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...questions I would raise is what is the magic in 65, what is the magic in 70. It's purely arbitrary. In other words, we're playing with numbers. Historically, if you look into university acceptance of retirement at age 65, it goes back to the 1880's, to Bismarck's time, when he was putting through these welfare and social justice programs. Somebody just said all right, we're going to pay them a pension when they retire at 65. That's the magic of 65--it is purely a convention, and he chose 65 because at that time...
...student shook his head. "Quite understandable," chuckled the professor. "Scholars around the world have yet to come up with a satisfactory answer to that question Quite understandable Tell me, though, can you summarize Rousseau's basic tenets on education?" The students shook his head "How about a summary of Bismarck's course of imperial unification." No reply. "Well then," said the professor, "What were the dates of the French Revolution?" Silence "Within 15 years" Still no response. "How about the American revolution." Nothing "Well can you tell me roughly where France and Germany are geographically located, in relation...
...design a new Latin American policy; they have succeeded only in repeating the old mistakes. But this criticism must also be applied, although in the other direction, to the Latin American anti-imperialists. The example of Castro's Cuba, now a "socialism of the barracks"-as Engels called Bismarck's Germany-dependent on Moscow as Batista never was on Washington, should open our eyes...
...that national governments, rather than churches, charities or extended families, might have to concern themselves with helping the old and the disabled is relatively new in history. Imperial Germany in 1889 enacted the first pension plan, financed by equal contributions from employers and employees, largely because Chancellor Otto von Bismarck saw it as a method to wean the masses away from socialism. As he explained candidly: "Whoever has a pension for his old age is far more content and far easier to handle than one who has no such prospect." Similar plans were adopted by most other major industrial nations...
...them physicists. Their elders, frustrated generals like the institute's director, doodle pictures of ladders and balloons on scraps of paper, proposals to link the institutes to the front. As Jakob speaks of harmony and international brotherhood, he is hooted out of a lecture hall, seemingly by "the stone Bismarck." He commits suicide...