Sun never made native executables or a way to point and click on a java file and have it run without having to type java x. As a result desktop apps tended to ignore java. Sun gave away the JDK but had no tools for animation like Adobe. As a result JavaFX was too little too late. Netbeans is nice but I need to drag and drop to create animations and visual effects... not type lines of code in with an ide.
Flash loads instantaneously while java applets have to launch a whole java runtime environment which annoys users loads.
I was thinking of creating some out of spare time but I do not have the mathmatical skills of learning graphical algorithms.
Sun has an addon for Adobe flash to create javafx applets but if yo uhave adobe flash then why bother making a javafx applet? Ugh
Since Java is now open sourced as Iced Tea I hope this will change. Java now has a very very bad rap as a 21st century Cobol for server apps and all verbose, dull, and boring with memorizing many layers.of.different,javax,apis.
So we need a free opensource animation tool and support for point and click java applications. After this Java may or may not take off. I really dispise Adobe. They are a threat to anyone who wants to do web development. Without adobe you can not get a job as a web developer anymore as its the defacto standard. Even html 5 is being undermined by it and silverlight.
THe investors are the poor grandmas and widows. Not the financial firms you think about who actually manage their money. Are these the people you want to tax?
Can you imagine the quick selling and panic on wallstreet the day before such a new tax law would go into effect? A complete stock market crash, recession, and maybe even a depression would happen as a race to sell to avoid the tax would have the shareholders turn into mad bulls.
The London Stock Exchange on the other hand would welcome its new clients and Americans who are retired or retiring will just open Swiss bank accounts and trade in London where they wont have to be taxed. There are always loopholes.
These things you mention are very expensive. Trimming defense is career suicide on a practical note for any politician as the electorate are still in the cold war era.
Bases bring million and millions of jobs and communities will go after you with pitchforks and torches if you dare even mention any of them closing, whether they are needed are not.
In any sense, our deficit is very very large and needs to go away totally before any tax cuts can happen. Our government is already heavily underfunded. Its just our money is going to corporate contractors, wars, and Walmarts. Sewers, bridges, and streets are already failing and ahve been for a decade.
No one wants to pay for them and instead want their +200,000 populated military bases to continue to pump money.
There is a direct correlation between cutting revenue and going bankrupt. If I quit work it has a direct correlation of me going bankrupt.
You can argue complex curves that show a cut in corporate taxes increase economic activity but its not a 1:1 ratio and does not work beyond a certain percentage.
Corporate taxes whether you agree with them or not generate large amounts of revenue.
In the case of the American government which is in debt and spending more than it makes now it will become insolvent when you cut off its biggest source of revenue. This is obvious and the problem Ireland is having as its #2 on the list next to Iceland and Greece.
Well a complete financial meltdown and added risk of investment will scare away any big company from owning a European subsidiary in Ireland, even with a low tax rate.
I just think Ireland shot itself in the foot to attract business but did not cut spending or was too aggressive.
Like you said there are lower or no income tax shelters. Ireland is used because its harder to use these shelters in European countries.
I am not opposed to lowering corporate taxes. I am just saying that America is addicted to debt and our government is no exception. We make alot in revenue from corporate taxes and lowering them with our deficit will bankrupt us at this time. This is true even if we cut spending because of interest accrued.
I do feel a lower tax rate that the big and small boys pay the same would be more fair and help out small business. Mike's coffee shop down the street should not have to charge more than Starbucks because Starbucks does not have to pay taxes. Thats not fair.
Abolishing the corporate income tax sounds great in theory.... especially if your a conservative economist.
However, Ireland which is Europe's version of India due to its low 12% corporate income tax (lowest in world) is about to join Greece in going bankrupt. We are already under suffocating debt. Cutting spending wont get the income needed to pay for a basic government.
I do not know if its this easy to setup a tax shelter anymore by just buying a PO Box in Bermuda. Maybe someone here on / could enlighten me on the new tax laws?
