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Warren Buffett - Long Of America In Women Terms
Healthy female participation rates in the labor force and in leadership are a reflection of inclusiveness in countries and companies; and as Goldman Sachs recently noted, inclusive institutions lead to more innovation, more enduring competitive advantages and a more efficient use of available resources (capital, physical and people). The idea that empowering women employees and entrepreneurs contributes to a virtuous cycle as higher female disposable income trickles down to increased spending on education and healthcare, is not lost on Warren Buffett who writes at length in his latest Op-ed of the possibilities for America should the other 50% of America become productive, "women should never forget that it is common for powerful and seemingly self-assured males to have more than a bit of the Wizard of Oz in them. Pull the curtain aside, and you'll often discover they are not supermen after all." And with the oracular Omahan now on Twitter, can we expect more bitesize insights - perhaps the anti-Bill-Gross tweet.
For now this is it:
Warren is in the house.
— Warren Buffett (@WarrenBuffett) May 2, 2013
CNN Money (Via Fortune Magazine): Warren Buffett is bullish ... on women
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It has to do with America's future, about which -- here's a familiar opinion from me -- I'm an unqualified optimist. Now entertain another opinion of mine: Women are a major reason we will do so well.
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America has forged this success while utilizing, in large part, only half of the country's talent. For most of our history, women -- whatever their abilities -- have been relegated to the sidelines. Only in recent years have we begun to correct that problem.
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Resistance among the powerful is natural when change clashes with their self-interest. Business, politics, and, yes, religions provide many examples of such defensive behavior. After all, who wants to double the number of competitors for top positions?
But an even greater enemy of change may well be the ingrained attitudes of those who simply can't imagine a world different from the one they've lived in.
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Still an obstacle remains: Too many women continue to impose limitations on themselves, talking themselves out of achieving their potential. Here, too, I have had some firsthand experience.
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Women should never forget that it is common for powerful and seemingly self-assured males to have more than a bit of the Wizard of Oz in them. Pull the curtain aside, and you'll often discover they are not supermen after all. (Just ask their wives!)
So, my fellow males, what's in this for us? Why should we care whether the remaining barriers facing women are dismantled and the fun-house mirrors junked? Never mind that I believe the ethical case in itself is compelling. Let's look instead to your self-interest.
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Fellow males, get onboard. The closer that America comes to fully employing the talents of all its citizens, the greater its output of goods and services will be. We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.
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Bullish on increasing any number of debt serfs no matter how possible. Soon, that dirtbag will write about how retirees and children alike should start working too.
The Careless Whisper News Update & Threadjacking (AHEAD OF DRUDGE)
Castro Bans Fat People From Bicycles
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No Inflation; Apartment Rents Rise 12-20% In L.A.
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-la-apartment-rents-201305...
Orlando FL Public School To Drug Test All 1,200 Students
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/os-lake-highland-drug-...
Author Of "End Of Cheap China" Has Warning For Apple: Being so reliant on China and thus beholden to the government is never a good position to be in. Interview:
http://shanghaiist.com/2013/05/02/interview_shaun_rein_author_the_end_of...
NO FUCKIN MAAM
Warren how many females on the boards of companies you have a >10% position in?
let's count...
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK)
4 broads 10 dudes
Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI)
1 broad 17 dudes
Warren is in the house.
.........and Becky is in the tub.
and so on you fucking hypocrite
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html
Acme Brick Company
International Dairy Queen, Inc.
Applied Underwriters
IMC International Metalworking Companies
Ben Bridge Jeweler
Johns Manville
Benjamin Moore & Co.
Jordan's Furniture
Berkshire Hathaway Group
Justin Brands
Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies
Larson-Juhl
BoatU.S.
Lubrizol Corporation
Borsheims Fine Jewelry
Marmon Holdings, Inc.
Brooks
McLane Company
Buffalo NEWS, Buffalo NY
Medical Protective
BNSF
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
Business Wire
MiTek Inc.
Central States Indemnity Company
National Indemnity Company
Clayton Homes
Nebraska Furniture Mart
CORT Business Services
NetJets®
CTB Inc.
Omaha World-Herald
Fechheimer Brothers Company
Oriental Trading Company
FlightSafety
The Pampered Chef®
Forest River
Precision Steel Warehouse, Inc.
Fruit of the Loom Companies
RC Willey Home Furnishings
Garan Incorporated
Richline Group
Gateway Underwriters Agency
Scott Fetzer Companies
GEICO Auto Insurance
See's Candies
General Re
Shaw Industries
Guard Insurance Group
Star Furniture
Helzberg Diamonds
TTI, Inc.
H.H. Brown Shoe Group
United States Liability Insurance Group
HomeServices of America, a subsidiary of
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
XTRA Corporation
Looks like sending him my resume would be a waste of time.
not unless you can "BUFF" his tub _F>>hypocrit, stay away
the economy needs to go ahead an bail-in women and children and retirees and so forth
oh. and men also.
