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I love the irony of people boasting about how successful they are on a message board.
It is funny, isn't it
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His Energy Secretary seems like a good pick. I hope Obama places some armed forces at this guys disposal and gives him summary power to execute anyone that gets in his way.
The appointment is being hailed by environmental groups who see Chu as a science nerd who can ably articulate how snowpacks and glaciers are disappearing, and how the poor will disproportionately be hit by droughts and storm surges spawned by climate change. He is unafraid to call coal an environmental "nightmare." He comes from those corners of curiosity that leave no rock, bacteria, yeast, ray of sun, or blade of switchgrass unturned, or unexamined for alternative energy. He has even cited the potential of decaying logs crawling with termites that convert cellulose into ethanol.Chu has forged industry partnerships without being accused of selling out, attracting $500 million from Big Oil's BP for biofuel research.
Last year, Chu told Reuters, "If I were emperor, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation."
His appointment is the best sign yet that eight years of official hostility to science is about to end. We hope he guns the engine on energy independence.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editoria...idea_at_energy/
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Yes - that is exactly what I was going to do you f**king retard.
I figured out why you are such a tool. I, like others on this board, are everything that you wish you could be:
Intelligent, Well Off and Successful.
It wasn't easy as I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Instead, I paid for college, got an MBA and worked hard, all things that are probably foreign to you.
Sounds like you have some need to impress people on the internet. Pretty sad.
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Just when I thought that you couldn't get any dumber you say something else.
What are you doing on-line? I thought you would be on the march banging your wooden spoon on your pot to drum up support for the Great Soda Pop Tax Revolt.
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the same thing it will do over the next 2-4-6-8 with the Dems in charge . . .
Obama has already appointed several Republicans to his cabinet
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How much you want to bet that as soon as people stop drinking REGULAR soda and the tax revenues fall, a new tax will be proposed on other drinks such as diet soda, seltzer and fruit drinks?
hopefully the recession will be over by them and capital gains taxes will obviate the need for anything else
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In defense of the soda tax:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/opinion/...amp;ref=opinion
Mr. Paterson suggested the tax — an 18 percent sales tax on soft drinks and other nondiet sugary beverages — to help raise $400 million a year to plug a hole in the state budget. But it’s also a landmark effort that, if other states follow, could help make us healthier.Let’s break for a quiz: What was the biggest health care breakthrough in the last 40 years in the United States? Heart bypasses? CAT scans and M.R.I.’s? New cancer treatments?
No, it was the cigarette tax. Every 10 percent price increase on cigarettes reduced sales by about 3 percent over all, and 7 percent among teenagers, according to the 2005 book “Prescription for a Healthy Nation.” Just the 1983 increase in the federal tax on cigarettes saved 40,000 lives per year.
In effect, the most promising cure for lung cancer didn’t emerge from a medical research lab but from money-grubbing politicians. Likewise, the best cure for obesity may turn out to be not a pill but a tax.
These days, sugary drinks are to American health roughly what tobacco was a generation ago. A tax would shift some consumers, especially kids, to diet drinks or water.
“Soft drinks are linked to diabetes and obesity in the way that tobacco is to lung cancer,” says Barry Popkin, a nutrition specialist at the University of North Carolina and author of the excellent new book, “The World Is Fat.” He warns that the cola industry will spend vast sums fighting the proposed tax.
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But come on Molson... that's the financial market. It's ok for them to have a failed business model.
Silly me
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Mr. Kim’s colleagues, not only at his level, but far down the ranks, also pocketed large paychecks. In all, Merrill handed out $5 billion to $6 billion in bonuses that year. A 20-something analyst with a base salary of $130,000 collected a bonus of $250,000. And a 30-something trader with a $180,000 salary got $5 million.
But Merrill’s record earnings in 2006 — $7.5 billion — turned out to be a mirage. The company has since lost three times that amount, largely because the mortgage investments that supposedly had powered some of those profits plunged in value.
Now, if you ask me, this looks like a "failed business model." But let's bash the UAW, its more fun to pick on the workers instead of the Free Marketeers
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When are we going to take our medicine? The longer we avoid the chemo to avoid 'feeling sick' the worse the cancer gets.
