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IT Workers Cushioned From US Economic Downturn
DontLickJesus writes "According to the AP, technology has been the least hardest hit by the U.S.'s recent economic downturn. Quote: '"Overall technology employment is up in America and the wages associated with it are up," said John McCarthy, a vice president with Forrester Research.' The article goes on to say that companies realize the worth of their [IT] staff. This paired along with a recent article regarding the value of data centers when selling a company leads one to believe that the business world, while historically not fond of IT workers, is showing its true opinion of the sector."
...out of my car again this morning. You'd think a guy with the power to destroy the world and a guy with 450 million in campaign contributions could buy their own damn gas but NOOOO.
Selfish. That's the word you should learn to appreciate. Somewhere in the world some poor person was just given $5. Are you pissed that they got that money too? What about the old lady that someone just helped take out the garbage for? Or the fucking prick of a bastard who just won the lottery? That's their life. Not yours. You're being too self centered to think on the scale of more than 5 zeros.
---Selfish. That's the word you should learn to appreciate.
Intelligence. That's the word you should learn.
---Somewhere in the world some poor person was just given $5.
Good on them. Someone choose freely to give and the poor person chose freely to accept.
---Or the fucking prick of a bastard who just won the lottery?
Did you know that the lottery does not work when people do not buy tickets? That, and people chose to buy tickets.
---That's their life. Not yours. You're being too self centered to think on the scale of more than 5 zeros.
There's a few of us who believe that "People" (in the loosest sense of the word) should be financially responsible. These banks were not. They lied and cheated and they lost. Instead of letting them fail and 'the market to correct itself', the government bails them out in the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
This money comes from 2 places: The People, and The People. We'll feel this bailout via taxes come April 15. But that's the small tax. The government can tax everybody equally. They just print more. There aint no such thing as a free lunch, and that includes Us. Our Dollar will be yet more devalued, and people will be none-the-wiser. They will still have X dollars, but trading them requires more.
Greenspan warned about that very idea of indirect taxation, but nobody listens to him any more.
Reagan would have expected the economy to run on jelly beans. He was a sufferer of Alzheimer and had no idea what was going on most of the time he was in the white house. That said, his aids did a pretty good job.
Get a web developer
Fuck you, palin and mccain you fucking retard.
This is not a loan. This is the US Government purchasing said assets. Just because some idiot journalist (ok, more probably a runny nosed "blogger" who thinks that just because he can type he is a journalist) called it a loan because they don't know what they are talking about.
They hold on to them (said assets), when the market returns, they sell them at a profit. During that time, they >>supposedly rent them out to at least break even during that timeframe.
--Toll_Free
she's killing his "popularity"
She is?
For a thought experiment, consider if Senator Biden, or even Senator Obama himself, had had his email hacked.
The whole economic meltdown would suddenly seem a distant burp as the media bent over backwards and folded itself into a hanky covering every dastardly angle of the invasion.
I could well be wrong in my judgment, but I think the non-command of serious reporting in the case of Edwards bears out the speculation.
But let us see the debates.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Except for the fact that you are totally butchering his ACTUAL trade policy,
Do you seriously think that any action restricting imports to the USA from any country will occur without retaliation? That's like saying that you can have a limited nuclear exchange. Obama will go in thinking he can sweet talk the EU or Canada into accepting some sort of a cap on their exports to the USA, and what's going to do is see how little those throngs in Berlin love him once they find out its their jobs on the line.
Obama condemned NAFTA in Ohio, complains about foreign companies taking American jobs, his regrets globalization... I mean, this is a classic dyed in the wool socialist who condemns global capitalism because his constituents are simply ill prepared to cope with it, and he wants to drag the rest of the country down to their level. In doing so, he'll touch off a trade war and drag down the world. Everything he says is a complete and utter contempt for individual freedom and risk taking, and this financial crisis and his response to it proves it.
And the biggest joke is that he says he's going to unite the country? Cut me a break. Let's see how many farmers fall behind him when he tries to bully the midwest into cranking out corn for slave wages, just like Democrats always do. Red states are red because of economics and the blue states can't take it because they paved over their food with walmarts, won't allow any manufacturing because they want to "save the planet", and thus, have to pay more of their money to get stuff because ultimately everyone knows that their currency is worthless. What exactly does Chicago make these days anyway? Cities used to be information hubs and manufacturing hubs... but they got rid of the manufacturing, and the information hub of people is obsolete due to the internet, and so that really doesn't leave much utility for the powerbase of the Democrats to exist anyway. It's not even that they are evil, it is that they are useless. Cities need to -make things-. No smokestacks, no money. It's pretty simple.
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how is giving a political opinion trolling? Slashdot has some moderators that have no idea what a troll is. mod parent up!
I'd say put the whole bunch of modern day carpet baggers ...
in jail for a good long while, but
Well we have too many ppl in prison as it is.
I think we need something along the lines of
an economist jury to have trials for things BEFORE
they financial crooks and pirates turn bad
loans into derivatives and try to sell them as a "product".
The ppl pass judgement on their schemes before they
go into effect.
Some of these reindeer games they played were total idiocy.
They were listing debt as an asset on their ledgers
via "creative accounting" by the derivatives.
I think they should have their CPA's pulled for 3 years,
and feel what it is like to work in the real world
with the non-privileged for awhile.
Then when they go back they are on "probation" of sorts
for a period of time based on the serious of their crimes.
These white collar criminals play number games and then
the citizens get to bail them out to tune of over a trillion
dollars once it is all said and done.
No more loans for ppl with bad credit no matter what their
skin color is.
If your credit sucks, NO loan.
Also these cities ramping up home values so they can
get more taxes is sheer idiocy as well, and it needs to stop.
My "shack" is way over valued and it was a drug repossession
closer to being condemned than to be worth half what they
"appraise" it at.
All this to be governmental leeches on the back side of society.
Then ppl with these perceived values gte HELOCs they cant afford
and when the job market tanks, a domino effect sets in like
no one has seen before.
Over a year ago when Ron Paul warned about the financial
mess all the Neo-cons and half the liberals made fun of him.
Who the hell is laughing now ?
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"