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THE ENTERPRISE--VIDEOS YOU SHOULD WATCH, THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
AND SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS (or family members) WHO ARE LEANING TOWARD GIVING HIM FOUR MORE YEARS--ANDTHE USA FOUR MORE YEARS OF MISERY
HOW ARTICULATE IS BARACK OBAMA WITHOUT HIS TELEPROMPTERS? (Not so good?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_AAMa_X2dM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
THIS KIND OF THING IS CALLED A "FREUDIAN SLIP" -- IN WHICH THE TRUTH "SLIPS OUT."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A95sytb4dgg&feature=related
CORRECTING THE LIES BEING TOLD BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN ABOUT HOW IT "HELPS THE MIDDLE CLASS"
Read this and then send a copy of it to anyone who thinks Obama's plans are good for middle class Americans. They are NOT-- and surprise!--blacks get hurt more than most groups!
Download Negative $4,019 - WSJ.com
IF YOU--OR ANYONE YOU KNOW--IS THINKING ABOUT VOTING FOR OBAMA, YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS AND SHARE IT WITH THEM--(right now!)
It will explain what Barack Obama's plans for revenue increases in a second term would mean to YOUR TAX BILL!
This is 4 minutes you need to watch and make a few notes--THEN SHARE IT WITH FRIENDS--IT WILL BE A GREAT EYE-OPENER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=-wIfI2whjiM
WHY WE SHOULD ALL BE VERY AFRAID OF THE RISK OF AN OBAMA WIN IN NOVEMBER--EVERYONE MUST DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO PRECLUDE THIS
If you don't read anything else today, please read this…It is very scary and Probably the best (albeit most frightening) summary of what is about to happen to our country if Obama is re-elected.
Obama's Second Term Transformation Plans
The 2012 election has often been described as the most pivotal since 1860.This statement is not hyperbole. If Barack Obama is re-elected the United States will never be the same, nor will it be able to re-capture its once lofty status as the most dominant nation in the history of mankind.
The overwhelming majority of Americans do not understand that Obama's first term was dedicated to putting in place executive power to enable him and the administration to fulfill the campaign promise of "transforming America " in his second term regardless of which political party controls Congress. That is why his re-election team is virtually ignoring the plight of incumbent or prospective Democratic Party office holders.
The most significant accomplishment of Obama's first term is to make Congress irrelevant. Under the myopic and blindly loyal leadership of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats have succeeded in creating an imperial and, in a second term, a potential dictatorial presidency. During the first two years of the Obama administration when the Democrats overwhelming controlled both Houses of Congress and the media was in an Obama worshipping stupor, a myriad of laws were passed and actions taken which transferred virtually unlimited power to the executive branch.
The birth of multi-thousand page laws was not an aberration. This tactic was adopted so the bureaucracy controlled by Obama appointees would have sole discretion in interpreting vaguely written laws and enforcing thousands of pages of regulations they and not Congress would subsequently write.
For example, in the 2,700 pages of ObamaCare there are more than 2,500 references to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.There are more than 700 instances when he or she is instructed that they "shall" do something and more than 200 times when they "may" take at their sole discretion some form of regulatory action. On 139 occasions, the law mentions that the "Secretary determines." In essence one person, appointed by and reporting to the president, will be in charge of the health care of 310 million Americans once ObamaCare is fully operational in 2014.
The same is true in the 2,319 pages of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act which confers nearly unlimited power on various agencies to control by fiat the nation's financial, banking and investment sectors. The bill also creates new agencies, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, not subject to any oversight by Congress. This overall process was repeated numerous times with other legislation all with the intent of granting unfettered power to the executive branch controlled Barack Obama and his radical associates.
Additionally, the Obama administration has, through its unilaterally determined rule making and regulatory powers, created laws out of whole cloth. The Environmental Protection Agency on a near daily basis issues new regulations clearly out of their purview in order to modify and change environmental laws previously passed and to impose a radical green agenda never approved by Congress. The same is true of the Energy and Interior Departments among many others. None of these extra-constitutional actions have been challenged by Congress. The left in America knows this usurpation of power is nearly impossible to reverse unless stopped in its early stages.
It is clearly the mindset of this administration and its appointees that Congress is merely a nuisance and can be ignored after they were able to take full advantage of the useful idiots in the Democrat controlled House and Senate in 2009-2010 and the Democrat Senate in the current Congress.
Additionally, Barack Obama knows after his re-election a Republican controlled House and Senate will not be able to enact any legislation to roll back the power previously granted to the Executive Branch or usurped by them. His veto will not be overridden as there will always be at least 145 Democratic members of the House or 34 in the Senate in agreement with or intimidated by an administration more than willing to use Chicago style political tactics. The stalemate between the Executive and Legislative Branches will inure to the benefit of Barack Obama and his fellow leftists.
The most significant power Congress has is the control of the purse-strings as all spending must be approved by them. However, once re-elected, Barack Obama, as confirmed by his willingness to do or say anything and his unscrupulous re-election tactics, would not only threaten government shutdowns but would deliberately withhold payments to those dependent on government support as a means of intimidating and forcing a Republican controlled Congress to surrender to his demands, thus neutering their ability to control the administration through spending constraints.
Further, this administration has shown contempt for the courts by ignoring various court orders, e.g. the Gulf of Mexico oil drilling moratorium, as well as stonewalling subpoenas and requests issued by Congress. The Eric Holder Justice Department has become the epitome of corruption as part of the most dishonest and deceitful administration in American history. In a second term the arrogance of Barack Obama and his minions will become more blatant as he will not have to be concerned with re-election.
Who will be there to enforce the rule of law, a Supreme Court ruling or the Constitution? No one. Barack Obama and his fellow-travelers will be unchallenged as they run roughshod over the American people.
Many Republicans and conservatives dissatisfied with the prospect of Mitt Romney as the nominee for president are instead focused on re-taking the House and Senate. That goal, while worthy and necessary, is meaningless unless Barack Obama is defeated.The nation is not dealing with a person of character and integrity but someone of single-minded purpose and overwhelming narcissism.Judging by his actions, words and deeds during his first term, he does not intend to work with Congress either Republican or Democrat in his second term but rather to force his radical agenda on the American people through the power he has usurped or been granted.
The governmental structure of the United States was set up by the foundersin the hope that over the years only those people of high moral character and integrity would assume the reins of power. However, knowing that was not always possible, they dispersed power over three distinct and independent branches as a check on each other. What they could not imagine is the surrender and abdication of its constitutional duty by the preeminent governmental branch, the Congress, to a chief executive devoid of any character or integrity coupled with a judiciary essentially powerless to enforce the law when the chief executive ignores them.
Conservatives, Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt Romney must come to grips with this moment in time and their historical role in denying Barack Obama and his minions their ultimate goal. All resources must be directed at that end-game and not merely controlling Congress and the various committee chairmanships.
Steve McCann
I would add but 6 words to those above mentioned, Conservatives, Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt Romney, to say "and we the American people also", must come to grips with this moment in time and our role in denying Barack Obama his life long goal of "transforming" us into his slaves working on his government plantation
