If the Fed Reserve and the Fed Gov had just stayed out of the mess to begin with, we wouldn't have had the housing bubble and subsequent crash.  Then, if they'd stayed out again and let the free market work, we'd be full steam into an actual sustainable recovery by now.  Instead, we're bogged down in the mud, and we'll...more

Our biggest problem is unemployment.  Create jobs, broaden the tax base and we can eventually grow our way out of a lot of this mess.  Small business creates 60% of all new jobs.  The last thing we should be doing is adding more costs and regulations to small business.

Only an idiot could believe it's possible to force more mandates, more regulations and more costs onto small businesses without negatively affecting them.

They forgot #10 - the right to work your way through school and pay as you go, incurring no debt along the way. 4 years tuition at a public university - $28k 4 years room and board - $20k Books and fees for 4 years - $6k Working your butt off and graduating debt free in 4 years - priceless!

It all comes down to choices.  Saving for retirement is a choice.  Paying for TV or a data plan is a choice.  Living in a big house or driving an expensive car is a choice.  Having children out of wedlock or racking up debt is a choice.  We live in a free country - you are free to make your own choices.  However, if yo...more

All the people standing in line in front of the unemployment office wearing their Obama t-shirts.

Exactly!  I'd even say sub 2% yields aren't worth the risk.  There are too many other options out there.

MSN web developers sure aren't doing the writers any favors.  This very well might be a great article, but I'm not clicking through 22 slides just to read it.   Put in an option for us to view the whole thing at once, even 4-5 pages would be much more user friendly.

You know who doesn't pay all these huge fees?  Smaller, privately held businesses.  Just another advantage to staying smaller and privately owned.  With expanding gov regulations, hassles with disclosure and SEC compliance, etc... the era of the mega-corp may be slowly coming to an end.