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    • Chrysler Considers Sale of Gas-Guzzling Dodge Viper [view article]
      the viper is a special interest car with a select and limited audience.
      It is a strong halo brand for Chrysler that benefits them in many ways.
      The fact that it does or doesn't make money should be besides the point.
      Any costs of the brand should be allocated to promotion/advertising.

      Very short sighted to dump this I think. And it doesn't give good gas mileage??? Nobody cares because thats not what its about.

      Chrysler already has dumped the Magnum which is nearly identical to the 300 sedan except for some sheet metal changes. This was the lowest cost rear wheel drive wagon in the world...another big mistake.

      Thats what happens when you let narrow viewed bean counters determine outcomes instead of taking a larger global view of the company and its long term objectives.       Aug 28 08:21 PM
    • I.O.U.S.A. Movie Is Well-Done and Informative [view article]
      I too saw the film. Our theater had less than 100.
      I too think that everyone should pay at least some tax. This is needed
      because everyone needs a stake in the system.

      As it is now, many on the low end not only don't pay, they get back money they didn't earn. In this case you have a group that is very
      happy to get more and more from everyone else.

      I thought Buffet's remarks were just sort of 'Rah, Rah' for the U.S.
      and I thought he was largely wrong. Predicting the future from the past
      is impossible.

      Very worthwhile film. Even if there was nothing particularly new, it
      did a great job of arrangement and illustration of the dire path this
      country is now on.

      I would like to see much smaller gov't using the thesis that the gov't
      should only do what the people cannot do for themselves. Clearly,
      this is not the current case.

      McCain portrays himself as a cost cutter and fighter against pork. That may be, but all that wasteful spending is a very tiny percent of our problem. As the film illustrates, the problem is healthcare. It seems obvious that our legislators should focus on that area of spending. There is no reason why we cannot have a great system that is cost
      effective. Now the U.S. spends 22 cents for every healthcare dollar
      on adminstration. Compare that with Tiawan that has a decent healthcare system and spends less than a nickel of each dollar on
      admin. costs.

      Regarding statements that were made in the film that our national legislatures were envisioned to be only part time people with careers back home I would note that even though we supposedly have full time legislators.
      they still only work as if they are part time.



       Aug 22 06:51 PM
    • The Electric Car Battery Battle [view article]
      Lets all hope that algae development efforts work out and we can
      have algae based gasoline for $2/gallon as one company is suggesting is achievable.

      Should this happen, probably all the electric technologies will go by
      the wayside, except for possibly uses where carbonless operation
      is really important.       Aug 09 11:20 PM
    • New Search Engine Cuil: Is It What You're Looking For? [view article]
      every new product has wrinkles...I don't know what will happen
      but I hope they turn out to be another good search resource.

      I wouldn't minimize what these people are trying to do as they
      are ex-google people and probably have a lot of experience in this
      area.

      Search, currently, seems to me to have a lot of limitations and
      unneeded result duplication is one of them.       Jul 29 07:26 PM
    • Chesapeake Energy: Natural Gas Supply Responds to Price [view article]
      all you guys please convert your vehicles to ng.

      If enough people do, then I won't have to as gasoline will be plentiful
      and cheap.       Jul 28 09:53 PM
    • Can Cities Create "Foreclosure Sanctuaries?" [Housing Tracker] [view article]
      This is all very troubling stuff and I think it puts the financial industry
      in an even more precarious position.

      We really have nanny state government at both local and federal levels. In the long run I don't think this is going to end well.       Jul 24 01:45 PM
    • Biofuels Policies: Costly, Ineffective, Inflationary [view article]
      corn(and equivalent) ethanol make no sense to me.

      But other bio fuels, including algae appear to make a lot of sense.

      Major funding for development of these alternatives could have
      a huge payback to our economy.

      But it will take time.       Jul 17 01:52 PM
    • Paulson Doesn't Have the Answer to the Run on Deposits [view article]
      Somehow all this stuff started to come unglued about the time
      that the democrats gained control of congress.

      I'll leave it to you to ponder what, if anything, that means.       Jul 16 06:34 PM
    • Ron Paul's Investment Portfolio [view article]
      Its refreshing to see a politician eat his own cooking.

      There are quite a few candidates that should be running for prez.

      Too bad that we wound up with the two that shouldn't be.       Jul 10 06:29 PM
    • Bill Gross To 'President' Obama: Double The Deficit [view article]
      For whatever reason, Gross has had this position for a while and
      it seems to me that his position is probably the one that will benefit
      Bill Gross and not necessarily anyone else.

      I don't profess to understand why and it escapes me as to why further currency debasing is good for America.

      That last round of 160 billion probably wound up going out of the US to china or the middle east or even to the pockets of Chavez.

      Doesn't it strike everyone as odd that the cure for the ills brought on by deficit spending and lax credit is more deficit spending and lax credit???
       Jul 01 02:43 PM
    • Corn, Ethanol and Water [view article]
      Stay away from most anything your government pushes, as they are collectively idiots...these guys are the original gang that can't shoot straight.
      Ethanol is a case in point.       Jun 24 07:49 PM
    • Offshore U.S. Drilling Proposals Bullish for National-Oilwell Varco [view article]
      a prosperous US depends on abundant and cheap energy. Groups
      that oppose this on grounds of greenness or other nonsense are to be shunned and removed from power. They are just luddites or wish to control the behavior of society for their own benefit.

      Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.

       Jun 20 09:28 PM
    • U.S. Elections: Both Tax Plans Would Add to Debt [view article]
      These 2 candidates are a huge joke on the American people.

      Somehow, somewhere we have to get control of the national deficit
      or we will become a 3rd rate has-been.

      The mantra of candidates today is for massive give aways. I think
      a similar thing happened in ancient Rome and we all know how that
      ended.

      Even the poor should pay at least a token amount of taxes. If they
      don't then they will be more than happy to tax those of means for
      their own benefit...and that is the beginning of the end. I hope we
      are not at that point yet.       Jun 17 08:24 PM
    • Inflation Statistics Remain Contained [view article]
      using gov't numbers on inflation is a scam...and everybody knows it.

      It is all just a big lie. Anyone can see how prices are jumping towards
      the sky...and the sad thing is that there is much more to come.

      Yes, your government does lie to you. But you shouldn't believe them.       Jun 15 07:01 PM
    • Drilling in ANWR: What's Not to Like? [view article]
      I believe that a nation's economic well being depends on abundant and cheap power. Doesn't really matter where it comes from if it satisfies
      the above criteria.

      For this reason, if we have national assets we can tap then we should, its really that simple.

      Environmental problems can be handled in Alaska and in fact the
      existing pipelines are a collection place of various animals because
      its nice and warmer.

      Any environmental damage that should occur on a tiny % of the land area is self healing after a period of time. Nature takes care of all things and man's footprint will soon disappear.       Jun 13 05:40 PM
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