"3,271 FAVORITES
Well there are 3,271 people I'd like to punch in the face.
Why has no one helped this old geezer into the after life? He is a lizard sycophant born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Which one of these companies cornered the Tungsten market? Barbaric Relic!
Feminism is to women, as porn is to men.
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They are both agendas to fuck us up.
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What job is more important then raising happy, healthy, good children? They have turned stay at home moms into a four letter word. And no, im not saying women cant work and have careers and stuff...
Is Warren Buffet a "useful idiot" of the Cultural Marxists? Or is he one of them?
This is the question that needs to be answered. Because he is obviously promoting the Cultural Marxist agenda, and has been for years now.
Was he always this way? The fucker is ancient. I wonder how long he has been carrying water for the Cultural Marxist ideological agenda? Be interesting to look back, say, 20 years ago, and see what ideology he was promoting back then, if any.
Maybe he got a visit from certain, um, "interested parties" when he made his big silver purchase back in 1997. That's the time frame I'd take a hard look at.
he's a "social issue" wedge propogator and only pokes his head out of the tub to serve an oligarch's agenda.
There is much money in destroying a nation. The highest paid CEOs are at the forefront of national, local, cultural, societal, and familial destruction.
Does that senile idiot think he's living in 1975? Because women have been working for a long time now. Maybe a few percent less than men, but some still prefer to be "traditional. They still have that right to choose, don't they?
No, you're saying that women have to be mothers. Just because one is born female doesn't mean she has to increase the population of this already crowded planet.
Look at this world...it's stuck in The Greater Depression and you think women should bring more humans into it???
Divorce rate in the US? Chances are working women end up in the court system trying to get Child Support Payments AND working two $10/hour jobs.
Motherhood is not nice for the bottom 80% of the population that is making 77 cents of the dollar of males.
Geez...wake up. Those 1950's TV shows like 'Leave it to Beaver' are gone, over, done, kaput.
I usually replace "Patriarchy" with "conspiracy" and don my foil hat.
Free range children fatten rapidly and reach breeding age sooner.
Bass-ackwards. You are thinking cage raised children. Pewblik Skewlz are the cages.
"So, my fellow males, what is in it for us?"
Bathtub with Becky!
I finally get this video, it's about Warren Buffet and Becky!
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=vFZhL92W6TE
corporate america loves women too-pay em less, they won't tell you to get fucked like a man would and they'll buy tons of worthless shit on credit.
Absolutely, and they said destruction of the family was a communist ideal!
I remember when this shit started and women were ridiculed for wanting to be stay at home moms. They were seduced into joining the male hell (workforce) and deluded into thinking they could be mom, breadwinner, and (post divorce) daddy too.
What a sick scam it all turned out to be. I work with tons of professional women. Nearly all would love to work part time (or at all if they had kids).
Now I am reading that women are the hardest hit by the student slave, excuse me, student loan debacle. Seems like they went to college in far greater numbers than males peers, and picked shitty degrees to boot.
Oh well. They shudda stayed thin, married a rich dude, stayed home with the kids and watched Oprah. They never asked themselves: "why do men die first?"
Looks like they'll get to catch up!
Pretty amazing. Does this guy live under a rock?
Labor force participation rate MEN:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS11300001
Labor force participation rate WOMEN:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS11300002
"Warren is in the house."
-- Warren Buffet
"And that's why I make more money than you."
-- Jamie Dimon
"The Ameircan public should be grateful of the bank[st]ers and their management of these large cashpools."
-- Lloyd Blankfein (today)
I'll only sleep well tonight if I drink my weight of Glen Grant.
Buffet is a motherfucker!
This senile fuck along with the j-fuck Greenspan should be in the meatspin video scraping the deadskin off each others back.
The Orifice of Omaha!!
I'm a motherfucker also, because I'm a "dad". Aren't you? Whom do you fuck? Rosie Palm?
Buffett is a son-of-a-short-dick.
the old bat has lost his mind. did he just wake up from the nineteenth century?
What a sick self-satisfied dirty grandpa. Prolly thinks he is shedding aw shuck wisdom and getting points with the ladies at the same time.
You're still a criminal Warren, and I hope you live long enough to face the lynch mob.
He's just pissed that Chinese housewives spoiled TBTF's gold price supression scheme. He's trying to rally his own housewife army "to get 'er in there and daytrade, for America!"
"We should also welcome the Negro and the Chinaman into the workplace."
warren is from the "coloreds" era
For some reason, I keep thinking of this scene with Eddie Murphy from "The Distinguished Gentleman":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InI8lXhLl1Q
And I realize "Chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature...
"Does the chairman have any handicaps or gays [or women] on the committe?"
Classic. I love the Murph's version of 'self important' voice.
"Chinaman? No . . . Asian-Ameican."
"The carpet pissers did this?"
+ 1 for the Big Lebowski reference!
According to the Oracle, the foundation of a great society is latchkey kids running wild and raising themselves. We need a public service campaign on the danger of crony captialism to the mind.