THAT'S ENOUGH TRUTH FOR ONE WEEK. I'LL BET AT LEAST SOME OF IT WAS SURPRISING--AND A LOT OF IT WAS DEPRESSING! SORRY. THE "TRUTH HURTS"--BUT BETTER TO KNOW NOW THAN AFTER THE ELECTION.
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Tags: Congress, Dodd-Frank, Election, Obama, Obamacare, Pelosi, Reid, Romney, Taxes, teleprompter
THE ENTERPRISE--IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR OR SEE…
BUSINESS: IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR--THE COUNTDOWN HAS STARTED:
Roadmap to Profitable Growth: @ The Intersection started through the publishing process yesterday. The countdown is at 98 days and counting. This book will be one that you will want to read. (It's short, easy reading too!) More than that, you will want to buy it as a Christmas/Holiday gift for every person you know who works in a private sector (for-profit) business. Few things are more essential to business survival and prosperity than profitable growth. Where and how to find it can be like a treasure map for them and their companies. Stay tuned for more in coming editions.
This book is my contribution to helping America regain its economic prosperity. Please help me with that mission.
BUSINESS: THE ECONOMY IS STILL SUFFERING--THAT IS NOT SUCH BIG NEWS, BUT READ ON...
---CONSUMER SPENDING:There was much made of the 0.8% growth in consumer spending in July. I was NOT IMPRESSED, because the same statistic in June was down 0.7% and in May was down 0.1%. This means that the 0.8% growth so widely touted this past week merely regained the ground lost in the prior two months.
---EMPLOYMENT: With the USA stuck at a reported 8.3% (actually the U-6 total unemployed and underemployed is at 15%…see all the data at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm AND reports yesterday said that unemployment went up in 44 states… Under Barack Obama, "Hope and Change" is clearly "Hopeless and Change for the Worse."
---GENERAL BUSINESS: Reports from such bellwethers as FedEx indicated a slowing in shipments (e.g., business activity). Employers are paralyzed into inaction by the combination of the election, tax-mageddon coming in Jan. 2013 and the similar regulatory cliff described by our OH Senator Rob Portman in this WSJ Op Ed piece:
Download Rob Portman: The Regulatory Cliff Is Nearly as Steep as the Fiscal One - WSJ.com
BUSINESS: AND POLITICS ARE INSEPARABLE, SINCE EVERYTHING BUSINESS HOPES AND WANTS TO DO IS SOMEHOW AFFECTED BY GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION
Thus, the segue from the business topics to the political topics. Someone asked why there was so much attention to Medicare when the Economy should be the topic of discussion. The facts are that Medicare is the largest item in the US Budget, and it, combined with Medicaid, Obamacare, and Welfare (related) are the primary elements of the US Budget deficit, and the problems overhanging the economy.
REMEMBER LAST WEEK'S COMMENTS ABOUT THE FUD SYNDROME AFFLICTING AMERICANS? I AM PLEASED THAT SUCH A RESPECTED COLUMNIST AS GEOFF COLVIN CHOSE TO DESCRIBE THE SAME ISSUE, THE SAME WAY:
Business's real problem: Uncertainty, uncertainty, uncertainty
August 8, 2012: 5:00 AM ET It's hard for corporate chiefs to plan for the future when they're waiting for a closetful of shoes to drop.
By Geoff Colvin, senior editor-at-large
FORTUNE --
When CEOs tell me that their No. 1 concern is uncertainty, as a great many do, my first reaction is skepticism. Please. Life is uncertain. Is this moment really different?
Actually it is: Economic uncertainty, especially policy uncertainty, is greater than it has been in many years. And if you're wondering why the U.S. economy is barely moving or why millions of workers can't find jobs, extraordinary uncertainty is a major part -- maybe the largest part -- of the answer.
High uncertainty creates a loop of paralysis, and that's what we're in right now. Policymakers have no idea what's going to happen, so they sit on their hands, as the Federal Reserve did recently. "Nearly all participants" in the latest Federal Open Market Committee meeting said that the economic outlook was more uncertain than it had been over the past 20 years, according to the minutes; the committee took no action, and the Dow dropped. The minutes also reported that business leaders were telling committee members that "heightened uncertainty" had led them "to put potential investment projects on hold until the uncertainty is resolved." And what were those business leaders uncertain about? Government policy. An index of policy uncertainty created by economists at Stanford and the University of Chicago backs their view, showing that policy uncertainty has been much higher in recent months than during the previous 25 years.
More: Why this month's good jobs news won't last
The business leaders were most uncertain about tax and regulatory issues. Those things are always changeable, but the potential swings could make you dizzy. After the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare in June, Mitt Romney and Republican congressional leaders promised to repeal it if they win the election in November. So the biggest-ever regulation of the largest sector of the world's largest economy, affecting every employer and individual in the country, either will continue as the law of the land or will disappear.
Who can even think about planning in those circumstances? It's similar with the fiscal cliff at year-end: the killer combination of mandatory cuts in federal spending and the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. Even assuming that Congress averts a plunge over the edge, no one knows how it will happen. A short-term fix, by far the likeliest outcome, will do nothing to get the economy moving because it leaves businesspeople wondering what comes next. Investment and hiring decisions are not short-term. Research by Abdiweli M. Ali of Harvard concluded, "Lack of confidence and skepticism about the stability of economic policies force investors to postpone capital investment ... They cannot undo decisions about fixed capital every time the government reverses its economic policy."
This isn't just economic theory. Uncertainty is creating real suffering. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that uncertainty about the fiscal cliff alone could reduce U.S. economic growth by 0.5% in the second half. In an economy growing at less than 2%, that's a lot, representing billions of dollars that won't be available to hire people.
More: The dollar is now corporate America's worst enemy
Who's to blame? A hyperpolarized Congress is an uncertainty-generating machine. Obamacare was enacted without a single Republican vote in either chamber; when the House voted recently to repeal the law, only five Democrats voted with 239 Republicans. The message to businesspeople: Don't count on anything that passes without substantial bipartisan support. And little of significance seems to be enacted that way anymore.
Another thing CEOs often tell me is that the precise content of policy may be less important than its predictability. If they know the rules, they'll play to win. It's when they don't know the rules, like now, that they get stuck. Give the election's winners, whoever they are, until March to show that they're leaders rather than kids throwing tantrums. Until then -- and who knows, maybe beyond -- we're going nowhere fast.
This story is from the August 13, 2012 issue of Fortune.
POLITICS: IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR WHAT MITT ROMNEY SAID THIS PAST WEEK:
Here is part of the text of his remarks:
..."Over the last four years, this President has pushed Republicans and Democrats as far apart as they can go. And now he and his allies are pushing us all even further apart by dividing us into groups. He demonizes some. He panders to others. His campaign strategy is to smash America apart and then cobble together 51 percent of the pieces.
If an American president wins that way, we all lose. But he won't win that way. America is one Nation under God. American history has been a story of the many becoming one -- uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.
Everywhere I go in America there are monuments that list those who have given their lives. There is no mention of their race, their party affiliation or what they did for a living. They lived and died under a single flag fighting for a single purpose. They pledged allegiance to the United States of America.
So, Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America."…
That is how our next president should talk to this current "pretender" who is occupying the White House…
WHEN WILL AMERICANS WAKE UP AND THROW OBAMA OUT OF THE JOB HE IS FAILING SO MISERABLY AT DOING?
POLITICS: READERS KNOW I'M A BIG FAN OF PEGGY NOONAN (Former Reagan speechwriter and staff member)
I sure hope the Romney campaign people are reading her columns too. This one, from Sat.'s WSJ site is full of great ideas that they should adopt and use.
Download Noonan- It's the Circumstances, Stupid - WSJ.com
ONE MORE PIECE ON PAUL RYAN, ABOUT WHOM MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ALREADY IS POSTED BELOW:
Dennis Prager's bio from Wikipedia says: Dennis Prager (born August 2, 1948) is an American syndicated radio talk show host, syndicated columnist, author, and public speaker. He is noted for his conservative political and social views emanating from conservative Judeo-Christian values.[1] He holds that there is an "American Trinity" of essential principles, which he lists as E Pluribus Unum, In God We Trust, and Liberty.
