Thursday, March 2, 2023

Too many huge intergenerational conflicts.

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I just realize that this blog, too long abandoned by me, has even more relevance than I initially realized. Since the last post, April 2011,...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Young unemployed… and forever?

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Again, as part of the “Civil Society”, whatever that means, I am not too sure about that, I was present during the meetings last week in Wa...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Do you?

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Do you want your children to know about north, south, east and west or do you give them a GPS? (Like in: Do you want your bankers to know ab...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Something´s terribly wrong

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When parents seem to give more importance to their children´s credit score than their school grades, like setting them up to the fact that ...
Friday, March 13, 2009

“God Bless the Child” sung by a prodigious child

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

No taxation of families, without representation of families!

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The backbone of a nation is its people, and the backbone of its people is God and families. Currently in a family, the father has the right...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

How mothers and fathers vote…doesn’t it matter?

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While analyzing the availability of data on family I happened upon one of the most telling evidences of what is going wrong with our societ...
Tuesday, February 5, 2008

The environment?

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A couple of days ago, in a green meeting, surrounded by environmental activists, I started to argue for the 1C1V with the votes exercised b...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

We need a new deal for democracy, families and children

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CATO when commenting on Stephanie Coontz´s book Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage says: “Family is a crucial building block o...

One child one vote!

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What would you say if they took away the right to vote from the 51 million citizens over 60 years of age in the US on account that they did ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Don’t give your teacher an apple; offer him a couple of basis points in your earnings instead.

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Parent and students need some way of sorting through the reams of college information in order to make rational investments, but may I remin...
Saturday, June 9, 2007

Odious debt revisited

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I must confess I was blown away when reading the Financial Times editorial “ Young, gifted, poor ”, June 9, in which Junior, with reference...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Yeah "Go out there and raise hell!"

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And so Barbara Ehrenreich told the class of '07: Go out there and raise hell! Absolutely! Well here is my proposal for a start! “Cars...
Saturday, February 17, 2007

The ‛rights of children’ is anything but a juvenile concept.

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Sir, if the average life length of a person in UK were 80 and our democracies had anything to do with representation of interests, as in com...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

Should not Higher Education be more of a joint venture?

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Hearing so many young professionals in the USA describing their problems with debts they incurred while studying, I guess that soon some of...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Democracia Siglo XXI

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No hemos logrado asegurar cuan cierto puede ser que el comando de Manuel Rosales esté analizando el convocar a un referendo para disminuir ...
Thursday, July 10, 1997

A lean, not so mean, vote counting machine

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Last week I read somewhere that the automatizations of 70% of the electoral process would cost the Nation some US$ 134 million without incl...