Your name is an anagram for P Krugman. And the picture is an old one of him... from his academia days. :-)
GS must be long domestic maids and nannies.
If you have to talk a subject up, it's probably because internally you are thinking the opposite.
I find it amusing that he neglects to remember that we have an over-supply of labor at the moment. Maybe we can get the masses of unemployed to work BEFORE we start adding more to the work force. Old man Buffett probably wants labor rates even lower than they are now so he can declare "productivity gains"
Hey Buffett, why don't YOU start hiring workers at the rate of 10's of thousands and set a good example for the rest of corporate America... (Never.Gonna.Happen.)
aaaah, wage suppression through competition, DRINK IT!
$900 Coach Bags and Botox for everyone! Reach your full potential! Consumers of the World Unite!
Something smells funny here.
I think someone needs to change Uncle Warren's Depends.
Pandering, insincere garbage.
This is actually more nefarious than "aw shucks" ejaculations.
This is unsubstantiated feel-good logorrhea. Its subsequent media exposure is why more that 70% of the women in this country are on anti-depressants. Buffet's trying to pad the workplace with women so they can be miserable apart from their families and he can reap the profits on big pharm.
BTW Buffet, thanks for throwing 5 Bil at BAC back in 2011. We all love blood money that reanimates the corpse of a bank that was better off left in the ground.
Fiscal sorcerer. Go fuck up Brazil. And if you even look at my wife, I'll cut your throat and dump your body in an ARC dumpster.
Pandering maybe but increasingly women are gaining the upper hand - even while medicated (lol). Almost 2/3 of college graduates are now women (with all that portends). I consult with a company that runs city-wide "races" in which participants pay a fee and compete to retrieve certain items, take pictures, etc. I was sure the participants would be mostly male. It was the perfect bonding experience - athletic, competitive, even dangerous in parts. But the marketing folks were adament - at least 2/3 will be female. Why? Disposable income, the distribution of which is unevenly distributed.
Sure enough, in Buffalo 122 young women and 58 men showed up Same thing happened next week in Nashville - different totals but even more skewed. Conversation revealed that women - far from being left behind to swallow pills - are in the ascendant in almost every category except (perhaps) pro sports. This is a new phenomenon that will shke our culture just as much as the Feminine Revolution - perhaps more so.
An intelligent and well documented response.
If you're talking about the Zombie run or Color me Rad or shit like that, my wife is successfully dragging me into that stuff. It's pretty popular among the women-fok because its like a charity event and getting in shape. And they learn about it from their friends "they should hang out with more" on social media.
I don't think its as far-reaching as a paradigm shift in gender roles in our country.
Sorry for the 'paradigm shift' phrase. It popped up today from somebody I respected and I can't get it out of my fucking head.
marie curie did something- other than that what contributions to civilization have broads given us? just die already you old crony capitalist douchebag.
Heady Lamar invented frequency-hopping spread-spectrum radio.
Other than that.....well......they have vaginas so pretty much since the first man-ape used a rock to kill some food and every invention since then was by men as a way to get some more of that sweet sweet sugar.
"My entire life is an elaborate plot to get women."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_hopper
When Warren had his George Costanza "I was in the pool" moment, Becky Quick didn't laugh. So this serenade reflects the acceptance of his diminutive manhood.
...and dissolve the nuclear family.
Not against women nor their abilities, but tearing families apart to hand our children over to 'professionals' in day care and compulsory schooling has come at a terrible price to the Republic. A nation of work-a-holic, TV watchin' idiots, really.
And fuck you, Warren. We don't need you to inform us of the failings of 'our' leaders.
Marriage is about the husband and the wife (or whomever you want to call it these days) that depend on each other almost entirely. I think those are the best marriage that succeed the most. Remove those incentives like 2 people working, have less or no children, etc.. and the family structure, traditions, etc. are gone.
@WarrenBuffet please expllain the rise of WTI prices in the face of oversupply and underdemand.
P.S. How was drilling for oil in the B. Quick shales?
I'm thinking with becky it's like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.
So uncle warren is going pimp daddy and shizzit.
Long on society in moron terms.
Replace Company/Corporation with Feudal Lord(s). Then re-read.
Can you hear me now? /s
binders of women
edit
so the economy would be fine if women got off their lazy ass and got a job?
news flash
got to have fucking jobs first asshole
cant wait for this pos to keel over
wouldnt even make his own kids beneficiaries
The American workplace environment isn't particularly hostile to women these days Warren.
There are always outliers but in some areas men and women simply want different things. What barriers (for instance) do you think yet remain between females and the game of chess? Where are all the female grandmasters?
At this point (even) more women in the workplace would make me bullish on compliance and government, which, by the way, has also been a winning trade since the Johnson Adminstration basically made that same calculation. Speaking of which, as of 2007 37% of prison gaurds are female. How's that working out?
