Posted on 11/09/2013 1:08:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
AT the recent New York Times forum in Singapore, Eleonora Sharef, a co-founder of HireArt, was explaining what new skills employers were seeking from job applicants, but she really got the audience’s attention when she mentioned that her search firm was recently told by one employer that it wouldn’t look at any applicant for a marketing job who didn’t have at least 2,000 Twitter followers — and the more the better. She didn’t disclose the name of the firm, but she told me that it wasn’t Twitter.
At a meeting with students at Fudan University in Shanghai a few days earlier, I was struck by how anxious some of the Chinese students were about the question: “Am I going to have a job?” If you’re a software engineer in China, you’ll do fine, also a factory worker — but a plain-old college grad? The Times reported earlier this year that in China today “among people in their early 20s, those with a college degree were four times as likely to be unemployed as those with only an elementary school education.”
Stories like these explain why I really hope that Obamacare succeeds. Say what?
Here’s the logic: The Cold War era I grew up in was a world of insulated walls, both geopolitical and economic, so the pace of change was slower — you could work for the same company for 30 years — and because bosses had fewer alternatives, unions had greater leverage....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Yup.
But the real point was that his conclusion did not follow from anything he wrote before it.
Tom Friedman is living proof that humans and neanderthals copulated.
This is insane. Yes, technical knowledge is getting to be more of a factor in getting a good job. But you don't have to be a super-scientist to have tech knowledge. Just ask your plumber or your electrician. They both have pretty darn important technical knowledge and they are not giving their time away for free.
And to use this flawed economic model as a basis for a "safety net" of nationalized healthcare is ludicrous. Calling Obamacare a plague is closer to the truth.
The posted excerpt doesn’t contain the money quote from the article that explains this guy’s rationale for (still) supporting Obamacare, and I ain’t clicking on a link to the New York Times to find out.
What’s the gist of this guy’s reasoning?
Friedman makes a very weak case for Single Payer not ObamaCare. His premise is society with massive unemployment needs a massive safety net. How does forcing them to buy health insurance help? Friedman doesn’t even know what ObamaCare is FCOL. He thinks it is government “free” health care from the feds.
For the young starting out this is way more insurance than they need. This is simply to help pay for older and sicker enrollees. Those just starting out need lower deductible catastrophic overage. You don't buy auto insurance to change the oil.
Anyway this tool will be one of the first to forsake Obamacare when Hillary decides it's time.
“He should come down with shingles”
A union guy walks into an overcrowded Obamacare health clinic. The receptionist says now what do you have? He says shingles. She says go in that room, strip down, put on this gown, and wait for the doctor.
An hour later, the doc comes in and asks what’s the problem. Guy says I have shingles. Doc says OK show me where they are. Guy says they’re out in the truck, where should I unload them?
Like they say, hit it with a drone.
Upper middle class country club Jew, later a zionist, educated in liberal east coast institutions all the way up, married into billions and now part of one of the richest 100 families in the U.S.
From HuffPost:
Friedman’s great wealth is a frame for his window on the world. The Washingtonian reports that “his annual income easily reaches seven figures.” In the Maryland suburbs near Washington, three years ago, “the Friedmans built a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million,” on a parcel of more than seven acres near Bethesda Country Club and the Beltway.
Throughout his journalistic career, Friedman has been married to Ann Bucksbaum — heiress to a real-estate and shopping-mall fortune now estimated at $2.7 billion. When the couple wed back in 1978, according to The Washingtonian article, Friedman became part of “one of the 100 richest families in the country.”
From Wiki:
From an early age, Friedman, whose father often brought him to the golf course for a round after work, wanted to be a professional golfer. He played a lot of sports, becoming serious about tennis and golf. He caddied at a local country club and in 1970 caddied for the legendary Chi Chi Rodriguez when the US Open came to town.
Friedman is Jewish. He attended Hebrew school five days a week until his Bar Mitzvah, then St. Louis Park High School where he wrote articles for his school’s newspaper. He became enamored of Israel after a visit there in December 1968, and he spent all three of his high school summers living on Kibbutz Hahotrim, near Haifa. He has characterized his high school years as “one big celebration of Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War.”
Friedman studied at the University of Minnesota for two years, but later transferred to Brandeis University and graduated summa cum laude in 1975 with a degree in Mediterranean studies. While at Brandeis he roomed with psychologist Steven Fox. Friedman taught a class in economics at his alma mater Brandeis University in 2006, and was a commencement speaker at Brandeis in 2007.
After graduating from Brandeis, he attended St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford on a Marshall scholarship, earning an M.Phil. in Middle Eastern studies. He names Professor Albert Hourani among his important academic influences.
Friedman’s wife, Ann, is a graduate of Stanford University and the London School of Economics. They were married in London on Thanksgiving Day.
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Yup just another good ole boy.
I believe hlencken3’s mother-in-law was a close friend of Friedman’s mother and lived in the same condos. Friedman’s mother was heartbroken over her son’s anti-Americanism and naive attitude about Israel’s enemies.
Just another limousine liberal.
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