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Here's how the numbers are wrong. Every time you spend money against your home, the government calls that consumption. The truth is that it's savings, and this is a 6% or 7% swing in the savings rate. So you can go from a zero savings rate to a 7% savings rate just on the accounting for durable goods. American middle-class consumers have a higher net worth than any middle-class consumers in the world, including Japan...
...blood to those who might need it. It was the off-duty doctors and nurses tending to the injured in cars, vans and alleyways. It was the strangers carrying the disabled, elderly, young and injured to safety. It was the legions of concerned Americans rushing not away from Ground Zero, but to Ground Zero, eager to help their neighbors any way they could...
...Those next couple of days I did whatever I could to help out. In total we spent a few months between Ground Zero and the Staten Island landfill, and it's the landfill that stands out in my mind the most. We would take a rake and sift through rubble. I remember finding a woman's hand and forearm, and a partial rib cage. I found lots of hair and scalp. Can anyone imagine they would ever have to rake a bunch of rubble in search for human remains? I wish I never had to do that. That...
...Somewhere inside ourselves we all have had a terrible tragedy, no matter how grand or minute. I've seen marriages broken up. I've seen loved ones lose their spouses, children lose their parents, or parents lose children. Occasionally now I drive by Ground Zero. I find it difficult to think of downtown Manhattan any other way than I see it in my head. There will always be that huge airplane tire lying in the street. There will always be the pieces of airplane lying amid tons of dust and rubble. We just clean up and move along with...
...Stein, now 49, was a lieutenant in the Fire Department of New York, sent to Ground Zero on Sept. 11. He was promoted to captain that November, but has since retired because of lung problems suffered on 9/11...