NOT A BAD SET OF PRINCIPLES...
Religious, Pro-Market Ryan Is Dems' Worst Nightmare
©2012 Investor's Business Daily, Inc.
By DENNIS PRAGER
Posted 07:02 PM ET
The Republican vice-presidential candidate, Congressman Paul Ryan, is the Democrats' political version of the Anti-Christ.
He believes in self-reliance; the left believes in reliance on the state. His moral values are shaped by religion (Catholicism); the left is frightened by religious Christian politicians (and athletes, and members of the armed forces, and talk-show hosts, and, for that matter, clergy).
He believes in individualism; the left believes in collectivism. He believes in small government and powerful citizens; the left believes in large government and dependent citizens.
Nevertheless, the Democratic Party claims to be overjoyed at his selection as the GOP vice-presidential nominee.
The Democrats' glee — even if exaggerated — emanates from their belief that Americans will reject Ryan's economic and social plans to reduce the American debt, unleash private economic growth (the only type there is), and reform unsustainable government programs such as Medicare.
Democrats believe that if Americans perceive that their entitlements may be affected — even if only beginning a decade from now, and even if the American debt is thereby cut by one third, and even if they, as well as the country, will ultimately benefit — so many Americans have become so used to government benefits, the Republicans stand little chance of winning the upcoming elections.
In other words, and tragically, the left and Democrats are relying on the decline of the American character that left-wing policies have produced (not only here but everywhere else).
The Democrats are hoping that older Americans are (irrationally) frightened by Medicare reform even though these reforms will not affect them, and that younger Americans will likewise reject these reforms because they are counting on receiving Medicare as it now exists.
Left-wing social policies are predicated on giving more and more Americans more and more benefits and demanding less and less from them.
The left's party — the Democrats — seeks to have the state pay for Americans' health care, give record numbers of Americans food stamps (now in a form similar to ATM and credit cards so there's no stigma involved), provide their children with school meals and provide women with child care and contraceptives, while enabling more and more Americans to pay no federal taxes to pay for any of these benefits.
The negative impact these policies have had on the character of Americans is indisputable. Every parent — and probably most adults who are not parents — knows what giving things they have not earned and demanding nothing from them in return produces: spoiled children.
Left-wing, Democratic Party policies have negatively impacted the American character in another way.
Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.
One example is women who give birth to and raise children without fathers in their children's lives.
This past Sunday's New York Times opinion section featured another attack on those who stigmatize out-of-wedlock birth and single motherhood.
Another example is the cultural left's glorification of graffiti — once regarded as vandalism of public and private property — as "street art."
A third example is how difficult Democrats and the left-wing education establishment have made it for teachers and principals to discipline disruptive and foul-mouthed students.
The Department of Education has just declared education the "civil rights issue of our generation" because black students are disproportionately suspended and otherwise punished at school. The effect? Black young people who abuse their teachers and schools feel empowered to continue their anti-social behavior.
At the same time, the left works to weaken the single most effective device for character building in American history: Judeo-Christian religions. Increasingly, the American motto "In God We Trust" has been replaced by "In Government We Trust" and "In Experts We Trust."
Since the Democrats could not win any national election with the votes of liberals alone — according to Gallup, self-described liberals constitute just 21% of the electorate — the great question of the 2012 American presidential election is this: Have the left and Democratic Party sufficiently weakened the character of enough Americans to enable the demonization of Paul Ryan to lead Barack Obama to victory?
I don't believe so. But given the enormity of the national debt incurred by this administration, its spectacular failure to improve the nation's economy and its commitment to weakening American defense, if there were a better explanation for a Democratic victory, I would welcome it.
Posted at 03:02 PM in WEEKLY NEWSLETTER | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Budget, Growth, Medicare, Obama, Romney, Ryan
THE ENTERPRISE--DEMAGOGUERY VS. SUBSTANCE, FACTS VS. DELUSIONS
THIS EDITION WILL BE DONE IN TWO PARTS: POLITICS (HOT TOPIC OF THE DAY) AND BUSINESS (IMPORTANT TOPIC--ALWAYS)
I: BUSINESS: 100: THE COUNTDOWN IS STARTING NOW TO A NEW BOOK: ROADMAP TO PROFITABLE GROWTH: @ The "Intersection"
This will be (thankfully) my shortest book yet, of the ten I have written. It also has the highest content to words ratio of any of them. I tried to boil down the essence of what every business person needs to know, and cover it without all of the typical, endless variety of "cases and illustrative chapters." This one is all "meat" and no "fat," all "substance" and no "stuffing." Plus this book was edited (and improved upon) by two friends, and sections of it were dramatically improved by some of my current associates. I am currently setting up the publishing arrangements and as I determine the actual publication date, I will update this countdown regularly. Right now I am guessing 100 days…stay tuned.
E-BUSINESS 2.0: Remember the dot-com bubble when companies were believed to have these astronomical valuations when there was little or no tangible underpinning for those valuations? The dot-coms came and went (remember pets.com and the sock puppet dog?). I suspect similar happenings are going on now. Digg was once a darling of the new social media world, and believed to be worth $150 million. It sold recently for $500,000. Facebook's IPO has now been exposed to be grossly overvalued. So, apparently has Groupon and Zynga. All of these stocks are languishing at new lows, reminding us that whether it is in business or politics, baseless illusions and pointless puffery will be exposed--eventually.
BUSINESS-KEY POINT OF THIS WEEK: What is special about you, about your business, its model, its value proposition and its entire core set of principles? That is what customers and consumer buy. Unless you understand this deeply, you might deviate from it and/or lose it. If you can understand it deeply, you can do more of it--and that will multiply your chances for success.
Definition of DEMAGOGUE
: a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
II: POLITICS: THE RYAN EFFECT ON THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN--PROFOUND!
Not only have the media and the two parties jumped all over this topic--it is deserving of it. When George W. Bush chose Dick Cheney, most people knew that Cheney's knowledge and experience (like it or not) would have a big impact on what Bush did, how he governed, etc. When John McCain chose Sarah Palin, there were no such illusions. She was a pretty face with a glib delivery, but she was "green as grass" and had little or no grasp of the critical issues of the nation. (Of course, one could argue that Barack Obama was just as green, but he had been training in the camp of his left-wing mentors for decades. Joe Biden was a convenient, easy choice, who adds little, but only does harm when he speaks--or rather "misspeaks."
ROMNEY WILL BENEFIT GREATLY FROM RYAN'S INPUT IF HE ACCEPTS AND EMBRACES IT--(I THINK HE WILL!)
Ryan's choice as VP has now defined this campaign more than ever as one of substance and issues, rather than innuendo and distractions. It will be up to Romney and Ryan to keep it that way. The Obama campaign is bereft of new promises, thus it can only reiterate old ones and sling mud at its opponents--attempting to frighten the his "dependent-class" supporters into fearing what will happen if Obama is not reelected. Since cartoons carry a lot of wisdom in them, here are two of the most telling ones.
THE WSJ'S BRETT STEPHENS IS A BIG FAN OF RYANS--REALLY BIG.
I have posted his column from todays WSJ here for readers who don't get the WSJ. It points out Ryan's strengths quite well.
ENJOY THIS MID-WEEK EDITION WHILE I CATCH UP AFTER TWO WEEKS OFF.
Paul Ryan's Neocon Manifesto
America's real interests, he understands, come from our deepest values.
By Brett Stephens Updated August 14, 2012, 9:31 a.m.
Last summer, the chairman of the House Budget Committee made a foray into foreign-policy land with a speech to the Alexander Hamilton Society in Washington, D.C. About 100 people showed up, and it got next to no coverage. That should now change—and not just because Paul Ryan's views on America's role in the world are no longer a matter of one Wisconsin congressman talking.