Personally, I feel that these companies are scum but at the same time I feel that they are doing this because our government is scum too for charging too much in corporate taxes. I would like to see lower corporate taxes to help small business out. Regardless if you think its fair that they should be taxed at all, the small guy in your community with his mom/pop coffee shop can not compete agaisn't Starbucks if he has to pay taxes while his competitors do not.
"Yeah.... a minimum wage of $7.50/hr or whatever California charges these days should not be a big deal for a software-related company, especially next to what they have to pay full-time employees. Heck, IBM was paying me $18.75/hr for an internship right after my sophomore year of college. --"
The real cost after medicare, SSI, medical, and other head taxes would bring that number close to $25/hr. At that price IBM can buy someone in India for cheaper than your intern rates who has years of experience.
IBM is more interested in people who can work for $6/hr untaxed than to pay A TON for an intern. Corporations are very very cheap today and are run by accountants.
With states cutting teaching jobs the new teaching interns are great! Free labor!
In places like California many senior teachers are being laid off and replaced by interns because they are free and make the accountants happy.
Not all internships are created to help university students. Most are created because no real talent can be found and are willing to train someone who is willing to work for dirt cheap until they feel he or she is qualified to do the job for a living salary later.
I substitute teach now because I can not find work after graduating last year. I thought I might as well spend a year and half more and become a teacher. The problem is the school districts want me to work for -$2500 for a whole semester. That really is a "-" because I pay them not to work?? Hmm wonder why that is and why long term substituting does not count? Could it be money related?.. no brainer.
"One of my fears here [codemonkeyramblings.com] is that Firefox will be hit as hard by IE 9 as Netscape was with IE 4. Mozilla seems largely oblivious to how ambitious IE 9 is. A hardware-accelerated, multi-process, significantly more standards-compliant browser that supports H.264 out of the box would be just the thing for Microsoft to potentially stop Mozilla dead in its tracks on Firefox adoption."
Ok then. Please pay me $10.99 for your Firefox license and drmed closed source Linux kernel module? What you do not want to pay? I own it. Oh and the license says it must be a drmed system so I guess you have to use Windows or use a drmed version of Linux sorry.
But hey H.264 is better and you wanted Firefox to support it so stop complaining and pay me.
Youtube and others still use h.263 and there will be hell to pay if I have to pay $10.99 for Firefox for each time I install Ubuntu just so I can be a part of the world.
We need to stand together and oppose h.264 as it will not be free starting at the end of the year.
I think the fact that software is patentable is the symptom rather than the cause of patenting math.
The symptom is intense government corruption by the software. Something has to give as this country is moving far into this direction.
Rather than whining I would advise people to look into organizations like the coffee party which are made up of a whole bunch of angry citizens who want to do something about this... not just the TEA party.
As soon as the country listens to us and not the corporations we will never have any rights and laws will not matter as they will be written to serve only the wealthy.
Before I get modded down to an oblivion I would like to say the Coffee party is not affiliated with Obama in anyway nor is the founder even on the payroll of the democratas so please do not listen to Fox News with a knee jerk reaction.
The problem is open standards are being patented to force them to act like closed standards.
A patent by definition creates a monopoly for a limited time. A monopoly is the opposite of a standard because only one company has a right to use it and own it. If a standard is patented and requires license then its not a standard but private property.
OpenXML,.NET, and H.264 are all examples of standards. Can I be sued using them without a license even if they are free software? You bet! Which is why I do not use Mono or H.264.
If I buy the phone then why in hell can't I use it.
Did I only buy a "right to use it"? This is redicolous and should be illegal. I own the hardware and the mega telecom companies are making sure people rent.
Imagine if we only purchased rights to use things instead of owned them? No homes, products, food, or healthcare. Everything just rented to make some person some more money.
"Rich people put more or less the same amount of money back into the economy as their poor counterparts do. Which is to say pretty much all of it. They simply do it through investments rather than consumable goods and services purchases. "
This was 100% true until about 1999 before glass-seagull act was repealed.
