Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Level Of Difficulty at Work: .25 out of 10 (man it was superdead)
Time During Lunch: Medium
Lets add to the end of the world mess.. All from one word: Greed. Two items:
1)Silly Mortgages: just like the dot com rise and fall, i never did understand how people can afford a house if some fly-by-night operation offers "no documented, no job, up to 130% home loan hassle free." I guess a whole lotta peoples took the deal. It all comes to greed, when platinum cards are given away in cracker jack boxes with $20,000 limits and when all sorts of whacky financing makes everything easy (i.e. Leasing big $ vehicles, just for the look). It all had to congeal sooner or later.
2)The whole made in china madness. Lets say i'm a company with some product. Who can i go to that can produce what i want for the cheapest, lowest price. Where else but the chinese factories. They can churn out widgets for 25cents a piece, and i can sell them for $9 a piece, brilliant! I find it interesting that one thing not talked about much is the pollution in China. I've seen pics where it looks like fog EVERYDAY, and it's not fog, it's so bad you can see it in space!
What do we care, it's their problem, as long as companies want fatty profit margins it's gonna get worse. Funny part is if you want to tack on some sorta enviromental fee, it just gets past to the consumer.
Another thing, this whole fiasco reminds me of a book (i think, these books are starting to sound the same) called Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy. It's about Japan's economic dominance and a anti-japanese hate growing in the US. After some events dealing with what else greed and power, Japan decides to attack the US. How? Well it's been done already in real life, sorta. They fly some planes into the capitol. The result is the main character, Jack Ryan becomes President in the next Tom Clancy book, Executive Orders.
Greed will getcha.
Time During Lunch: Medium
Lets add to the end of the world mess.. All from one word: Greed. Two items:
1)Silly Mortgages: just like the dot com rise and fall, i never did understand how people can afford a house if some fly-by-night operation offers "no documented, no job, up to 130% home loan hassle free." I guess a whole lotta peoples took the deal. It all comes to greed, when platinum cards are given away in cracker jack boxes with $20,000 limits and when all sorts of whacky financing makes everything easy (i.e. Leasing big $ vehicles, just for the look). It all had to congeal sooner or later.
2)The whole made in china madness. Lets say i'm a company with some product. Who can i go to that can produce what i want for the cheapest, lowest price. Where else but the chinese factories. They can churn out widgets for 25cents a piece, and i can sell them for $9 a piece, brilliant! I find it interesting that one thing not talked about much is the pollution in China. I've seen pics where it looks like fog EVERYDAY, and it's not fog, it's so bad you can see it in space!
What do we care, it's their problem, as long as companies want fatty profit margins it's gonna get worse. Funny part is if you want to tack on some sorta enviromental fee, it just gets past to the consumer.
Another thing, this whole fiasco reminds me of a book (i think, these books are starting to sound the same) called Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy. It's about Japan's economic dominance and a anti-japanese hate growing in the US. After some events dealing with what else greed and power, Japan decides to attack the US. How? Well it's been done already in real life, sorta. They fly some planes into the capitol. The result is the main character, Jack Ryan becomes President in the next Tom Clancy book, Executive Orders.
Greed will getcha.
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