Siegle is just saying out loud what all employers will have to do if higher taxes create an additional hardship on employer's bottom lines.  The least productive employees will have to be let go if the company is going to stay in business and make a profit. Higher taxes on business always have this effect.  The alterna...more

It takes a lot to get a head these days.

So someone took money that was not theirs and blew it .  The guy needs to get into politics if he likes doing this. The goverment takes money from the poor and blows it and never has to face any consequences.

Stupid story, Stupid writer!

I have never heard of a 9 foot long alligator that only weighs 190 pounds.  Are you sure it was not a skinny snake? I guess they decided to call it 190 pounds because it had scales on it.

I not only would but have for years. When everybody sees the costs of their meat bills in the future they will bitch about the high costs of ground beef without the product. If you eat processed meats of any kind, such as hotdogs and luncheon meats like bologna you are eating processed meats with all kinds of additives...more

All this reminds me of the "malaise" of the Carter years.  Where is a Ronald Reagan type that can turn this mess around?  There must be somebody out there!

For all you liberals out there, the downgrade and market collapse are happening because there was no real effort to get the out of control spending (endless deficits) under control. It is not happening because of an immediate impending default, but because of the ultimate default that is guaranteed to  occur in the nea...more

What's the problem. We have got the best government money can buy and a president who came to office with a tremendous amount of experience and has given us his promised  "change you can believe in" We should be flying high. We got what we elected. If we can't do any better in 2012 we will get what we deserve again.