However we have an anomaly today and this is no longer true.
When you invest in a bank its invested in flipping shares, houses, and stocks with no real residual value since they do not make money (most stocks do not pay dividends) and only rented homes produce income. None of it or a very small percentage is invested in small business. Bank CEO: Should I invest in a dinky tiny 6% interest investing in small businesses creating jobs or 50% interest flipping stocks? Gee thats a hard one
The poor are being raped by credit cards and student loan debts. Because of the way the charges work for each time you use your card the interest rates are alot higher than 32%. Some are 391% interest if you include fees and sub prime conditions! The banks of course are using people's deposits on these high risk and economic crippling activities for insane returns.
I am not an economist but to me it looks like that episode of Beavis & Butthead where they pay a dollar to each other selling candy. After passing it to each other over and over again, one has $1 and the other 0$ and $150 worth of candy is gone.
You can not pull money out of thin air and this is why you can't sell debt. It doesn't make sense.
I could be wrong and I surely hope I am but until banks are forced to only loan to legitimate businesses who can hire workers and not flips in stocks or factories in China.
The financial landscape can be pleasant if we put in place glass-seagull again and limit interest rates on cards to just 6%.We need to have money re-invested back and less consumer debt. Consumers can not buy your products if they are trapped in debt. The rich actually lose.
My wife and I's loans are about $150,000 and we expect to pay $2,500 a month for 10 years and pay something closer to $350,000 after interest is compounded back to the principle.
So yes the interest is tax deductible but the compounding part is not and it multiplies unto itself many times over. Good luck getting a refund for that?
I understand the power game but thanks to competition this will not work with the 70% of the rest of us.
If anyone does this to you or I we say no thank you and take our business else where.
I am in debt due to some irresponsibility and unemployment. Do I deserve that nice 4.9% interest for a car? Hell no! I have shown that I can cause a potential loss.
So the 20% interest is what I would pay if I really really needed the car. I think I will repay off my debt first and wait for my credit to recover thank you.
The stupid need to pay more because they are more likely to default on other loans.
The abusive power unfortunately exists because 90% of the lenders wont do business with you. So its by the 10% of the remaining lenders terms or the high way.
Look at it this way? Would you loan me $1,000 after reading what I put down?
Now, suppose I make a deal with 25% interest over 5 years? After only 2 and half years you will break even if I default. After 5 you triple your money! Now would you loan me $1,000? That is a great return and might be worth the risk if you look at it this way instead. The argument is very different now if it was your own money. Of course you would charge me more... assuming you would even bother to do business with me.
This is how the finance companies look at it. Credit card companies are a whole other discussion and I hate them with a passion.
Some have spouses who are dishonest, some have job losses, others have medical issues the greedy insurance companies wont pay for, and others... well are idiots.
If you do not deserve a car then how are you going to get to work to put food on your table?
I think some debt should be given to people with a few problems. The much higher rates, down payments, and scary numbers discourage consumption. That is the point.
Do I really really truly need it if I am charged 25%! The situation then works itself in economics so people can get what they need.
Part of me feels its unfair but part me of sides with you in why should someone who gets free rides be able to borrow more?
High rates encourage those to save and if people get back on their feet again and you pay the horrible prime loan then your credit rating will go up by a large number. So it can benefit the borrow as well if he or she is willing to get his or her ass in shape.
Yes you need to pay for the car in which it is understood but repo men/women are not the good guys either.
Its a dangerous and very difficult job but they will do anything to get a car ethical, legal, or what not and they do not have sympathy with the owners.
It sucks to lose your job or be caught up in an ARm scam, which can cause you to default. But without a car the victim... yes victim is screwed. Can't get a job without a car and you can not a car without a job.
The person who founded it does not work for nor has ever worked for Obama. She only volunteered her time when he was running.
To blame her would be the equivalent of calling you a Bush lobbyist and white house astro turfee because you once held a poster in 2000 for Bush or volunteered your time to him years ago.
