Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

How much is a “fair share”

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

How is it that the takers and collectivists in Society don't understand that penalizing those who create businesses and jobs is economic suicide?  Read this and tell us what you think

Free Enterprise Isn’t Dead in Detroit

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/02/top_ford_execs_take_pay_cuts_m.html Ford Motor Company continues to make it on its' own, without Federal bridge loans.  their two top executives, including the guy whose name is on the building, are taking 30% pay cuts.  Performance bonuses are being suspended, and more hourly buyouts are on the way. Everything is focused on self-sustainment ...

Understanding the root of the financial problem

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Thank goodness for sensible, intelligent, educated and factual men who can explain economics in simple terms.  Longer essays are good too but sometimes a 500 word explanation and background can work wonders for thinking Americans.  Dr. Thomas Sowell does just that here.  It is wonderful ammunition to refute the persistent ...

The Unpoor and Preventing Capitalism Abuse

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Dear Friends: My friend, a real capitalist highly placed in the banking industry, has digested the details of Porkulus and has prepared a wonderful essay. I have posted The Unpoor essay in the Shrine of Flaming Capitalism, where it rightly belongs. I offer a snippet here to ...

Senseless Senselessness

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Would you hire an accountant to install your heating and airconditioning system?  Would you engage a chef to redecorate your house? Silly questions aren't they?  Well look at our Congress-critters whom we hire.  They think they can "fix" the economy.  This collection of (many of them if not most) boobs have ...

Shrug, Atlas, Part II

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Lost amidst the news of the poktulus piracy on the Potomac was the announcement that GM's design guru, Bub Lutz, was stepping down.  http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090210/AUTO01/902100382/1148 He made his name with Lee Iacocca at Chrysler, where, as lee's design lieutenant, he helped them become the idea leaders on the American auto scene.  ...