Comments on: Cats and dogs, living together? http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1622.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:17:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Sylvain Galineau http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1622.html/comment-page-1#comment-1173 Sylvain Galineau Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:24:09 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/001622.php#comment-1173 Fine by me. The dustjacket has the merit to be totally honest with respect to the contents. And it will prevent thoughtful, moderate people from wasting money buying it, and time reading it. I wish they had done the same in the US. Truth in advertising... Fine by me. The dustjacket has the merit to be totally honest with respect to the contents. And it will prevent thoughtful, moderate people from wasting money buying it, and time reading it. I wish they had done the same in the US.

Truth in advertising…

]]> By: Sandy P. http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1622.html/comment-page-1#comment-1172 Sandy P. Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:05:39 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/001622.php#comment-1172 Check out the proposed UK cover of Herr Doktorprofessor's book at Luskin's site. Check out the proposed UK cover of Herr Doktorprofessor’s book at Luskin’s site.

]]> By: Sylvain Galineau http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1622.html/comment-page-1#comment-1171 Sylvain Galineau Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:00:49 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/001622.php#comment-1171 I guess I am probably overly biased in this respect, but the constant influx of immigrants is probably one significant ingredient of American success. When you absorb so many people who have a pretty good idea about what not to do i.e. they come to America because it's *not* like home, it's bound to keep the place different. And attract more of the same, keeping the place dynamic, flexible and a lot less in-bred and self-centered than Old Europe, whose immigrants are mostly uneducated welfare-state bottom feeders. As for those pension checks, they might not come. I don't believe my niece or her children will be so happy to fork a huge proportion of their income to fulfill a "social contract" that was signed before they were born without their consent. For all its talk about respecting future generations as if it alone knew what they want, the Left is quite happy to inflict an ever growing economic burden on them, and strives to expand it every day. We know the demographics are not there already. But to the extent most people have something to look forward to for themselves, they keep plowing along. At some point, the younger citizens will realize there is nothing in the system for them, or at least a lot less than they're being asked to pay. And that, Mr Krugman, will be the start of the "Great Unraveling". I guess I am probably overly biased in this respect, but the constant influx of immigrants is probably one significant ingredient of American success. When you absorb so many people who have a pretty good idea about what not to do i.e. they come to America because it’s *not* like home, it’s bound to keep the place different. And attract more of the same, keeping the place dynamic, flexible and a lot less in-bred and self-centered than Old Europe, whose immigrants are mostly uneducated welfare-state bottom feeders.

As for those pension checks, they might not come. I don’t believe my niece or her children will be so happy to fork a huge proportion of their income to fulfill a “social contract” that was signed before they were born without their consent. For all its talk about respecting future generations as if it alone knew what they want, the Left is quite happy to inflict an ever growing economic burden on them, and strives to expand it every day. We know the demographics are not there already. But to the extent most people have something to look forward to for themselves, they keep plowing along. At some point, the younger citizens will realize there is nothing in the system for them, or at least a lot less than they’re being asked to pay.

And that, Mr Krugman, will be the start of the “Great Unraveling”.

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