And I don't care what they do in Sweden, having the government raise everyone's kids just creeps me out (although as with all socialist schemes it's more viable when almost everyone is from the same tribe). You could however make the case that it's more efficient from a workforce perspective for grandparents to do most of the kid raising...if most people would become grandparents in their 40s.
How about: school for 20yrs-->work for 20yrs--->raise kids for 20yrs.-->retire for 20yrs. (women and men)...and (with a little luck and technology leveraging) less government! not more as Warren's ostensibly altruistic idea implies. Just an idea.
Pre Fukushima son, more to come.
Pre Fukushima son, more to come.
Where are the female chess grandmasters?
Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chess_woman_grandmasters
PS: There are a LOT
Give it time.
No, that’s a list of women who hold a different title exclusive to women. Grandmasters who are female can be found among those listed here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r
Top female grandmaster in the world - possibly in history to date - got her title at age 15 - but she's "only" #55 on the co-ed list. She was #8 in 2005 though. She's defeated nine world champions so far. She's never competed for the female version of the world title. Married, with kids.
Still . . . give it time, others will join her.
I think that's great, really. And I'm sure Ms. Polgár can run circles around me in just about everything but I think women like her are simply outliers and chess probably isn't even the best example in this regard. Also, she was obviously born smart as hell which no amount of enlightened or experimental education can substitute for.
Interesting background story though.
In the spirit of uncle Warren's affirmitive action I invite you to stop being so shy. :)
/SarcOff
Get out of here!
For a moment I thought I strayed to HuffPost dot com.
I wonder if that means Becky Quick is in his will now....
His first tweet should have read "I would like to thank the hardworking taxpayer for bailing out my bank, mortgage, insurance and agency holdings - DQ for everyone!"
Fuck that useless bastard.
If you're not up on "Adam's Curve"then you won't get the full implications of the article....us knuckle-draggers are not in the PTB's future vision...
Why is this relevant? We have plenty of women working here in America. I suppose like most of the Twitter posts, it's just more noise in an increasingly ridiculous world. The only winning strategy is not to participate in the insanity.
Greetings, Professor Falken.
Twitidiots
http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/twidiocracy_719178.html
Warren is proof that you can now make more money playing politics instead of investing. Just look where he is now spending his time.
No better way to rig trades.
if this hard sell socially engineered trend continues, the State will raise & molest all the future worker class of children, while all the work of women will be taxed AND the cost of living will be jacked up to hoover every cent possible. Of course women will be bitchier; all the slave class will be. Its the New Normal. On a bright note, life is exclusively for the living and Warren hasn't got long to squawk this bullshit.
Hello Warren. Don't you have anything better to do?
Slavery was pretty inclusive too,
but it didn't work out any better for women then either.
I wouldn't crow too much about people being forced into the workforce just to survive.
Thank you Warren, this is a solid contrary indicator for the next bull market in men with balls of steel.
p.s. my wife chose to leave the public workplace to enter the private enterprise of raising two children. Guess she really fucked up, eh Warren? Our kids should be wards of the State education trap so we all can be bigger consumers? You fucking RETARD.
Hark! The Orifice of Omaha has released a tweet.
Working because you want to: freedom. Working because you have to: something other than freedom.
I talked to the woman the cube next me. She has 3 kids. She said if you're not making at least $70k a year, there's no reason for a woman to work except to satisfy herself. Daycare's like $300/week per kid. Private school is like $8-12k a year. Communiting (which you can't use public transit because you have to go pick the kids up) is another $6k a year. That's easily $24k in expenses going to work. All so you can do this idiotic corporate work.
I am proud to say that my wife is at home raising our children, and I support us on my modest salary, and we live within our means.
Good for you and you should be proud to say so. Raising kids is a tough job and shouldn't be farmed out. I'm glad my wife and myself gave up a nice chunk of income to do so.
I've personally seen examples of where small children got more attached to their nannies than to their own parents. After all, who do they spend most of their waking hours with?
Sorry, but it's my duty to report you to the Palm Beach County sheriff.
Your co-worker is absolutely correct. In addition to the expenses she lists, there are other incidentals such as the need for a 'professional wardrobe', taking the family out to eat because parents are too tired to cook, attempting to compensate for inattentiveness to kids with purchased goods, purchases for oneself to make-up for the exhaustion (I work hard, so I 'deserve' it), higher auto insurance expenses for more mileage on the car from long commutes. One of the more amazing things to see is to calculate, in detail, how much money all of this adds up to. These expenses may be worthwhile if there is fulfillment in the job, but if the job is some corporate slave work then it may certainly be better for either parent in a family to stop working. When one parent has time to devote to the family, it is possible to scan sale papers and save money on regular family expenses, or exchange child care services instead of paying sitters. Of course, the taxing entities don't get their skim on any work done by a non-working spouse, or on any volunteer work that person may choose to do to better their own community. That is Warren's real problem--these people choosing to invest in their own families instead of the 'working sector' don't boost his bottom line, or his cronies' bottom line in the taxing chain-of-command. Of course, the real payoffs in investing in one's own family are the close bonds that can be developed in getting to know one's children, and these attachments will bring more joy and security than the nanny state ever could. Just who will have more security in old age, the loving parent with real relationships or the haggard work-comes-first retiree who has neglected relationship building with the expectation of needs covered by government entitlements?
