I've heard it, but I disagree with your outcome.
For starters, as the other poster made mention of, the bank bailouts add a whole lot more to this.
But let's just stick with my example for the time being.
50k will buy you a LOT of options:
Job re-training via an education
Re-location to a place with a better job market (I think this was mentioned elsewhere)
Paying off debts, allowing you to live on a reduced income.
I'm sure there are more options.
I object to the US gov't propping up failing businesses, esp ones with shoddy products. If they can't compete, off they go. Someone will come in and fill the vacuum.

'To Western eyes, it may seem rather inappropriate to launch space programs in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly 70% of the population still lives on less $2 a day

And he would be correct all around. I think Africa has larger issues to deal with first, before sending someone into space...but that's just my viewpoint

the numbers of correct, the US could have let GM collapse and give ever person directly affected (1 million people) 50,000$ in a lump sum and we (the people) would probably still have come out ahead.

Something to think about...

NASA will be launching another rocket, a Minotaur, from Wallops Island: http://www.nasa.gov/content/air-force-minotaur-rocket-launching-from-virginia-november-19/ I will be photographing the night launch and should have some good pics up. Check my journal for them, there may also be Air Force interviews after the launch, I'll see if I can get some words in as well

It's good for the gov't, and good for the corps too!

Shame We the People get screwed when they use it

and I admit to not reading the many links, but taking the article at face value (dangerous I know)
BUT
if all of it is true and accurate, it sounds like Mr. Z is a world-class asshole and is trying to bring back the dark days of robber barons building their wealth on the backs/lives of indentured servants...

Yet one more reason (like you needed another really) not to use Facebook

to stop having shit made in China? We have the labour, technology, skills and parts to make it here at home.
I know why we don't (capitalism!) but damnit, we should.

Back to sneakernet?

Way back when, I was on an Alt-OS kick and found out about SkyOS. I was initially excited, hoping it was on the level of BeOS (which I ran exclusively for a time) and paid for the license to run it. Despite having access to unlimited hardware, and following the devs very carefully, I never could get it to run properly, and eventually gave up. Late last year I found a link to it again and saw it had been abandoned. Same really, it had some promising ideas to it.

"The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice."

This is a quote, not mine, but a quote nonetheless that holds relevance. When do we tear down the walls and regain our country?

Well I'll be damned...would be nice is a manual was included that mentioned this stuff...

I far and away prefer the Android.
I had an ancient BB World edition, for the QWERTY keyboard (and that's about all it could do well, text/email)
A had an Android tablet (tegra quad core something, cost me a pretty penny too) and the Android app store was quite easy to search.
I now have an iPhone 4 and I *hate* it, typing any text it terrible, not least of which for the constant autocorrect getting in the way, but it's very difficult to find anything useful in the app store (a battery meter that displays a numerical percentage for example)
I've encountered more BS apps in the Apple world than I ever did in the Android environment.
Next phone will be an Android.

I worked for a small firm for 11 years. I singlehandedly landed the largest contract in the company's history (mainly by seducing the CEO of the other company, but that's for another story) and had a stipulation in the contract for a bonus (10k in this case) once the requirements of the contract were completed.
Contract done, no bonus (the boss was a cheapskate) so I
(a) quit on the spot
and
(b) called all my clients and let them know I was no longer working there, and why.

I left the field I was in entirely, but last I heard, the firm had folded because no one would do business with him any more.

Long story short, treat your employees well and they will respect you when they leave.

And you commented trying to seem insightful by proving he was a selfish bastard.

It's turtles all the way down.

>>Every one of you past the age of 30 has something in their police file from a "concerned citizen."

I sure as hell hope I've got a police record, and one day I hope to be able to look at it, and see what I've been accused of.