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The only people who're actually making money on outsourcing manufacturing are owners of businesses that do it.

If you have a retirement plan, you own a business.

I would at least know that my money goes to workers who work decent hours, get a decent pay, and aren't otherwise abused.

Yes, you will know the workers weren't abused in a traditional sense. However, workers in the US didn't always have the rights they do today. I doubt workers in the 3rd world will remain abused as well. These kinds of reform take time, and we are already seeing conditions improve.

I don't see why it's an either-or. I would rather see citizens of those countries working in jobs that supply their own, domestic market with goods that it needs - and it surely needs a lot.

If undeveloped countries could produce all of the goods they need, they would be called developed countries. They have goods they can't produce economically, so they produce the goods they can in exchange. Believe it or not, China does buy things from the US, despite the huge trade deficit.

What you're describing is, essentially, charity under the guise of a commercial operation.

It's not charity, it's economics. Why give away money in aid, when you can trade goods and services to benefit everyone? In the long run, it reduces costs to everyone, with a temporary loss in wages to the US. The Chinese economy will grow, and increase its demand for goods and services. This increase in demand will be met through importing goods from the rest of the world. The U.S. will have a massive new market to sell it's goods and services and the trade imbalance will vanish or even reverse!

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7387332n

I saw that on CBS Moneywatch.

I don't see any clear pattern there. Do these unemployment numbers stay constant from year to year? Or will they be completely different 5 years from now when you graduate?

I don't think this gives much support to the line, "It's your own fault that you took out college loans and still can't get a job. You should have studied something useful."

Maybe you could guess that visual and performing arts might not be a marketable major, but engineering and industrial management?

Maybe composition and speech, but materials engineering and material science?

Maybe fine arts. But genetics? Biochemical sciences?

Maybe philosophy and religious studies. But neuroscience?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57325132/25-college-majors-with-the-highest-unemployment-rates/

CBS MoneyWatch
November 16, 2011 9:30 AM
25 college majors with the highest unemployment rates
By Lynn O'Shaughnessy

        1. Clinical psychology 19.5%
        2. Miscellaneous fine arts 16.2%
        3. United States history 15.1%
        4. Library science 15.0%
        5. (tie) Military technologies; educational psychology 10.9%
        6. Architecture 10.6%
        7. Industrial & organizational psychology 10.4%
        8. Miscellaneous psychology 10.3%
        9. Linguistics & comparative literature 10.2%
        10. (tie) Visual & performing arts; engineering & industrial management 9.2%
        11. Engineering & industrial management 9.2%
        12. Social psychology 8.8%
        13. International business 8.5%
        14. Humanities 8.4%
        15. General social sciences 8.2%
        16. Commercial art & graphic design 8.1%
        17. Studio art 8.0%
        18. Pre-law & legal studies 7.9%
        19. Materials engineering and materials science and composition & speech (tie) 7.7%
        20. Liberal arts 7.6%
        21. (tie) Fine arts and genetics 7.4%
        22. Film video & photography arts and cosmetology services & culinary arts (tie) 7.3%
        23. Philosophy & religious studies and neuroscience (tie) 7.2%
        24. Biochemical sciences 7.1%
        25. (tie) Journalism and sociology 7.0%

Where are you getting your info? I'd like to read it, because from what I've seen, the Republicans are unwilling to end the temporary tax cuts

The Democrats could have ended the temporary tax cuts you speak of back in December: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20026069-503544.html

They chose instead to extend them. So "reality" is where I get my info. Your myopic choice to paint the debate as "ending a portion of the tax cuts" (namely of the rich) rather than the "entire tax cuts" is proof that you don't get it -- demanding a change in existing legislation isn't "compromise" -- saying "sure, we want half of this to expire, but we want to keep the half that benefits our party" is not compromise. Either you're for extending the bush tax cuts or you're against it, it's as simple as it. Trying to scramble for a third option that better benefits your party (or fucks over the other party) is political maneuvering. You just see it as "compromise" because you agree with the course of action.

