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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
a correction
It appears that there is a mistake regarding who appoints the Governor General of Canada. It is the Prime Minister that is in power when the office of the Govenor General is vacant that decides who is going to be Govenor General. The Queen of England then pretty well respects the decision of the Prime Minister and he/she becomes a ''go-between'' ...
Posted to Foreigners by netreacher on December 7, 2008
Obama - "Change You Can Count On"-(flip flop) - part 1
''Change You Can Count on'' What??? CHANGE #1: Despite Pledging To Withdraw American Troops From Iraq Immediately, Barack Obama Now Says He Would ''Refine'' His Policy After Listening To The Commanders On The Ground In July 2008, Barack Obama Said He Will Continue To ''Refine'' His Iraq Policy. Obama: ''I've always said that the pace of ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 11, 2008
Obama "Talk the Talk...but can he Walk the Walk" Part 2
Obama “Talk the Talk… but can he Walk the Walk” Part 2 In 1999, Barack Obama was faced with a difficult vote in the Illinois legislature — to support a bill that would let some juveniles be tried as adults, a position that risked drawing fire from African-Americans, or to oppose it, possibly undermining his image as a tough-on-crime moderate. ...
Posted to XX Factor by MiamiVice on August 8, 2008
Re: McCain can't talk but can walk the walk
Statistic: Barack Obama missed 287 of 1268 votes (23%) since Jan 6, 2005 (Exceedingly Poor relative to peers). John McCain missed 719 of 4085 votes (18%) since Feb 4, 1993. Statistics: Barack Obama has sponsored 133 bills since Jan 4, 2005, of which 119 haven’t made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Obama has co-sponsored ...
Posted to XX Factor by MiamiVice on August 7, 2008
Re: Obama, Oil, Drilling, Devaluation
What free lunch?? GOP Policies failures due to those Socialist democrats in Congress like Pelosi... Congress has its own ban on offshore energy exploration, and the Democrats who run Congress have shown no sign that they are willing to follow Bush's example. They have preferred to make excuses--about why the price of oil is rising, who is to ...
Posted to XX Factor by MiamiVice on August 5, 2008
Obama can "Talk the Talk... but can he Walk the Walk?"
When it comes to speeches and motivating those poor neglected ignorant Democrats... Obama is the King!! Throughout the campaing, he has change position on issues several times and more so than McCain. This new position now about off shore drilling is one of his latest flip ups and is all because the polls stated that the majority of American ...
Posted to XX Factor by MiamiVice on August 4, 2008
Reasons to select your next President
Enough of race being an issue in selecting the President of the US! Better that we provide votes for the first woman who has earned the top job than give the first erudite nearly white black orator with no redeeming experience in anything a free ride to the White House years too early for him to be effective. One day, for certain, he will be my ...
Posted to Trailhead by janieliza on April 2, 2008