Everyone is forced to buy insurance because everyone eventually needs health insurance.

The alternative is to deny care to those who can not prepay for their emergency care.

Forcing people to buy insurance is a free market solution.

Supply side economics is something completely different and not really related.

The only reason I would have bought a share of FB was if I could get a paper certificate that I could frame and keep in my office.

When I found out I could not get one, I skipped it.

As a Poster it was worth $40,

I took on online class, calculous, to fulfill a pre-requsiste for my MBA.

I had not taken calculous since High School, and it was almost impossible to learn it via the online class and the text book. To take the weekly tests and quizzes, I just figured out the patterns of where the numbers went. You could take the quizzes over and over again till you go a passing grade.

Give me a class with a grad student who can not speak english any day.

My wife's 2g just got wet and died this month. She took my old 3g that had dead pixels. Now she will get a 4gs.
It is not that hard to understand how someone would want to upgrade,

Haters got to hate, that is all.

Robot driven cars will only exist on special roads that do not allow on human driven cars.

The machines will line up in a specials lane and enter one at at a time. There will be a fence to keep out other cars. See the movie, Minority Report for the idea.

It will replace the HOV lanes that exist today.

Mixing human driven cars and machine driven cars would be a disaster, but with all the cars talking to each other and the road bed, everything would be be great.

Imagine driving 6 hours and not having to watch the road. Turn your chair to talk to the passengers, check your emails, etc.

My wife and I both drive BMWs. We have 355K miles on two vehicles, and (knock on wood), never had a break down or got stuck any where. One is a 2001 and one is 2004. Always getting to where you are going, and doing it with some style is worth every penny. They both drive and look like new.

Oh, yeah and we both own mac book pros, go figure.

Rack Space cloud sites is true cloud hosting, You do not add servers, you just pay for CPU usage like you are buying bandwidth. It is expensive and you can not customize it, but it always works and scales to meet demand.

It is not a VM, where you can install your own OS, Web server, etc. It is a apache server, mysql clustered backend and varnish cache front end.

Great for Blog hosting, PHP applications, etc. We do about 8-10 million page views on it per month and like it for what it is,

If I had staff that needed to configure servers all day, it would be different, but for hosting large dynamic LAMP websites, it is great and reliable.

Andrew

My design firm charges by the hour. If you want a logo that we did in an hour, we can do that, in an hour. The prices is one times our hourly rate. It is not going to be the best logo, but it will only take us one hour.

If you want to have two planning conference calls, a focus group, then six rounds of comps and five final versions for various mediums, a favicon, a 125x125 banner and more, then it cost as much as time as it takes.

If clients do not like this, then can negotiate the world of crowd-sourceing, getting a cousin to do it and mocking it up themselves.

The problem with all that is that if you want a change later on, you are on your own, If you need a two color version for a silk screen, you might be SOL. If your cheap logo is not 100% vector, good luck putting it on a billboard or wrapping a vehicle.

Just as anyone can work on their own plumbing or get some cheap person to do it, there will always be a market for creative professionals who know what they are doing.

If you are losing work to the design sites, you don't want those clients anyways. Or you can let them get their logo from a contest, then design their business cards, website, make money brokering their ads/print/etc/, and create a long term relationship. That could happen as well.

For small LAMP sites (less than 10K visits per month)
Bluehost, ($7 per month)

For Medium LAMP sites (20K-50K visits per month
Media Temple Cloud ($20 or more per month)

For Bigger LAMP Sites (50k+ visits per month)
Rackspace Cloud ($150 per month)

The last two have their issues at times, but they are way better than managing your own server. If you like sysadmin work (and I don't) get a Rackspace cloud server or Media temple DV server, but I like the cloud and grid options. They scale automatically.

LIES

Employee pay, investment, capital equipment and debt service are paid for with pretax dollars.

You pay income tax on the money that is left over, so there is an incentive to reduce your income by investing in your company.
Maybe you should know what you are talking about, or consult an accountant, before you spout some tired talking points about small business.

how come conservatives are so dumb! Oh, I know, they dislike education. Maybe there is something to this edu-ma-cation (sic) thing after all. Maybe I should have gotten my MBA at a bible college and I could just pray for tax cuts, 3% GDP growth and no inflation.