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What’s a wealthy nation spend its money on?

What’s a wealthy nation spend its money on?NOT a clue about China....I guess the author of the story has not read that China has been spending BILLIONS on its massive Military...http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/mar/03/china-speeds-pace-of-military-buildup/http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2009/01/20/china_fears_containment_as_defense_spending_rises_1232443538/Another case of slighted biased media against the United States.In a free country people can buy what they want, when...

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Discussion threads 2009-01-25

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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

Recession and employment: where does the student stand?

Recession and employment: where does the student stand?Obama is going to socialize everythingWho needs an education, Obama is going to give you free_heatlh_care. Also, he is going to spread the wealth around so we do not have to work. He is going to tax everyone in the Middle class and...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, welfare, education, tax break, real welfare, Obama, Middle-Class, recession

Discussion threads 2009-05-22

Hey, Wired President. You Wouldn't Tax the Internet, the Cell Phone or the Tweet. Would You?

Hey, Wired President. You Wouldn't Tax the Internet, the Cell Phone or the Tweet. Would You?Not a fan, but....Not a fan of taxing what for so long has been free, but I do see a silver lining. If email were taxed, or we were charged in some way for each...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Internet, phone, Comrade, cell phone, tax, Wired Inc., Tweet

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

It's all downhill for Twitter, politics from here

This week, "tax protesters" gathered across America to dump bagged tea into symbolic bodies of non-potable water and Ashton Kutcher challenged CNN to a Twitter follower showdown. I admire anyone who takes to the streets for their ideas and recognize the power of media, even when it is lowered to...

Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Twitter, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-04-17

Australia to build $31 billion fiberoptic broadband network

Australia says it will build a $43 billion Australian, or roughly $30.7 billion USD, national high-speed fiberoptic broadband network. In a surprise decision that rejected bids from some of the country's top telecoms firms, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the Australian government would ask private companies join...

Tags: Broadband Network, Network, Australia, Broadband, Networking, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?

As it looks more and more like the U.S. government might actually take action to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, the proponents and opponents of any action are getting more strident. The politics are getting more brutal. President Obama is hosting a conference on global warming...

Tags: Spain, Wind Farm, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-28

World Water Day

It's March 22. Not a high profile event in past years. They're planning numerous events to get people interested in one of our most precious resources. We are actually part-way through the International Water Decade. Bet you didn;t know that. As global warming changes...

Tags: Event, Nation, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-17

ZDNet

ZDNetDumbWhy would anyone loan the government $2,429 interest-free?Socialist leader will stop this...ntWhy waste money on toysWhen we're loosing jobs overseas in the tech industry. Also, I hope the stimulus package only gets applied to companies that STAY in the US and not just because they're crying crocodile tears!lol"We here at...

Tags: Vertical industries, government

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

What have we done?

What have we done?No problem Democrats will give out moneyIt is no problem, the printing presses are running now and money is on the way to build parks, pay for condom distribution and spend millions on untold garbage programs.With our new Leaders 'spread the wealth around' mantra it will lead...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Financial services, NOW IT

Discussion threads 2009-02-07

News to know: Mac at 25; Green storage; Android; Zune a misfit toy?

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know vi a email al ert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage . Christopher Dawson: The Intel convertible Classmate - 1:1 and beyond Adam O'Donnell: Will...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Storage, Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-26

What's a wealthy nation spend its money on?

We Americans can only harken back to the golden years of American wealth. Remember back when this nation could build the Interstate Highway system, put large and expensive craft into space, invest in research that led to the birth of this medium, the Internet? We can only hope...

Tags: China, Norway, Railroad, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Vertical Industries, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-25

China cracks down on porn

China cracks down on pornChina cracks down on pornNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!RE: China cracks down on pornI think this is great! I only wish that the U.S. could implement mandatory porn filtering.RE: China cracks down on pornChild porn is still one of the biggest problems, much of it from the Far East. As...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Network technology, dictator

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Remedying the trade imbalance with China

Remedying the trade imbalance with ChinaCopyright and patentYour discussion of the IP to be protected mentions copyright but not patents. For example:Knowledge products the stuff normally covered by copyright is the category of goods that relies so heavily on copyright. [End quote]Because software can be protected effectively only by...

Tags: Manufacturing, patent, trade imbalance, imbalance, Remedying, software, patent violation

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Wave of the future for alternative energy?

Courtesy: Pelamis Get out your atlas, see if you can find Agucadoura, Portugal. Just three miles offshore there, these big metallic sea snakes are bobbing in the ever-restless waves of the North Atlantic. And they're generating electricity for over a thousand homes on...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Portugal, Pelamis Wave Power, Venture Capital, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, Finance, Financing Startups, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Open source and the bottom line

Open source and the bottom lineAnd the reduction in proprietary profits...... as a result of open source is? If you're going to assert that proprietary companies have suffered because of open source, you should estimate how many $ billions more revenue some of the most profitable, high margin corporations...

Tags: open source, proprietary software, revenue, software

Discussion threads 2008-10-15

79 million adults can't pay medical bills

79 million adults can't pay medical billsReaganomics..it's the cure.Look, cut taxes to the wealthy. Let 5% get as much as they can.A rising tide floats all boats. Wait, economic data says that's not true...but, but we've been believing it so far.So what if the majority of Americans...

Tags: Vertical industries, Taxes, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Free trade, Insurance, health care, tax, government

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

U.S. health care not getting better

U.S. health care not getting betterThe study has predetermined the result[Michael Cannon, the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies, summed up what's wrong with the study: "The report does nothing more than reveal which nation does the worst job of satisfying the subjective preferences of the people who conducted...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, U.S. Health, medical care, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Global warming is a security issue say American spies

Sixteen American spy agencies combined their intelligence to report to the nation on global warming...as a security threat. To everyone's great surpise the spies found that our future is perilous...and we need continuied spying...to forestall governments toppling, more terrorist attacks by folks driven to violence by hunger, etc. etc....

Tags: Security, Global Warming, Spy, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-25

Globalization's discontents

I'm back from Africa, and what a trip it has been. Ghana was certainly a marked contrast to Zimbabwe. You would never mistake Ghana for a rich country, though compared to Zimbabwe, it is positively affluent. People are poor, but the roads are filled with cars, the stores are filled...

Tags: Immigrant, Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Globalization, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-22