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All of them say anything to get elected. After they are in, start counting how many things they go do opposite of their campaign speeches...

The only sure way is to program it yourself. Do some work. Open a book or do some trial and error until you can code it on your own. Breaking it up to farm out to separate coders only works if you know how to code yourself to assemble the pieces - but then why would you have someone else...

Oh yeah - that was a real smart move then. Have Bush ask them so that they can refuse and have it put on the front page of the news. President of the US looks like "Oliver" in the movie, holding his empty porridge bowl timidly asking "Please sir, may I have some more...?" A real PR coup....

This is an antiquated notion of work - the old time-clock puncher approach. That would be fine for jobs where physical dexterity is required, but not really necessary when it is "knowledge" related work or ancillary to it (basically financial, legal, journalistic, computer programming - you...

If that's true, why would Bush even bother to ask them? Don't his energy guys know if the Saudis can pump more? Or do they know they can't and don't tell him before he talks to them?

Oil is an international market controlled by a cartel. If there was disruption in mid-east oil, the price of the oil we get from Canada and Venezuela would go up because Asia and Europe would want that oil too. You can't pull the plug in the swimming pool and expect only the other guy's corner...

No problem - food and energy aren't counted in the CPI, so that means you don't have to worry about it. :D

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_mideast "RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took office predicting he would jawbone...

Was just a big pic weekly overview... And, alas, I am stuck in binary...a bin-aholic... "Some people see logarithmic scale and ask 'Why'. I see logarithmic scale and ask 'Why not?'"

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080515/bernanke_credit_crisis.html Wow - did you see the scolding Bernanke gave to banks?! I'm glad he didn't go as far as to wag his finger at them when he chastised them to watch over themselves more closely - that would have been devastating to them I bet. :p

Let 'em prosecute. Clinton used up all his "get out of jail free" passes before he left office. Bush only used one for Libby, so he's got plenty left over... http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j9F8l8tbzv0Q3FWDokz-0PxKHvugD90KCJJO0 "WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration repeatedly...

I am still stuck on binary dammit!! :mad: Somebody help me count to tree... thee...teee... oh forget it....

Oh...right.

I thought the Fed was set up to MAKE booms and busts.... You mean...it's NOT?....:confused:

I thought the Treasury controlled the money supply. Is it the Fed or the Treasury?

Really? So when people were trying to get at their savings, the Fed made extra-sure they couldn't? Why would they do that?

Congress. It's a good thing the Fed is independent of their influence or we'd really be in trouble.

Avg Joe is loaded up to debt to his eyeballs. Some people get credit approvals for their pets in the mail. Joe's cat and dog are probably deep in debt too. :D

This seems to be saying that there is an elitist group that is on one side of the fence benefiting while the avg Joe on the other side of the fence is taken to the cleaners. But that sounds conspiracy-theory-ish.... So does the comment in the media today that since Wall Street was expecting...

Does a CEO listen to his employees? NO! The CEO is the DECIDER! The rest of you fall in line and shut up or he'll go out and get new citizens who will!