This was a very cheap shot by the tea activists who own Fox news.
First off the person who created the coffee party volunteered her time for Obama to help him get elected. She does not nor has ever worked for the white house.
FYI the tea party is run by Dick Army who is a republican who operated conservative lobbyists.
This was just a cheap shot by Fox News to discredit the movement.
If you want to support your democratic or republican representative and then whine be my guest. At least I gave a solution.
I am sick and tired of my country being run by special interests whether its the financial industry, tobacco, health care, or the media. Whats worse these special interest groups that run the US now run the world through sleazy treatries that make our corrupt laws, world laws.
Do something about it and join the Coffee Party? I know this sounds kind of korny but 150,000 just joined it in the last 72 hours and the numbers already rival the tea party. Together we can influence primaries to have candidates who represent us and not hte special interest. Or join the tea party if you are conservative but I feel they are being taken over by special interests already and are more afraid of government than special interests.
One of the things ladder climbers do is just what you described, which is thinking that hard work *might* pay off as your employer grows. After all no one was a CEO overnight (a few exceptions of course).
I guess you can say I would sacrafice alot of myself if I had a job that might pay more. This is because I have large amounts of debt from student loans and from being laid off for a year. So much that I will be working for free for 10 years and live off my wife's salary. If I did not have that problem I probably would work hard but leave it at work and enjoy home life if I were making a good 80k a year.
I see your point and it has to do with bargaining power. Right now the bank and employers have me by the balls so I would be willing to do that. But having your own business finally means doing things your way.
I would be willing to work hard for 2 billion if I felt 1 million was merely adequate.
One of my dreams is to start a business some day and that big pay off makes it worth it. With wages going down and cost of living going up I do now want someone else deciding the fate of myself, retirement, and family. Its time I became one of them then work for them.
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But not in its current form.
Sun never made native executables or a way to point and click on a java file and have it run without having to type java x. As a result desktop apps tended to ignore java. Sun gave away the JDK but had no tools for animation like Adobe. As a result JavaFX was too little too late. Netbeans is nice but I need to drag and drop to create animations and visual effects ... not type lines of code in with an ide.
Flash loads instantaneously while java applets have to launch a whole java runtime environment which annoys users loads.
I was thinking of creating some out of spare time but I do not have the mathmatical skills of learning graphical algorithms.
Sun has an addon for Adobe flash to create javafx applets but if yo uhave adobe flash then why bother making a javafx applet? Ugh
Since Java is now open sourced as Iced Tea I hope this will change. Java now has a very very bad rap as a 21st century Cobol for server apps and all verbose, dull, and boring with memorizing many layers.of.different,javax,apis.
So we need a free opensource animation tool and support for point and click java applications. After this Java may or may not take off. I really dispise Adobe. They are a threat to anyone who wants to do web development. Without adobe you can not get a job as a web developer anymore as its the defacto standard. Even html 5 is being undermined by it and silverlight.
THe investors are the poor grandmas and widows. Not the financial firms you think about who actually manage their money. Are these the people you want to tax?
Wow
Can you imagine the quick selling and panic on wallstreet the day before such a new tax law would go into effect? A complete stock market crash, recession, and maybe even a depression would happen as a race to sell to avoid the tax would have the shareholders turn into mad bulls.
The London Stock Exchange on the other hand would welcome its new clients and Americans who are retired or retiring will just open Swiss bank accounts and trade in London where they wont have to be taxed. There are always loopholes.
These things you mention are very expensive. Trimming defense is career suicide on a practical note for any politician as the electorate are still in the cold war era.
Bases bring million and millions of jobs and communities will go after you with pitchforks and torches if you dare even mention any of them closing, whether they are needed are not.
In any sense, our deficit is very very large and needs to go away totally before any tax cuts can happen. Our government is already heavily underfunded. Its just our money is going to corporate contractors, wars, and Walmarts. Sewers, bridges, and streets are already failing and ahve been for a decade.