Yes: Think of what monetizing/outsourcing out all that free wifely labor does to the economy, and to the tax base.
warren croons suffragette city for becky squick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEkXAHIKdKI
Ye Gods this man is a dinosaur, and clueless to boot. I suppose he forgets things like this occurred back in the 1930's. The fact that Fascists then denied them rights until the late 70's is missed, one supposes. What he's actually attempting to do is push for more women in the C sections of Corporations, which is a totally different issue.
Also, his figures are completely incorrect.
Source - note: I'm unsure if this includes military personnel. [edit: bugger the table formatting ~ important thing to take away is that in 2010, 58.6% of the >16 female population was employed in the USA. Usually at the very lower end / temporary / part-time part of the economic pie, of course.]
Number1(thousands) % female
population
aged 16 and
over1 % of labor
force
population
aged
16 and over1 1900 5,319 18.8 % 18.3 % 1910 7,445 21.5 19.9 1920 8,637 21.4 20.4 1930 10,752 22.0 22.0 1940 12,845 25.4 24.3 1950 18,389 33.9 29.6 1960 23,240 37.7 33.4 1970 31,543 43.3 38.1 1980 45,487 51.5 42.5 19902 56,829 57.5 45.2 1993 58,795 57.9 45.5 19943 60,239 58.8 46.0 1995 60,944 58.9 46.1 1996 61,857 59.3 46.2 1997 63,036 59.8 46.2 1998 63,714 59.8 46.3 1999 64,855 60.0 46.5 2000 66,303 60.2 46.6 2001 66,848 60.1 46.5 2002 67,363 59.8 46.5 2003 68,272 59.5 47.0 2004 68,421 59.2 46.0 2005 69,288 59.3 46.4 2006 70,000 59.4 46.0 2007 67,792 56.6 46.4 2008 71,767 59.5 44.0 2010 71,904 58.6 53.6
"...for powerful and seemingly self-assured males to have more than a bit of the Wizard of Oz in them"
Funny! I learned long ago that this phrase describes Buffett himself!
Egotism is that disease that makes everyone sick but the one who has it!
Women are a major reason we will do so well*
*if they stay home
Screw this money junkie and his money habit. Women are in the work force not by choice incidentally. It is so the two income family can pay taxes in order to support a whole slew of corrupt and absurd people. I suppose he is king of the shit heap in this regard.
It's why he bought into bank of America = people over extend themselves on credit card debt levered in smoke securities to further liabilitize and encumber them -- which softens the sheeple up for the real bunker buster -- save them $40 a month and modify the note on their over valued home into a 45 year bataan death march amortization schedule.
The cycle or crookery continues.
Let's just turn over our kids to be raised by strangers in a day care getting paid $8 an hour and see how that works out for us. My wife is a homemaker. Warren seems to be under the impression that she is not working and not being productive. In fact, the future health and even existence of our society depends on how she and others like her do the job of nuturing and socializing the next generation. I help, when I am not bread winning, but I am telling you she has a job and I would not trade jobs with her, nor by Nature's design am I meant to. These fascist fools have a dispute with Nature's God, who seems to be giving them a chance to accumulate an extensive amount of rope to hang themselves with.
After all, we only use 10% of our brains. Imagine if we utilize the remianing 95%.
Bullish!!
If you want to destroy a country, destroy the family. If you want to destroy the family, put the kids in daycare and let them grow up without a mother who loves them. Here's Nancy Pelosi
Pelosi: Gov’t Childcare Next ‘Pillar’ of America, ‘Children Learning, Parents Earning’http://cnsnews.com/video/national/pelosi-gov-t-childcare-next-pillar-ame...
Want to be convinced? Read "Daycare Deception"
Researchers who point to a correlation between aggression among children and too much nonmaternal care have seen their work vilified. Meanwhile, some scholars have disputed the obvious: that the mother-child bond is crucial to early childhood development. The day care lobby keeps pouring more money into elections, and politicians offer more subsidies for commercial day care -- while parents ask for policy options that would help them stay home with their children. Day Care Deception is a brave and thoughtful book about a contentious debate whose outcome will have profound consequences for our children and our social future.
Want to go to work, abandon your children and your family? Then by all means read Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Helen Gurley Brown
Ask your child's teacher if they can recognize the kindergarteners who had been raised in daycare (some starting at 12 weeks old and are there from 8:00am til 5:30pm)...they all can and don't like what they see in terms of behavior and Lord of the Flies survival skills.
"while parents ask for policy options that would help them stay home with their children"
= "Save us government!"
"our social future."
What social future? This place is Fucked.
"Want to go to work, abandon your children and your family?"
