http://www.americans4katrina.com Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:31:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.americans4katrina.com/analysis-on-democratic-seats-vulnerable-on-jobs/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/analysis-on-democratic-seats-vulnerable-on-jobs/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:31:34 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/analysis-on-democratic-seats-vulnerable-on-jobs/ Okay, I'll accept your premise. the rich get richer. Lets dissect that, shall we? If rich person A goes from 1,000,000 a year gross revenue to 2,000,000 a year gross, that's 500,000 more in state, local, and federal revenues. Now, if poor persons B, C, and D get richer, say, going from 25,000 a year gross to 32,000 a year gross, that's only 2,310 more in state, local, and federal revenues. So you'd need 216 poor people to get richer, in order to provide the same money to government (in income tax Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/analysis-on-democratic-seats-vulnerable-on-jobs/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/views-on-john-berlau-the-entrepreneurs-princess/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/views-on-john-berlau-the-entrepreneurs-princess/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:27:45 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/views-on-john-berlau-the-entrepreneurs-princess/ Everyone wants a piece of this fairy-tale romance - hairdressers, cake stylists, carriage decorahow to get over your ex boyfriendrs and political hacks. Now come the economic theorists, another class of second-rate corporate flacks to hitch their wagon to this week's star, the future queen (when QE2 and Chuck finally exit stage trapdoor) Her mother has a business. It has absolutely nothing to do with her attraction to her then boyfriend and soon-to-be royal husband. She has a cute smile, and one Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/views-on-john-berlau-the-entrepreneurs-princess/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/some-thoughts-on-fouad-ajami-rebellion-in-the-land-of-the-pharaohs/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/some-thoughts-on-fouad-ajami-rebellion-in-the-land-of-the-pharaohs/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:18 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/some-thoughts-on-fouad-ajami-rebellion-in-the-land-of-the-pharaohs/ Jonathan, Germany and Japan occurred after a world war where there was a definitive end and total surrender. What you discuss is a completely different scenario. At the present our policy options are lose, lose so it is hard to say with authority what should be done. What was our defined goal setting activities in Afghanistan or Iraq? Did we convert that goal into a new goal? Did we accomplish the initial goals we set? Standing for certain principles and being consistent is good, but that doesn't Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/some-thoughts-on-fouad-ajami-rebellion-in-the-land-of-the-pharaohs/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/my-take-on-review-outlook-obamacares-great-awakening/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/my-take-on-review-outlook-obamacares-great-awakening/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:48:47 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/my-take-on-review-outlook-obamacares-great-awakening/ I've been reading all these comments, and I've got to say.... you've got to be kidding! The govenment is trying to GIVE YOU A BENEFIT, and you throw it back in their face. Yes, the big bad government is requiring the poor little insurance companies to give you a free child tax benefit. How awful! How many of the commenters here are women of reproductive age who use birth control? Probably not many. This benefit will help tens of millions of women. If you don't believe in using birth control then Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/my-take-on-review-outlook-obamacares-great-awakening/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-mistakes-in-scientific-studies-surge/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-mistakes-in-scientific-studies-surge/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:43:35 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-mistakes-in-scientific-studies-surge/ A coda to this important article: At least in medicine, FDA requirements often demand large numbers of patients be treated before approving a drug. This requires that the marketing research process be diffused throughout the country and often internationally, causing monitoring problems and vastly complicating the appropriate analysis of data. It also slows the process, as often in less common disorders recruitment of patients takes a long time. The requirement that BOTH safety and efficacy be Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-mistakes-in-scientific-studies-surge/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/my-take-on-judge-blocks-u.s.-ban-on-funding-for-acorn/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/my-take-on-judge-blocks-u.s.-ban-on-funding-for-acorn/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:36:49 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/my-take-on-judge-blocks-u.s.-ban-on-funding-for-acorn/ ACORN has the misfortune of being an multiculture organization with extremely worthwhile goals (even if they do upset the rich folks bankrolling Faux News) and yet filled with associates that apparently don't take their role as ethical exemplars seriously and as a result end up besmirching the organization as a whole. Even if the right-wing operatives that want to strip ACORN of its ability to fulfill its mission use extremely underhanded tactics, ACORN itself can only survive by sticking to Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/my-take-on-judge-blocks-u.s.-ban-on-funding-for-acorn/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-vatican-in-bold-bid-to-attract-anglicans/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-vatican-in-bold-bid-to-attract-anglicans/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:00:18 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-vatican-in-bold-bid-to-attract-anglicans/ April, While I'm not Episcopal/Anglican (or Catholic), I have followed the internal battles (which are almost identical in other areas of religion and social/political life -- the exact same ideas are expressed). And my conclusion is that conservative/orthodox/classic Anglicans' efforts are wasted in the Episcopal church, and have not shaped internal dialog in the least. The leaders believe what they believe and how much tax will i pay do what they want to do, as they have. The conservatives Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-vatican-in-bold-bid-to-attract-anglicans/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/commentary-on-review-outlook-a-real-robo/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/commentary-on-review-outlook-a-real-robo/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:29:20 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/commentary-on-review-outlook-a-real-robo/ The real problem with the foreclosure mess that this study attempted to point out was the demand that every foreclosure be subject to state-centered HUD mandated allowable fees combined with a push to complete the foreclosures as fast as possible. This lead to tremendous pressure on the foreclosure firms to do it quick team building activities and cheap. Often quick and cheap will work, but the problem was and is, quick and cheap doesn't work always. Sometimes you need qualified attorneys who actually Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/commentary-on-review-outlook-a-real-robo/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/an-opinion-on-lee-berton-the-irs-thinks-im-a-bar-code/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/an-opinion-on-lee-berton-the-irs-thinks-im-a-bar-code/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:22:44 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/an-opinion-on-lee-berton-the-irs-thinks-im-a-bar-code/ Quite interesting to once again see how far the US is behind the technological development in Europe. Here in Denmark checks are so much last century and almost non-existing as a vehicle of payment. All Danish citizens must provide information to the public authorities about a personal development goals banking account which is used for any kind of payment to the citizen (tax refunds, welfare, social security etc.). Same goes for wages and salaries which always will be provided by bank transfer. Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/an-opinion-on-lee-berton-the-irs-thinks-im-a-bar-code/feed/ 0 http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-kerry-agiasotis-safeguarding-the-financial-supply-chain/ http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-kerry-agiasotis-safeguarding-the-financial-supply-chain/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:17:08 +0000 admin http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-kerry-agiasotis-safeguarding-the-financial-supply-chain/ Fear not, WSJ editors and readers. The financial supply chain strategy chain is secure. All countries around the world realize that those at the top of the chain, the bankers, must always get their bonuses, like an addict needs his fix, no matter how badly they screw up. Once George Bush thought not, and let Lehman fail, and we're still paying for that one. Some in Greece are thinking of following suit, but they will learn the error of that when Jamie Dimon ends up owning the Acropolis. Some things Read More...]]> http://www.americans4katrina.com/thoughts-on-kerry-agiasotis-safeguarding-the-financial-supply-chain/feed/ 0