Now correct me if I'm wrong here, but, doesn't the US spend more in the military than all the other nations on earth COMBINED?   I'm fairly certain, if I understand the actual spending allocations, that if we cut our military spending by 50%, that we'd have MORE than enough to pay for everything, inluding medicare,...more

Executives, no matter how hard you try, you can't make 20 unskilled people do the same quality job as ONE skilled person.  The tech jobs in the US are disappearing because executives want to believe that if they out source where they can hire 20 people over there for less than the cost of 1 person over here, they're be...more

1.  We want our news sources to tell us the news, not tell us what to think. 2.  We want our news panelist to discuss things intelligently, professionally, and in an adult manner.  No more of this talking heads trying to talk over each other ****. 3.  Regardless of our own political agenda, NEWS should only report wh...more

Solar, on the whole makes more long term sense than most other energy resources.  Part of the problem is that the entrenched providers and the owners of the architecture are all fighting the 'new' comers, Solar and Wind.   For example, in the US, there's been more than one wind farm project scuttled because the owner...more

The cable television industry, as a condition of deregulation was supposed to offer us custom channel options instead of these **** defined channel packages.   The cable televsion industry was also supposed to offer us a "generic" cable box, capable of working on any provider's network.  One the consumer could purcha...more