Questions for Obama
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Questions for Obama
George Will asks them. And they're good ones.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/134316/page/1You say John McCain is content to "watch [Americans'] home prices decline." So, government should prop up housing prices generally? How? Why? Were prices ideal before the bubble popped? How does a senator know ideal prices? Have you explained to young couples straining to buy their first house that declining prices are a misfortune?
Michelle Obama, who was born in 1964, says that most Americans' lives have "gotten progressively worse since I was a little girl." Since 1960, real per capita income has increased 143 percent, life expectancy has increased by seven years, infant mortality has declined 74 percent, deaths from heart disease have been halved, childhood leukemia has stopped being a death sentence, depression has become a treatable disease, air and water pollution have been drastically reduced, the number of women earning a bachelor's degree has more than doubled, the rate of homeownership has increased 10.2 percent, the size of the average American home has doubled, the percentage of homes with air conditioning has risen from 12 to 77, the portion of Americans who own shares of stock has quintupled … Has your wife perhaps missed some pertinent developments in this country that she calls "just downright mean"?
Randall- Number of posts : 126
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Re: Questions for Obama
Since 1960, it is really not the per capita income increase that has affected most Americans' lives the mostest, ……. it is the variety and quantity of “consumer goods” they could purchase with that income.
Now George Will cited air conditioning ……. but what about central heating, kitchen and laundry appliances, thermostatically controlled water heaters, TVs, vehicles, etc.
For instance:
HA, that was a little over $12 per transistor.
Is that what ya would call "cheaper by the million"?
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Now George Will cited air conditioning ……. but what about central heating, kitchen and laundry appliances, thermostatically controlled water heaters, TVs, vehicles, etc.
For instance:
The first transistor radio hit the consumer market on October 18, 1954. The Regency TR-1 featured four germanium transistors operating on a 22.5-volt battery that provided over twenty hours of life. The unit weighed eleven ounces and cost $49.95.
HA, that was a little over $12 per transistor.
The 1954 TR-1 had 4 transistors; 1971 microprocessor had 2,300 transistors; the 1978 Intel 8086 microprocessor had 29,000 transistors; the 2003 Intel Pentium 4 microprocessor had 55 million transistors.
Is that what ya would call "cheaper by the million"?
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