Here, in CliffsNotes form, is what the speech tells us about Mr. Ryan. First, that he's an internationalist of the old school; in another day, he would have sat comfortably in the cabinets of Harry Truman, Jack Kennedy or Ronald Reagan. Also, that he believes in free trade, a strong defense, engagement with our allies—and expectations of them. Also, that he wants America to stay and win in Afghanistan. Furthermore, that he supports the "arduous task of building free societies," even as he harbored early doubts the Arab Spring was the vehicle for building free societies.
It tells us also that Mr. Ryan has an astute understanding of the fundamental challenge of China. "The key question for American policy makers," he said, "is whether we are competing with China for leadership of the international system or against them over the fundamental nature of that system."
What Mr. Ryan's speech really tells us, however, is that he knows how to think.
Most foreign-policy speeches by American politicians take the form of untidy piles of verities and clichés. Here, for example, is Barack Obama on China: "As we look to the future, what's needed, I believe, is a spirit of cooperation that is also friendly competition." Here he is on the U.N.: "The United Nations can either be a place where we bicker about outdated differences or forge common ground." Here he is to the British Parliament: "The time for our leadership is now."
Mr. Ryan doesn't have the president's reputation for eloquence. Nor do his speeches ride on the windy drafts of "Yes We Can." But unlike Mr. Obama, his speeches communicate ideas and arguments, not pieties and emotions.
Thus this speech begins not with a cliché but with a contention: "Our fiscal policy and our foreign policy are on a collision course." It proceeds, briefly, to demonstrate the point quantitatively: Defense spending in 1970 consumed 39% of the federal budget but takes only 16% today. In the proverbial guns-to-butter ratio, our veins are already clogged.
Next there is history. Why can't the U.S. simply cede the cumbersome role of world policeman to somebody else? Didn't Britain do as much in the 1940s? It did. Yet, "unlike Britain, which handed leadership to a power that shared its fundamental values, today's most dynamic and growing powers do not embrace basic principles that should be at the core of the international system."
So what follows? "If you believe these rights are universal human rights . . . it leads you to reject moral relativism. It causes you to recoil at the idea of persistent moral indifference toward any nation that stifles and denies liberty, no matter how friendly and accommodating its rulers are to American interests."That's not a novel insight, exactly, but it's something that needs to be said and is said only rarely. Similarly with Mr. Ryan's next point: American exceptionalism isn't a type of jingoism. Instead, it derives from the fact that it was the first nation born of an idea, and from an idea that is true not only for Americans. "America's foundations," he says, "are not our own—they belong equally to every person everywhere."
Note the consistency of the logic. Note the quality of the language. Note, finally, Mr. Ryan's understanding that America's real interests are derived from our deepest values. For most other countries, it's just the opposite: The interests come first, and "values" are a synonym for justifications.
None of this means that Mr. Ryan is a foreign-policy crusader. He talks of a "healthy humility" about the degree to which the U.S. can "control events in other regions."
Yet humility should not be a prescription for passivity or fatalism. Speaking of the U.K., he notes the extent to which its postwar leaders chose their own diminished fate: "Once they concluded that they should manage Britain's decline, it mattered little what Britain was objectively capable of achieving on the world stage. The crisis of self-perception was fatal to Britain's global leadership."
What kind of congressman speaks—and maybe even writes—sentences like these? When Mr. Ryan gave the speech, in June of last year, Congress and the Obama administration were gearing up for their epic budget grudge match. He had no inkling he'd be the vice presidential nominee in 14 months and had probably already decided he didn't want to run for president. Which means he could easily have fobbed off the Hamilton Society with GOP platitudes about "keeping America strong."
Instead he delivered one of the most thoughtful speeches in years about America's global role and the means required to maintain it. What a great thing he's on the ticket. Pity he's not at the top of it.
© The Wall Street Journal 2012
Posted at 10:37 AM in WEEKLY NEWSLETTER | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: campaign, demagoguery, facts, growth, Obama, Romney, Ryan, substance
THE ENTERPRISE--A LOT TO CATCH UP ON
AFTER BEING GONE TO THE BRITISH ISLES FOR 2 WEEKS, AND WITH MINIMAL NEWS OR EMAIL, IT'S HARD TO KNOW WHERE TO START
Based on just a couple of conversations with Brits, they are still somewhat enchanted with Obama's rhetoric--and since Europeans are accustomed to unemployment over 10% (It was 15% in Ireland when we visited there)…they still favor him. I think they are afraid Romney will be more like Bush, and be "tough on them," rather than conciliatory. (That's not a bad thing to be. Europeans have long felt "superior" to Americans--after all, most Americans ancestors left those countries for "the colonies" as one Brit tour guide referred to the USA even now in 2012!
THEN I CAME HOME TO FIND THAT THE ASTOUNDING LIES BEING ADVERTISED BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN SUPPORTERS HAD REACHED NEW LOWS
Enough has been said about the ad that tries to imply that Mitt Romney was part of a man's demise (even though he admits Bain tried to buy them out--in a condescending tone he says it)--and then the worst of all, infers that the wife's death was somehow due to Romney and Bain's involvement. Blatant is not a strong enough word for this scurrilous kind of campaigning--and Obama will still not apologize or distance himself from it. This man is a disgrace as the sitting president. Even his major contributors are now admitting that he is distant and unreachable to the point of being rude to them! Deserves to be exposed--and defeated in Nov.
A FRIEND ASKED ME WHAT I THINK ABOUT MITT ROMNEY'S CHOICE OF PAUL RYAN FOR HIS RUNNING MATE & HOW HE WOULD HELP OR HURT IN OH & FL
(My friend lives in FL and I live in OH.) Rather than rewrite it many times, here was my response earlier today:
"I am fine with Ryan. He's fiery at times and solid as a rock on facts and reasons. I might have liked Rubio better, and my only concern is taking Ryan out of a key House spot--but keeping Rubio and Portman in the Senate is probably more important! Thank God he didn't pick Pawlenty!
I don't think OH will be hurt by this choice. May not help much in OH, since swing voters in OH still are moderates--a carryover from OHs blue collar roots. His down to earth explanations of things will be a big plus everywhere since Romney has been accused (wrongly) of offering too few plans/details about what he'd do and why.
If FL voters will pay attention, they'll see that Ryan's Medicare plans are good or them, since most of his proposed changes are for the under 50 group. Obama is simply ignoring the fact that Medicare is insolvent (within 20 years.) That is not good for anyone!
Best part of his is hat it sucks the Obama cronies into factual budget battles and concentrates on economic issues--where Obama will have to rely on trickery and demagoguery/class warfare--big time!
How many Americans will think about whether they really want 4 more (Obama) years of slow growth, high unemployment and soaring deficits? America will never recover from that! We will see if enough Americans are fed up with Obama's lies, phony promises, and economic failure."
BARACK OBAMA SEEMS TO BE LIKE A "BROKEN RECORD"--DOESN'T EVEN CARE ENOUGH TO USE DIFFERENT PHRASES--AND OTHER COUNTRIES ARE OBVIOUSLY STARTING TO NOTICE
WATCH THIS--YOU WILL BE ASTOUNDED: http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/erYpXzE9Pxs&
But strangely, they still seem to like him. Of course part of this was that they hated Bush so much, and unless you actually compare what Obama says to what he does, you might not notice that he is a phony!
I AGREE WITH THIS…AND WOULD NOT STOP HERE…I'D DEMAND MUCH MORE FROM OBAMA'S BACKGROUND
Trump: Romney Must Turn Tables on Democrats Over Tax Returns
Tuesday, 07 Aug 2012 08:00 AM By Forrest Jones
Mitt Romney should turn the tables on Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who clams the Republican presidential hopeful dodged taxes for 10 years, said billionaire real-estate mogul Donald Trump. Romney should agree to release tax returns going back a decade, provided President Barack Obama releases passport, college records and other information demanded by Republicans.
"If I were Romney, I would say very simply I will release my returns, which are 100 percent legit, if you release the information that we want," Trump told CNBC.
"He spent $4 million trying to hide lots of different things that he's done, whether it's his passport records, whether it's his college applications and college records," Trump added. "If I were Romney, I would do this, I will release my returns if you release the records that you've been trying to shield for the last four years."
