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16705 messages, Last post on Nov 25, 2009 at 6:56 PM
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 12, 2008 6:41 am)
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Dec 12, 2008 2:31 pm) Sure. Because it is performance bonus. Sometimes you get it. Sometimes you don't. |
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Replying to: chikoo (Dec 12, 2008 7:58 am) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9A0DE2DF173AF93AA15755- C0A960948260 |
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Replying to: chikoo (Dec 12, 2008 2:38 pm)
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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Dec 12, 2008 8:25 am) Many folks out there would like 10% or better, but if we are in double digit inflation we aren't gaining any wealth. |
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Dec 12, 2008 2:49 pm) Detroit is cheaper than Huntsville but Huntsville is cheaper than Dearborn. Cost of Living Calculator (Sperlings) But CNN gives the nod to Alabama. Neither one of these talk much about the respective tax burdens.
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 12, 2008 3:00 pm) |
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Replying to: chikoo (Dec 12, 2008 2:38 pm) I doubt the UAW likes the idea of performance-based bonuses. He was spinning it to serve the union's purposes.
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Replying to: grbeck (Dec 11, 2008 7:06 am) Is social security welfare? As historians Peter N. Carroll and David W. Noble note, Hoover feared that the collapse of the large corporations would bring down the entire US capitalist system. After all, one percent of the banks held 50% of banking assets. Three corporations—Ford, Chrysler, General Motors—manufactured 85% of the automobiles sold in the US. Chain stores dominated retail sales and their difficulties had national repercussions. Hoover and the Republicans saw aid to corporations as being different. Whereas they believed that helping the individual citizen weather the Depression would corrupt him or her, aiding corporations and other business was different. To many, it appeared that the Republicans were only interested in the rich. The newly-created Reconstruction Finance Corporation aided only the large corporations. http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=603 |
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 11, 2008 8:00 am) Eerie isn't it? He regulated capalism. Before FDR the nation had a laizze-fair notion about business, let business run itself and monitor itself. Unfortunately, as it always does, unregulated capitalism destroyed itself as those with inordinate money and power were able to circumvent the laws of free market. For instance, pre FDR, steel companies had a total monopoly and what a degree of collusion and price fixing that is considered criminal by today's standards. FDR: Cycles tax money back to the average person via works programs and emergency assistance. He also improved our infrastructure by using gvt money to build dams, roads etc that bolstered the economy. He passed laws restricting business to encourage free market competition such as anti-trust laws (not allowing companies to merge and form monopoly's). He endorsed labor's right to strike and to demand living wages from employers. He implemented social security which has proven to be the number one means of avoiding poverty. FDR's policies produced the hightest standard of living the world had ever known. We had overall continued growth until the Regan years. The conservative movement in the us corresponds to decline in wealth, education, health of the US public after 50 years of steady improvement. He put people to work, brought hope and confidence back to the US and possibly saved us froma communist revolution. We actually were well out of the depression long before we entered WW2, Thanks to FDR. In 1930 GDP fell 9.4% In 1931 GDP fell 8.5% In 1932 GDP fell 13.4% FDR took office in March 1933 In 1933 GDP fell 2.1% In 1934 GDP rose 7.7% In 1935 GDP rose 8.1% In 1936 GDP rose 14.1% In 1937 GDP rose 5.0% In 1938 GDP fell 4.5% In 1939 GDP rose 7.9%
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