Who am I?
- I don’t understand the difference between off-shoring and out-sourcing.
- I don’t understand the difference between ownership and management.
- I don’t understand the difference between a private equity firm and a corporate raider.
- I don’t understand what a blind trust is.
- I don’t understand minority share stock purchases.
- I don’t understand the difference between tax shelters and tax dodges.
- I don’t understand that Americans can own foreign companies.
- I don’t understand that because a foreigner holds a job that doesn’t mean there is one less in the U.S.
- I don’t understand hypocrisy.
- I don’t understand that a business has a different role than a government.
- I don’t understand that owners of businesses have different responsibilities than the POTUS.
- And lastly, I don’t understand why the economy won’t move forward. But, the American people now know.
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And lastly, isn’t a bit disturbing that while they’re accusing Romney of all sorts of stupid things, including felonies, that team Obama doesn’t know what a blind trust is? I believe that’s what Obama’s money is suppose to be in right now. If someone’s looking for a felony, this might be a good place to start.
I thought Bill Maher at first but then thought………LMAO!
Lol, I’m glad the effort wasn’t wasted. 🙂
😆 exactly!
For almost all of what you said I was going to answer “The average American”.
Probably of no fault of their own.
It’s the way they have been educated, that their actions have no consequences until they enter the real world and have to earn a living.
Hey, I am with ya AAIM, don`t take Me the wrong way. or I HOPE not! Pardon the pun.
I am an unaffiliated voter. In the 2008 election I vowed to vote for whichever candidate came out against the “Bail Outs”, “Too Big to Fail” etc. These concepts belong to “Crony Capitalism” which is Socialism rather than Capitalism.
As Obama and McCain both failed my Litmus test I was forced to cast around for a “Write in Candidate” so I voted for Boris Johnson, the Lord Mayor of London. Boris was born in New York and has been called “The Thinking Man’s Idiot”. My wife voted for the admirable Salvador Uribe even though I told her that he was not eligible because he was born in Colombia rather than the USA.
Who to vote for in 2012? Obama or “Obama Lite”? At this moment I can’t see anything changing regardless of who wins in November. Romney says that he will appeal “Obamacare” but are you dumb enough to believe he can do that? Obamacare is an “Entitlement” and it will not be repealed until the USA is declared bankrupt.
OK, I know that the USA is already technically bankrupt but we have not been “Declared Bankrupt” in the eyes of the world; other nations will be declared bankrupt before we are. On a per capita basis Japan is the most indebted nation by a large margin but it has a vigorous economy that maintained a positive trade balance for more than 40 years prior to the tsunami. Japan won’t be the first major economy to fail economically.
Iceland has already failed, Greece and Portugal are next but these are minor economies at best. My money is on Italy to be the first significant economy to fail. Next will be Germany thanks to their efforts to prop up Greece and the rotten Euro (no good deed goes unpunished). The rest of the European Socialist economies will collapse like dominos but it won’t matter as much as you think. The USA is in much better shape to feed itself than Europe so when the chips are down they will be starving while we will still be wasting more than 25% of our food.
As long as the USA maintains a powerful military we won’t have to worry about Europeans who will want to seize our resources.
Both the US and Canada as we go hand and hand. I`d like to say Mexico too, but that I`m not too sure of! But that is just my thoughts on it.
I think Germany will drop them before it get’s to that. Spain is another one to watch.
Obamacare only gets repealed if the Repubs take the senate. While I agree that Romney isn’t all that we want, he’s light years ahead of Obama in terms of understanding markets, international trade, and business. Clearly, Obama understands none of that.
Of course Germany will, but it won’t be free as their EU union promised them it would be A sunshine and lollypops thing to be an economic power thing to compete with the US as the way I saw it to be back then. And did you explain the trap thing to AAIM?
He’s prolly off to bed as I will shortly be. Tomorrow is another day. 😉
Sorry about that, but I guess you know where I am comming from.
maybe! 😆
Since it is 14th July, I was going to say Marie Antionette.
Let the unemployed eat cake! Or food stamps. Can’t eat bread, it was all used for EPA ethanol mandates. Meanwhile there’s just time another round of golf in Hawaii.
Barack Obama will mandate that half of all engineers are females.
That tops European socialist lunacies.
“Obama hinted that Title IX quotas would soon come to engineering and techology, saying that “Title IX isn’t just about sports,” but also about “inequality in math and science education” and “a much broader range of fields, including engineering and technology. I’ve said that women will shape the destiny of this country, and I mean it.””
http://echoboombomb.blogspot.de/2012/07/too-many-men-in-stem-fields.html?spref=fb&fb_source=message
If that mandate came in here they’d have to graduate more males in some fields.
More women are doing chemical engineering than men, in part because the high academic requirements to get in.
“Barack Obama will mandate that half of all engineers are females.”
Which half – bottom half or top half? The results could prove interesting.
You guys can joke all you want about this, but for someone doing academics as a living (undergrad degrees in both engineering and chemistry and a Ph.D. in chemistry, currently working as a research scientist in interdisciplinary work), this is a total nightmare. The academic system already has way too many people in it because of all the perks for minorities and women (and yes, they’re separate categories, as there are more living women than men, so they can’t be considered a minority). These perks happen on both the student side and on the school side, so there’s lots of incentive to keep the garbage students in the system.
As Bruce said above, there are already more women in ChemE than men because of the academic requirements for it. And yes, the grades for women are superior, at least in my experience. But I’d also venture that women are MUCH more likely to go argue grades on tests, etc, whereas guys don’t do that as much, thus inflating the female grades. They also tend to study more than guys, so it takes more work for them too. Once one gets to creating NEW things, which requires an understanding far beyond book smarts, the percentage of guys succeeding is far above that of women…again, all just my experience.
