I'm inclined to agree with you. Being the owner of a small business, and dealing with a considerable number of people (clients, employees, prospects, other small business owners) I find about ten to fifteen percent are simply "not nice people". They lie without remorse, cheat, and steal without seeming to posses a conscience at all.

Interestingly enough, ideology and religious affiliation is equally distributed in this group, which dispels the notion of the evil Republican CEO .vs. the warm, giving progressive. I have found the same to be true when it comes to people who claim a strong religious affiliation. There is some correlation with culture - some cultures believe it's OK to cheat people to make a buck, whereas others do not.

I am not so confident that we can infallibly test for these conditions. With the criminally insane, we test with the MMPI, I don't believe there's a belief that a normal person will be tempted to commit a serious criminal act under just the right circumstances -- but a normal person, when exposed to the chance to become fabulously wealthy might suddenly turn crazy.

Of course we run the risk of being accused of supporting eugenics... But we're talking about pre-screening people, which we do a terrible job of today.

Absolutely agreed, but if you cease to make being a politician so profitable... then dishonest greedy people won't get into politics, problem solved. As long as politicians can affect the flow of capital in society, setting up what are, in effect, money laundering machines where they skim the take into the party coffers, the current march towards a feudalistic police state will not stop. In the U.S. both parties do this using different sets of lies, but the results are exactly the same.

Personally I am not sure if this is possible.

A shame you posted this as AC because you're the only person on the entire page who mentions the Higgs field, which was proven by the LHC this creating the current Standardized Theory. It seems to me that if you to invent a graviton, then like the Higgs boson it would have to appear simultaneously in the entire known universe 10 -12 seconds after the big bang, same as the Higgs field, so why haven't we found it yet?

Probably because the graviton doesn't exist. Gravity is a function of mass, that warps space, just as Einstein thought. Perhaps someone who does this sort of thing for a living could weigh in. I just find it extremely interesting.

Impressive. I'm thinking we might be neighbors, I am near the motor city, my company does work for the big 3, and it is only in those circles I encounter people who actually understand how engines work to this level.

I'm in Digital Interactive, not engineering, but you don't live around here and frequent the halls of the Big 3 without knowing a few things.

Sure, and when all the cars (powered by Windows) get the BSOD and millions of people are injured the trial lawyers will have ALL our money,

Good point, but the real problem is that we're spending more money on infrastructure today than we were at the peak of the Interstate Highway construction and getting less and less and less for it. Why? The legalized money laundering systems that the politicians have spent years and years and years building...

Case Study: Detroit. Wisconsin. Most blue states. Many Red States.

Get rid of legalized theft from the taxpayer and put all that money into actual roads and they would be paved in gold, every year.

Huh? So printing money by the boatload... to finance an absurd deficit... doesn't create inflation? The U.S. Treasury would need to collect about $1.33 for each and every day since the Dawn of Time to be able to pay off the hard debt racked up in just the last six years. A buck-thirty-three a day may not strike one as a lot of money, it’s considerably less than what some folks pay for their daily latte, but the payment schedule would be spread out over “eternity.”

The CBO re-rated ObamaCare at 2 trillion dollars... $55,000 per person to provide the insurance. So while the Military budget is staggering, and the Iraq war was a horrible waste of money, ObamaCare certainly ranks at the top of the most over-hyped totally insane later Federal Program ever created.

And no, if you budget a 5% increase, and you are borrowing more than you take in, and the rate of increase is only 3%, that is NOT A TWO PERCENT SAVINGS!!! Only governments can get away with this nonsense. It's like saying "Well, I didn't borrow $100,000 I don't have anyway, so TODAY I SAVED $100,000 dollars". Which is exactly what you hear politicians saying in flowery terms every single year.

And as long as I am ranting I am not sure sure about CPI, as everything in the grocery store is a lot more expensive than CPI says it should be...

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Sir, with all due respect, you're not being terribly honest. It's also widely reported (Outside of liberals blogs like thinkprogress.org, dailykos, etc.) that almost ALL the new jobs created since Obama took office have gone to immigrants.

So why does Obama's proposed NASA budget take money away from some programs to finance a way to get astronauts to the Space Station?

The line item veto was fought tooth and nail... by the Democrats.

Correct. And I would add:

It wasn't long ago that Obama heralded the glorious "privatization of Space". He handed out big money to all his friends. There was big fan fare about the dawn of a new era. Private companies were going to replace those nasty rooskies charging us an arm and a leg to get into space, remember?

What happened? The new NASA budget shifts money into... wait for it... A way to get astronauts to the Space Station.

But I am sure the bribes were repaid handsomely, and a nice chunk of taxpayer dollars found their way back to the Democratic Party coffers. Because at the end of the day, that is what this Administration and party truly excel at.

I said nothing of the kind. You don't seem to have very good reading comprehension.

I AM A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER. Therefore I think I am qualified to have an opinion.

Using a tool called "The Google" you can easily find out that small business creates the majority of the jobs in America.

Worshipped? Of course not! Punished? A very bad idea... We need to ENCOURAGE people to start businesses, otherwise we have no growth. And you're ideas about how business works... they are really strange.

Simple. People are generally risk averse. To start a business, you have to give up all your free time, work insane hours, and invest a substantial amount of your own money. The odds are, you will fail (99% of all small business startups fail in the first year)

People talk big talk, but very few people have the motivation to actually work this hard and take these risks.

Which is why people who take these kinds of risks, and create jobs for everyone else, should be rewarded, not punished. When you teach people that success is evil, you are doing great harm to society. Where will the next generation of risk takers come from?

Where do you get such foolish notions?

The way business actually works is you hire good people, treat them like gold, respect their families and beliefs, pay them well, give them good benefits... and they, in turn, share your values about customer service, treat the customers well, and grow the business. Screwing your employees and fucking over your customers is how you go broke, quickly.

It's a fantasy to think that someone large groups of people organized as "corporations" are, by default, evil, and large groups of people organized as "government" are benign. It is also a fantasy to believe that government will redistribute wealth equally. Throughout history, the exact opposite has been the case, each and every single time.

For your sake, I hope you are very young....