Tax cuts on the middle class do, because they have the effect of the middle class spending money and putting pressure on manufacturers to increase production.

History speaks to the contrary of the middle class claim. Via a variety of stimulus checks and payroll tax cuts and a number of other means, middle class America has seen the equivalent of quite a few "tax cuts" over the past 2 years, yet the economy has been just as much in the shitter. Of course, your counter to that is "well, it would have been worse without it". And of course there's zero defense against that argument -- though I do have a tiger repellant rock to sell you.

And yes, reduce spending -- but not on Social Security or Medicare, because we the middle class have been paying taxes that were supposed to go to those programs only

Oh fuck that tired argument -- we're spending way too much on those programs. I don't care if it shows up on my W-2 as "Federal income tax: [ludicrously large sum of money]" or "OASDI tax: [ludicrously large sum of money]". It doesn't change the equation of where the bulk of MY taxed income is actually going (other than in my actual pocket).

The problem is, the Democrats don't really want to raise taxes, they just want to let a temporary tax cut expire

No they don't. They could have done that the last time they extended the cuts: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20026069-503544.html

What you mean to say is that they want SPECIFIC parts of the the temporary tax cuts to expire (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/11/22/bush_tax_cut_debate_dooms_deal_to_cut_deficit/): "Most Democrats, including Obama, want to extend the Bush tax cuts only to individuals making less than $200,000 a year and married couples making less than $250,000."

And that isn't even CLOSE to the same thing. They could have let the tax cuts expire a long time ago -- what they want is to have their cake and eat it too.

Toyota somewhat respectfully did release results from the so-called "sudden acceleration" problem. In one specific case, where the retired state trooper killed himself and his family in a Lexus, the in-car computer recorded several seconds of full application of the accelerator pedal before the data stopped recording. We're not talking about the throttle, we're talking about the user input device, the accelerator pedal, that was at full application. Of course, it was operator error, and everyone knew that from the beginning. It's sad.

"[T]he verdict is in," said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "There is no electronic-based cause for unintended high-speed acceleration in Toyotas." http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20031069-503544.html

So, yes, this is mass hysteria. Same thing happened to Audi/VW back in the early 1990s where claimants insisted their Audis' cruise control caused cars to plow into buildings when moving from a parking space. Audio/VW's solution was to prevent shifting without simultaneous application of the brake pedal. On newer Audis these instructions are on the display in big, bright letters.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/12/health/main572833.shtml

http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/diabetes-statistics/

Smoking killed 4.83 million people in 2000, And the diabetes rate is rising, so I think that shit food and smoking will take care of all of the stupid and fat for you nicely. With 2.5 million Americans dying from smoking every year, we do not need wars to kill off the people.

Islam is an evil religion that tells them to kill non muslims. They would use it if teh could get away with it.

Sorry, whatever protection you have against terrorists is highly inefficient. The only reason you aren't dead is because no-one rellay wants to kill you. So no, you are wrong. Most muslims are good people that doesn't want to kill anyone.

Exactly. Chrisq's commentary is based on utter ignorance. There was a large Gallup study about the Muslim community, the largest ever conducted about this topic, published as a book in 2008. In a nutshell, the study shows that Muslims are as peaceful as other people and share amazingly many views with e.g. most Americans. And, not very surprisingly, the very small militant minority among them is primarily motivated by political -- not religious -- reasons just like most other militants.

How about 28% of British Muslims wanting to make Britain an Islamic state or 6% of British Muslims thinking that the tube bombings were wholy justified That is over 170,000 muslims in the UK would like to see us killed. Sorry for ignorantly objecting to it.

are you a fucking moron? have you seen the videos?

tell me which one of these sounds like violent protest. The one where a cop throws a flashbang at a kid whose skull they fractured, or the one where they arrest a press reporter? Were they riding motorcycles? Did they insult the police? no. Did they crap in the streets and commit vandalism? no.

