Troops are just the tip of the iceberg. The Naval Special Warfare Development Group could not have nabbed Bin Laden without intel, comms, logistics, payroll, and equipment. You think the systems to manage all that stuff is off the shelf? The military's global dominance was built on systems - not guns. Having a bunch of "specialized" groups of grunts will not secure your dominance on the battle field; having the systems to keep them coordinated, informed, fed, fueled, equipped, and battle field aware will.

"Reaganomics" may be credited with lifting us out of 70s stagflation, but it's hard to know why. Republicans point to lower taxes, but that era also saw a significant increase in deficit spending. It's hard to know if the recovery was due to lower taxes or from huge amounts of borrowed money being pumped into the economy.

If you're paying 30% on that income, you need a better accountant. You should not pay more than 15% on cap gains (unless you are a day trader), most munis have even lower tax rates, and depreciation on real estate can offset a lot of income on paper while the intrinsic value of the asset probably increased in value. The concept of a progressive tax rate is a joke. The smart money does not pay taxes in this country.

15%Munis have almost no tax

Paper gains are almost never taxed

My main point still holds: we tax work a lot more than wealth in this country

False. Rich people don't make money from wages. They make money from investments, dividends, and bond interest. That's why the super rich pay almost no tax (and why C-levels get paid in stock as opposed to salary). In the US we tax income from work, but we do not tax income from wealth.

Israelis paying? Not really. They are funded by the US.

But, it starts with policy and process. Our organization had a breach and they jumped right to the technology before making sure they had the policy right and getting technology to enable that policy. So, instead of having a tiered risk model for information, they carpet-bombed the enterprise and locked everything down. Productivity has probably taken a 40% hit.

...or they could compete in the tablet space where no one else is: the enterprise. I would love to see someone take the paperless office seriously. Developing an application suite to help people do all the things they do with paper in the office on a tablet. There are some settings where writing an annotating is preferred over typing. If I were BB, I'd go after that user experience in the office. They should be thinking of all the reasons people still need to print stuff or write on paper (and lose it), and come up with an alternate experience on the tablet that is better. Healthcare could be a big opportunity here.

here's another one: poor execution of the "extra features." I've yet to see a bonus feature or "game" on a blueray release that was both entertaining but not available on DVD. Half the time that crap never works anyway.

If you ability to reason is so broken to interpret my comment as "government is the only thing keeping people from dying from salmonella poisoning" you're probably not working at all. The point is that we take a lot of things for granted that the government does through regulation to promote transparency in commerce (like letting consumers know that the meat packing plant they buy from has been inspected by the USDA and is safe) - which actually improves free market conditions. Good regulation leads to better capitalism by promoting the conditions for perfect competition (like closing the information gap between buyers and sellers).

He did not promise to bring it. He urged us to be a part of it. Our response - elect a bunch of right-wing lunatics that held the rest of our country hostage over their ideals. We have ourselves to blame. This is who we put in office. It's a reflection of ourselves.

Eat salmonella-tainted meat. Die.

Nobody goes there. It's too crowded.

That's how I use it. I follow news sites and columnists, and I never tweet. So, these stats reflect my personal use of the service.

Might want to revisit the chapters on Money Supply and Money Creation. The financial meltdown and massive loan defaults essentially vaporized money supply (translation: much of the collateral capital on banks' books related to housing prices didn't actually exist).The various economic stimuli unleashed in the last few years were used to offset this reduction in money supply and prevent deflation. Think if the stimulus as making up insane for past inflation in some sectors of the economy.