Romney has released tax returns in the past, although the problem is higher earnings give political adversaries data to extract information and use it against him even if returns were filed properly. "The problem with a complex tax return is you can look at it and you can nitpick it to death, and if you release ten more years — he's released two years — they'll nitpick it and find tiny statements made in the return and make a big deal out of it," Trump said. "It is a little bit unfair. Obama has a very simple tax return. He made nothing. He doesn't have much to report."
Romney, meanwhile, has lashed out against Reid, who hasn't revealed the source of his claims. "I have paid taxes every year and a lot of taxes, a lot of taxes," Romney said in Las Vegas, according to ABC News. "Harry is simply wrong, and that's why I'm so anxious for him to give us the names of the people who have put this forward. I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear the names are people from the White House or the Obama campaign or who knows where they're coming from," Romney added. "Harry Reid really has to put up or shut up," Romney said.
PLEASE READ MY LATEST FORBES POST. HERE'S THE LINK TO IT
http://www.forbes.com/sites/prospernow/2012/08/08/america-in-paralysis-false-optimism/
The four paragraphs below are a Forbes reader's comments about the post--and the situation...
I think you have captured the business environment perfectly with this statement: "Businesses are reluctant to invest since uncertainty about taxes, weak economic growth, burdensome regulations and the anti-business sentiment of the Obama administration, remain as high as ever. Obama has repeatedly circumvented Congress and the Constitution by acts of administrative fiat (Via HHS, NLRB, EEOC, Justice Dept., etc.) to add to these growth inhibitors."
It is tough to make any business decisions in such an uncertain environment. It is imperative that business leaders see carefully constructed plans and policies that clearly articulate how to get America back to work. To your description of Paralysis and FUD I would added "lack of urgency". The current Administration and Congress have demonstrated complete incompetence towards developing such policies and plans that will create jobs without adding to the deficit.
On the other hand, Romney has put forth a somewhat workable proposal called "59 Policy Proposals That Will Get America Back to Work". Unfortunately, besides being presented above and beyond the comprehension of the average American, it has been lost in all of the noise of the current Presidential race. Romney, a quant by trade, needs to think and act more like a marketer and take a cue from Herman Cain's 9-9-9. He needs to revisit this stack of proposals and reduce the 59 down to the 5-15 things we can do NOW to create jobs and drive that message home.
It is apparent that the current administration's priority is re-election and it clearly doesn't have a plan to "get America back to work" so they will have difficulty in responding at this late stage of the game. Unless the business community can be convinced by Romney, who does have the skills to execute on economic policies, that his plan will provide some economic boost, I am afraid that the FUD and paralysis will continue.
I AM AFRAID THAT THE "FUD SYNDROME" WILL CONTINUE TOO!
THEN HOW CAN ROMNEY BEAT OBAMA, AND "SAVE AMERICA?"
Charles Krauthammer offers a pretty reasonable set of ideas: The case against reelection
By Charles Krauthammer, Published: August 9 (before the Paul Ryan announcement)
There are two ways to run against Barack Obama: stewardship or ideology. You can run against his record or you can run against his ideas.
The stewardship case is pretty straightforward: the worst recovery in U.S. history, 42 consecutive months of 8-plus percent unemployment, declining economic growth — all achieved at a price of an additional $5 trillion of accumulated debt.
The ideological case is also simple. Just play in toto (and therefore in context) Obama's Roanoke riff telling small-business owners: "You didn't build that." Real credit for your success belongs not to you — you think you did well because of your smarts and sweat? he asked mockingly — but to government that built the infrastructure without which you would have nothing.
Play it. Then ask: Is that the governing philosophy you want for this nation?
Mitt Romney's preferred argument, however, is stewardship. Are you better off today than you were $5 trillion ago? Look at the wreckage around you. This presidency is a failure. I'm a successful businessman. I know how to fix things. Elect me, etc. etc.
Easy peasy, but highly risky. If you run against Obama's performance in contrast to your own competence, you stake your case on persona. Is that how you want to compete against an opponent who is not just more likable and immeasurably cooler but spending millions to paint you as an unfeeling, out-of-touch, job-killing, private-equity plutocrat?
The ideological case, on the other hand, is not just appealing to a center-right country with twice as many conservatives as liberals, it is also explanatory. It underpins the stewardship argument. Obama's ideology — and the program that followed — explains the failure of these four years. What program? Obama laid it out boldly in a series of major addresses during the first months of his presidency. The roots of the nation's crisis, he declared, were systemic. Fundamental change was required. He had come to deliver it. Hence his signature legislation:
First, the $831 billion stimulus that was going to "reinvest" in America and bring unemployment below 6 percent. We know about the unemployment. And the investment? Obama loves to cite great federal projects such as the Hoover Dam and the interstate highway system. Fine. Name one thing of any note created by Obama's Niagara of borrowed money. A modernized electric grid? Ports dredged to receive the larger ships soon to traverse a widened Panama Canal? Nothing of the sort. Solyndra, anyone?
Second, radical reform of health care that would reduce its ruinously accelerating cost: "Put simply," he said, "our health-care problem is our deficit problem" — a financial hemorrhage drowning us in debt.
Except that Obamacare adds to spending. The Congressional Budget Office reports that Obamacare will incur $1.68 trillion of new expenditures in its first decade. To say nothing of the price of the uncertainty introduced by an impossibly complex remaking of one-sixth of the economy — discouraging hiring and expansion as trillions of investable private-sector dollars remain sidelined.
The third part of Obama's promised transformation was energy. His cap-and-trade federal takeover was rejected by his own Democratic Senate. So the war on fossil fuels has been conducted unilaterally by bureaucratic fiat. Regulations that will kill coal. A no-brainer pipeline (Keystone) rejected lest Canadian oil sands be burned. (China will burn them instead.) A drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico that a federal judge severely criticized as illegal. That was the program — now so unpopular that Obama barely mentions it. Obamacare got exactly two lines in this year's State of the Union address. Seen any ads touting the stimulus? The drilling moratorium? Keystone?
Ideas matter. The 2010 election, the most ideological since 1980, saw the voters resoundingly reject a Democratic Party that was relentlessly expanding the power, spending, scope and reach of government. It's worse now. Those who have struggled to create a family business, a corner restaurant, a medical practice won't take kindly to being told that their success is a result of government-built roads and bridges.
In 1988, Michael Dukakis famously said, "This election is not about ideology; it's about competence." He lost. If Republicans want to win, Obama's deeply revealing, teleprompter-free you-didn't-build-that confession of faith needs to be hung around his neck until Election Day. The third consecutive summer-of-recovery-that-never-came is attributable not just to Obama being in over his head but, even more important, to what's in his head: a government-centered vision of the economy and society, and the policies that flow from it.
Four years of that and this is what you get. Make the case and you win the White House.
DON'T BE MISLED IF THE JOBS NUMBERS BUMP UP SLIGHTLY IN EARLY SEPT. AND MAYBE EVEN AGAIN IN EARLY OCT.
Seasonal hiring is typical. Watch to see what revisions are made to the past several months numbers. Nearly every jobs report over the past three years have been revised downward later. If you already read my Forbes post, you realize that Obama's claims of progress are clearly bogus. However, that doesn't mean that smart businesses can't do well, even in this kind of anti-business, slow growth, environment. It just takes more skill and effort, and then the gains are less than they should be.
IF YOU HAVE NOT READ HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY I URGE YOU TO DO SO. IF YOU HAVE, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEND COPIES TO FRIENDS AND RELATIVES AS GIFTS. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE IF YOU HOPE TO CHANGE THEIR THINKING ABOUT SUPPORTING BARACK OBAMA.
UNTIL NEXT WEEK, (and thankful to be staying in the USA for a while)