No one wants to pay for them and instead want their +200,000 populated military bases to continue to pump money.
There is a direct correlation between cutting revenue and going bankrupt. If I quit work it has a direct correlation of me going bankrupt.
You can argue complex curves that show a cut in corporate taxes increase economic activity but its not a 1:1 ratio and does not work beyond a certain percentage.
Corporate taxes whether you agree with them or not generate large amounts of revenue.
In the case of the American government which is in debt and spending more than it makes now it will become insolvent when you cut off its biggest source of revenue. This is obvious and the problem Ireland is having as its #2 on the list next to Iceland and Greece.
Well a complete financial meltdown and added risk of investment will scare away any big company from owning a European subsidiary in Ireland, even with a low tax rate.
I just think Ireland shot itself in the foot to attract business but did not cut spending or was too aggressive.
Like you said there are lower or no income tax shelters. Ireland is used because its harder to use these shelters in European countries.
I am not opposed to lowering corporate taxes. I am just saying that America is addicted to debt and our government is no exception. We make alot in revenue from corporate taxes and lowering them with our deficit will bankrupt us at this time. This is true even if we cut spending because of interest accrued.
I do feel a lower tax rate that the big and small boys pay the same would be more fair and help out small business. Mike's coffee shop down the street should not have to charge more than Starbucks because Starbucks does not have to pay taxes. Thats not fair.
Abolishing the corporate income tax sounds great in theory. ... especially if your a conservative economist.
However, Ireland which is Europe's version of India due to its low 12% corporate income tax (lowest in world) is about to join Greece in going bankrupt. We are already under suffocating debt. Cutting spending wont get the income needed to pay for a basic government.
I do not know if its this easy to setup a tax shelter anymore by just buying a PO Box in Bermuda. Maybe someone here on / could enlighten me on the new tax laws?
Personally, I feel that these companies are scum but at the same time I feel that they are doing this because our government is scum too for charging too much in corporate taxes. I would like to see lower corporate taxes to help small business out. Regardless if you think its fair that they should be taxed at all, the small guy in your community with his mom/pop coffee shop can not compete agaisn't Starbucks if he has to pay taxes while his competitors do not.
"Yeah.... a minimum wage of $7.50/hr or whatever California charges these days should not be a big deal for a software-related company, especially next to what they have to pay full-time employees. Heck, IBM was paying me $18.75/hr for an internship right after my sophomore year of college.
--"
The real cost after medicare, SSI, medical, and other head taxes would bring that number close to $25/hr. At that price IBM can buy someone in India for cheaper than your intern rates who has years of experience.
IBM is more interested in people who can work for $6/hr untaxed than to pay A TON for an intern. Corporations are very very cheap today and are run by accountants.
With states cutting teaching jobs the new teaching interns are great! Free labor!
In places like California many senior teachers are being laid off and replaced by interns because they are free and make the accountants happy.
Not all internships are created to help university students. Most are created because no real talent can be found and are willing to train someone who is willing to work for dirt cheap until they feel he or she is qualified to do the job for a living salary later.
I substitute teach now because I can not find work after graduating last year. I thought I might as well spend a year and half more and become a teacher. The problem is the school districts want me to work for -$2500 for a whole semester. That really is a "-" because I pay them not to work?? Hmm wonder why that is and why long term substituting does not count? Could it be money related? .. no brainer.
"One of my fears here [codemonkeyramblings.com] is that Firefox will be hit as hard by IE 9 as Netscape was with IE 4. Mozilla seems largely oblivious to how ambitious IE 9 is. A hardware-accelerated, multi-process, significantly more standards-compliant browser that supports H.264 out of the box would be just the thing for Microsoft to potentially stop Mozilla dead in its tracks on Firefox adoption."
Ok then. Please pay me $10.99 for your Firefox license and drmed closed source Linux kernel module? What you do not want to pay? I own it. Oh and the license says it must be a drmed system so I guess you have to use Windows or use a drmed version of Linux sorry.
