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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
Bush Redeems Himself - from Katrina, to Gustav
The main benefit of this new hurricane in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, if you can in any way couch this natural disaster redux in such terms, is that President Bush and the current Republican White House and Administration get to improve their performance. Already, Bush is on the ground and in charge. Our President has appeared on my ...
Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard2 on September 1, 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: 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
Iran's Arsenal is Really Financial not Nuclear
The US isn't afraid of Iran's ''Nuclear Arsenal'' but rather their ''Finacial Arsenal''... Iran has begun an ''Oil Bank'' that has let the air out of the Dollar, creating the first steps of a finacial freefall for the US and anyone sticking to the Dollar as ''Oil Currency''; not my opinion, fact!!! Read the Tehran newspapers... Can you see the ...
Posted to Moneybox by blueybrink on June 10, 2008
four dollars a gallon ?
I m sorry we re Americans . Our country is huge ! Cars are in our blood ! Americans have a love affair with our cars ! It sure is ''interesting '' to compare our country to ''peee u n eee''* European countries. Think square footage ! I mean really... Yea its great to compare a gallon of gas to a cup of Starbucks...i like knowing it costs ...
Posted to Moneybox by kristiwarsha on May 30, 2008
Kunstler has a point
It's easy to dismiss some of the selective melodrama in ''The Long Emergency'' or to take offense at some of the politically incorrect constructs in his new novel. One could argue the point, however, that our notions of politically correct liberal ideas - even democracy itself - is a luxury made affordable by cheap energy. I don't know when ...
Posted to Green Room by Knute on April 22, 2008
Re: End of the World
The world as we know it will end soon, but the cause is resource depletion, mainly of oil, Peak Oil is the key word, read all about it: http://www.peakoilassociates.com/POAnalysis.html
Posted to Green Room by cjwirth on April 21, 2008

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