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Politics, News & Issues > Government & Policies Can President Obama's $800 billion-plus stimulus plan work?

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Yes, it can have a marginal impact over a two-year period. If we are lucky, it will shorten a 10-year depression down to an 8-year recession. The plan could have been much better. There were several basic errors.First - Far too much money went to the states. It goes straight into payroll of state employees. People who were le... More..

Sciences > Ecology & Environment Criminal environmental enforcement in the US

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Enforcement of environmental laws through criminal prosecution will be one of the touchstones to tell us what the word "change" means as it applies to the Obama presidency. If the level of prosecutions and incarcerations or major fines goes way up, then it will appear that "change" means things ar different now. If these leve... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East What can the U.S. achieve in Afghanistan?

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The U.S. can hope to kill, capture, disable, or disrupt terrorists and their activities aimed at harming U.S. citizens or our nation. That's all we can do. We cannot turn Afghanistan into a functional nation. We cannot create an honest competent trustworthy government, or one that governs democratically, intelligently, or fai... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Energy Issues How a national energy spine would benefit the US

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A national energy spine, which might be a 20,000 megawatt cable running down the median strip of Route 80, would allow power to be wheeled from the East Coast to the West Coast and vice versa. With a four hour time difference between the two coasts, the peak load times are four hours apart. The energy spine would allow all th... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Is there a solution to the mortgage foreclosure crisis?

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The Department of Financial Security (DFS) would be modelled on the Department of Homeland Security which gathered about 60 different Agencies and Bureaus together into a single organization. So, this would be the same idea except applied to all financial transactions other than consumer sales or business equipment purchases.... More..

Health & Fitness > Aging & Longevity Foods that fight the effects of old age

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Clearly the best foods to fight ageing are the ones you share at meals with your over 90 year old parents or over 100 year old grandparents. Genetics determines when most people die and how fast they age. Specifically somatic genes called telomeres which are built in to our cells. There are also genetic propensities, and lear... More..

Home & Garden > Buying & Selling Homes As retail sales improve, is this a good time to invest in retail?

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The idea that the economy has a basic equilibrium point, and that whatever happens in the market, there will always be a return to the basic equilibrium point is a false. The truth is that the economy is more like history. It's a story that evolves and changes as it goes and may never come back to the same place it was before... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Minimum expectations from a government

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My minimum expectations from the Stimulus Bill was that it would contain $75 Billion for two new programs from the Small Business Administration (SBA). These programs are already on the books, in the Code of Federal Regulations, but they have had no appropriations from the Congress for about 40 years. They are: 1) the SBA Dir... More..

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