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When Corporations Get Special Handouts From The Government, Subsidies And Tax Breaks, It Costs You. It Means You Have To Pay More In Taxes To Make Up For These Hidden Expenses, And Government Has Less Money For Good Schools And Roads, Medicare And National Defense And Everything Else You Need.

Socialism For Rich Bankers And Capitalism For Everyone Else.

Now We're In A Very Different Economy. Throughout The Late 1980s And 1990s American Management Started To Do The Right Things. There Was Extraordinary Investment In Technology. The Dominant Questions Now Are Less How To Do It Better, How To Manage Better, How To Make The Economy Better, Than How To Have Fuller And More Meaningful Lives. Because The Irony Is, Now That We've Come Through This Great Transition, Even Though Our Organizations And Our People Are Extraordinarily Productive, Many Feel That The Nonwork Side Of Life Is Very Thin.

We Are Creating A One Size Fits All System That Needlessly Brands Many Young People As Failures, When They Might Thrive If Offered A Different Education Whose Progress Was Measured Differently. Paradoxically We're Embracing Standardized Tests Just When The Economy Is Eliminating Standardized Jobs.

I Am Not An Economic Determinist. If I Were, I Would Throw Up My Hands; I Just Would Not Bother. I Think It's Wrong To Be An Economic Determinist. I Think It's Wrong To Simply Say, "well, Inevitably, If You're Poor, You're Going To Get A Lousy Education; If You're Lower-middle Class, The Cards Are Going To Be Stacked Against You, And You'll Probably Never Get Anywhere".