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Mike here is an snipit from my life and a comment on where housing is an how it got here. My father who passed away two years ago at 86 was a custom home builder for 50 years. Built about 3-5 homes a year in Columbus Ohio. He had many a young man he mentored. Some went on to be very successful some not so much. He classified them as plodders (which said was his model) and plungers who when times were good would build many more homes More

China's number one brand assessment of toothpaste is Crest...followed closely by Colgate. China's number one soft drink is Coca-cola...followed closely by Pepsi. China's number one restaurant franchise is KFC...followed closely by McDonalds. China's number one retail chain is Walmart. China's number one selling chewing gum is Wriggleys. China's number one bar soap is Safeguard...followed by Olay. China's number one brand of ice cream More

I never swhat does a life coach dow anything like Coach Knight. In my college days in the sixties the season was a success if we could beat Army. His teams weren't loaded with athletic talent, but they were TEAMs!! I remember wondering how a giant, lumbering pear of a boy like Bill Shutsky could out shoot and out play everyone else on the court. It was because he along with every teammate knew where to be at every moment on that court. I More

So Amazon can track billions of transactions, tailor recommendations for millions of customers based on their purchase history and can manage freight and shipping across hundreds of product lines but somehow can't manage sales quotas tax collection (even though dozens of other online retailers with physical stores and similar sales levels collect the appropriate sales taxes). Not buying that argument. Amazon could collect sales taxes More

The people going after McDonald's are elitist snobs that think they know what's good for everybody. They want how to use the law of attraction control everybody's life because they think they know all. I have been to McDonald's countless times and I KNOW it isn't the food that's the attraction, its the play area. My grandchildren and great grandchildren play their brains out a get plenty of execise. These elitists should take a look More

When the availability of high-quality jobs is scarce, being number 2 does not work. Even worse, for every number 2 in the US, there are 10 more number 2's from China and another 10 more number 2's from India. Those foreign number 2's also happen to work much harder with much less pay and more rigorous education. What is the future for the American number 2's? On a battlefield, being number 2 is the stax id numbere of being killed. More

Jocelyn, I do not get the whole noise around the language. Every immigrant wants to live his or her American dream, and in order to be successful here one needs to speak English. If some immigrants postpone their ESL classes, it is because they work two or three jobs and have no time left. Obviously, there always will be a tiny percentage of immigrants who will never learn English. This completely does not apply to children, as they More

Actually, our current warming (such as it is) began at the bottom of the Little Ice Age. That would be around 1680, some two centuries before there was any change in the co2 level. Also two centuries before the industrial revolution. The rise of co2 may well have been no more than a coincidence. There is no evidence that co2 is having any impact on the global temperature. (That little physics test - adding co2 to a heating container More

If lowering taxes creates economic growth then why isn't there a correlation in the historical data between lower taxes and economic growth? We have almost 100 years of income tax data back to 1913 if the theory holds, then there should be some meaningful correlation between the input � the marginal tax rate and the output � economic growth, but there isn't one even with a lag. Regardless of the theories, in practice More

Well Bob, that does seem to make sense when only the federal income tax estimator tax is considered. However a low income, say 35k, working family that pays no federal income tax is still taxed at a rate of about 27% Let that sink in... no income tax, tax rate of 27% Most of those taxes that low income person is paying are non-progressive taxes, meaning the taxes are similar regardless of income. So while including Mitt's other taxes More