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- U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%
- Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
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- Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards
- Never mindI was going to put something here, but I felt that I would simply be attacked for pointing out that Bush and Obama are more alike than they are dissimilar with regards to personal freedoms.It might just be possible...... that after Obama was sworn in he was shown classified...
- Tags: Obama, Bush, new safeguard, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- $20/gallon gasoline: heaven or hell?
- $20/gallon gasoline: heaven or hell?The Devil's Dictionaryzealot: n, Someone who is willing to suffer everyone elses discomfort for his cause.$20 ain't the limit.When I was in high school, I worried about gas going over $0.30 per gallon. On the log scale that prices follow, we're already closer to $20...
- Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, gasoline
- Discussion threads 2009-07-16
- Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investor
- Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investorThe global economy is upon us.Isn't it great that other countries have money to spend nowadays?One World / One Government / One CorporationWell, this is nothing new. The "One World Utopian Ideal" has been going on since the Tower of Babel. ...
- Tags: investor, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-05-26
- If we build it, what will come?
- If we build it, what will come?What jobs???What jobs, GM, Chrysler are going to be forced into bankruptcy with Czar Obama who fired the CEO and the Union Auto Workers will be paid off.Meanwhile, small business and taxes will be levied to pay for his 'free' healthcare for people who...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, job
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- What Obama promised open source health IT
- What Obama promised open source health ITIf Governement is not open source, then they are creatinga monopoly that will bleed us all dry and provide an environment of big brother. The biggest problem with heath care is cost. Time to limit lawsuits and lower malpractice insurance. Time...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, open source, Obama
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
- Wind dying down...for the nonce
- Wind dying down...for the nonceSo China is building a third generator?All I ever see is coal fired plants when I am there.Translated..."driven partly by new federal laws and policies"Subsidized. By OUR tax dollars. If it can't compete on its own costs...STICK A FORK IN IT.Does that mean take...
- Tags: subsidy
- Discussion threads 2009-04-14
- Health care is rationed and people die
- Health care is rationed and people dieWrong approachThe health care provisions in the current "stimulus" package are a prescription for the elimination of the aged and no amount of "data"worship can change that fact. What's next "Soylent Green"?Government Run Health Care == VA HospitalsWant to see how government mandated...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-02-15
- Obama's Broadband plan: offering and waiting for details
- Obama's Broadband plan: offering and waiting for detailsAnd yet another pieceof the Constitution shredded by FDR is used as toilet paper by this blog author.Because the fact is, Obama and congress can only treat the constitutional limits on government with this much contempt because the American people are cool with...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Obama, broadband
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
- Khosla: Don't Save the Dinosaurs
- Khosla: Don't Save the DinosaursFacts, schmacts who needs themHere's an interesting articlehttp://freep.com/article/20081205/COL14/812050400Love them pollsI note there isn't an "I disagree" response that doesn't disparage the proponent. Maybe something like: "I disagree because helping the automakers is better than letting them fail", or maybe, "I disagree, but the automakers shouldn't...
- Tags: Manufacturing, automobile company, Khosla, Dinosaur, New Car
- Discussion threads 2008-12-05
- Also on Nov. 4, FCC passes White Spaces
- Little reported amid the torrent of news and analysis on easily the most significant election since Ronald Reagan in 1980 (and given the economic crisis, perhaps the most significant since FDR in 1932), the FCC Tuesday voted in favor of White Spaces, delighting the tech industry and those in favor...
- Tags: FCC, Microphone, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- I secretly always wanted to see capitalism collapse . . .
- I secretly always wanted to see capitalism collapse . . .So if you believe that...You putting all your money into gold? Bought a farm so you can grow your own food and spin your own cloth while the depression lasts? Put your money where your mouth is.RE: I secretly always...
- Tags: Benefits, Investment, capitalism
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Election Talking Points: A discussion place
- Election Talking Points: A discussion placeSpoken like a true believer in ...a constitutional republic.RE: Election Talking Points: A discussion placereally this post is for an opinion location,It really becomes a bunch of BSGuess doe to reports about the debate it help McCain,everyone has to put two cents of nonsense,Ok...
- Tags: Mortgages, Palin, Election Talking Points
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- "Papa Bear"'s take on the Palin Hack
- "Papa Bear"'s take on the Palin HackDon't go calling him a "Republican"...The true Republican Party was shot between the eyes in the aftermath of FDR's New Deal; the carcass staggered on for another three-plus decades, when it was put out of its misery by Nixon's "Southern Strategy" that whipped up...
- Tags: MSM, O'Reilly, Taft, Bill O'Reilly, Bush Administration
- Discussion threads 2008-09-20
- Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?
- Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?Just a couple frivilous commentsI agree with you for the most part.Now to the criticisms: Not all USAmericans are "yanks."You should also listen to some of your fellow ZDNet bloggers and use Firefox and its built-in...
- Tags: Government, Financial services, oil, Grumpy Old Man
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Apple iPhone winning corporate fans despite flaws
- Apple iPhone winning corporate fans despite flawsdespite flaws? because the other phones are without flaws?Or are the just different flaws?Oh wow an IPhoneLet me pee my pants for a minute, its an iPhone? Sure SAP is going to give kudo's to something that compete's with Microsoft, duh! ""It's...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, flaw, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- Could the 'War of the Worlds' scare happen today?
- Could the 'War of the Worlds' scare happen today?Manipulating the massesThe 'war of the worlds is old ha't. The greatest scam of the modern age is "The War On Terror". Can I suggest "The Northwoods Project" as preliminary reading to watching "Zeitgeist", "Loose Change" and "9/11 Mysteries". Then ask yourself...
- Tags: scare, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- Libertarianism and its discontents
- Libertarianism and its discontentsCare to explain our Somalia like government in the beginning?Our greatest expansion of economic growth was under a weaker central government during the 19th century. We did not need subsidies back then to implement the infrastructure like we seem to need now. Ron Paul raises some good...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Socialism, Libertarianism, government, discontent
- Discussion threads 2007-10-18
- Today's Debate: Can we end fear of privacy breaches?
- Today's Financial Times has a long feature about search engines and privacy, which notes among other things that even Microsoft is now lobbying for a new law mandating privacy standards. (Google wants them to apply worldwide.) What's most interesting to me, though, is a chart, created from...
- Tags: Privacy, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hipaa, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Regulations, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Can High Tech Ever Be Really Hip?
- The tech blogosphere is often a place where great ideas about society and politics intersect with technology, and the tech industry and society are usually the better for it. But I was reminded recently about how much the perception of hip and progressive and cool is in many ways a...
- Tags: Tech, Disability, Tech Blogosphere, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
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