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Why can't the system be moved to the 21st century.
A network can sign up a party for a ridiculous amount of money to sponsor to debates. The format will be an "American Idol" type debate with celebrity pundits as guest hosts --text your votes after the show. One loser will be voted off the show each week and given a lucrative contract on the lecture circuit as a consolation prize. The winner will emerge in the Spring after ratings week with the party's nomination and a campaign...
Totally agree with the Forbes article. Best Buy is becoming Amazon's showroom.
They are in a business where their IT department could give them a competitive advantage but a few years ago, in a cost cutting move, they out-sourced their entire IT department. Everyone in the industry was shocked. That cost them their competitive advantage to Amazon, Newegg and others and they may never get it back.
God told her to run, he didn't say she'd win.
If they keep this up, the only Catholics left will be the priests and they'll go away like the Shakers.
The conversation in the media is "Where should we build it?" As if it were a foregone conclusion that we are going to hand Ziggy a wad of taxpayer money and 200 acres of prime building land for free.
Isn't anyone asking the question, "Should we really be using taxpayer money to build a new stadium for rich people when the state has a budget shortfall in the billions?"
If every taxpayer in Minnesota would pay me just $2 each then I too could buy a $19 million dollar apartment...
If the American version of Capitalism were a race to a finish line, the bottom 99% would have a mile to run while top 1% would only have one inch to run. We don't all start at the same place.
Goldman Sacs offered Warren Buffett a guaranteed 10% return on a $6 billion investment in 2008. I got .02% on my money market fund. At that rate, it will take a million years for me to make what Warren made in 1 second.
And you wonder why there's inequity?
Finally, big business is doing something about global weirding.
They raised my insurance rates 10% last year.
When a country uses taxes to educate and promote social welfare for all, income inequity will decline.
When a country uses taxes to promote businesses and provide a crutch for capitalism, income inequity will rise.
A rising tide lifts all boats but some boats are tethered to the bottom. Government policy should, at a minimum, create some slack.
If you've got money, you make money. If you've got a lot of money, you make a lot of money.
For example: In 2007 Goldman Sacs went to Warren Buffett and offered him a guaranteed 10% return on his money if he would borrow them $5 Billion. When I put my money in the bank I get .25%. Warren makes billions, everyone else made pennies.
So as a congresswoman serving in the Congress that has influence in selecting the super-committee, she has no power, but as President, who has no influence over Congress, she would own the super-committee?
Political logic always escapes me....