well if the loan is repaid with interest.. tax payers win, the company wins, the government wins, employees win etc.

sometimes supporting domestic industry is a strategic play, that does pay off for all parties involved.

The problem is sussing out viable companies that need a bit of help, from parasites that exist solely to bilk the government out of money.

no, but mitt romney does?

it's probably pretty common in southern border towns.

I'd wager that businesses would be better off as owner-operator type enterprises, where the people who built the business, actually manage it.

Rather than hiring mercenary-like managers from business school who have the habit of taking the golden parachute option after sabotaging the business in exchange for short term profits. That never happens, amiright?

After all, commerce didn't even occur until the Harvard Business School opened its doors, right?

MBA troglodyte detected. please return to your sewer, aka business school.

they were the parolee's who got out for good behavior.

well without the calendar function on the watch, he lost track of his age.

do not give them any ideas.

the great depression was on it's way out by '39 (at least in the US) -- and that economic golden age was largely due to Bretton-Woods combined with the entire industrial world (outside of the US) being bombed back into the 1600's.

>FCC
>control the internet
>the internet is now a US possession?

I chaff at your pun.

no, you just need to get to the guards, the person scannning, or whatever human element is between you and the system. All this techno wizardry is silly. humans are now, and will forever be the weakest link.

Okay, then start building your stockpile of cats now =P

learn to talk to women now, before it becomes too late.

throwing away thorium makes about as much sense as throwing out crude oil once you've skimmed the kerosene and paraffin off the top. =(