There is a constitutional right to free speech. Maybe you've never heard of it, or only know how to look at trash and think "by golly, I'm an armchair retard posting on the internet about a video I saw!" Included in that is also yelling whatever they want, at any time. That's called, you know, freedom of speech. Calling a cop a pig, screaming police brutality, given the videos above are you surprised? They're stating facts.

Yes, some have done bad things, yes they've done dirty and/or bad shit. All of them? No, not unless you're straight up ignorant.

Wow. I've never seen anyone more brainwashed.

They research and detail for us what everyones real record is on "gun control", and send us those lists in American Rifleman so we know the score come voting time.

Except that they don't actually do so. They lie or play statistics games with the real record instead. Hell, the NRA even lies about its own record.

Most important, we've got the second amendment in our back pocket and every single one of us votes when we think there's anything remotely related to our right to keep and bear arms.

Oh for the love of... no, you freaked-out morons are too busy screaming "second amendment" to pay attention to the rest of the constitution.

A gun is a weapon. It can be used to kill. The NRA is against the registering of firearms, period. We register CARS via license plate in order to make them trackable (hopefully) in the event of an accident/injury/death. Why should guns be any different?

Oh, but no. For you, the "right to keep and bear arms" means "I get to walk into a grocery store with an assault rifle and an extended clip full of hollow-point rounds in case I spot a deer that I want to shoot later that day." What, is there some 30-point buck with a sniper rifle and bulletproof vest sitting out in the woods during hunting season, screaming "I'm ready fo' yo ass"?

I mean, really. The first amendment - far more fundamental to your civil rights than the 2nd - has limitations called time, place, manner. You can't randomly shout "fire" in a crowded theater (though it's sometimes funny to walk into the local firehouse and shout "theater" to see how many of the local firemen get the joke), because it'd cause a panic that is likely to result in injury. Likewise, your "right to own guns" is clearly limitable in terms of what guns are and aren't acceptable, and the government's right to register who owns them is unassailable except for uneducated idiots... come to think of it, the NRA thrives on them.

Nobody is coming to "take away ur gunz." They might - I repeat, MIGHT - pass a law requiring the registration of such guns. It might even include "gun fingerprinting" (ballistic markings) records such that the gun used in a crime can be more easily identified, much in the same way that cars are trackable by license plates.

But don't worry. I'm sure by tomorrow you'll have forgotten anything you read here when the NRA's next "that muzlim nigger wantz to take away ur gunz" memo comes in.

This spells potentially problems for a lot of people because most people do not read the TOS or EULA documents.

Yes, as demonstrated on the South Park episode, HUMANCENTiPAD:

On the show, Steve Jobs' latest project is to surgically connect three people into a "HUMANCENTiPAD" (the episode's title), with their waste fueling the device. Kyle unknowingly agrees to be part of the experiment when he agrees to Apple's Terms of Service without reading it first.

Strange. If IBM is dying, then why is Warren Buffett investing $10.7 billion in them? Perhaps he knows something that we don't know?

I would normally say, "This isn't your father's IBM", but with respect to Mr. Buffett's age, I'm not sure it is his father's IBM, either.

In the 60's and 70's IBM was the company to work for.

In the 80's they began cutting.

In the early 90's they were slashing. We were trying to buy an RS6000 and from week to week I didn't know who I was talking to as the people were exiting so fast. When I ran into difficulty with a security flaw I found myself talking to someone from IBM in Australia who had them send me a stack of tapes and no directions.

Since then I expect IBM has done what a lot of IT companies have done, shop out bits of the work, bring in a lot of green (cheap) workers and try to muddle through the project. I don't see IBM as the tiger they once were. I don't think any IT company is, come to that.

Strange. If IBM is dying, then why is Warren Buffett investing $10.7 billion in them? Perhaps he knows something that we don't know?

No drug is without harm.

No government should endorse harmful behavior.

Intoxicants, legal or not, bring with them negative behaviors. If you don't agree, feel free to move next to the drug users of your choice, including downtown bars. When you get tired of having your car broken into and your front stoop urinated upon, maybe you'll see my point of view.

