To give you a better idea of the concept I've been proposing, here are some links to some views of it that have some of the features but not all in any one proposal shown.... these are all based on a dual mode transportation system concept, so miss most of the overall advantages in savings (energy, transportation cost outlays over time) ...
The Meyerson piece in the Post today draws the conclusion for "cause" of malaise / decline is "Our economic woes, then, are not simply cyclical or structural. They are also - chiefly - institutional, the consequence of U.S. corporate behavior that has plunged us into a downward cycle ...
Referring to the need to raise the debt cieling sometime during the 1st quarter:
In his statement, Boehner did not question the need for an increase, but said it must be accompanied by other measures."Spending cuts - and reforming a broken budget process - are top priorities for the American people and for ...
I was looking for the automobile industry standards for the relationship of automobile mass to fuel efficiency, and came across this 100 mpg, 750 lb, 4 passenger, 4 wheel vehicle ... which further substantiates my assertions that
- A 75 mpg average mileage for a currently mass
I have been thinking for the most part that the teaparty activists were nothing more than fringe players in the larger political sense.. a kind of splinter party of the GOP. I began to wonder if I'd overestimated how much of a fringe they were though when during the elections several of the teaparty candidates won over ...
I note that in many economic comments the repeated use of the evils of "socialism" or "socialism" used in the pajorative. I'm not at all sure though that there's a common definition "socialism", which in reality ranges all the way from anarchist forms to the current democratic european forms and everything in between.&...
Subtle but effective leading sentance in national news article on the assassination attempt in Arizona:
"Authorities on Sunday charged a 22-year-old man described as a pot-smoking loner with trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing others at a ...
Go figure! Looks like the Obama tax deal struck fucked the little guy big time.
The more I've interacted with MD's over the past few years the more I've realized that they know very little about the "why's" of health issues, other than what's generally known by every other relatively informed non-medical Tom, Dick, & Harry. They are trained to recognize symptoms and combinations thereof, and based on ...
"This reduction in reflected solar energy through warming is greater than simulated by the current crop ...
I've been curious and wondering now for at least the last year why corporate firms are retaining and improving profit margins even while the economy's growth rate (GDP) and unemloyment remains so high. My own thinking about it was that the firms ability to retain profit margins and even improving them while doing so with fewer ...
Private sector capital enterprise doesn't give a hoot or a damn about employment or lack thereof except in the context of 1) having sufficient employees / skills to meet production (output) requirements; 2) insuring employees "tow the line", and 3) increasing productivity to reduce dependance on labor in general.... i.e. reduce ...
One statement by Motorola in the article, really got my attention:
"A manager at Motorola explained that his company pays workers at the 70th percentile of wages for their occupation. That way, workers know that if they don?t perform and ...
Typical Friedman ... complete laissez-faire. Note however that he said that the European systems (single payer) works well because the gov't has a monopoly ... he never said why the outcomes in that system are far better than the US's though... which is a fact that's diametrically opposed to the gov't monopoly according to ...
Senate voted to keep their current 60 votes to overcome a filibuster... no surprise. https://mail.google.com/mail/?
Interesting to see somebody (even a low rung on the ladder guy) saying the obvious .... regulation changes are / have been virtually worthless as they profess to increase regulations on bankers and investment houses, but actually leave the changes to comittees who will decide in each administrtion what changes are "necessary". ...
I saw the headline news today --- this one on Yahoo! News --- entitled in one form or another on every news outlet: Outlook for 2011 economy is brightening. http://news.yahoo....
You've probably seen a lot of recent reports in news papers and blogs that show public employees are over compensated relative to the private sector, and even moreso when total compensation is included (health care plans, etc).
However, the reports you've seen are not comparative for level of education attained or on a per hour ...