A) Redirect all subsidies paid to student loan lenders into the gratis tuition program.
B) Bring our fucking troops home, save $billions of dollars a day, which would then be used to educate instead of Maim and kill.
Because anything that makes the least bit of sense never does, in America.
Cynicism aside, this is a much needed proposal for the future of America. We are being left behind in so many markets due to increased global competition, but we are also lagging far behind in quality accessible education (meanwhile, tuition rates continue to rise).
I wish Senator Baucus the best of luck with this. He deserves our support.
The playing field could be leveled by forcing China to stop artificially lowering the Yaun, which makes China appear more competitive on the global market. This practice alone has decimated U.S. manufacturing sector and is why we have a nearly 1 trillion dollar trade deficit - with no end in sight.
1) Force people to work for a pittance
2) Allow children to make toxic toys for Americans
3) No minimum hours per week, no overtime
4) IP theft
5) Lax environmental regulations
But most of all, at least relating to America's 850 billion dollar trade deficit (as of 2007), is the fact that China artificially lowers the Yaun to appear more competitive on the global market. This practice alone has decimated U.S. manufacturing sector and is why we have a nearly 1 trillion dollar trade deficit - with no end in sight.
See your point, and I share in your general concern. However cellulosic ethanol, as produced using Range Fuel's proprietary technology, can be produced from just about any green biomass.. including corn stalks, cobs, switchgrass, sugar cane, agricultural waste, pig shit and wood chips/sawdust.
What encourages me about this is we will be able to produce a very efficient, clean burning fuel domestically. As will just about any country that can grow wheat straw, corn or whatever else. Remember this is just the first wave of technology. Soon we'll be making fuel from algae.:o)
There simply is no other option to getting the food picked. This situation isn't going to change.
That is such a lie. Corporations need only offer a living wage to attract more domestic and migrant workers. So your post fits nicely with the "jobs Americans won't do" meme, but not with reality.
As happened with labor with the wondrous invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, technological advancements almost always lead to a future with fewer jobs. Another fact is that global population continues to rise. So we have more people, and fewer jobs to go around thanks to increases in productivity from better software & hardware design, streamlined assembly production lines, and even fruit pickers are facing competition from robotic picking machines in California.
Interesting new indy movie on organic farming...
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I pay more for quality products manufactured in America, whenever I can. Sometimes this means I pay a bit more than inexpensive imported goods, but I benefit by a) knowing I have superior merchandise and b) knowing I helped keep a manufacturing job in the US. My Mazda B-3000 has a lot of non-US components, but it was made in Edison, NJ.
That's all you need. The problem see, is corporations no longer want to hire entry level workers. They want cream of the crop programmers only, hence this bullshit about not finding "the right person for the job".
Fucking hire entry level programmers, spend a little time training, pay them well and they will stick around for the long haul.
My thoughts exactly. There are plenty of jobs available for workers, and plenty of US workers available for jobs. This article is yet another round in the ongoing saga of corporate interests applying downward pressure on wages.
Have you looked at mainstream torrent sites? like torrentspy or torrentportal? I would be surprised if it weren't readily avialable.. I'm at work so i can't help you look right now.
I would mod the parent +1 Insightful, but I'm fresh out.
All too often Americans interested in protecting their own jobs and culture are immediately and without question branded racist xenophobes. Unfortunately, there has to be a degree of truth to that for many people -- but certainly not all, and probably not even most. Throughout the world people aren't as open to unchecked immigration as we in America are led to believe.
Where is a line drawn between believing in and loving ones own country (which could be called nationalism by certain, shrill, individuals), and opening borders and allowing a country's own culture to be slowly replaced with other cultures? Hear me now -- I was taught and believe that America is like a giant salad bowl, we have a richly diverse culture here. But taken to an extreme, people who were born here and live here and work here could see their own livelihoods ruined by say, H1-B visa abuse and outsourcing.
Why should a country not protect it's own people (and jobs), within reason?
Switchgrass grows just fine with little tillage required. An added benefit is job creation, especially for small hobby farmers who could sell to processing plants.
Someone mod the parent up.
Just because we work in IT and may not have many blue collar friends/relatives doesn't mean that scores of willing hard working Americans are chomping at the bit to farm, especially when doing so would lessen our dependence on oil. We often seem so intent on screwing over a large number of blue collar folk in the name of cheap goods from overseas. Growing sweet/potatoes is something that can be done easily, affordably and organically. This is an option we need to promote, instead of importing more goods from other countries. As if we don't import enough as it is.
In today's glossed over vapid music climate artists like Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and many others would not be taken seriously by the majors. I can hear it now.. Not marketable. Too nasally. Screams too much. Won't sell enough product. Not worth our investment.
Great, so Fred and Fungus (my favorite XM stations) will probably be shitcanned in favor of the inferior counterparts on Sirious. Isn't that how these mergers work? Pay more, get less!
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A) Redirect all subsidies paid to student loan lenders into the gratis tuition program.