Having experienced drug culture inside and out, I am very skeptical of its benefit. It encourages people to not apply themselves to life, and instead to take lots of drugs/alcohol as a substitute for honestly feeling good about life.

What we need in this modern world is not more distractions, but fewer. Given that even marijuana -- the "gentlest drug" -- seems to have negative effects on its users, such as a higher rate of mental health problems and a variety of health problems, it's unwise to legalize.

Let Mexico solve its own problems. And if the world loses a few bloggers, who really cares? We have seven billion people and all of them can tweet about what they're eating or write "poignant" blogs about being alone in the rain.

I wonder if the rise is autism is strictly a diagnoses thing, or environmental thing, or perhaps due to 3 or 4 generations exposed to the flashing lights of television and computers.
Since autistic children have a massive increase in brain cells in the frontal cortex, and in some case "mild autism or high functioning" appears to be perfectly suited to intense concentration and skills sets beneficial to programming, engineering, etc, and programmers/engineers that marry and have children have a higher incidence of this.

Just a thought, no evidence really.

Brains of People with Autism Focus More on Visual Skills
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2011/04/04/brains-of-people-with-autism-focus-more-on-visual-skills

Autism tied too many brain cells
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57321349-10391704/autism-tied-too-many-brain-cells-will-finding-bring-better-diagnosis/

Educating Students with Asperger's Syndrome,
or High Functioning Autism
http://www.autismtoday.com/articles/Genius_May_Be_Abnormality.htm

The list goes on and on and on...

How many of them have come out against quantitative easing or the $16T in created-money loans?

Umm, most of them? The Republicans were anti-bailout, anti-spending, and anti-Fed-meddling. They opposed QE as well, or at least QE2:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-37540815/gop-vs-qe2-republicans-warn-bernanke-about-bubbles/?tag=mwuser

Had to do a little Googling, but it seems Velex appreciates this move by Campbell's the food company, and buys accordingly: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-42740224/campbells-gay-soup-ad-causes-storm-in-a-bread-bowl/?tag=bnetdomain

"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." Steve Jobs

Jobs also called everything Google made "shit," (with the exception of its search engine), and unfavourably compared the web giant to Microsoft.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/20/scitech/main20123421.shtml

He's already lost his wife and daughter at least, that's a start. What a pathetic piece of shit.

He only lost his daughter because he stopped giving her money and took away her Mercedes. Seems she was pretty happy with the arrangement for the past 7 years since she didn't upload the video earlier (video's from 2004). He's not even up for re-election for 3 more years.

"...she warned her father if he reduced her financial support and took away her Mercedes, which he had provided, he would "live to regret it.""

What a spoiled brat. Isn't this blackmail or extortion? Give me money or else? It's already been ruled that it wasn't a crime, and even if it was she didn't go to the police, she uploaded it to the internet for all to see. I think she should be brought up on charges.

A CBS producer threaten to expose that David Letterman was sleeping with staff if he didn't pay $2 million. Police found out and the producer was arrested and got 6 months in jail.

How is this different? "Give me a Mercedes and money or I release the (perfectly legal) spanking video to Youtube!"

In other news, Chinese scientists-make blood from rice!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20128572-10391704/scientists-get-blood-protein-from-rice-whats-it-for/

"Scientists have found a way to use rice to "grow" the critical human blood protein albumin, which is used to make vaccines and to treat cirrhosis of the liver and other medical problems. "It looks like an interesting technological step forward," Dr. Richard J. Benjamin, chief medical officer for the American National Red Cross, told Fox News. "It could potentially produce large quantities in a reasonable time." How did scientists pull off something that sounds like make-believe? It all started in China, where the protein is in short supply and blood samples are often contaminated. "That's what prompted me to do something like this," lead researcher Daichang Yang, a plant biotechnologist at China's Wuhan University, told Nature News."