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Q: Parsley Form Validation - Event Listeners Ok, so i have searched everywhere for this but still can't get it working. No one seems to have tried it but i'm sure it can do it.
I want to use the Parsley validation plugin with my twitter bootstrap project. I have read the docs, but am still learning JQuery so it's going right over my head (i'm rationalising that it is too advanced for me at the moment).
I want to add a custom event listener to Parsley to show a popup on error instead of the ugly li's. This is what i have tried:
JQUERY
$(document).ready(function () {

    $('.parsley').parsley({
        successClass: 'success',
        errorClass: 'error',
        errors: {
            classHandler: function(el) {
                return $(el).closest('.form-control');
            },
            errorsWrapper: '

',
            errorElem: '

'
        }
    });

    $('.test').parsley({

        successClass: 'success',
        errorClass: 'error',
        errors: {
            classHandler: function(el) {
                return $(el).closest('.form-control');
            },
            errorElem: '

'
        },

        onFieldValidate: function ( elem ) {

            // if field is not visible, do nothing.
            if ( !$( elem ).is( ':visible' ) ) {
                $(elem).popover({
                    placement : 'top',
                    title : 'Test',
                    content : '

Test

'
                });
                $(elem).popover('show');
                return true;
            } else {
                $(elem).popover('hide');
                return false;
            }
        }

    });

});

The top function half works (only displays a bubble) was only a hack to get it working temporarily.
HTML

<form class="test" data-validate="parsley" novalidate>
    <input type="text" name="test" value="test" data-required="true" data-trigger="keyup change">
</form>

Can anyone help me get this working?
Note: I would prefer the bootstrap tooltip (as opposed to popover) but would be grateful if someone could help me with either.

A: You are doing what you shouldn't do. Looking at the Parsley docs one can see warning like this:

you must remove data-validate="parsley" auto-binding code in your
  forms DOM to allow you to override the default processing and use
  Parsley purely from javascript.

After that you can do $('.test').parsley(...).
Also note that you are hanging listeners incorrectly. The right way is to put them inside listenter: {} property just like this:
$('.test').parsley({
    listeners: {
        onFieldValidate: function(elem, ParsleyField) {
            console.log("validate", elem);
            return false;
        },
        onFieldError: function(elem, constraints, ParsleyField) {
            console.log("error", elem);
        }
    }
});

Simple example could be found here

A: You can simple check if your form is validated or not by using following code.
$( '#formId' ).parsley( 'isValid' );

A: I ended up using this in conjunction with bootstrap tooltips, the below snippet adds a title to invalid fields.
parsleyContainer = Field container, this could be a <form> tag for example
var parsleyContainer = $(this).closest('.tab-pane');
$(parsleyContainer).attr('data-parsley-validate', 'true');
$(parsleyContainer).parsley({
    errorsContainer: function (ParsleyField) {
        return ParsleyField.$element.attr("title");
    },
    errorsWrapper: false,
});

if($(parsleyContainer).parsley().validate()) {
    //do something is validated
}

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Ді́рборн () — місто () в США, розташоване у окрузі Вейн, що у штаті Мічиган. Місто розташоване у приміській зоні міста Детройта () і фактично є його південно-західним передмістям. За даними американського перепису населення 2010 року Дірборн є восьмим за кількістю населення містом у штаті Мічиган, у якому проживають  особи (2010). Місто є «домівкою» Генрі Форда та «світовою колискою автомобілебудування», де зараз розташовані головні штаб-квартира та виробничі потужності «Ford Motor Company». У Дірборні розташовані один із кампусів Університету Мічигану, Коледж співтовариства Генрі Форда та інші навчальні заклади.