But hey H.264 is better and you wanted Firefox to support it so stop complaining and pay me.
No it has not won.
Youtube and others still use h.263 and there will be hell to pay if I have to pay $10.99 for Firefox for each time I install Ubuntu just so I can be a part of the world.
We need to stand together and oppose h.264 as it will not be free starting at the end of the year.
I think the fact that software is patentable is the symptom rather than the cause of patenting math.
The symptom is intense government corruption by the software. Something has to give as this country is moving far into this direction.
Rather than whining I would advise people to look into organizations like the coffee party which are made up of a whole bunch of angry citizens who want to do something about this ... not just the TEA party.
As soon as the country listens to us and not the corporations we will never have any rights and laws will not matter as they will be written to serve only the wealthy.
Before I get modded down to an oblivion I would like to say the Coffee party is not affiliated with Obama in anyway nor is the founder even on the payroll of the democratas so please do not listen to Fox News with a knee jerk reaction.
The problem is open standards are being patented to force them to act like closed standards.
A patent by definition creates a monopoly for a limited time. A monopoly is the opposite of a standard because only one company has a right to use it and own it. If a standard is patented and requires license then its not a standard but private property.
OpenXML, .NET, and H.264 are all examples of standards. Can I be sued using them without a license even if they are free software? You bet! Which is why I do not use Mono or H.264.
If I buy the phone then why in hell can't I use it.
Did I only buy a "right to use it"? This is redicolous and should be illegal. I own the hardware and the mega telecom companies are making sure people rent.
Imagine if we only purchased rights to use things instead of owned them? No homes, products, food, or healthcare. Everything just rented to make some person some more money.
Screw you and I hope Android is better at this
"Rich people put more or less the same amount of money back into the economy as their poor counterparts do. Which is to say pretty much all of it. They simply do it through investments rather than consumable goods and services purchases. "
This was 100% true until about 1999 before glass-seagull act was repealed.
However we have an anomaly today and this is no longer true.
When you invest in a bank its invested in flipping shares, houses, and stocks with no real residual value since they do not make money (most stocks do not pay dividends) and only rented homes produce income. None of it or a very small percentage is invested in small business. Bank CEO: Should I invest in a dinky tiny 6% interest investing in small businesses creating jobs or 50% interest flipping stocks? Gee thats a hard one
The poor are being raped by credit cards and student loan debts. Because of the way the charges work for each time you use your card the interest rates are alot higher than 32%. Some are 391% interest if you include fees and sub prime conditions! The banks of course are using people's deposits on these high risk and economic crippling activities for insane returns.
I am not an economist but to me it looks like that episode of Beavis & Butthead where they pay a dollar to each other selling candy. After passing it to each other over and over again, one has $1 and the other 0$ and $150 worth of candy is gone.
You can not pull money out of thin air and this is why you can't sell debt. It doesn't make sense.
I could be wrong and I surely hope I am but until banks are forced to only loan to legitimate businesses who can hire workers and not flips in stocks or factories in China.
The financial landscape can be pleasant if we put in place glass-seagull again and limit interest rates on cards to just 6%.We need to have money re-invested back and less consumer debt. Consumers can not buy your products if they are trapped in debt. The rich actually lose.
Not my student loans.
My wife and I's loans are about $150,000 and we expect to pay $2,500 a month for 10 years and pay something closer to $350,000 after interest is compounded back to the principle.
So yes the interest is tax deductible but the compounding part is not and it multiplies unto itself many times over. Good luck getting a refund for that?
Why are the desperate desperate?
I understand the power game but thanks to competition this will not work with the 70% of the rest of us.
If anyone does this to you or I we say no thank you and take our business else where.
I am in debt due to some irresponsibility and unemployment. Do I deserve that nice 4.9% interest for a car? Hell no! I have shown that I can cause a potential loss.
