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What's interesting about this article is it doesn't take into account the trends in employment.
I remember going through high school and several colleges came to visit us to discuss their courses of study. All the usual suspects were there and some really touted their liberal arts degrees, business, engineering, etc., but by far, the most memorable (for me, anyway) were the schools that dedicated their presentation to careers where the aging workforce would be retiring soon or the projected growth would ensure job security from immediately after college all the way through retirement. They didn't necessarily say, "we have the best curriculum and programs" they said, "if you graduate from our program, you'll have a job for life."
Too many kids today think just because they went to college and have a degree they're entitled (the evil e word) to a job. And a good job at that. That is simply not the way it works in the real world.
Then you have others who think because they've worked a job - any job - for twenty years they're entitled (see, there it is again) to continuing employment. That is not the way it works in the real world either.
Well, not yet, anyway.
Had any of those folks worked a little more on their future instead of their right now, they probably would've been alright.

We all die in the end. I'd much rather enjoy life and all it has to offer, than being remembered as a hard worker who died young.
I've been to Germany and Greece. Not to stereotype, but my own observations. In Germany, they want to perfect everything except smiling and having fun. When we would go out by 10pm, the 30-40-50yo's were yawning and ready to go to bed for work the next day and the crowds were separated the old here, young over there. To contrast that with Greece, the evening doesn't even get started until 10pm. And all are out together from kids all the way up to the elderly, they're at the taverna laughing, eating, drinking and having a good time. In other words, enjoying life versus cutting short their evening of enjoyment to go home to bed; to go work for "the man" in the morning. Call them lazy or whatever, but I admire them for their decision to enjoy life to the fullest and not be a slave to the almighty dollar.

Nice! Another day, another study showing that we have the capability to lower our dependence on non-renewable fossil fuels. Now all we need to do is start taking advantage of them.

So the US is suppose to pick up the tab for these illegals? Seriously, if the US was just to wipe Mexico off the face of the map we would be that much better off. Problem solved and let the historians analyze it after the fact of the matter.

Ferrum College building biomass boiler
Oct. 21 -- Byproducts from the lumber industry will fuel a new biomass boiler and provide green energy to Ferrum College in Ferrum, Va.
The unit will provide about 65% of the heat and hot water on campus and could potentially burn agricultural products, such as locally grown switchgrass, in the future.
"We are proud to be building a facility that serves as an example of Ferrum´s commitment to sustainable initiatives," said College President Jennifer Braaten in a statement.
Work on the project began in August and will continue until March, the college said. When operational, the boiler is estimated to save the school about 25% on heating costs.
http://www.wasterecyclingnews.com/headlines2.html?id=1319210771&allowcomm=true&headline=Ferrum+College+building+biomass+boiler

If they can achieve ridding themselves of being reliant on foreign oil, to be energy independent and eventually prosper(if government doesn't screw it up)why dismiss the innovative technological achievement?
The Chinese get a hold of a technology and can duplicate it and improve upon it within just a few years. The US should be able to do the same, if we're as great as we proclaim.

If they can achieve ridding themselves of being reliant on foreign oil, to be energy independent and eventually prosper(if government doesn't screw it up)why dismiss the innovative technological achievement?
The Chinese get a hold of a technology and can duplicate it and improve upon it within just a few years. The US should be able to do the same, if we're as great as we proclaim.

WAR MONGER!!!!!!!

Congo has oil.

Im guessing for the makers of the chart, If you are drunk and crash your car that goes under alcohol, If you are stoned and crash your car that is a motor vehicle crash>

Just got the text.....APPROVED!!!

That would make sense, since speculation has all but been removed from the housing market. I know four years ago when I needed a reroof, you had to wait months to get a roofing contractor. A few years before that, you could get a roof for half the price, and roofers were falling over themselves to get the work. These days, the contractors have laid off most of their employees, and are doing most of the work themselves.
We might as well get used to it. Six decades of unreasonable expectations has taken its toll. I blame old people.

I have watched a documentary on this tragedy several times and they were machine gunning down our men in life rafts. Absolutely disgusting! They must have some juicy dirt on us as we have been used for far too long.

