Laziness
In Europe, a disease is growing amount amoung government dependant households, such as workers of state organisation.
Children delay entering the work force as long as possbile, often till thier late 20s, continuing to study in adulthood. They then refuse to take any, except a fat paid government job.
They then take early retirement after being fired, due to being unproductive. Then they lobby the unions and go out on the street and protest that thier pensions are being reformed. I am sorry, but I have no sympathy for these protestors.
Pensions and benefits
Who on earth invented the crazy idea that people are entitled to free money without effort.
There is a young America and there is an old America, and they don’t form a community of interest. One takes from the other. The federal government spends $480 billion on Medicare and $68 billion on education. Prescription drugs: $62 billion. Head Start: $8 billion. Across the board, the money flows not to helping the young grow up, but helping the old die comfortably. According to a 2009 Brookings Institution study, “The United States spends 2.4 times as much on the elderly as on children, measured on a per capita basis, with the ratio rising to 7 to 1 if looking just at the federal budget.
Leasehold vs freehold based on 125 years @ 3%
emergentfutures:
Atmospheric CO2 levels hit 800,000-year high: CSIRO
The findings are released in the CSIRO’s annual State of the Climate report, which has been released today.
Full Story: ABC
It is no surprise. If you take coal out of the ground and burn it, you get co2.
Chop down trees, and put concrete, there is les oxygen…
Invest in Italy
That’s is where the bargains are right now. Italy has thousands of years of history as an advanced civilization. They make great high end cars, shoes, wine, food, cheese, fashion, engineering, villas, etc. Italian construction has lasted millennia ( Roman buildings and roads still stand today)
Italy has a charismatic and energetic primeminister, with a health sex drive.
Right now, the assets in Italy such as stocks, maybe real estate are a bargain…
stoweboyd:
Newspapers as a a whole are not making a transition to the new media landscape:
A Harsh Reality for Newspapers - Brain Stelter via NY Times
Last year, researchers at the Project for Excellence in Journalism persuaded six companies that own 121 newspapers to share private data about the…
I just search for news online. I dont care the newspaper name or publisher. If I check 3 or 4 articles I can get a balanced view.
Newspapers waste trees. People these days dont have 20 minutes free time. Our phones are stealing our time.
ARE WE ADDICTED TO TRAVEL?