So, the scientific and technical capacities of China continues to make the headlines in all scientific and technical fields, except, yes except that the Chinese just cannot seem to grasp the intricacies of cyber warfare, or?

It is true we are winding down, and that the most recent requests (ie last week) were for a few thousand troops to stay. But that number has been continuously decreasing from much higher levels, in July 2011 for example they were arguing for 10,000 troops:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/05/politics/main20077049.shtml

It seems the negotiated strategy now is to keep 5000 civilian security forces in iraq, as part of a 16,000 strong civilian force, thus technically satisfying the withdrawal condition.

It is hard to say what the administration's true intentions are, since their comments are all filtered for PR.

The number of confirmed kills in the "Drug War" is between 28,000 CBS News and . I would hazard to guess that nearly 100% of the guns in the mexican cartels are acquired via US conduit.

WASHINGTON -- Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html

Predator drones use less encryption than your TV, DVDs

Cybersecurity Issues with Predators, Reapers, and Unmanned Aerial Systems

Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes

U.S. was Warned of Predator Drone Hacking contains information indicating that the US knew their UAVs had insufficient security as early as 1996.

On the bright side, the command and control systems are not the same as the video output stream... but I still wouldn't rule out some enterprising hacker deciding to fling a few Predators south of the border and see what happens.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/19/cbsnews_investigates/main5253431.shtml

(CBS News) Amid questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil one of the lead researchers for the Merck drug is speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive marketing.

Dr. Diane Harper says young girls and their parents should receive more complete warnings before receiving the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. Dr. Harper helped design and carry out the Phase II and Phase III safety and effectiveness studies to get Gardasil approved, and authored many of the published, scholarly papers about it. She has been a paid speaker and consultant to Merck. It's highly unusual for a researcher to publicly criticize a medicine or vaccine she helped get approved.

Dr. Harper joins a number of consumer watchdogs, vaccine safety advocates, and parents who question the vaccine's risk-versus-benefit profile. She says data available for Gardasil shows that it lasts five years; there is no data showing that it remains effective beyond five years.

This raises questions about the CDC's recommendation that the series of shots be given to girls as young as 11-years old. "If we vaccinate 11 year olds and the protection doesn't last... we've put them at harm from side effects, small but real, for no benefit," says Dr. Harper. "The benefit to public health is nothing, there is no reduction in cervical cancers, they are just postponed, unless the protection lasts for at least 15 years, and over 70% of all sexually active females of all ages are vaccinated." She also says that enough serious side effects have been reported after Gardasil use that the vaccine could prove riskier than the cervical cancer it purports to prevent. Cervical cancer is usually entirely curable when detected early through normal Pap screenings.

Dr. Scott Ratner and his wife, who's also a physician, expressed similar concerns as Dr. Harper in an interview with CBS News last year. One of their teenage daughters became severely ill after her first dose of Gardasil. Dr. Ratner says she'd have been better off getting cervical cancer than the vaccination. "My daughter went from a varsity lacrosse player at Choate to a chronically ill, steroid-dependent patient with autoimmune myofasciitis. I've had to ask myself why I let my eldest of three daughters get an unproven vaccine against a few strains of a nonlethal virus that can be dealt with in more effective ways."

A holder of a bond may “buy protection” to hedge its risk of default. In this way, a CDS is similar to credit insurance, although CDS are not subject to regulations governing traditional insurance. Also, investors can buy and sell protection without owning debt of the reference entity. These “naked credit default swaps” allow traders to speculate on the creditworthiness of reference entities. CDSs can be used to create synthetic long and short positions in the reference entity.[7] Naked CDS constitute most of the market in CDS.[13][14] In addition, CDSs can also be used in capital structure arbitrage.

Iowa Oregon Forbes article

August 2nd, 2010. Obama promised that all "combat troops" would depart by the end of that month. Today we still have troops on the ground who are armed for combat, trained for combat, prepared for combat, and receiving combat pay. Obama lied.