So the 20% interest is what I would pay if I really really needed the car. I think I will repay off my debt first and wait for my credit to recover thank you.
The stupid need to pay more because they are more likely to default on other loans.
The abusive power unfortunately exists because 90% of the lenders wont do business with you. So its by the 10% of the remaining lenders terms or the high way.
Look at it this way? Would you loan me $1,000 after reading what I put down?
Now, suppose I make a deal with 25% interest over 5 years? After only 2 and half years you will break even if I default. After 5 you triple your money! Now would you loan me $1,000? That is a great return and might be worth the risk if you look at it this way instead. The argument is very different now if it was your own money. Of course you would charge me more ... assuming you would even bother to do business with me.
This is how the finance companies look at it. Credit card companies are a whole other discussion and I hate them with a passion.
People default.
Some have spouses who are dishonest, some have job losses, others have medical issues the greedy insurance companies wont pay for, and others ... well are idiots.
If you do not deserve a car then how are you going to get to work to put food on your table?
I think some debt should be given to people with a few problems. The much higher rates, down payments, and scary numbers discourage consumption. That is the point.
Do I really really truly need it if I am charged 25%! The situation then works itself in economics so people can get what they need.
Part of me feels its unfair but part me of sides with you in why should someone who gets free rides be able to borrow more?
High rates encourage those to save and if people get back on their feet again and you pay the horrible prime loan then your credit rating will go up by a large number. So it can benefit the borrow as well if he or she is willing to get his or her ass in shape.
Why was the parent modded down?
Yes you need to pay for the car in which it is understood but repo men/women are not the good guys either.
Its a dangerous and very difficult job but they will do anything to get a car ethical, legal, or what not and they do not have sympathy with the owners.
It sucks to lose your job or be caught up in an ARm scam, which can cause you to default. But without a car the victim ... yes victim is screwed. Can't get a job without a car and you can not a car without a job.
The person who founded it does not work for nor has ever worked for Obama. She only volunteered her time when he was running.
To blame her would be the equivalent of calling you a Bush lobbyist and white house astro turfee because you once held a poster in 2000 for Bush or volunteered your time to him years ago.
This was a very cheap shot by the tea activists who own Fox news.
First off the person who created the coffee party volunteered her time for Obama to help him get elected. She does not nor has ever worked for the white house.
FYI the tea party is run by Dick Army who is a republican who operated conservative lobbyists.
This was just a cheap shot by Fox News to discredit the movement.
If you want to support your democratic or republican representative and then whine be my guest. At least I gave a solution.
I am sick and tired of my country being run by special interests whether its the financial industry, tobacco, health care, or the media. Whats worse these special interest groups that run the US now run the world through sleazy treatries that make our corrupt laws, world laws.
Do something about it and join the Coffee Party? I know this sounds kind of korny but 150,000 just joined it in the last 72 hours and the numbers already rival the tea party. Together we can influence primaries to have candidates who represent us and not hte special interest. Or join the tea party if you are conservative but I feel they are being taken over by special interests already and are more afraid of government than special interests.
I understand what you are saying fully.
One of the things ladder climbers do is just what you described, which is thinking that hard work *might* pay off as your employer grows. After all no one was a CEO overnight (a few exceptions of course).
I guess you can say I would sacrafice alot of myself if I had a job that might pay more. This is because I have large amounts of debt from student loans and from being laid off for a year. So much that I will be working for free for 10 years and live off my wife's salary. If I did not have that problem I probably would work hard but leave it at work and enjoy home life if I were making a good 80k a year.
I see your point and it has to do with bargaining power. Right now the bank and employers have me by the balls so I would be willing to do that. But having your own business finally means doing things your way.
I would be willing to work hard for 2 billion if I felt 1 million was merely adequate.
One of my dreams is to start a business some day and that big pay off makes it worth it. With wages going down and cost of living going up I do now want someone else deciding the fate of myself, retirement, and family. Its time I became one of them then work for them.