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pandabear
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02 Nov 2009, 8:43 am

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/In ... .12&vv=700



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02 Nov 2009, 4:02 pm

Wishful thinking. :roll:



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02 Nov 2009, 7:43 pm

Brother can you spare a dime? :(


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02 Nov 2009, 7:51 pm

Jacoby wrote:
Wishful thinking. :roll:


You mean that you wish that things were really that promising?



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02 Nov 2009, 10:20 pm

They didn't even mention our crumbling infrastructure, fragile currency and foriegn invasion from the south. :roll:


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03 Nov 2009, 2:03 am

Partial solution to the un-employment problem: Put people to work fixing the potholes (and other disrepairs of the public infrastructure). Nothing lasts forever. It wears out and has to be fixed or replaced.

Investing in the public infrastructure is a better investment than ill thought out welfare schemes of income redistribution. The best way to handle the non-well-off is to get them busy doing something useful. If we are going to have a dole or hand-outs put the bums to work filling the pot holes.

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03 Nov 2009, 5:23 am

ChrisHitchens wrote:
They didn't even mention our crumbling infrastructure, fragile currency and foriegn invasion from the south. :roll:


Another partial solution of unemployment problem: put people on spanish lessons. :D


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03 Nov 2009, 12:15 pm

People in the road workers unions are going to object to hiring random folk off the streets to compete with them to fill those potholes. They make a lot of money standing around leaning on their shovels, you know, and don't want to lose that cushy public works job.

The biggest source of new jobs is small companies. To create more jobs, you have to create a business climate that's friendly to the formation of small companies. And one facet of that is that you don't bail out big companies. That just steals financing that would have been available for small companies that now will never form.



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03 Nov 2009, 3:14 pm

ScratchMonkey wrote:
People in the road workers unions are going to object to hiring random folk off the streets to compete with them to fill those potholes. They make a lot of money standing around leaning on their shovels, you know, and don't want to lose that cushy public works job.

The biggest source of new jobs is small companies. To create more jobs, you have to create a business climate that's friendly to the formation of small companies. And one facet of that is that you don't bail out big companies. That just steals financing that would have been available for small companies that now will never form.


In the U.S. half of the non-farm GDP is produced by firms with have 100 or fewer employees. The small business is what energizes the U.S. economy, not the giant mega corporations. The mega corporations are gigantic monuments to death, like the Pyramids in Egypt.

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