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I work for a company that has a mix of older and newer computers. A new desktop computer costs us about $500. The older ones (5+ years) cost far greater than that annually in help desk assistance and lost productivity. If you are paying a plant manager $90k per year to wait 10 minutes for his application open everyday that costs the company almost $1900/year. When you do a cost/benefit analysis it usually pretty easy to justify the coss even if the bigwigs get a bit of sticker shock at the grand total.
I agree, although I think that you could find more Constitutional merit with spending the money on viable and necessary infrastructure projects than on "business investment". The power of the Congress enables them to levy taxes for a legitimate debt, which the transportation infrastructure is certainly part of. I just don't like the idea of the government "investing" in the private sector, because once they get in, they will NEVER get out.
I don't know. It's been a while since I was in college and I wrote most of my papers in the computer lab. I thought most colleges today require that students have their own laptop. Community college might be different.
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There you go again. It is NOT a cure. It is just to keep us from further going down the toilet until we come out of the downturn. Yes there has to be some kind of adjustments to make amends for the dismal job numbers that we have seen for the last eight years under trickle down economics.are you serious! That is the definition of a 'band aid cure' Our current crisis is the result of long term trends. We are doing nothing to fix those long term trends. We are encouraging more of the same behaviors that got us into this crisis - an economy based on financial speculation and consumption (consumer spending ) vs. productive capacity
Productive capacity just means the capacity to produce goods and services. What means of payment is kind of irrelevant. Before home loan regulations were changed, solid home loans did increase productive capacity. I do understand what you're saying and in the long run we are leveraging the country through massive debt. Yet to me it's a matter of what the debt is for. I have no issue with a solid stimulus package instead of paying for a occupation of another country that will not provide us diddly squat for example. That debt far exceeds any stimulus package.
American companies divesting out of America and yet their CEO and shareholders reap the benefits of divesting. That is one of the problems why we are in a reccession. We have no real job creation and those service jobs we do create do not provide enough income to buy goods and service without the use of credit you speak about so much. That is conservative ideology, you should be proud.
We should reevaluate what we are spending our money on even if it is debt driven money. Job creation is the problem. What better job? Again, I have no issue curtailing those dead end adventures like stimulating oil companies while they are making record profits or getting out of that endless money pit in Iraq, and reinvesting in America and Americans. That goes for Government and those companies we provide tax breaks to take their business off shore.
Regulations have been changed. The average income in America around 30K placing them no where near the average cost of a home even after they are deflated back where they should be. The stimulus package may benefit credit and income worthy buyers through tax breaks, that's about it, but you still have to qualify under restored non gimmick regulations. Home ownership has and will decrease driving prices where they should be.
First thing its not the last 8 years - its forty years of bad policies, and increasing corruption and influence of wall street. Its called the 'financialization' the economy. Read up on the subject and, Please, start looking at the problem like an adult not someone on the playground saying 'nah nah nah its your fault!'. Handing out cheap mortgages started under Clinton. Obama in fact was one of the lawyers who sued citibank about 'red lined' lending - he and democrats pressured banks to loan to under qualified minorities because it was 'racist' that they were turned down more often. . In order to pump up the economy Rubin in the treasury and the Fed advocated these easy money policies in the 90s. It was all about making the numbers look good. There's plenty of blame and guilt on both sides of the washington establishment.
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2009/01/23/ballmer-gets-it/
Thomas Friedman (liberal) advocates globalization. Lou Dobbs (conservative) doesn't. Globalization or these sort of globalist policies are embraced by both sides of the aisle. Hillary expressed some remorse about NAFTA, good for her. a little late though. It must be easy, simple and fun to just label all ideas you don't like 'conservative' . There are conservatives, who for conservative reasons are against any sort of draft. There are liberals, for liberal reasons, who are for it. There are of course conservatives for the draft and liberals against the draft as well.
Stop labeling. that would be a good start. Libertarians or Fiscal conservatives support deficiet spending? What makes you assume I support or like or agree with Cheney? Or George Bush ?
Where they 'should be' is the traditional home price to income ratio.
