paradigm

"We have considerably tightened our immigration policy. We can probably even talk about a paradigm shift in this regard," Finland's Interior Minister Mari Rantanen told AFP.

With talk of welfare queens, couch potatoes, the idle poor and a culture of poverty, the “taxpayer vs. taker” paradigm continues to play well with the GOP’s base.

“If superintelligence arrives sooner, we will be ideally positioned for a generational paradigm shift in many large opportunities,” he said.

But the government shutdown could shift the paradigm for the coming Dec. 9-10 meeting.

Which raises the question: Why lament a social paradigm shift if you haven’t bothered with it in the first place?