Good luck with the move. Truth be told I enjoy moving- personally speaking, it's therapeutic to go through all the stuff that's accumulated over the last X amount of time and realize... "hey... alot of this is junk!" which then gets given away, garage saled and if all else fails then thrown away. Feels good- like a reptile shedding it's skin in anticipation for something new to come!
That is a typical liberal. They want "everything", but want someone else to pay for it, nor do they want to work for it themselves Hehehe, silly Island Dog! Actually, a typical liberal will go much further then that. You know we all despise the democracy we live in (and we hate ourselses too) What we actually want is to
Companies like Toyota, Porsche, Honday and surprisingly enough Hyundai actually top these charts. Honday? It could very well be great marketing. But I
Of course, neither community could exist in its "pure" state, which is why we need, to some degree, a mixed economy. But pure capitalism is as untried as pure communism. Heh heh, that's what I'm trying to say in my example above. At the end of the day, nothing ever works as advertised and life ends up in some sort of compromise to try and acco
Good concepts for both communities. I however would like to put forward my version (dons flame shield If community A were complete socialism with no market of any kind, yes you could definitely run into the shovel-leaner syndrome. However, for community B you would ultimately run into the same scenario that we see in small towns all across north America.... a small number of individuals, say a dozen
Yea, actually No Child Left Behind vastly increases federal funding of schools. But it does so in exchange for testing of those schools and if the school fails those tests year after year, there are consequences. Now, what I was told about how this has played out (and if I'm wrong, my bad) is that this has been a good technique to remove fundi
And one thing you omit (or just are unaware of) is that the US was founded on the concept that you could live anywhere you wanted, and that no 2 places were the same! So yes in come places, they spend more on education, and on others, more on health services. YOu used some extreme examples, but an easier demonstration would be a retirement community versus a bedroom com
This is a weighty article, but a very good one. My response is delayed because I had to take a bit to digest it. Thanks Gideon! I don't see Bush as being as much of a Freidmanist as you believe him to be. As exhi
Cacto- Indonesia could be said to have an enclave capitalist approach. The efforts of the World Bank and the IMF have drastically reduced their tax income and corruption has claimed much of the rest (by reducing public servant wages below the survival rate employees are forced to seek bribes in order to afford what they need; this lowers the tax base again
For the past 7 years, the Bush Administration has been pursuing tax cuts and government outsourcing with dogmatic fervor. We have heard plenty about the benefits of these tax cuts; acting as a stimulus for the economy, giving business large and small extra capital to invest or expand their operations (hopefully) hiring more workers in-country. Giving extra money back to the little guy so he can afford to buy more goods and services, thereby acting as another primer fo
Well Gideon, I largely agree with a lot of what you have to say- I guess where we differ is here: "Call me lacking in compassion, call me mean, call me anything you want, but I do not believe the world OWES us anything" You are right, the world doesn't owe us anything. But we are our brothers keeper and it is in the herds best interest to look out for each other...really we are a herd if you think about it, easily led too! I do not believe that people who are otherwise sound o
[quote]SHIFT wealth TO those WITH the money? How is that possible? [/quote] Just to add a little perspective- in the early 1980's the average CEO earned approximately 41 times the amount of money made by the average worker- adjusted for inflation, today the average CEO makes somewhere on the order of [U][B]400 times [/B][/U]the amount an average worker can expect. So, you're talking about shifting more of the wealth into a smaller, wealthier crowd. The old saying about the rich
The past two years I've gotten dragged along by the good folks from HR to go on recruiting trips to some of the nearby tech schools and local colleges.. they want to have a techie in the interviews and also someone to talk about the nuts and bolts when we make our presentation to the graduating classes. Can't say that it's a bad gig and I've gotten some valuable insights out of it... I went to all of the "veteran" instructors that had been teaching a long time and asked them what the big
I have an ultra-conservative friend with whom there is a weekly ritual that involves beer, wings and hockey on the big screen at the bar. The night starts out well enough, we get into the usual topics, current events, politics. After a few hours and several pitchers later we're practically yelling at each other (games over by this point). He's threatening to turn me in as a terrorist and I counter that I'm going to have him and his entire family sent to re-educat
With all the money that's already been spent on the existing system, would it maybe be a good idea to keep it alive but scale back the spending on it? Yes, it's not perfect but there have been some intercepts, and with all the energy and time poured into it, should we try to make it work or is it a write off? Maybe we could have a two-tier system, deploying both point to point anti-missile missiles and beam weapons in the hopes that one would intercept if the other failed- or that one would a
Actually, I have no issue with Bush on this one. I see this as Greenspan's baby. I especially love the cheerleading wh***s at CNBC who to this day tell us that the time to invest is now!!!!
[quote]Re-arranging deck chairs on the titanic.[/quote] heh heh. Yes, and "American Idol" is equivalent to the band that played as the ship went down. Quick, keep them occupied with pretty noises so they don't notice what's happening!!
tee-hee! Bush "winning" indeed! There comes a point when the dammage done is so great that anything you do to try and make things right is essentially fruitless. I see Bush's current actions more akin to putting some nice window dressing on the titanic as it's sinking. Did you know that Bush, your great leader knows how utterly screwed the average American is going to be in a few years and has planned for this? I said average, not all Americans- there will be a bubble of about 20
What I love especially about Bush is that he was never succesful in business, his dismal record speaks for itself! With the exception of co-managing a baseball team, the Texas Rangers, all of the other companies he ran, he ran into the ground. The only thing that kept them afloat was massive infusions of cash from "angel" investors (an angel investor is really a stupid investor, or someone willing to give massive amounts of money on the understanding that they will get a return in some other for
You don't NEED a degree to be educated, nor does a degree guarantee that you ARE educated. A degree simply means you've passed the coursework. I believe that Mark Twain once said, "I never let my education get in the way of my learning" (forgive the misquote if I got that wrong). Very true to this day!
[quote]And Arty, I'm kind of disappointed you didn't weigh in on my "Microsocialism vs. Macrosocialism" thread! [/quote] My apologies Gideon- I thoroughly enjoyed reading both the article and the responses, but my opinions on that particular topic are.... extensive.... and for me to respond would require writing a mini-essay, which for a fool like myself will take a good couple hours (I like to sit and ponder, it's therapeutic you know!) This is also why I don't write near as many artic
Do you know the reason for that, arty? Not because the money isn't there, but because most students would rather max out student loans and live off of them than get a real job. I believe financial aid personnel at the colleges have a lot to do with it. They push the loans, and 19 year old students don't count the long term costs This is
the federal government spends tons of money to help students go to school. STATE governments spend tons of money as well. Add in civic groups, nonprofits, etc, and it's probably fair to say that somewhere in the billions of dollars lf "free" aid is offered every year. It's nobody's fault but your own if you don't use it. In the last year and a half ALL I paid for
This is a good article, Draginol. I was unaware of these numbers and will take this into consideration. While the pie charts certainly appear to speak for themselves, I would like to ask these follow up questions- 1) How much has the population of the U.S changed in the last 47 years? 2) How many retirees and elderly are currently in the U.S today as opposed to 1960? 3) The term "social security" which takes up 23 % of the budget- is this entirely welfa
Ultimately, our nation's goal should be to move children who have no health insurance to private coverage, not to move children who already have private health insurance to government coverage." Terpfan, one question- If kids who have no health coverage are moved to private health coverage, who will pay for it? Will the private HMO's p
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