According to prominent Republican Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, Arab Spring is all Obama's fault for not doing enough to back the dictators, and we need to step up our efforts to install dictators to repress the Arabs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44726590/ns/politics-decision_2012/t/bachmann-blames-arab-spring-obamas-weakness/#.TqHalESYpyg
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20113937-503544.html

She also blames Jimmy Carter for not backing the Shah of Iran.

The war's over!!!

So are you voting for the right person for this job?

Full prelim berkeley report, can't find the full final

not going to link out the 6k page army corps of engineers report

It's not just ancient history either: we have one prominent Presidential candidate right now who wants to stop these popular Arab uprisings and install brutal dictators again.

Nope. Some of us, including one prominent Presidential candidate still want to support assholes like Gaddafi and Saddam, and are totally pissed that these people have rebelled against them.

Well, I can show you one prominent Republican who is condemning the entire Arab Spring movement and says we should be supporting brutal dictators: Michele Bachmann.

You sound like you might be a Republican voter. If that's the case, then you should be completely against this, and in fact you should support brutal dictators like Gaddafi. As you can see here and here, the right-wing hero Michele Bachmann has condemned Arab Spring, and has condemned Obama, saying his policies led to these uprisings, and that these uprisings are wrong and that we should be supporting brutal dictators in the middle east because this is somehow good for Israel.

If you're a Republican and you aren't in favor of brutal dictators, then you are extremely confused.
 

I'd rather pay up and be assured I'm getting the correct medicine from a well regulated facility.

LOL.... Naivety is so cute.

GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay $750 million to resolve Justice Department allegations that the company sold adulterated and improperly made drugs.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39852323/ns/health-health_care/t/drug-maker-pay-million-defective-meds/#.TqBDwt6Ao8k

"This has 'Pfizer' written all over it," Gupta remarked, looking at some of the counterfeit drugs.
"And it's even got the newer Pfizer emblem with the little slant on it and stuff. I mean from the packaging, you'd never know," Clark said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/10/60minutes/main20040693.shtml

Never-mind the side-effects. It might not even work! This article is awfully one-sided. NPR recently had a much more in-depth overview into the debate about resveratrol and aging. Basically no one has been able to reproduce the original study with the same results, the original authors have even lowered their initial claims, and a few articles published in Nature even dispute that resveratrol activates sirtuins (the claimed mechanism that "prevents aging").

Also, lifespans are actually *falling* in many communities (in the US at least). Contrary to what big pharma wants you to believe, well-being also includes healthy lifestyle and nutrition, not just some expensive pills.

"but there is no shown proof yet."
Pay attention.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/25/60minutes/main6242498.shtml
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/3319656
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2011/09/26/amsc-spy-pleads-guilty.html

and so on.

Yes many companies do this, including one of the most valuable, Exxon-Mobil. There are headquartered out of a small office in Switzerland on paper even though all their key personnel are in Houston, TX.

If you're going to be post stuff that is easily checked out you should get your facts right. The members of Congress get the same health care deal as all other Federal employees, no more no less. Congressional pensions are not as you say. To quote my cite: "For example, a member of Congress who worked for 22 years and had a top three-year average salary of $153,900 would be eligible for a pension payment of $84,645 per year." I'll give you the sexual harassment one. The only members of Congress I'm aware of that get publicly funded jet rides for normal travel are the Vice President (as presiding officer of the Senate) and the Speaker of the House who is 2nd in line for the Presidency and that is at the insistence of the Secret Service. All regular members of Congress such as my Oregon Senators and Representatives take commercial jets to travel between here and DC.

