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“Bailouts bad for economy, bad for recovery”
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 1/20/2009 4:30:00 AM
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=390378
“Bailouts bad for economy, bad for recovery”
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 1/20/2009 4:30:00 AM
I’ve been very much against government-funded day care and wage schemes (”comparable worth” and the like), but more recently, I’m a little wiser. Consider the consequences and the costs, then give them what they want.
Give their efforts a little extra push by making sure that government-funded day care is available to every woman in the private and public sectors. Then see what happens.
The following are Fortune 500s that filed briefs (along with labor unions and lawyer organizations) in favor of so-called affirmative action in the Michigan Grutter v. Bollinger (Michigan University) case.
http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/32_internatl.pdf
3M
Abbott Laboratories
American Airlines
Ashland
Bank One
Boeing
Coca-Cola
Dow Chemical
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours
Eastman Kodak
Eli Lilly
Ernst & Young
Exelon
Fannie Mae
General Dynamics
General Mills
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg
KPMG
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft
Mitsubishi
Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Nationwide Financial
Pfizer
PPG
Proctor & Gamble
Sara Lee
Steelcase
Texaco
TRW
United Airlines
General Motors Corporation
http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/gru_gm.html
Best regards, blu
My windows are 98 years old. I want some of my money back to buy new ones.
I thought Obama said he wanted a bill with no pork. As a measure of what’s to come, we’ll see if he signs it.
Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James Goodfellow, when his careless son happened to break a pane of glass? If you have been present at such a scene, you will most assuredly bear witness to the fact, that every one of the spectators, were there even thirty of them, by common consent apparently, offered the unfortunate owner this invariable consolation"It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. Everybody must live, and what would become of the glaziers if panes of glass were never broken?"Now, this form of condolence contains an entire theory, which it will be well to show up in this simple case, seeing that it is precisely the same as that which, unhappily, regulates the greater part of our economical institutions.
Suppose it cost six francs to repair the damage, and you say that the accident brings six francs to the glazier's tradethat it encourages that trade to the amount of six francsI grant it; I have not a word to say against it; you reason justly. The glazier comes, performs his task, receives his six francs, rubs his hands, and, in his heart, blesses the careless child. All this is that which is seen.
But if, on the other hand, you come to the conclusion, as is too often the case, that it is a good thing to break windows, that it causes money to circulate, and that the encouragement of industry in general will be the result of it, you will oblige me to call out, "Stop there! Your theory is confined to that which is seen; it takes no account of that which is not seen."
It is not seen that as our shopkeeper has spent six francs upon one thing, he cannot spend them upon another. It is not seen that if he had not had a window to replace, he would, perhaps, have replaced his old shoes, or added another book to his library. In short, he would have employed his six francs in some way, which this accident has prevented.
--Frédéric Bastiat
My windows are old and need replaced. Where do I apply? Can I get new curtains too?
The ‘people’ have spoken. This is what the majority... (the idiots) voted for. And now, the idiots really ARE in charge of ruining the country.....and us, right along with it. Meanwhile....the sychophants party down and slather, dribble and drool over the biggest fraud on the planet (so far). The “fiddling while Rome burns” analogy comes to mind.
I suspect the reporter is ignorant of the difference between cable TV and over the air digital, which wouldn't be a surprise for reporters these days.