We're going to have to eliminate outmoded programs and make the ones that we do need work better.
By and large, authoritarian governments are better at this than democratic ones, because they do not need their people's immediate consent.
And do we really need the three new ones on order?
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The reality is, well, you still have your mom and dad over there, you still have your family, your loved ones, so you need to do what you need to do on a personal level.
And even if you believe that the ideas contained within their jobs plan are good ones and merited, they do not address the near-term economic need that we have.
On cash, money should indeed change hands both for moral reasons (rich countries are largely responsible for the problem so far but poor ones will suffer most) and for practical ones (some poor countries do not have access to the capital they need to invest in mitigation).
With Europe's unemployment now falling, and its people increasingly sniffy about the sorts of jobs they are prepared to do, or too ill-equipped to do the high-tech ones being created, the continent's workforce is in need of renewal as never before.
Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomic Advisors, said the minutes had been "largely superseded" by Mr Bernanke's testimony "but they do reinforce the idea that the doves - who are the ones making policy - will need a great deal of persuading to change their stance".
All you need to do is choose a new task and link it to your old ones.
We need to think it out, write it out, and do our loved ones and those who help us the decency of making our wishes clear to them.
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Survivors, aware of the agonies their families have endured, may feel the need to appear to be "fine" because they do not want to add to their loved ones' grief.
Seniors will do a better job of it, because they are the ones most directly affected by the trade-offs they will need to make.
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