Ok, Let's start with the health care deal. Check out http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/23/opinion/main6324480.shtml . You can bet, if they get it, others will too. The point is, if it is so wonderful, why the exemption. Perhaps all of those articles out there about this are just wrong? We would know if Obama really was as transparent about these things as he said he would be. Instead just yesterday I found out a couple of Congressmen want to introduce legislation to hide his stuff for many years. Used to be done with an exec order. Probably Way TMI for this discussion.
Now, for the pension bit. Look at the article you cite. It says to take the top earning three years and average it. Then the formula. Then give the example for a typical career politician, which is actually a lot closer to a typical government worker. Same text I saw in a recent class about that. That third year for a Representative would be a zero. If you want the gory details and have a beer or two, here it is http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/retirement.pdf . I called up my source on that. Turns out he was just wrong. Here's a better citation -http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/retirement_for_members.shtml . You're right, I should have checked that one out better.
The one I had in mind for the flights was Peleosi. It was quite a bill. As for a security issue, that's hog wash. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/11/john-boehner-says-hell-fly-com.html . She abused it and she knows it. She also doesn't care. They are attacking General Aviation as a rich thing. It isn't. It's economical for time as well as tends to keep company secrets secret. Nothing can be done on a commercial jet other than as an executive mailing tube. You never know who is sitting next to you. Like the yatch industry they killed a number of years ago, they will probably do the same thing to the aviation industry. Remember the Yatch bit? You know, only "rich" people have them. Tax it. Rich people stopped buying them cold. BTW, according to recent stuff it seems that they may define "rich" as anyone making over $80,000. In Clinton's time I was able to defend the statement that "Rich" was making over $40,000. That was in 1993 dollars.

I don't see any problem here. Apple took one million pre-orders before selling out. I'd say their supply chain is absolutely fantastic. Who else can push a million units in such a short time like that? Nobody, that's who.

Its getting a little old, but this 60 minutes piece opened a lot of minds: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4955212n

"Wake me up when there is 25%+ unemployment and breadlines."

You are a head in the sand idiot, no wait. that is a insult to idiots, you are simply a dip-shit.

Unemployment figure is ONLY those currently receiving unemployment insurance. everyone else is not counted, so if you ran out your unemployment you are no longer counted.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/learn-how-to-invest/The-real-unemployment-rate.aspx
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/07/16/what-is-the-real-unemployment-rate/
http://www.qualityinfo.org/olmisj/ArticleReader?itemid=00000486

I can post about 800 more links to the real numbers, but I assume you can use google instead of only getting your news from Fox News.

As for bread lines.... They exist you idiot, maybe if you were not running around in your Saab with blinders on you would see them. Millions use Food trucks and food aid every week to get food for their families. Most run out of food before they run out of people standing in line. They do this at low income areas not next to your Starbucks where you get your half Decaf latte every morning. It's also called "food stamps" but you seem to be far too uneducated to know what that is. No it's not used for mailing food. Food stamp use is at record high levels, also many families in states that do not have food stamps use Food aid trucks.

http://www.loveinctricities.org/gleanersfoodtruckinformation

Oh and fucking asshole republicans that hate the poor are trying like hell to cut it....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/23/politics/main20065537.shtml

Come on back when you get some real education and experience as to what is happening in your country and your city. next time let's talk about how the cost of living has risen by 15-20% for everyone over the past 4 years but the feds will not talk about.... Bread went from $0.99 a loaf to $1.25 a loaf, Milk up almost 55%, Meat up 35%, etc... Or are you claiming that is not happening either?

It gets worse: The US Navy is now killing Pirates!

Pirates are NOT part of a Government and the US is NOT at war with Pirates, so they should NOT be shot at without a TRIAL first! These pirates were doing NOTHING WRONG, no US lives were at risk, just Americans thinking they're World Police again!

UPDATE: Turns out the US Navy has been fighting Pirates off Africa for hundreds of years! They called it the "Barbary War" but Barbary is just a location where the battles took place, the Barbary Coast, it wasn't a true "war" against a foreign government.

Shame on you US Govt! Hundreds of years of World Police and look what it's gotten us! A superpower and (mostly) safe seas! Boo!