How about an outright attack on one of our ships?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/margolis12.html
http://www.usslibertyveterans.org/

How many nations can get caught spying on us yet don't pay a price? Israel has been busted several times for espionage at the highest levels of US military secrets yet we still give them billions of dollars ever year.
How much over the top? How many nations are against Palestinians having their own country other than Israel and the US? Why does the US give 3 billion dollars a year to Israel? Why is the US press afraid to criticize Israeli policies? Why is it that you see movies, books, and hours of programs in regards to the Holocaust yet you see nothing about the Bolsheviks who killed far more people, were around longer than the NAZI's and not only butchered millions of people but played a major part in the entire relocation of ethnic groups? Bolshevism was primarily a Jewish thing to begin with yet no nothing about the crimes committed by the perps.
Schindler List was a hit yet where's the movies about Jewish Bolsheviks starving to death millions of Ukrainians to the point they were committing cannibalism? We still read about Jewish organizations hunting pseudo NAZI's yet Israel doesn't have a problem harboring Jewish Bolshevik war criminals who are guilty of butchering of Eastern Europeans.
You need to connect the dots. The US is the back bone of Israel. No US, then no Israel. Hollywood, the US press/media, ...it goes deep and I mean really deep. When you read about a Jewish organization and it's goals to help with peace in the middle east...don't buy that garbage for one minute. The Jews in the US used the same technique when they were giving the Bolsheviks in Russia tens of millions of dollars in the beginning of the Bolshevik movement until 1948 knowing that millions of people were being butchered in the most barbaric of ways with the help of that money. Whenever you hear a Ashkenazi Jew mention the Holocaust ask that same person about the 20+ million people dead at the hands of the Bolsheviks. Hitler had a lot of help from Eastern and Central Europeans in regards to the Holocaust but why did he get so much help? Maybe because those same people saw Jewish camp guards deport entire family's in the middle of winter to Siberian labor camps knowing that most of those people would never survive the trip.

Changing directions now, reminds me of a saying:

To remind this specific article dealt with subsidies the oil industry does receive.

here is the link lost in blue used, then some go on to say there is no subsidies?!?
Keep on drinking it up:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/05/whats-an-oil-subsidy
Oil Subsidies That Should Be Removed
First, let’s take a look at oil subsidies that are obvious and unnecessary. Congress should eliminate the following subsidies:
Government R&D. The Department of Energy (DOE) has spent taxpayer dollars on oil research and development, including funding for unconventional oil, gas, and coal. Although President Obama’s FY 2012 budget request significantly cuts funding for the Office of Fossil Energy, decreasing its size by $417.8 million below the FY 2010 appropriation, it does not go far enough. The only funding in this area should maintain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, for which the President’s budget requests an appropriate $121.7 million. Eliminating all other fossil energy funding would save $399 million.
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Tax Credit. Oil producers receive a 15 percent tax credit for costlier methods and technologies, such as injecting liquids and carbon dioxide into the earth. Many EOR processes are no longer in use, and the tax credit applies only when the price of oil falls below a certain level.
Marginal Well Production Credit. Marginal wells produce 15 or fewer barrels of oil per day, produce heavy oil, or produce mostly water and fewer than 25 barrels of oil per day. The marginal well production credit is another safety-net tax provision. This is another preferential tax credit that Congress should repeal.
Applied research of any kind—not just oil research and development—is better left to the private sector. The private sector should not be subsidized because of market conditions, as happens with the so-called safety-net tax credits that kick in if the price of oil falls below a certain level.

