I was sitting here thinking about all the people that are going to see their pay checks go down because the Social security contribution go back to where it was before it was lowered so the economy pick up, not.  A lot of republicans are complaining that O’bama is raising more taxes, which he isn’t; he is only allowing the taxes to go back were they should have been all along.  This should be a sign to the people that thought this was a good thing.  Obama was buying votes with other peoples money; again.

 
This also be a good lesson to be learned by the people that think there is a free ride in life.  If it is given, it can be taken away.  

2013 is well underway

At this point in time life seems to be manageable so to speak.  The holidays are over, my emotional state is manageable, the Packers won their first playoff game and I might not see Carrie and her mother for a while.  So the New Year is off and running.  My other Blog is going down so I will be post here from now on and I plan on less politics and more of my inner thoughts. When I gather my thoughts I will post them here.

Cheney’s speech false to fact and reason

MSNBC, by Keith Olbermann    Original Article
5/23/2009 10:46:33 AM     
Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment about Mr. Cheney’s speech. Neurotic. Paranoid. False to fact and false to reason. Forever self-rationalizing. His inner rage at his own impotence and failure dripping from every word and as irrational, as separated from the real world, as dishonest, as insane, as any terrorist.


read on if you what to hear when he starts to critisize Mr. Cheney.

Was he watching the same speech I was; or did the tinfoil come off his rabbit ears; again.

GM’s Problems: Too Much CSR?

              This is not Rocket Science

I recently ran across an old post by Dale Oesterle on the form of corporate social responsibility waged by GM:

There is a sizable group of academics that favor empowering boards of directors to favor constituencies other than shareholders (employees, suppliers, local citizens) in corporate decision making.  GM overpaid labor, buying peace for managers, at the expense of shareholder profit (and share price) for years.  Now GM’s survivability is at stake; employees themselves would be better off it the GM board had been more careful of shareholder profits.  Railroads situation is similar to GM (they have special legislation that protects their unions). Compare GM’s (or the railroad’s) situation to that of Caterpillar’s.  Caterpillar went through some tough strikes to hold the line on labor costs;  Caterpillar is now doing very well and is an international success story. The theory of shareholder primacy, rejected by many academics, is that in 9 cases out of 10, sustained shareholder profits are a surrogate for long-term gains for other constituencies — when shareholders make money over-time, employees have good, stable jobs.  If we hold boards accountable for profits, all constituencies, over-time, also benefit.

Still timely today. And it makes you wonder about the merits of giving the UAW 55% of Chrysler.