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...Over the past 20 years of excess, millions of American families have lived prudently and within their means, even as incomes stagnated and good job opportunities vanished. Most of us know what is good for America; we used to live there before the Washington - Wall Street axis of greed wrecked it for so many of us. By declaring that "there is plenty of blame to go around," TIME has now joined Washington in excusing the government's negligence and creating the crisis. Ray Damani, Spartanburg...
...many as possible of the world's smartest people to become Americans, the better their chance of forestalling economic decline." Are you really trying to promote an even greater brain drain from the developing world? I refuse to believe it. I'm sure you don't mean "Long live America - and to hell with the Third World." Alaisdair Raynham, TRURO, ENGLAND...
Over the past 20 years of excess, millions of American families have lived prudently, even as incomes stagnated and good job opportunities vanished. Most of us know what is good for America; we used to live there before the Washington-Wall Street axis of greed wrecked it for so many of us. By declaring that "there is plenty of blame to go around," TIME has joined Washington in excusing the government's negligence and creating the crisis. Ray Damani, SPARTANBURG...
...been closed for more than six months now. It ran on tuition fees and government subsidies, but both have vanished. Most of the college's students are the children of civil servants who have to live on salaries of $100 a month. The government is too broke to inject funds into the institution, which was once the envy of students all over Africa. Justifying his beer, Majiri says, "At least I am not into thievery, like most of my colleagues, who are subsidizing their income that way." (See pictures from the long reign of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe...
...plays into the Zimbabweans' belief that they live in a version of George Orwell's Animal Farm, where some animals are more equal than others. Just a day after the new government was sworn in, all the Ministers - almost 40 of them - were driving around in luxury Mercedes Benzes. Each was allocated an all-terrain vehicle. Their deputies were each assigned a luxury car as well...