements, state/pension deficits, etc etc! We have a moral obligation to our citizens and the world to cut spending now big time-regardless of how much it slows us down or who's at fault! Gambling on some Madoff revenue scheme is foolish and dangerous! Cut spending significantly now or say goodby to quality of life-waiting is foolish and dangerous! Canada did it aand it worked fyi! Our National debt is now over 100% of our GDP and represents 25% of all the debt in the world FYI! Doesn’t include the trillions more that will be added when the bill arrives for unfunded entitlements, state/pension deficits, etc etc! We have a moral obligation to our citizens and the world to cut spending now big time-regardless of how much it slows us down or who’s at fault! Gambling on some Madoff revenue scheme is foolish and dangerous! Cut spending significantly now or say goodby to quality of life-waiting is foolish and dangerous! Canada did it aand it worked fyi!

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/2011/02/02/the-value-of-humanities/comment-page-1/#comment-916 hansrudolf Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:15:42 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/?p=781#comment-916 Maybe Chrystia could interview Martha Nussbaum (Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities). Maybe Chrystia could interview Martha Nussbaum (Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities).

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