tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5700072802364043269..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Saving Bezos from HimselfStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-66189073416910513412019-02-24T15:46:29.451-08:002019-02-24T15:46:29.451-08:00Walt, that's ANOTHER type of cancer.Walt, that's ANOTHER type of cancer.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-71410061514574385672019-02-22T19:45:30.234-08:002019-02-22T19:45:30.234-08:00Well said, dottore.
Your point that today's L...Well said, dottore.<br /><br />Your point that today's Left is neither progressive or liberal is particularly well made.<br /><br />As a lawyer for 30 years I made my living with words and am conscious of their power to convey truth when deployed accurately and their power to obfuscate it when used sloppily.<br /><br />A true Liberal is someone who stands for and promotes individual freedom/s since it's root is in the Latin "liber" (meaning free),which derives from the Greek.<br /><br />Noone is liberal who would deny a voice to those who differ from them. Likewise, noone is progressive who would impose values that are not, ultimately, life-affirming.Stephen Ippolitonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-67960396936195872982019-02-22T13:34:27.186-08:002019-02-22T13:34:27.186-08:00"Progressive" simply means progress on t..."Progressive" simply means progress on the road to serfdom, er, socialismWaltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-56708031645565222272019-02-22T11:56:48.419-08:002019-02-22T11:56:48.419-08:00I don't trust Peggy, and haven't since som...I don't trust Peggy, and haven't since somewhere around 2004-2008. (I'm old, and my memory is not what it never was.)<br /><br />"After Amazon’s withdrawal no major American company will open a new headquarters here for at least a generation. No CEO is going to do what Jeff Bezos did, invest all that time and money, do all the planning, negotiating and deciding, only to see it collapse in bitter headlines because the politicians you’re making the deal with can’t control their own troops, and because in the end it is summoning a humiliation to do big business in a town whose political life is dominated by a wild and rising progressive left." My guess is 5-10 years, not "a generation". There are many fools and short-memoried people.<br /><br />"The progressives who dominate New York’s City Council charged those numbers came from consultants hired to support the deal." As I always say, "progressive" always make me think of cancer.<br /><br />Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com