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May 19, 2012Do You Want the Good News First?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/friedman-do-you-want-the-good-news-first.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=thomaslfriedman
In an op-ed, Thomas Friedman writes that we must preserve the “magic combination of cutting-edge higher education, government-funded research and immigration of high-I.Q. risk-takers.” He notes that the budget-cutting in California, as an example, is slowly reducing what was once one of the crown jewels of American education – the University of California system – to a shadow of its old self. Friedman writes: “As one community leader in Seattle remarked to me, governments basically do three things: Medicate, educate and incarcerate. And various federal and state mandates outlaw cuts in medicating and incarcerating, so much of the money is coming out of educating.” Friedman concludes: “Investment in our collective institutions and opportunities is the only way to mitigate the staggering income inequalities that can arise from a world where Facebook employees can become billionaires overnight, while the universities that produce them are asked to slash billions overnight.”
In an op-ed, Thomas Friedman writes that we must preserve the “magic combination of cutting-edge higher education, government-funded research and immigration of high-I.Q. risk-takers.” He notes that the budget-cutting in California, as an example, is slowly reducing what was once one of the crown jewels of American education – the University of California system – to a shadow of its old self. Friedman writes: “As one community leader in Seattle remarked to me, governments basically do three things: Medicate, educate and incarcerate. And various federal and state mandates outlaw cuts in medicating and incarcerating, so much of the money is coming out of educating.” Friedman concludes: “Investment in our collective institutions and opportunities is the only way to mitigate the staggering income inequalities that can arise from a world where Facebook employees can become billionaires overnight, while the universities that produce them are asked to slash billions overnight.”
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