Tag: economy
member name: Tim Nelson
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October 31, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
I watched Mr. James Galbraith (the younger) on Bill Moyers' Journal, on PBS last night. He said that we should offer early retirement to guys like me.
The youth of today, he says, need to be employed. . . .
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September 09, 2009 10:16 AM EDT --
Yesterday I learned that Congress wants to fine an individual $750 for not having health insurance. I was thinking that the fine would be indexed by income, basically from zero. In that scenario, I expected . . .
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December 02, 2007 10:24 AM EST --
The Taxpayers League in Minnesota wants to bring capitalism to the public sector, another unnamed group wants to bring socialism (government regulation) to the private sector. The problem is not that either . . .
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January 06, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
The candidates swimsuit competition was held at an undisclosed location provided by Dick Cheney. The event, where no cameras or media is allowed, has a past veiled in secrecy, but can be traced back to . . .
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February 10, 2008 11:11 AM EST --
Many people remember getting an "incomplete" on a school assignment. This meant that, while all of what you sent in may have been very good, you will recieve no credit.
The following is . . .
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March 08, 2008 03:54 PM EST --
Hillary Clinton -- First Communitarian President/VP of the United States?
http://nord.twu.net/acl/hilary.html
My take on it is that libertarians, frustrated that libertarianism was being mocked . . .
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November 17, 2008 08:25 PM EST --
Most of the economy was farm related at one time in our past. Today, the farm bill that passed last year to bolster the income of corporate farms owned by millionaires, puts farming squarely into the category . . .
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September 11, 2009 03:08 PM EDT --
More jobs don't make a good economy, any more than a lack of jobs make a bad economy.
Over-staffing would shoot employers in the foot, and the economy needs fewer workers today than we did several years . . .
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September 06, 2008 10:38 AM EDT --
Obama has voted in a more partisan manner in any time period. They both need to stop preaching to the choir, and get on with it.
That's all that needs to be said right now.
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September 07, 2008 11:10 AM EDT --
I like last November a heck of a lot better than this November. Last November, Hillary was expanding her base of blue collar males to recreate a big tent, Democratic party. Joe Biden was fiesty in troop . . .
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October 05, 2008 10:30 AM EDT --
Does anything come to mind? This is where I would begin:
The religious certainty of Bush, happy with his decisions and comfortable with the outcomes, is exactly how Obama comes across. Cool and calm, . . .
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February 16, 2009 04:34 PM EST --
There are cycles to the economy, and a world-wide depression seems to be one of them, but a large middle class is a doubtful part of the cycle.
The end of WWII, women in the workforce, the baby boom, . . .
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November 21, 2009 11:22 AM EST --
The large middle class lasted 50 years, so lets just get over ourselves for once. Sure, the large middle class HAD a solid foundation, but now it doesn't.
The transfer of economic power is happening . . .
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December 01, 2009 10:09 AM EST --
Click on link.
http://www.jumpthecurve.net/index.php/recent_posts/jack_uldrichs_2010_technology_forecast_predictions/
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September 30, 2007 12:39 PM EDT --
News of the future, 50 years from today
Waste recycling and curbing have shaped the political, economic, and environmental landscape over the past 50 years. Curbing, which began as a backlash to . . .
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March 12, 2008 09:06 PM EDT --
Both parties began purging moderates in the mid-seventies.
Richard Nixon was a moderate, but also a war hawk, much like John McCain is today. Ronald Reagan led the charge to change that reality in . . .
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March 15, 2008 03:02 PM EDT --
Buyer's remorse is familiar to anyone who has voted in an election.
In an effort to get people to comment on this article, I offer the following scientific process of elimination.
Buyer's . . .
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April 05, 2008 06:17 PM EDT --
This tale begins with nothing much on TV.
Governor Tim Pawlenty was on the local public affairs show on the PBS channel this Friday night. Five minutes into the interview, the subject of education, . . .
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April 16, 2008 08:32 PM EDT --
(Caution, one word near the end could be considered naughty)
Many people can relate to too much overtime at work. The hours and days go by and there is no time to get anything else done. It was at . . .
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February 07, 2009 12:20 PM EST --
Once again, centrists rule. The shopping list for the stimulus bill had enough junk food to send the average (partisan) child straight into a coma, but little Republicans, and little Democrats didn't . . .
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