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It is not very expensive to hire people. I can hire an employee by using the various “Help Wanted” services, but finding a good employee is pretty hard.

Well I own a corporation and have a small group of employees now, and I have run various companies on and off for 25 years. When I was a lot younger, in the 1980s, employees had more interest in coming to work to actually WORK. I am very discouraged by the American worker. I believe this is a phenomenon others have experienced.

Here are some employees I’ve had to deal with [...]

Kicking The Can Down The Road: Many are claiming that Italy and Spain have been “saved” by the new deal, but that is a joke.

by Michael

Has Europe finally been saved this time? Has this latest “breakthrough” solved the European debt crisis? Of course not, and you should know better by now. European leaders have held 18 summits since the beginning of the debt crisis. After most of the preceding summits, global financial markets responded with joy because European leaders had reached “a deal” which would supposedly solve the crisis. But a few weeks after [...]

POLL: Lonely life of the techno-addict

Technology-addicts regularly go 48 hours without speaking to anyone in person, a study has found.

A significant three per cent of adults fall into a so-called ‘digitally dominant’ group which will mainly communicate via text, email or video calls.

It suggests technology – from smartphones to iPads – is helping to kill off physical and social interaction among those obsessed with the devices.

Isolated: Technology is killing off physical and social interaction among [...]

How A Comment On A Blog Turned Into A Cool New Startup With Big-Time Investors

by Alyson Shontell

William Mougayar is somewhat of a commenting addict.

The Canadian entrepreneur, who formerly worked for Hewlett Packard, loves to engage in conversations on blogs.

He isn’t a mean-spirited troll. He loves starting conversations and anxiously awaiting responses from other readers. Sometimes those conversations turn into real relationships, says Mougayar.

When you comment as much as Mougayar does, it becomes hard to keep up with discussions. So he came up with a tool [...]

Forget mortgages… This could be the next HUGE bank scandal

From The Reformed Broker:

Today, we have a monster of a guest post from my friend the Finance Addict who blogs over at FinanceAddict.com. FA asks why all of a sudden JPMorgan and its legal representatives have seemingly disappeared from credit card collection judgments (as per a small piece in American Banker magazine). I have no special insights or opinions on this just yet but it certainly bears watching in light [...]

The Financial Times reports that ECB boardmember Jörg Asmussen has put pen to paper to accuse negotiators of “a substantial watering down” of the maximum debt pact.

by Finance Addict

The ECB Is Very P.O.’d

The big news out of Europe on Friday was not S&P’s downgrade of 9 countries, France included. The ratings agency told us weeks ago that it might do this. No, much more important was the ECB’s saying in the bluntest possible terms that the EU leaders are backtracking on the fiscal compact agreed just 5 weeks ago by 26 of the 27 countries.

The Financial Times reports that ECB boardmember Jörg Asmussen has put pen to [...]

Second Amendment up in smoke

Justin Kalin
Pipe Dream
December 13, 2011

On Sept. 21, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) responded to confusion in the federal firearms licensing community about whether medical marijuana patients can apply for gun ownership.

Its letter refers to the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. An unlawful user or addict to controlled substances is prohibited from purchasing firearms or ammunition. Furthermore, presenting a medical [...]

2010 FBI Statistics

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leo…

All,

This is the FBI’s publication on officer line-of-duty deaths.
There are some extremely important take away lessons in here, though it’s a painful read.

I’d be interested in talking over some of the incidents, what went wrong and how to keep sharp and avoid potentially falling victim to pre-emptive violence.

Some of the critical things that stood out to me:
- Bullet resistent vests are not bullet *proof* vests
- Rifles are extremely deadly
- Being [...]

Fashion Führer: Galliano to attend anti-Semitic trial

PARIS (Reuters) – Fashion designer John Galliano will attend in person his trial on Wednesday over charges he hurled anti-Semitic insults at customers in a cafe in a series of outbursts that have wrecked a towering career.

Galliano, 50, was fired as creative director for fashion empire Dior in March after a video surfaced online showing him, apparently inebriated, telling a woman he “loved Hitler” and [...]

Fed CAN’T inflate its way out of the US’s debt burdens

I don’t think this could work, even if the holders of that debt would allow them to do so without dumping it, because the US is a major import addict; it needs its foreign oil to function. So by devaluing the dollar all it does is make energy more expensive for Americans which hurts the economy from the other end. Then the government tax reciepts [...]

The only people the Budget cuts effect are the little people without a Billion dollar fucking lobby

by JW n FL

For anyone that is stupid enough to quote some bullshit austerity measure squeeze the little guy bullshit I hope your children burn in front of you, slowly, to death.

the Corporations who pay NO fucking FEDERAL taxes… make the Country strung out like a fucking addict.. these same corporation who have a FED Window to draw down from, at fucking will. These same [...]

Here’s whats going to happen….

by C.I

The US gov. is trying its darnedest to kick-start inflation – the only pain free way to get out from under its massive debt burdens – and frankly a weasel move. It absolutely refuses to reduce spending even though the lions share of this spending gets eaten up in pure waste paying off armies of useless middle-men and con artists. Seeing that China holds the bulk of our debt, [...]

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