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Want to ReBuild Your Airport? - CALL FRED TESTA
The best artists solve problems with the fewest brushstrokes. Any city, regional authority, or state or national government that has a rebuild or build out AIRPORT PROJECT should be calling FRED TESTA as the truly proven, Italian-American ''Can Do'' Guy for the job. Fred Testa has proven himself and his abilities on significant Airport Projects, ...
Posted to Architecture by MichaelBernard4 on July 26, 2009
Re: Are Madoff and his frauding cohearts Financial Terrorists?
I wanted to revive this thread for the sake of confronting the dire consequences of the global financial crises. Americans, in my opinion, lack the ETHICAL standards to adequately tackle the gravity of the financial crisis CAUSED BY AMERICANS. How many folks know somebody who has lost perhaps millions, and they are just average folks: working ...
Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on February 2, 2009
Premature assumptions
I am rather flabberghasted that the author of this article presumes to know that the future will judge Bush badly. In addition, to dump the current economic downfall only on the shoulders of Bush is naive or purely politically motivated. It is certainly no help to America and Americans to have journalists offering unwarretned and narrow minded ...
Posted to The Big Idea by randerson1228 on January 15, 2009
How (why) the collapse killed the USA !!!
It's all about corporate GREED,look at Enron,MCI,now AIG they're all just a bunch of thieves, I have 5 million,I want 10, HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH !!! 50 million to play baseball,20 million to be in a movie. 30,000 to drive a truck 500 miles a day,EVERY day.15,000 to flip burgers EVERY DAY, the rich get richer. We can't all play baseball or be a ...
Posted to The Big Idea by johnny1003 on October 23, 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
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
Re: What difference will it make?
kgsbca: So the politicians should stay out of this, if they know what is good for the US economy. They probably won't, though, for if the company is acquired by a foreign owner, they will lose a valuable source of local campaign contributions, and we know that is the most important issue for politicians. No one yet seems to have noticed ...
Posted to Moneybox by Saphireyes on June 28, 2008
A Parabola mapping our American Trajectory
The St. Louis Arch represents all the Progress we made as a modern society in the 20th Century, we Americans, in technology, modernism, business, the arts, journalism, mass media, medicine, education, trade, politics, electrification and electrical generation, automobiles, airplanes, foreign policy, foreign trade, food, democracy, industrial and ...
Posted to Architecture by MichaelBernard1 on June 14, 2008
Re: In my opinion..
With the US IN DEEP RECESSION!!!! (http://www.financialpost.com/ story. html?id=326071) Dr. Rookmin Maharaj’s Corporate Governance Model may be one of the solutions to bringing the US economy back on tract. Dr. Maharaj’s research work examines the characteristics (knowledge, groupthink, and values) and tools (interconnections, evaluations and ...
Posted to Moneybox by Dr. Maharaj on April 16, 2008