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Steve Jobs Crowned "Person of the Decade"
longacre writes "Apple CEO Steve Jobs won over 30% of the vote in an online poll published by personal finance and investing news site SmartMoney.com, enough to earn their 'Person of the Decade' title by a solid margin over luminaries such as Warren Buffett (17%), Ben Bernanke (13%) and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (12%). From the article: 'Certainly, Jobs accomplished more than probably any other CEO since he returned to Apple in the late 1990s: Not only did he revive sales at the failing computer company, he led the stock to a more than 700% increase in value, and forever changed the way people buy and listen to music.'"
Wow He's really a good choice. I brought an iphone an year ago and now I'm so addicted that I just can't live without it. 700% increase is a lot, great job Steve..
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I'm glad Steve Jobs turned Apple into the company it did. Now that Apple PC's and MP3 Players and Phones are so expensive, I can make fun of those pompous pricks who think they are better than everyone because they have a certain iTem.
Now I don't have to feel ashamed for using a PC.
*half hearted smile*
*lowers head*
*breaks into tears*
Seriously, this is what I would like to know. What policy decision of Bush was it that sunk the economy?
Did Bush deficits sunk the economy? Make that argument, but, most economists would say that deficits are Keynsien and stimulatory, and indeed, Bush's deficits, in particular, his stimulus package, had more of an immediate impact on GDP than Obama's stimulus did. If anything, Bush's 400B deficits should have proved that there was no way that Obama's 1.5T deficit could possibly work and Keynes is a fraud. Since we're 1.5T of stimulus and the economy is getting worse, that's probably it.
Did lax oversite sink the economy? I mean, the Bush administration was famously shot down on attempts to reel in Fannie Mae, and that right there is what really caused the banking collapse. There was Chris Dodd saying Fannie Mae is doing great, Maxine Waters saying that picking on Fannnie Mae is racist, right up until Fannie Mae went over the cliff and the Feds had to pony up 700B to cover for Fannie Mae's junk.
Did the war sink the economy? I don't think so. The war is only about 200B a year. It's a drain, to be sure, but on the flipside, the USA has 100,000 soldiers sitting on the last unexploited reserve of petroleum on the planet... so there's an upside to it.
Charges like this are routine, but the reality is, what sunk the economy is free trade. The grim reality is pretty simple. Every time you go to Walmart and buy something, you send a dollar overseas. That dollar is someone else's job, helps asian countries play games with our currency, and generally screws the country up. If anyone sank the economy, its people buying foreign products.
The thing is, yes, you could say Bush sank the economy because he was pro-free trade. But Free Trade is actually an invention of the Progressive Democrats - Wilson was pro-free trade, and made it a goal for WWI, Roosevelt was pro-free trade, and made it a goal for WWII, and got it. Really, all Bush did was follow along in the path all the other Presidents that kept expanding trade around the globe.
So yeah, bash Bush for being a free trader and sinking the economy, but remember that Truman let in the Europeans after WWII, so we have German cars and French stuff competing with American jobs, Johnson let in the Japanese, Clinton let in the Chinese and Bush Jr let in India. Every President has been doing it, and if you are going to blame Bush for it, blame him, yes, by all means, but lets have an admission that free trade failed and let me know Obama is putting up the barriers, like Reagan did.
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Yeah but most mp3 players look like his because he's done it better than anyone else.