In the middle of the worst economic crisis is 80 years seems like a bad to to me
I dunno, you might be right though. Just get it over with now. I dunno
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I'd rather not pour my grandchildren's money into a failed business model.
And I do not disagree with your basic premise, but blowing this all up now is asking for trouble, IMO.
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Kudlow is a right wing string puppet
Would you rather keep these people working in jobs that already exist, at least for now, or would you rather find them new jobs--good luck with that? Because unemployment hurts all of us in the larger scheme of things
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While we are at it let's throw in some more unemployment:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_on_.../meltdown_autos
DETROIT – Chrysler announced Wednesday it is closing all its North American manufacturing plants for at least a month, the starkest move taken by U.S. automakers as they anxiously await word about government loans.All three companies have been taking dramatic steps as they struggle to survive the recession and U.S. sales have dipped to their slowest rate in 26 years. Chrysler and General Motors fear they might not have enough money to pay their bills in a matter of weeks.
Attempting to cut costs, GM was halting construction of a plant tied to one of its most important projects, the Volt. Ford also said it will shut down 10 plants for an extra week in January because of sluggish sales.
Chrysler said it would extend the normal two-week holiday shutdown that begins Friday to at least Jan. 19 at all 30 of its factories due to slumping sales.
The lack of consumer credit is hampering sales and forcing the production cuts, Chrysler LLC said in a statement. Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge dealers say they have willing buyers for vehicles, but they can't close the deals, Chrysler said.
"The dealers have stated that they have lost an estimated 20 to 25 percent of their volume because of this credit situation," the statement said.
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So you're admitting you made a mistake thinking that any of those taxes could be temporary. Looks like junior is growing up.
No I'm basically saying you are an ignorant a-- hole. And you are
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He has about 2,669 posts to back it up.
Tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber have found each other! You guys are a perfectly moronic couple!
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You're either an idiot or very niave. I'm going with a naive idiot.
That was a mistake
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So these are all temporary taxes? Never heard of any tax that's temporary. Perfect example is that thruway tolls were just to pay for the construction.
That's a completely different issue. And, I don't know if the taxes are here to stay or not
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I agree with you that it is the banks fault - but it is also the borrowers fault as well.
It is like arresting drung dealers and not arresiting drug addicts, or vice versa. The banks are the dealers and the individuals that could not afford the loans in the first place are the junkees.
Both parties are to blame.
No no. That's what the free markateers want you to believe. In reality speculators were playing a game buying up houses hoping to make a killing when the prices kept marching upwards while the banks were selling off their risk for loans they never, ever should have made and making a profit on selling these stinking debts.
Ah, the wonders of a market that is self regulating
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I do "watch" other people....they keep calling security on me
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Watch what other people are doing, experiment, keep what you like and never be afrid to try something different. Maybe even buy one of the muscle magazines, they have plenty of ideas in them. Make it fun by always trying something new
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_.../new_york_taxes
When will it end? We need to revolt. I am not sure how ANYONE is New York State politics is ever re-elected.
Go grab a wooden spoon and a pot and start banging them as you march down the street, perhaps other little revolters will start following you
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Yes. Government welfare in the form of jobs is a great long term cure for a ailing economy.
Its called getting over the economic illness with a little help from government
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Hey people.....now the physically fit will feel the pain....not just the obese.
>>>>There also would be higher taxes on gas, taxi rides, cable and satellite TV service, cigars, beer, movie and sports tickets, and health spa visits, to name a few items.<<<<
Of course, they still pretend they are trying to save our "health." Also, gasoline is included as well. Doesn't WNY already have the most expensive gasoline on the continental USA?
The disgrace is that we need to do this at all. It's because tax revenue from Wall Street is so far down.
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It's always so amusing to come here and see people starting threads about topics they completely misunderstand. Of course it's usually the same people who think that the POTUS can 'fix' the economy.
While the article pretty clearly explains the drivers behind the decision making, the bad news for consumers is that this will only exacerbate the problem when high oil prices return, which they most certainly will do.
Actually--to no surprise on my part--you just misunderstood my post.
Non-Diet Soda
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Yes you do. That's why you make posts declare you are this, or are that. You have a real inferiority complex. It's obvious