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Time for most people here to take an economics class. The purpose of accelerated change depreciation tax preferences is not to artifically stoke employment among manufacturers of any capital good. If that were true, it would make equal sense to offer tax preferences for investments in fountains for corporate campuses, or for machines to fashion automotive carburetors. In fact, accelerated depreciation preferences make economic sense only when they stimulate demand for capital items that in turn Read more [...]

No one here has suggested that you don't have the ri can t live without yought to raise your kids as you please. I believe in that as strongly as you. I also don't believe that I have the right to tell people who say they are homosexual how to live. It's none of my business and it's none of yours. Sin is sin and crime is crime. Should we criminalize adultry? Or taking the Lord's name in vain? Or gluttony? If you believe that's the way God wants you to live, then you should, by all means, live that Read more [...]

Disregarding all the possible false accusations. It is amazing how to get your wife back me that his wife absolutely sticks by him even tho he has admitted that consensual sex took place, among other past indescretions. She's a very well off American woman in her own right. Geez...Silda Spitzer, Maria Shriver, Elizabeth Edwards, Huma Abedin, all of them looked and acted humiliated once the truth came out. What does this toad have that keeps his wife at his side with a big smile on her face? Can he Read more [...]

About two weeks ago, my in-laws went to the Beijing consulate for a visa college interview questions in order to get a tourist visa and had a very humiliating experience. The visa officer was an angry 30-year old guy who was apparently upset about something from the minute he sat down on his chair. He showed neither respect nor patience to the senior couple who had to travel by 8-hour train and stay in a hotel for the interview, asking questions but interrupting as soon as the helpless couple answered, Read more [...]

Nellie, I must dis-agree with you here. Our representatives in Washington are remarkably Machiavellian. When it comes to the protection of their existing power, and developing opportunities to grow that power, do not under-estimate the emotional intelligence in the workplace nor the ferocity of almost all inside the Beltway. The problem is that they view their purpose as the protection and amassing of their own power, hence it is the focus of the overwhelming majority of their efforts. Fiscal policy Read more [...]

Got my PhD in chemistry. We worked no less than 80 hours a week in a grueling, highly competitive research environment. Med students and the liberal arts PhD's had a lot of free time on their hands. Our work generated grant money, and professors drove their students hard. This was a well known, top tier research institution. I loved it, but I can tell you I'm not surprised chemistry generates so much revenue. Frankly, less is done in the old school industrial setting, and there are a lot of startup Read more [...]

Of course you are way off base - i did not grow up even close to being upper middle class not even lower middle class. In fact nothing you said even comes close to truth. I think I just hurt your feelings and emotions because the only thing that you said was based on emotions and projections. The dept of education is a failure and a waste of tax payer money. State run schools have no need to report to the Dept of Education. The schools you mentioned are are world famous because they are STATE ran Read more [...]

It's clear that her mother's tactics are not working, Louise might not have a weight problem if her mom encouraged physical activities. Apratim, I don't think that stating the obvious is an offense, these children are being raised in America and we have a serious childhood obesity problem. It's not the child's fault, it's Amy's for failing to encourage healthy weight range eating habit and exercise. The child has food issues, ignoring that or pretending that it doesn't exist could lead to serious Read more [...]

1. What happens when the government gets ahold of information? In other words, are large companies only bad when they collude with the government? Is it in their nature to collude with the government? Is their any 3rd way? 2. Am I better off due to the advent of the web? I would not jump to any such conclusion. Obviously, I enjoy and use the web, and appalled it's advantages of franchising--such as the ability to bypass the MSM. But, ON BALANCE, is my life really any better? Is our society really Read more [...]

Don't know if you've noticed, but there is a small sub-genre within science fiction that sets up all-female chauvinist pig societies - the men have died off, usually due to warfare but sometimes due to disease - and the women have learned to parthenogenetically reproduce. These societies are usually presented as superior in some way, and the plot revolves either around a woman from a male-dominated culture finding freedom or the effects of a male being dropped into the gynocracy. (In the ones I've Read more [...]