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The Obama administration released job numbers this morning showing that (surprise!) everything is great! Actually, it's not just great, it's freaking incredible! yay! Let's ignore that recent "revised" 3.0% largest in recorded history economy contraction that happened a few weeks ago. And just like every job numbers/economic report in a few weeks it will be quietly revised to show it's terrible, and not a single media outlet will cover it. What a bunch of bullshit. The media is an accessory to this crime.
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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler -
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This is why Carter put the education of our kids under the responsibility of the government, so the government could make the population stupid as hell and they can manipulate them."When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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Obama got elected twice and is still sitting in office, so I would say yes.Comment
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I guess if you throw out the numbers you dont want to average in, you can make anything look better than it really is.
This morning's conference call was the same way. I interjected and used a great example: one of my venders is a transmission re-manufacturer. Over a beer with the VP in Nashville, I asked what their failure rate is. The number: 27%. Of those, only 2% are in the field, the other 25% are caught on a transmission dyno that they built and patented.
So if 27% of americans arent employed, but only 2% want to be, the government can throw out the ones that dont want to have a job, and then 2% sounds GREAT!"If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry FordComment
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the sad state of our country.Originally posted by Sean88gt View Postsatisfaction is the death of desire...
its still "We the people"...right?Comment
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Yes. We're getting exactly the government we deserve. Thank to fuck christ we aren't getting as much of it as we're paying for.Comment
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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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I knew you'd come around.Originally posted by racrguy View Post"If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry FordComment
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x2Originally posted by Baron Von Crowder View Post"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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Just like profit margins. You can figure the margin based on manufacturing costs vs selling price and have a good 25% margin or you can take a real number and look at lost/damaged cores, warehousing, packaging, shipping, warranty and figure out it's really more like 10%. Then factor in R&D, maintenance on the equipment, marketing, legal, etc... and you might be lucky to scrape by at 5%. Which is where it doesn't really make sense to even be in business, just throw money into the bond market.Originally posted by Baron Von Crowder View Post
Obviously you can improve on all of these by streamlining production, concentrating on higher profit parts with lower failure rates and cheaper cores, cutting warranty costs by improving production quality, outsourcing production, etc...Comment
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