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Bonus Baby Befuddlement

Posted on March 30, 2009, 10:00 am, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under Uncategorized.

Bonus Baby Befuddlement As a number of commentators have pointed out, the $165 million in AIG retention bonuses that have so preoccupied us all in the last couple of weeks are a mere distraction. Our economy has huge problems to solve, and the bonuses are neither at the heart of the problems nor, in […]

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Normandy, Four Kinds of Soldiers, and the Draft: Some Thoughts

Posted on June 28, 2004, 7:34 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

With good leadership, with Eisenhowers and Roosevelts, young men and women will predictably enlist in acceptable numbers. With bad leadership, the discipline of the enlistment market will act as a check. It would be both foolhardy and morally wrong to remove that check.

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