/sarcasm>

Rev Al Gore who neglects to tell you the "inconvenient truth" that he has set himself up to be a carbon billionaire

It's called commitment, or putting your money where your mouth is. You know, like Dick Cheney being heavily invested in oil and pushing an agenda to help his bottom line, except that Al Gore isn't denying or hiding his support of green energy. But, hey... If you loathe Al Gore, go ahead and twist his integrity into some tin foil hat conspiracy.

Except, the Obamacare penalty is not a tax. See also the Obama administration's claim affirming this.

Yes, Americans are all stupid. That must why we have shit like this going on in our country. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/28/business/main20112612.shtml OR http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8793243/UK-riots-dont-expect-sentences-to-be-cut-judge-tells-rioters.html OR http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8793269/China-population-to-become-worlds-biggest-polluters.html OR http://www.oneafricanow.com/ OR http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/world/asia/dozens-killed-in-attack-on-pilgrim-bus-in-pakistan.html?_r=1&ref=iran.

Over here in the real world, the Republicans are the anti-science, anti-intellectual party. That is not an opinion, it is an observation based on factual information. Want some examples?

Jon Huntsman Jr, a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, isn't a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. And that's too bad, because Mr Hunstman has been willing to say the unsayable about the Republican party in the United States, namely, that it is becoming the "anti-science party".

...

Mr Perry, the governor of Texas, recently made headlines by dismissing evolution as "just a theory", one that has "got some gaps in it", an observation that will come as news to the vast majority of biologists. But what really got people's attention was what he said about climate change: "I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly, or even daily, scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change."

That's a remarkable statement – or maybe the right adjective is "vile".

The second part of Mr Perry's statement is, as it happens, just false: the scientific consensus about man-made global warming – which includes 97% to 98% of researchers in the field, according to the National Academy of Sciences – is getting stronger, not weaker, as the evidence for climate change just keeps mounting.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/04/evolution-climate-republicans-president

More examples? How about Bobby Jindal and the Volcano?

(AP) A month after Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal complained about wasteful spending in President Obama's economic stimulus package - including money he sneered was for "something called 'volcano monitoring'" - Alaska pilots were grateful for such expenditures.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory was ready with warnings to flight officials when Alaska's Mount Redoubt blew, sending potentially deadly ash clouds north of Anchorage.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/24/tech/main4887816.shtml

And what about Michelle Bachman claiming hurricane Irene was divine punishment from god (note the lower case spelling) because the country was sinful? Or Rick Perry praying for rain to help with the Texas wildfires? You know what he did about fighting fires in Texas? Cut the state budget by 75%, then ask for federal FEMA support when the state was burning down. Yep, the Feds are useless until you completely screw up everything and need them to bail you out. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/perry-asks-for-federal-funds-to-fight-wildfires-after-slashing-state-fire-budget/

So the Republicans are the party of stupid. And you fit right in.

It's quite a panopticonic fiefdom they have there... Still haven't caught London in terms of cameras; but the sinister image-processing central computer is a nice touch, as is the 'fusion center' and the oblique references to anti-aircraft capability...

I can't help you if you refuse to read a newspaper, look up statistics, or generally pretend that stuff that's happening isn't really happening. Here, here's a sample of what the FBI has done lately:

http://www.collateralvision.com/?p=446

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/23/2280652/james-whitey-bulger-boston-mobster.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/09/national/main20041229.shtml

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/19/fbi-arrests-man-as-agent-of-pakistan/?page=all

http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-09-03/news/30117033_1_fbi-arrests-campaign-treasurer-kinde-durkee

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/01/20/feds-arrest-over-100-in-ny-nj-mob-takedown/

But that's all just the lazy feds, doing nothing all day long, I'm sure. Here's a tip: actually being informed is much more effective in life than striking a hip pose and pretending to be informed.

ELECTRONS have been observed going faster than light for almost 20 years!

(Quick Google you can do your own too) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/07/19/tech/main216905.shtml.

This is part of what made physisits discount much of Einsteins work, they moved on to Hawkings and Feynman.

The big news is that they discovered a particle that makes it impossible that the Higg's Boson exists... so we're still totally clueless.