Історія
Задовго до появи європейських колонізаторів землі в районі Великих озер і, зокрема, сучасного Дірборна, були заселені різноманітними індіанськими племенами, у переважній частині алґськомовними та гуронами, які були ірокезомовними. Поява колонізаторів привела до витіснення корінних народностей із земель, де на сьогодні розташоване місто.

Дірборн, як поселення, вперше згадується у кінці 18-го століття як французьке фермерське поселення типу «канадський ранг», що було розташоване вздовж індіанської стежини Саук і вздовж берега Червоної річки, яка є притокою річки Детройт. Документальні підтвердження про поселення датуються 1786 роком, вже після витіснення звідси французів і завершення Війни за незалежність.

Подальша розбудова поселення пов'язана із облаштуванням у Дірборні детройтського арсеналу на «Чиказькій дорозі», що з'єднувала Детройт із Чикаго і яка проходила по старій індіанській стежині Саук. Назву Дірборнвіл поселення отримало у 1836 році на честь патріота Генрі Дірборна, генерала революційної армії, військового міністра США за президентства Томаса Джефферсона. Із розростанням поселення і збільшенням кількості його жителів через небезпеку наявності у поселенні великої кількості вибухівки військові склади було перенесено у більш відлюдну місцевість.

Території між Дірборном і Детройтом довгий час залишались незаселеними. Частину з них було придбано Генрі Фордом, де розмістилася садиба Справедливий провулок (), а пізніше — і генеральна штаб-квартира «Ford Motor Company». Садиба була «енергонезалежною» і мала власну гідроелектростанцію з дамбою на Червоній річці.

У 1922 році було побудовано канал, який перенаправив води Червоної річки по новому руслу з метою полегшення судноплавства, що перетворило територію Фордсон на острів, який і на сьогодні залишається у приватній власності.

Із приєднанням у 1927 році територій Фордсон до містечка Дірборн, воно отримало статус міста. Пізніше, у 1934 році на цих територіях було побудовано «Аеропорт Форда», який був на той час найбільш сучасним аеропортом світу.

7 березня 1932 року для захисту майна заводів Форда поліцейські та охоронці вбили п'ятьох мітингувальників під час «Голодного маршу».

У 1947 році усі наземні служби аеропорту перенесли до аеропорту Детройта, після чого сам аеропорт було переобладнано у Дірборнський випробувальний полігон, без якого немислимий розвиток жодного автомобільного заводу, що прагне не тільки вижити у конкурентній боротьбі, а і завоювати вітчизняний і зарубіжні ринки автомобілів і їх складових частин.

Визначними місцями міста є «Музей Генрі Форда», «Бібліотека Століття Генрі Форда», Центральний регіональний торговельний центр Файєрленд з унікальною архітектурою, адміністративний центр міста та історичне Село Ґрінфілд. Плантації в селі засівають улюбленими Генрі Фордом соняшниками і соєвими, з яких ніколи не збирають врожаї.

Географія
Дірборн розташований за координатами  (42.313057, -83.211488).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 63,38 км², з яких 62,74 км² — суходіл та 0,64 км² — водойми.

Клімат

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкали  особи в  домогосподарствах у складі  родин. Густота населення становила 1549 осіб/км².  Було 37871 помешкання (598/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 4,0 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 3,4 % від усіх жителів.

Дірборн вважають арабською «столицею» Америки, де зосереджена найчисельніша арабська діаспора. Загалом у Дірборні проживають майже 40 000 арабо-американців, що становить близько 40 % від загальної чисельності населення міста. У місті розташований Центр Ісламу Америки — найбільша мечеть у Північній Америці, Арабський американський національний музей, Дірборнська мечеть. Арабо-американці активно розвивають власний бізнес, мають у власності магазини, де послуговуються як англійською, так і арабською. Діловий та комерційний арабський центр Дірборна розташовується на Воррен-Авеню.
Склад арабської діаспори становлять, в основному, ліванці, єменці, іракці, сирійці та палестинці.

Другою за чисельністю у місті є польська діаспора, яка становить 10,3 %. Під час перепису населення США 2000 німцями вважали себе 9,9 % дірборнців, ірландцями — 6,5 %, італійцями — 6,0 %. Корінне населення Америки у Дірборні становило 0,26 %.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 29,7 % — особи молодші 18 років, 58,3 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 12,0 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 33,0 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 97,8 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 94,3 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  долари для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 28,9 % осіб, у тому числі 40,8 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 14,0 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  особи. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 23,3 %, виробництво — 15,7 %, роздрібна торгівля — 15,1 %.

Економіка

У Дірборні розташована всесвітня штаб-квартира «Ford Motor Company».
Окрім неї, тут знаходяться більшість дослідницьких, випробувальних та фінансових підрозділів компанії, а також значна частина виробничих потужностей з виробництва транспортних засобів. Звідси здійснюється управління усією власністю, що належить Форду, починаючи від продаж і лізингу і закінчуючи непов'язаними видами бізнесу, такими як міський торговельний центр Файєрленд.

У Дірборні розташована найбільша у Мічигані кредитна спілка «DFCU Financial», яка була створена для службовців Форда і працівників пов'язаних з ним компаній.

Другим після Форда за кількістю працівників підприємством Дірборна є мережа медичних центрів системи охорони здоров'я «Oakwood», на яких працюють майже 6 тисяч працівників.

Третім за кількістю працівників підприємством Дірборна є металургійний завод «Rouge Steel» («Червона Сталь»), що входить до «Severstal North America», власником якої є російське «ВАТ Северсталь», і який виробляє 6,2 млн т сталі на рік (2007).

Також, одним із найбільших у Дірборні роботодавців є компанія з постачання автомобільних запасних і складових частин «Visteon», яка була створена «Ford Motor Company» і відійшла від неї у 2004 році, та поширила свою діяльність на продукцію «General Motors», «Chrysler» і на продукцію азійських компаній «Nissan» та «Hyundai».

