Robert Jacobson

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  Robert commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Muslim Social Entrepreneurs and Obama's New Era

  PS I should point out that of the monies made available by the President's well-intended "recovery" legislation, early lobbying by large interests has resulted in almost every sector in most of the funds going to existing large public institutions and private corporations.  Little people with good ideas will have to affiliate with these large institutions and corporations and do what they say, taking pay cuts for the privilege of getting a meager share of the take.  It will be difficult for American social entreneurship to blossom under such conditions.

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  Robert commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Muslim Social Entrepreneurs and Obama's New Era

  It would be refreshing for many of these initiatives intended for beneficiaries overseas had domestic counterparts.  Most Americans are not given opportunities to innovate for social, let alone societal, purposes.  Most work within strictures that discourage innovation and many, personal initiative.  Others do not work at all including many who may inherently be outstanding innovators.  Once more, a case of American chutzpah: "Do as I say, not as I do." 

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  Robert commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  "I bristle at the blanket assumption that this most recent generation is more 'technically savvy.'"

  What a load from these two pre-geezers.  I'm a Boomer and I can testify that most of this stuff predates them by a couple of decades, even the heated discussions over which generation -- the people who invented computers in the 40s, or those who were fixing them for public use in the 80s -- was the most "savvy" and all the passionate stuff about which medium would save the world (Sony Portapaks -- the first popular video cameras -- or cable TV, then alleged to be the hallmark of democratic media.  (You think?)
  
  These generational divides are nothing but BS and one reason why this is probably the first and last time a posting by me will show up on a blog named Gen X, Gen Y, Boomers, or Millennials.  The tendency for exclusion on the basis of age is just too, too tempting and frequently abused, on the Left as on the Right and in the Middle.  No way, Jose!