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bludragon

Reality rears its ugly (and beautiful) head

Apr 28, 2007 10:01

After reading the news this morning, I feel like a light in me just went out. Why do I bother writing about politics ( Read more... )

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Eh, Fox News is no more harmful than NPR anonymous December 21 2007, 21:44:38 UTC

The great thing about America is free speech. The moment we shut down voices, we become no better than Chavez's socialism movement or Russia. Look at Russia and the difficulty Kasparov has simply being allowed to demonstrate or get on the ballot. Democracy cannot survive without free speech ( ... )

bludragon December 22 2007, 17:42:30 UTC

Hi there old buddy. My apologies for not writing for a while. Merry Christmas, BTW ( ... )

Employee Benefits are gone bludragon January 17 2008, 19:54:30 UTC

At least they are as we've known them. Every business uses "best practices." Today's benefits comprise Personal Time Off (PTO) systems that replace both vacation and sick time. They essentially give you more time that you can use towards vacations, but punish you if you are unhealthy. It is what it is. I'll give you my theory on why employer (and goverment) benefits are inferior to self secured benefits some other time ( ... )

Re: Employee Benefits are gone bludragon January 22 2008, 23:54:50 UTC

(You do get me going, don't you ( ... )

Re: Employee Benefits are gone bludragon January 23 2008, 00:03:48 UTC

I missed one of your points.

I agree with you that jobs to shift and change. But I would say that's because they become more specialized.

The problem with the US right now is that more jobs are NOT being created, particularly within manufacturing. I think the only really increasing job sectors for the past decade have been finance (especially real estate and consumer credit) and service.

Part of the reason why the real estate crash has taken so long and will hurt so much is because the real estate industry had become such a juggernaut over the past decade. They've been manipulating everything they could to keep prices rising, and for the most part it has worked until people actually started running out of both money and credit.