We're subsidizing it, just like we do with oil, gas and coal...
The U.S. subsidized oil, gas and coal production to the tune of $72 billion between 2002 and 2008. At the same time we spent just $29 billion on renewable energy over the same period, with a huge chunk of that -- $16.8 billion -- going to corn ethanol, an inefficient energy source that contributes to deforestation but has been heavily advocated by agribusiness.
BO wasn't President then...
The Land Grant Colleges
Perhaps no legislative act has had greater consequences for America’s educational system and leadership in agriculture and technology than the Morrill Act, which created the land grant colleges. First championed by Vermont Senator Justin Morrill in the 1850s, the Morrill Act was a complex legislative feat to create a system of state schools funded by large federal grants of land. Justin Morrill was a Republican
The National Highways
A second critical American accomplishment was the creation of the National Highway System. In 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower, who had experienced first hand the difficulty of moving an army across America along the Lincoln Highway (the first cross country road) as a young Lieutenant Colonel — and then contrasted it with the autobahns he had seen in Germany — committed his administration to building a national highway system. Eisenhower was a Republican.
The Hoover Dam
The Hoover Dam is rightly considered one of the great engineering wonders of the world. Engineers had to divert the Colorado River to build the dam and its construction literally opened up much of the American southwest for development. An extraordinarily complex political feat as well that involved the cooperation of seven states, the project was nurtured by Herbert Hoover who as Secretary of Commerce brokered the final water-sharing deal that enabled the dam to move forward. Dozens of companies cooperated on the project. The project was hardly bereft of problems, and over one hundred people died in the course of construction, yet it was completed two years ahead of schedule. Today, the dam provides much of the electricity in the region, and the country’s largest reservoir, Lake Meade at the top of the dam, irrigates vast portions of the Southwest. Approved 1928 Hoover was President, a Republican.
The Internet
The U.S. role in the creation of the Internet is well known. Originally financed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and then the National Science Foundation (NSF)
I am not for big government. And this goes against my free market principles, but private industry today is driven by greed and profits NOW, not in 100 years. So these above Republican Presidents had a vision to improve our infrastructure to improve our country for the future benefit of all. And we were a leader in Education and national infrastructure. Now we need to repair and upgrade our infrastructure so that we can get back on top and put Americans back to work at the same time. I don't agree with 97% of what our current President says, but when he talks about infrastructure improvements, I tend to agree with the idea.
I posted above Germany is heavily investing in solar and is the world leader. A country of 82 million is kicking our butt. We are America, the greatest country? We shouldn't be second in anything then... So you may not agree with solar because of big government central planning etc...but all of the above things were centrally planned and funded and were vital to making USA what it was up through the 90's.
We also built railroad system and many many many other crucial projects for infrastructure throughout our history and all helped to make us into who we were. Being against all things now, is thinking for yourself and not worrying about the future viability of our country.

WE? Who do you mean? We the people? We the government? We individual privately owned businesses? I don't think government should be selling anything. That's what private enterprise is for...the selling of goods to the marketplace.

LMAO I shouldn't have to explain any of it. Our congressman should. I don't agree with it, I was just letting you all know where the groundwork was, for what's happening with our tax dollars.
I don't agree with any foreign aid, until we're taken care of 1st. Look out for number 1. We send Israel 11 million a day roughly, that's $11,000,000.00 per day too much.
What I take from the opening article is that we could learn a lesson that without such a huge standing army and interventionist tactics all over the globe, maybe we could have weathered the economic storm better.

We shouldn't pay for anyone's defense, except our own! Not sure how you deduced, that I implied that we should?

are you using one of these?
http://www.polystyrenerecycle.com/
I hope not too hot of food, as things stored in styrofoam that are hot can cause carcinogens to leach into your food. Same concept with don't drink water out of a plastic bottle if it has sat in the sun all day.
http://www.earthresource.org/campaigns/capp/capp-styrofoam.html

are you using one of these?
http://www.polystyrenerecycle.com/
I hope not too hot of food, as things stored in styrofoam that are hot can cause carcinogens to leach into your food. Same concept with don't drink water out of a plastic bottle if it has sat in the sun all day.
http://www.earthresource.org/campaigns/capp/capp-styrofoam.html

Isn't the national avg for a teacher @ 48k a year? That's not a terrible salary for a 9 month a year job. Not to mention these SOB's can strike to get raises(and get them), while the majority have been on salary freezes for the past 4-5 years. I don't pity teachers at all, they knew what the salary was going to be when they decided to pursue the profession. And at least here in my little corner of the country that I know, teachers are very well paid. The avg. in the district where I reside is 72k a year for a teacher with 5 yrs experience and a master's degree. That's pretty good when you consider only having to work 6.5 hrs a day(in classroom) and not have to use any of their vacation time during Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and summer vacation. Then they get vacation time, personal and sick days in addition. They can also continue pursuing degrees and then get reimbursed for it by the district too.
As for taking away extra curricular programs to fund higher teacher salaries, that doesn't do kids any good as it takes away an outlet that may be used in a constructive manner for the kids and community as a whole versus having idle time to get high, drunk or bang your daughter's. For example wrestling is one of the sports most schools get rid of, this could be a poor farm boy or inner city youth way to escape from what would become a life on the farm or caught in the jungle of the inner city culture. There's much more I could add to this, but that is for another topic for the debacle known as Title IX.