Since when do real feminists have families? Oh you mean single-mother-with-test-tube-baby "families" which are more for show than anything else cause mommy is a strong independent self-supporting (wage-slave) female (who happens to be pulling in a fat alimony check each month).
Feminism and debt-based consumerism are a match made in hell. Who wins? The state.
Day Care Deception was a fascinating book. I read it initially because I was having a debate with a friend about infectious disease transmission. I said that if I had a child they'd never set foot in daycare because it is a breeding ground for every damn virus being passed around, with potentially longterm consequences. She maintained that daycare was a social necessity. I disagreed with that point as well because the damage to the family structure has been profound since the 1970s.
(By the way, the same is true of dog parks. Every infectious element circulating among dogs is concentrated in one small area. Think about it the next time you take your dog to frolic there.)
I have two thoughts about Warren Buffet's paternalistic twitter prattle:
One, he's probably never worked in a workplace staffed mostly by women. I much prefer working with men. There is far less gossip, drama and clique behavior. Give me a little sexism anyday over foolish junior high behavior.
Two, whenver I hear politiicans or business people say that the world would be better off if more women were involved, I just think back to the above. I suspect the level of professionalism in one field is pretty much the same in others.
I'm a man working in a female dominated area, and have worked in places that were male dominated as well. More drama with women overall? You bet. Not all of them, but a majority. Also, I've seen/heard women at work make comments that would have HR handing me my walking papers in all likelihood. Many of these women earn more than their husbands and boyfriends, and they often have more responsibility. They frequently see themselves as "empowered" relative to other women. Are they happy? Many are not, and will openly say so. For some, the work is out of necessity. For others, I think it's an addiction to purchasing power that keeps them in the workplace. Money to buy shit that gives a temporary high, but ultimately means little to nothing in terms of life satisfaction.
Those are great points. I've seen and heard women make outrageous statements to / or make physical move on male co-workers that would have had male co-workers in serious trouble but they didn't get called on it because the man didn't complain. Female bosses have openly said far more inappropriate things to male co-workers than anything I remember a male boss saying to me so who knows what they say when it's just the two of them?
Sure, a lot of women work out of necessity but you're also right about the addiction to purchasing power. You can see it in the shoe and handbag addiction. There is no other explanation for Loubatain red-soled shoes except that everyone who sees them knows that you've paid a load of money for them. Fool.
As women have assumed more traditionally male roles (breadwinner for example), I suppose this was inevitable. Personally, I try to teach my girls that there is no "right" choice between a career, and stay at home mom. You must find what fits your life circumstances. What I try to instill are the basics (to me) of life. Be accountable for your decisions, consider others on an individual basis, think critically about information others give you, form your own opinion, and don't embrace the victim culture so many others do. How successful will my instruction be? Time will tell.
My wife has to put up with far too much unspoken derision, even from her own family, because she "just stays home." I guess female empowerment means empowered to think how you're told to think.
If I remember right, the whole idea of the womens' movement was that everyone got to make up their own mind about what they wanted to do with their life. That included, but was not limited to, staying home and raising one's family as one saw fit.
I hope your wife tells her relatives to stick it when they give her crap or at least lets it roll off her shoulders, although I know it must hurt inside to not get any support from those who supposedly "love" her. Sometimes family is a destructive force when ideally it should be the opposite.
We live far from my in-laws for a reason and it's my husband's idea. Every time he starts missing them some, we have a few for a visit and it clears things right up until the next time.
She lets it roll but I know it leaves a mark. We're happy, everyone else's opinion be damned.
I think the derision is implied by the term "stay-at-home mom." I don't like it. I much prefer full-time mom.
At least I only ever hear "housewife" used rarely.
Being a debt serf means you have to work. I'm sure more women will enjoy the experience.
Oh and think of all the "non productive" things that women do which could profitably be done by corporations instead.
How old is he now? At least he'll be dead soon.
No choice but to work therefore must rationalize away the need to work. Arbeit macht frei, bitchez. What do you think college is really about?
Wtf?
http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_303.htm
How is a 10% difference in participation rate statistically relevant in this regard?
Especially if you add in "homemaking"..
Grand standing blowhard.
The only places I've ever worked where women didn't outnumber men are heavy manufacturing and construction, and that usually because they didn't want to, and is shop dependant, I've been in metal shops where there were near equal men/women..
This motherfucker is just posturing, like they all do.
Q: Why did the woman cross the road?
A: What the fuck is she doing out of the kitchen? Get back in there and make me a sammich, bitch!
Two blondes walked into a building....
Wouldn't you have thought one of them would have seen it?
The delusion that so called non-working women are not productive is ludicrous. They are only not productive in a directly taxable and fractional reserve banking kind of way for the NWO parasites to bleed dry.
And with more diversity it can only get better from here?
Spoken like a true NWO zealot
Destroy the family
Create a utopia for slavery
Why not? Your kids are already owned by the state
Brilliant.
