It occurred to me today as I was sitting in the student center of my university talking with friends about problems with environmental issues and their relation to the economy that maybe the way countries spend there money has to do with (more…)
Archive for January, 2008
Government Spending on “Defense”
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Pillaging The Earth
Saturday, January 26th, 2008The New York Times ran an article on January 20, 2008, titled “Timber Thieves Strike at the Heart of Lands Private and Public”. It reported that a 78 year old man had many (more…)
Ramping up the Economy with a War-like Vengeance
Thursday, January 24th, 2008The current financial emergency and stock market plunge created by sub-prime mortgage lending, coupled with high fuel prices and trade agreements which led to the loss of thousands of American jobs, has caused (more…)
Role of Foreign Assistance
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Given many threats to national security in the post-9/11 world, U.S. foreign assistance must address more than humanitarian and developmental goals. Conditions of instability and insecurity that arise from terrorism, (more…)
Global Economy
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Trade barriers such as tariffs are not a bad policy tool despite what mulitnational corporations will tell you. When used effectivly they insulate domestic markets from global production costs differnces. They are nessary to keeping a healthy and diversified economy. Fourteen years after (more…)
Taxes and related issues
Friday, January 18th, 2008All during the current presidential campaign there has been much ado about TAXES. Who has the best record for cutting taxes? Who has the worst record (more…)
Immigration Perspective
Friday, January 18th, 2008Illegal Immigration and Insecure Borders – Who is to Blame?
Rather than turn their ire against illegal aliens, American citizens should direct their anger toward two governments, the Government of Mexico and the U.S. Government. After all, most illegal aliens (more…)
Development In High Growth Corridors
Friday, January 18th, 2008The Missing Ingredients For Sustainable Development In High Growth Corridors
Over the last century there has been considerable interest in protecting the environment and during the last several decades in particular, there has been some progress in the creation of the general interest towards organic gardening, solar energy, wind energy, so called “green products” that are totally recyclable and the broad category of “sustainable development”. (more…)
Generational Conflict
Friday, January 18th, 2008The Other New Americans
Upon consideration of various efforts regarding teaching immigrants about America, and lifting the veil of hyphenated descriptive nouns; i.e. German-American, African-American, Irish-American, etc., one has to consider where to start in order to finally end the hatred and xenophobic fears the permeate our society. (more…)
Altered States
Friday, January 18th, 2008An unlevel playing field in athletics and academics
Marion Jones, an Olympic medal winner and outstanding athlete ended up in disgrace, having to give up her medals and sentenced to six months in jail for lying to federal investigators. All this came about through her use of steroids.
Rappers Wyclef Jean, 50 Cent, Timbaland and other rap stars with super-human physiques (more…)