B) Bring our fucking troops home, save $billions of dollars a day, which would then be used to educate instead of Maim and kill.
Because anything that makes the least bit of sense never does, in America.
Cynicism aside, this is a much needed proposal for the future of America. We are being left behind in so many markets due to increased global competition, but we are also lagging far behind in quality accessible education (meanwhile, tuition rates continue to rise).
I wish Senator Baucus the best of luck with this. He deserves our support.
The playing field could be leveled by forcing China to stop artificially lowering the Yaun, which makes China appear more competitive on the global market. This practice alone has decimated U.S. manufacturing sector and is why we have a nearly 1 trillion dollar trade deficit - with no end in sight.
1) Force people to work for a pittance
2) Allow children to make toxic toys for Americans
3) No minimum hours per week, no overtime
4) IP theft
5) Lax environmental regulations
But most of all, at least relating to America's 850 billion dollar trade deficit (as of 2007), is the fact that China artificially lowers the Yaun to appear more competitive on the global market. This practice alone has decimated U.S. manufacturing sector and is why we have a nearly 1 trillion dollar trade deficit - with no end in sight.
What encourages me about this is we will be able to produce a very efficient, clean burning fuel domestically. As will just about any country that can grow wheat straw, corn or whatever else. Remember this is just the first wave of technology. Soon we'll be making fuel from algae. :o)
As happened with labor with the wondrous invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, technological advancements almost always lead to a future with fewer jobs. Another fact is that global population continues to rise. So we have more people, and fewer jobs to go around thanks to increases in productivity from better software & hardware design, streamlined assembly production lines, and even fruit pickers are facing competition from robotic picking machines in California.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sqP1SC5Tr7U
I pay more for quality products manufactured in America, whenever I can. Sometimes this means I pay a bit more than inexpensive imported goods, but I benefit by a) knowing I have superior merchandise and b) knowing I helped keep a manufacturing job in the US. My Mazda B-3000 has a lot of non-US components, but it was made in Edison, NJ.
That's all you need. The problem see, is corporations no longer want to hire entry level workers. They want cream of the crop programmers only, hence this bullshit about not finding "the right person for the job".
Fucking hire entry level programmers, spend a little time training, pay them well and they will stick around for the long haul.
My thoughts exactly. There are plenty of jobs available for workers, and plenty of US workers available for jobs. This article is yet another round in the ongoing saga of corporate interests applying downward pressure on wages.
Have you looked at mainstream torrent sites? like torrentspy or torrentportal? I would be surprised if it weren't readily avialable.. I'm at work so i can't help you look right now.
Sure - it's usually on http://punktorrents.com/
What happened to the man pulling the trigger? Did the gun sprout legs and arms and go beserk??
Could it be that "the consensus" is entirely accurate for the most part, and that outsourcing only benefits those receiving the jobs?
The goal here isn't to protect America's interests, it's to further erode the middle class. Profits, sir, profits.
Tell that to the people of Detroit, MI (and many other local economies ruined by offshoring).
I would mod the parent +1 Insightful, but I'm fresh out.
All too often Americans interested in protecting their own jobs and culture are immediately and without question branded racist xenophobes. Unfortunately, there has to be a degree of truth to that for many people -- but certainly not all, and probably not even most. Throughout the world people aren't as open to unchecked immigration as we in America are led to believe.
Where is a line drawn between believing in and loving ones own country (which could be called nationalism by certain, shrill, individuals), and opening borders and allowing a country's own culture to be slowly replaced with other cultures? Hear me now -- I was taught and believe that America is like a giant salad bowl, we have a richly diverse culture here. But taken to an extreme, people who were born here and live here and work here could see their own livelihoods ruined by say, H1-B visa abuse and outsourcing.
Why should a country not protect it's own people (and jobs), within reason?
Thanks for sharing this.
Switchgrass grows just fine with little tillage required. An added benefit is job creation, especially for small hobby farmers who could sell to processing plants.
Direct injection two-cycle engines may be another tool in the war against pollution.
Someone mod the parent up. Just because we work in IT and may not have many blue collar friends/relatives doesn't mean that scores of willing hard working Americans are chomping at the bit to farm, especially when doing so would lessen our dependence on oil. We often seem so intent on screwing over a large number of blue collar folk in the name of cheap goods from overseas. Growing sweet/potatoes is something that can be done easily, affordably and organically. This is an option we need to promote, instead of importing more goods from other countries. As if we don't import enough as it is.
live365 and others will go the way of the dodo. Don't you just love how incredibly stupid these music execs are?
In today's glossed over vapid music climate artists like Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and many others would not be taken seriously by the majors. I can hear it now.. Not marketable. Too nasally. Screams too much. Won't sell enough product. Not worth our investment.
Great, so Fred and Fungus (my favorite XM stations) will probably be shitcanned in favor of the inferior counterparts on Sirious. Isn't that how these mergers work? Pay more, get less!