Is this article supposed to be satire? If not, then stick that diversity, multiculti, inclusive, tolerant, feminazi, anti-family, anti-tradition, one-world commie shite back up your a-hole where it came from.
5 of 6 people with an IQ 145 are MEN.
There is no connection between what Buffett says and what he does. What he says is what the left-wing bien-pensants and media syncophants want to hear. What he does is just to make money for Warren Buffett.
He says he's against the estate tax, but I'm willing to bet that when he kicks off, his estate won't pay a dime in estate tax.
He says stock spilts are meaningless, but I think he just wants to keep the riff-raff out of his shareholder meetings.
He says he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, but that's because he structures his income so he pays the least amount possible.
I could go on, but it's clear that the man is either succumbing to senile dementia or is a shameless liar and hypocrite. He's just angling, at this point, for a statue or a high school named after him.
About twenty years ago he said that he wants the State to tax every penny of his estate and that none of it should go to his offspring.
Women blacks and people of mixed race are what have allowed the banksters to take over this once great nation. That's because germans are lazy.
Ignorance and laziness are not confined to a group or groups
It is distrubuted throughout the masses around the world. This includes the so called elite. As well as any group or category in the divide and conquer meme you can name.
America was never great. It was all an illusion
It is the concepts and ideas of Amercia's founding that are, were and will always be great. They do not disappear if the country dies.
The ignorance and laziness of the masses allows these concepts and ideas to drift away like the wind. Or to be stolen out from under those that value them. There is strength in numbers and knowledge. Laziness can be undone through motivation. Knowledge can be gained through education. And freedom regained through perseverance.
When we start motivating and educating others and stop trying to make things like Constitutional rights operate like some intellectual property, confined and controlled by those residing within the US, we may be truly be able to unite the world under a free NWO. And avoid the path of the tyrannical NWO we current see before us. This fight is not local or regional it is global. When we start approaching it from the bigger picture and attack all angles we will start to see greater victories.
The choice is ours. I'm neither ignorant nor lazy. How about each of you?
"America was never great. It was all an illusion"
Dead wrong. I was there, I lived through the changing of the guard. I saw the WASPs give up to the Marxist bobos. Before the 1960's takeover: relatively little divorce, very few broken families, no drugs, dishonesty was rare and shameful, there was almost no crime of any kind, and racial strife was practically unheard of. However, after the rat bolsheviks took over: a dystopia approaching Soviet proportions.
Take a look at what fields most women have their careers in. No offense to any women on the forum, but they are usually not overly productive fields (advertising, healthcare, education, etc.).
My mother never worked outside of the home.
Anyone who says she was not productive is an idiot!
Why shall we care about the sex of co-workers or colleagues unless we want to fuck them?
He's no difference than any 2 bit politician...Bill Clinton,BarakaDoc, W, etc...there's not a dimes worth of difference...when their mouth is moving, then you know they're lying
All you need to know about unlocking the power of women is the vote percentages in the November election: women gave Obama 55% to Romney’s 43% - voting themselves special privilege and the expanded advantages of a Leviathan government. And single women, where much of the economic promise outside the family is involved, gave only a third of their vote to Romney.
Warren and his ilk intend to rule the world by the use of socialism, i.e., communism, i.e., as foes of free enterprise. To do this, they must destroy the white male; they must destroy America’s family unit; they must destroy the culture bequeathed to Americans by their Founders.
“It is a peculiar fact,” stated Engles a few months after Marx died, “that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes to the foregournd.”
Richard Weikart, in “Marx, Engels, and the Abolition of the Family,” says the following:
“By the mid-to late-nineteenth century it was clear to advocates and opponents alike that many socialists shared a propensity to reject the institution of the family in favour of the ‘free love,’ if not in practice, as least as an ideal. The Prussian and German Reich governments tried to muzzle the socialist threat to the family by drafting legislation in 1849…outlawing, among other things, assaults on the family. However, the Anti-Socialist Law that Bismarck managed to pass in 1878 contained no mention of the family.”
And, says Weikart, “While Marx once alluded to a higher form of the family in communist society, he and Engles usually wrote about the destruction, dissolution, and abolition of the family… Only by making the term family almost infinitely elastic can they be said to have embraced merely a reformulation of the family…
“Marx and Engels asserted that both French and English socialist were pressing for the dissolution of the family…"
Warren Buffett is the Marxist torch bearer of socialism and the destruction of the family. Like Obama and his "God-Bless-You" Planned Parenthood, Buffett is on track with America's feminist agenda with his billions in contributions to PP.
As to “Why Boys Fail,” James Whitmire writes:”The blue-collar jobs that once supported families are drying up, affecting males more than females. So if a focused effort isn't made to address boys' needs, as was done successfully a generation ago for girls, many boys' futures will be grim, and the nation's ability to compete will slide.
“Two girls for every boy may sound good in Jan and Dean's classic Surf City song, but it’s not a healthy ratio for America's colleges and workplaces.”
