Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs. Paul Solman More Quotes by Paul Solman More Quotes From Paul Solman Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something that the current generation doesnt have. And that is a sense of efficacy. Paul Solman struggle rights war I have heard that the most valuable thing in today's world, postindustrial world, is the human being's attention and how to get it. Paul Solman valuable attention world To make America great is about, hey, this country's in trouble. By doing things the old-fashioned way, I'm going to bring in people, deal-makers, who know how to change things dramatically. Paul Solman trouble people America isn't Wollman Rink, but I think almost everybody watching, and certainly the people who voted for him, have had frustrating experiences with bureaucrats and bureaucracy, private as well as public, pushing them around. Paul Solman bureaucracy people thinking Maybe the discipline in North America is just consolidation, right? I mean, it may be that if there were more vigorous pursuit of antitrust in America, there would have more competitors competing on price, and then airlines wouldn't be making any money again. Paul Solman airline discipline mean Today, the U.S. fleet has shrunk to just four main carriers, which control 80 percent-plus of the U.S. market. No wonder passengers are at the mercy of the major airlines: flights jam-packed, routes slashed, service to smaller airports dumped. Paul Solman flight wonder today In the country, our best years economically were from the 1940s into the 1970s, when we had the best public works - we call it infrastructure today - in the history of the world. Highways, bridges, water and sewer, community colleges and medical research. We don't do that the way we used to. Paul Solman college water country One of our needs in a very complex society, where we encounter more people every day than probably our ancestors encountered over their whole lifetime, is our need to very rapidly evaluate other people. And one of the most potent ways of doing that is through our automobiles. So, a car isn't just a thing. It's a set of symbols and associations that we have to figure out in order to understand how we navigate our social worlds with that car. Paul Solman car order people One guy can't create a field, but you can get people thinking. Paul Solman guy people thinking I think that the sense of inefficacy and inevitability comes not from thinking the rich are going to have all the educational advantages. No, I think it comes from the sense that politically, the wealthy have overwhelming power in this society and there's nothing, say a lot of people, that we can do about it. That is simply wrong Paul Solman educational people thinking A lot of people think, particularly the people who have benefited, that they're entitled to the fruits of their abilities, their labor. Paul Solman fruit people thinking