It’s far worse at the graduate level. If you’re, for instance, a black woman, you’re pretty much guaranteed to get in. A black girl I knew in undergrad was the bottom of the barrel for my school and probably would’ve been failed out if she wasn’t a minority (I know for a fact that she exceeded the allowed number of times on academic probation), but later she got a ton of funding/support to go to the same grad school I did (for reference, I was summa cum laude and got two degrees in undergrad). She didn’t accomplish anything of significance in grad school, but got her Ph.D. regardless. Oh, and when I said bottom of the barrel earlier, I absolutely meant it. I seriously think that she could have been the absolute worst student to ever graduate from my undergrad…I’m not kidding.
If there was a true metric for understanding and innovation (no, grades are not them, though there’s probably a positive correlation there), particularly at the graduate level, I’d venture that the bottom 25% of women/minorities would be equivalent to the bottom 5-10% of white men. And no, that’s not because they’re dumber as a class. It’s because the system is using the wrong approach and loading itself with a bunch of idiots who have no business trying to succeed at that level. If a white man is not qualified to do original research, the equivalent minority/woman isn’t qualified either. Adding more of them to the system doesn’t help the problem…if anything, it makes it worse. And then people complain when the average woman/minority is lower in salary in industry (where good performance is [usually] related to pay). The answer is simple – the average woman/minority knows less because the selection process for them is much weaker and in some cases nonexistent. It will never occur that both the average woman in the sciences/engineering will be as good as the average man while simultaneously having the same number of participants. You can have one or the other. The reason? A smaller percentage of women are interested in these fields. Why? Because they’re wired differently. So blame God if you want, though I completely fail at fields where women tend to show more interest, and am personally in awe at how they enjoy and succeed at doing some of those things. Thus, I think God did a great job. 😀
-Scott
Lol, but Scott, how do you really feel? Presently, I’m a bit… I’ve had a few beers. But, this may need expanded and clarified.
I don’t agree with “positive discrimination” in general. I do believe in “positive education”. Advancement, and selection for further education should be on merit, pure and simple. If women or so-called “ethnic minorities” are discriminated against unfairly, then that needs to be fixed. If poorer people are excluded because they can’t afford the fees, then that needs to be fixed, and can be.
“Positive discrimination” doesn’t “fix” anything. If people who are unsuited for jobs or further education are included because of some “quota” system, it won’t ultimately help them; they’ll likely be out of their depth. Standards may decline and future employers will be disappointed with many applicants. Those who qualify, but are excluded because they exceed their “quota” will be pissed off, and rightly so, and their inherent skills will be lost. This breeds resentment and feeds prejudice.
If the system needs fixing, then fix it from the bottom up through ensuring good standards of education across the sexes and minorities. Provide grants and scholarships for those who need them. It’ll take time, it’ll take money, it’ll take commitment. I’m all for giving people a second chance, or a “leg up”, but not “both legs up” with a push from behind. Someone propelled forward and up pushes someone else out of the way.
I was way ahead of you – I guessed Obama bin Laden immediately I read the second or third line. Obama knows where he’s coming from (was it Kenya?), but it’s difficult to know where you’re going if you;re wearing blinkers, thick green specs and play a lot of golf. Some people can’t see the wood for the trees – Obama can’t see the trees for the green.
It’s is funny how they’re putting their ignorance on display. It’s hilarious!
“I don’t understand that because a foreigner holds a job that doesn’t mean there is one less in the U.S.”
It is quite the opposite. Consider these companies and think would they still be growing without greater wealth and prosperity in the so called developing world, Mac Donalds , Yum Brands, Johnson and Johnson , GE , Visa Mastercard , AMEX , Citi Group , Coca Cola , Pepsi , Heinz , Kraft (note they own what can be considered a national Aussie food icon Vegemite) Colgate Palmolive , GMC , Ford , Microsoft and Apple etc. and these are only the big names take them out of your economy and see how much worse things can get.
And the other point I meant to say is it means cheaper goods for everyone.
Exactly to both points. While I’m a bit of a protectionist, myself, the reality is we don’t live in a vacuum. And, the economic structure we have demands global participation. It would simply be impossible for most companies to be successful and not hire over seas.
The whole discussion is troubling. We’ve got nearly half the population in the U.S. who know nothing about economics, business, finance, or stock markets. We are being led by someone who daily demonstrates he doesn’t know about any of this. I’m no guru on these things, but egads! These people are living their entire lives without even a vaguest notion of what is working behind their dollar.
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hmmmmmm….. can I have a few weeks??? snickerlin
Not being politically correct, I can tell you the truth: “Color is probably the only real difference between Obama and Romney.”
They both exemplify the type of leadership that allowed the system of government we inherited from our founding fathers in 1776 to be replaced by the modern version of “1984”
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/ => http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
As we celebrated the feeling of politically correct speech and thinking in the post-1945 euphoria of victory, observation-based science was silently replaced by post-modern science on government-approved models of reality – like AGW (the model of anthropogenic global warming), SSM (the standard solar model of the Sun), Higgs Boson (the God particle), and OSN (oscillating solar neutrinos) – until finally being exposed by Climategate emails and documents in November 2009.
Here’s the rest of the story:
http://omanuel.wordpress.com/about/ . . . , http://omanuel.wordpress.com/about/#comment-555
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA Principal
Investigator for Apollo
http://www.omatumr.com