On February 5, 2010, Casey B. Mulligan wrote in the NY Times in an article entitled, In a First, Women Surpass Men on U.S. Payrolls: “Before adjusting for seasonal changes, 64.2 million payroll employees last month were women, and only 63.4 million were men.”
http://www.csustan.edu/history/faculty/weikart/Marx-Engels-and-the-Abolition-of-the-Family.pdf
The "daddy" syndrome: Have a big, all powerful and benevolent government take the place of daddy. That way "Julie" never needs a husband.
Warren tweets:
I made bubbles in the bathtub.
Brining women out into the workforce has been a long plan of TPTB.
I want to know, will all men be as productive when no one is home to cook or take care of the kids? Do additonal like stresses act as variables in detrimental work performance? If so, perhaps reconsidering said position of female employment..
Carry on.. I'm just talking crazy again
Not sure about you, but getting sick of hearing about Warren.
Warren makes of the bulk of his money owning insurance companies. Trading contributes very little.
MSM trying to generate more traffic to sell more ads - nothing else.
Women may think they are equal and can rule a boardroom, but their highest and best use is to just lay back and spread 'em. The toughest broad on earth can either be a frozen prude virgin, or surrender to a dude and lay back and spread 'em. Sorry bitchez!
Like anyone who knows they're gonna die soon he's rewriting history, aka 'HIS story" (as opposed to "HER story").
("And, finally, I'd like to thank all the poor people for making our astonishing level of selfless phlanthropy possible. We couldn't have done it without you. Next year's theme: "We're so bored with the Y chromosome")
and he'll start by ensuring becky quick's employment at cnbc (commonstocks now buy continuously).
Bor'in Warren is so full of shit. Women are great and all, but our problem is currently the financialization of our entire economy and the tax that both big banking and big government put on everything we do. We have laws and regulations on top of laws and regulations and we completely lack functioning equal protection under a civil law. I am sure that is the way that bor'in Warren and his cronies like it ... keep the little folks, the little governments, the little companies, the little currencies and the little money down.
There is only so much that can be stolen, securitized, inflated, rehypothecated and margined and then you actually have to produce something. UNfortunately way more than 50% of our country is dependent on financialization instead of production.
OTOH, lower natality is directly proportional to employement rate of women.
Have you ever listened to a tough-talking woman attorney, judge or cop and find yourself just wondering what diameter her nipples are or whether she is shaved or bushy?
And if the whle point of working your ass off getting rich and powerful is to have your choice of nubile bitches, WHF are women busting their asses for? They just need to keep trim, look good, be versitile in bed, and they have their choice of dudes.
Think of all the bitches in Harvard Law School who are taking the place of men who could be there getting rich and powerful and each have their own bevy of groupies.
hm
wonder what is the correlation between women participation in labor force and the "quality" of children in a country ?
anyway no more luxus as back in the days when a dude could feed home with his own revenue...
wonder why talmud says that if a yid women doesn't give birth to N children she won't go to heaven...
Hey, did you ever notice the correlation of empowered women in a given country and the overall number of women who are on some kind of medication to combat depression.
So what happens when Sharia Law takes over?
What will happen in France when more than 50% of the population is Muslem? Will they be able to impose Sharia Law? We could see this by 2050.
It's going to take a lot longer in the US, but it will inevitably come. Few people here believe enough in the costitution to even care. On the other hand, most muslems see the imposition of Sharia law as important.
To better understand Warren Buffet's needs and his relationships with women, this is a great article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1068196/Pepsi-crisp-breakfasts-m...
Very brief summary: Warren's mother was cruel to him, he can't take care of himself, his first wife and the mother of his three children moved to San Francisco to be a jazz singer, stayed married to him while hooking him up with a mistress who lived with him in Omaha. Buffet and his wife stayed married and close, though lived apart until she died. Then he married his mistress. At one point he was involved with Katherine Graham of the WaPo.
The "elites" love women in the workforce because they tow the company line like the good fascists they are.
Women in the workplace has never been about equality; the pay scale difference proves this.
It's about the fact that men will have a hard time telling off middle managers and execs who are women due to "congeniality" and "public correctness".
Susan B. Anthony and Abigail Adams would gladly tell Goldman and Buffett to go fuck themselves. They didn't need these assholes to tell them what she could do with THEIR lives.
Strong women don't need help; what they need is for the plutocratic assholes who runs our business and governments to get out of the way.
Warren thinks he can help pave the way for Hillary 2016.
All I know is men and women have different bodies. We also use our minds differently. Our instincts are different. It is not a negative at all. When a job needs to be done, a certain person is better than another. The individual who is better at a certain skill tends to earn more money at it. There was a time in this country when a farmer who never finshed highschool made more money than a graduate from Harvard. A time when a prostitute made more than a gold panner.... If I am an employer and I need bricks moved, my guess is the dude with big muscles is going to move more than the five foot petite girl with long nails. Why should I pay her the same? Why even hire her if she has no record of providing that productivity?