Monday, September 5, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Global Roundtable: The Future of Economic Competition
Without mentioning the coming resource shortages this roundtable has limited value in terms of seeing the future.
But they do discuss interesting stuff.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
New Normal
In the United States so far this year, families and communities have been slammed with 10 weather disasters costing $1 billion or more. Damages from floods, fires, tornadoes and drought totaled $35 billion as summer ended, not counting Hurricane Irene and whatever other destructive tantrums Mother Nature throws between now and Dec. 31.
These huge costs have big implications for local and national budgets, many of them disasters in their own right. That should concern fiscal conservatives and taxpayers, as well as disaster victims who may find someday soon that the government does not have the capacity to help.
Can We Handle Nature's New Norm? Part 1
And the GOP rant that we're broke, as if we haven't been borrowing to pay the bills since Bush took office. We need smart voters that call these guys on their relentless, politically motivated dogma... by not voting for them.
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