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Why is the fiscal year of business timed so that if economic forecasts are dismal, layoffs or closings must occur during the time of the year which is reserved for happiness and celebration? It happens every year. You hear each year about this or that plant closing or laying off multitudes of employees. Perhaps because…

The present economic calamity was generated by stupidity. Everyone is afraid to spend, because everyone is afraid to spend. People are so neurotic that they are the cause of this recession. They believe they are protecting themselves, when all they are doing is creating the crisis they are afraid of.

al·tru·ism [áltroo ìzzəm] n 1. selflessness: an attitude or way of behaving marked by unselfish concern for the welfare of others 2. belief in acting for others’ good: the belief that acting for the benefit of others is right and good Extrapolating from the first definition, altruism is being a benefactor to others without the…

Animal Farm was written originally to  decry the elements of a socialist dictatorship where different classes of individuals existed. Whereas, socialism was supposed to be the people in essence ruling themselves, instead an upper crust of individuals who thought themselves better ruled those below. The upper crust, depicted by pigs, worked the lower class to…

  Ultimately the failure of Capitalism is starkly depicted by one thing. If one person, yes, only one, who wants a job but is denied one or there is none, then Capitalism has failed. The moment one person, yes, singular, is laid off, then capitalism has failed. This aside, Capitalism is the best system devised…

  Obama is a scary entity. If you were to believe the grapevine if Obama were to win we would be headed down the road to socialism. His spread the wealth comment is straight out of the Marxist handbook. Perhaps, as in many statements he has made, the spread the wealth comment was made out…

In our modern age we see robots emerging in their infancy. These robots are primitive compared to those imagined by the great science fiction writers. Whereas they might incorporate a heuristic learning program, for the most part they can only do those things for which they have been programmed in advance. Even when more sophisticated…

Ignorance and Intelligence are two separate qualities. Whereas knowledge and ignorance are related, in that, they are opposites. Ignorance and intelligence created the Bible. In stark contrast, knowledge and intelligence created science. Ignorance prevails where there is no knowledge. Fear exists where ignorance prevails. The imagination tries mightily to feel the gaps where there is…

  In the past our government found it necessary to experiment on citizens of this nation clandestinely. From the administration of LSD to soldiers, without their knowledge, to the non treatment of certain groups of black people with syphilis just to see how the disease progresses. I don’t believe the government is the only agency…