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  • Auto Haters: Fat, Mean & Undermining Green

    Economist David Gordon wrote in his book Fat and Mean, “In the 1980s, by common measures, the proportion of managerial and administrative employment was more than three times as high in the United States as in Germany and Japan.” He also wrote that the US has a higher percentage of supervisors than Germany, Sweden, and Japan ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by Bibble on December 11, 2008

  • Re: McCain-Palin's scientific view of oil exploration

    Experts estimate that within our off-shore borders and Alaska there may be enough oil to support us for 60 more years. That should give us ample time to transition to other energy sources, especially if we begin shifting to nuclear energy. We would likely be in a good economic situation today if the Democrats had not outlawed oil drilling in ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by JKC on October 28, 2008

  • The Big Bailout...Ha!

    There is no need for a bailout of the bank when we can bail them out through tax payer spending...heres how: America has fought hard to become an independent nation and a leader in innovation, so how can we fix our current economic downtrend efficiently? Some seem to think that throwing money at the corporations who failed us is the answer…we all ...
    Posted to Trailhead by Mejamz on September 29, 2008

  • Worst Candidate ALWAYS Wins U.S. Elections

    Looking back on United States Presidential Election History, I have concluded that the WORST Candidate ALWAYS Wins the Election for the U.S. Presidency. I could cite all the examples, such as Wendel Wilkie, Adlai Stevenson, Richard Nixon, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and George H. Walker Bush (Senior) along with George W. Bush (Junior); but you get ...
    Posted to Trailhead by MichaelBernard2 on September 25, 2008

  • Makes Me Laugh -- Elites With Furrowed Brows AT LAST - -

    So, the FDIC Chairman is a female children's book author from Massachusetts, who started her new job running security for our Nation's bank deposits since 2006? How fortunate for her. I am a Massachusetts/New Hampshire working guy going back to 1990, originally from the Midwest, with some college but no degree, and I have been ''getting ...
    Posted to Moneybox by MichaelBernard1 on July 18, 2008