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The company in China that produces many of the parts found in today’s Apple iPod and other electronics felt enough pressure from it’s employees that it needs to start paying a decent salary. Recent events at Foxconn‘s Shenzhen, China plant have forced some changes. A second pay raise has been [...]
Lest we forget that the modern “Progressive” movement wants to take us backwards to the systems we had prior to our independence . . . this is a cartoon, reportedly from 1948 making fun of the very things we are discussing now. The human race has been discussing them as long as [...]
Did any of you notice that the President wants to spend the “leftover” TARP money on “job creation?” Why do I care? We were told that the money, once repaid, would be used to pay back the loans taken to fund the original program. (Would you take a loan in your children’s names and in the name of your grandchildren to temporarily fund your salary?) Are you surprised that this promise was so casually set aside? Should we be surprised that a government is so eager to promise to give back the resources or authority once it is no longer needed, but so unconcerned with meeting that promise? We don’t seem to mind it in any of operations of government.
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I watched a man who labels himself as an economist who said that the only hope we have to create jobs is a “massive” (his word) government spending at least two times that of the previous “stimulus”.
I ask this: As a business owner, if I am encouraged to hire people in response [...]