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Bed bugs were again seen at the University of Texas in San Antonio this Wednesday as stated by David Gabler, the university spokesperson. A report from MySanAntonio.com said that the incident was already the fourth bed bug case in the university for just this school year.
Based on the report, the bed bugs were found in one of the campus residence facilities. Specifically, it was discovered in a room in an apartment-style dormitory called Laurel Village. Two other residence halls namely University Oaks and Chisholm Hall were previously bugged by the pests.
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Bed bugs are now a frequent sight to many schools. The University of Texas in San Antonio is among those campuses often visited by the blood-sucking pests. In fact, just this Wednesday, the fourth bed bug case in one of its dormitories was reported.
University Spokesman, David Gabler, announced last Wednesday the sighting of bed bugs for the fourth time in one of the university's residence facilities. Specifically, the pests were found in one room at Laurel Village, an apartment-style dormitory managed by UTSA. University Oaks and Chisholm Hall were the two other residence halls previously affected by the pests.
To exterminate bed bugs, the university implemented a heat treatment. Officials also informed the 3800 students living on-campus about the bed bug situation via email. And to prevent future bed bug problems, additionally, they advised students to watch out for bed bugs and signs of their presence.
The University of Texas at San Antonio is battling its fourth case of dormitory bedbugs this school year, university spokesman David Gabler said Wednesday.
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Heebe's chief defense lawyer is Kyle Schonekas. The New Orleans Advocate reports (http://bit.ly/2q1rhHc) that Schonekas is expected to be nominated by President Donald Trump to be the next U.S. Attorney in New Orleans.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Wells Roby's order for a Nagin deposition says the former mayor is to testify in a courtroom, but it's unclear whether the taking of the deposition will be open to the public.
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It's also important when it comes to taking care of your brain. Yet most of us start worrying about dementia after retirement -- and that may be too little, too late.
Experts say that if you really want to ward off dementia, you need to start taking care of your bean in your 30s and 40s -- or even earlier.
"More and more research is suggesting that lifestyle is very important to your brain's health," says Dr. Paul Nussbaum, a neuropsychologist and an adjunct associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "If you want to live a long, healthy life, then many of us need to start as early as we can."
So what can you do to beef up your brain -- and possibly ward off dementia? Nussbaum, who recently gave a speech on the topic for the Winter Park (Fla.) Health Foundation, offers 20 tips that may help.
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The US continues to place India in tier-2 of its annual report on human trafficking, arguing that the country does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.
India does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, the State Department said in it annual Congressional-mandated report on human trafficking but acknowledged that it has been making significant efforts to do so.
"The government demonstrated increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period; therefore, India remained on tier-2," the report said.
India's efforts were reflected in increasing the number of victims identified, investigations completed, and traffickers convicted, as well as its budget for shelter programmes for female and child trafficking victims.
It also adopted an action plan for children, which included plans to prevent child trafficking and protect child victims, the report said.
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"Overall victim identification and protection remained inadequate and inconsistent and the government sometimes penalised victims through arrests for crimes committed as a result of being subjected to human trafficking," the report said.
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Other NGOs stated workers in the informal economy, including brick kiln workers, were at times paid in void currency notes or were not paid at all due to cash shortages- both situations subsequently increased the workers' vulnerability to debt bondage and forced labour, it said.
India, the report said, is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labour and sex trafficking.
Forced labour constitutes India's largest trafficking problem; men, women, and children in debt bondage-sometimes inherited from previous generations- are forced to work in brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and embroidery factories, it said.
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It's demoralizing to work hard and witness student achievement every day, only to come home to false or misleading news reports about the failures of our public schools. Our schools are not failing and I resent the harsh criticism, mostly leveled by people who have no formal connection or accurate understanding of public education.
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Hello! My Name is Public School and I Have an Image Problem is the antidote to the incessant, often mean-spirited criticism leveled for decades against our public schools with little recognition for the great things they have achieved over the years. As a school teacher herself, Leslie Milder spent the better part of 10 years in the classroom and is quick to say "I was tired of getting picked on" when asked why she founded Friends of Texas Public Schools and co-authored this book with Jane Braddock.
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Right. There are support arms on the sides at the rear that go down to the trans hump. You pretty well have to take the sides of the console off and the console dash to get at them.
If you don't have a manual or any other graphics to look at, keep careful track of all the screws you undo. There will be a lot of them. It's a stupid amount of chrome pieces, dash panels, and other accessories that all have to be loosened or moved aside to get the radio out. Getting it all back correctly is the challenge.
The more I hear about this the more I think I'll go with a modern hide away stereo system when I get around to it, and leave the old non-functional AM radio alone. Where I live, there's only one decent AM radio station anyway, and all those power lines generating static.
On another topic, what are folks doing for speakers? I think my '64 just has a single speaker up front and a single speaker in the back. I guess I could install front speakers in the doors but what options are there for the back?
There are some flat speakers you can put under the seats. I saw that on an earlier Bird but I don't know how power seats would impact fitment. Otherwise, you'll have to do some cutting like my 16 y/o self did back when. I regretted that later though.
If I were to take this on, I think I'd just put the best speakers I could in the factory locations.
If you have power seats, there is no way you can fit speakers under the seats, or at least not ones of any size to be useful. I don't think there is any realistic way to put ones in the back, other than the original location. In my opinion, we drive these cars most of the time with the windows down anyway, so quality of sound is not that big a deal. In any event, the locations that speakers could be put in are not very compatible with good acoustic physics. In truth, the whole interior of these cars is an acoustic nightmare. I think the best thing to do is install dual voice coil speakers of the original sizes in the original locations, open the windows and turn up the volume.
I have a Retrosound radio in the original location along with dual voice coil speakers and the sound is just fine. I also think there are no stations worth listing to so I have a library on a USB that gives me all the music I want.
That sounds like good advice, Terry. I've never heard of dual voice coil speakers. Is that like having both sides of the stereo signal in one speaker, just with two voice coils? Also, thanks for the tip on Retrosound radio, I'm checking them out online. Could you let me know where you found the speakers?
There are about 4 choices for speakers to fit the original locations. First is original style speaker replacements that usually go for about $20 and give about the same quality as original. Second, if you can find them are single, newer technology ones of the original size. They may give better sound, but still will tie right and left sides together. If your radio is capable of separate right and left side sound, then the next step is dual speaker assemblies that are really two little (about 3") speakers mounted on a wooden panel that fits the existing speaker hole. They sound what they look like, two little speakers on a piece of wood. The last, and best, choice is dual voice coil, which mount two tweeters on a full-sized bass cone. This will give you some separation of the mid and high tones while the bass benefits from the largest cone that will fit. It still isn't full separation, but about as good as you can get with our cars. I think dual voice coil run $50 to $60 for our cars.
As far as radios go, there are only a couple of choices to upgrade without completely changing the look of the dash. Custom Autosound makes a line that fit the dash, but don't look all that original (in my opinion). They are very common and can been seen in lots of cars at any show. I had the misfortune of buying their original Secret Audio some years ago and it was the worst radio I have ever encountered in any situation. I understand that their version 2 is better, but the control panel is still small and difficult to use. A company called Retrosound makes one that fits the dash perfectly and looks almost original except that the screen is black when not on. They supply overlays that reproduce the frequency numbers and make it look better, but it then hides the readout. They also come with several inputs including USB and Apple. This is the one I have now and am very happy with.
The last choice it to have your original radio upgraded with a new board that will give you all the latest features, excellent output and, of course, will look completely original. The big disadvantage is that you still have the original dial, so you don't know what is going on. If you just play tunes using a USB or iPod like I do, then it doesn't matter.
Thanks Terry, this is great. You've done a lot of homework here, much appreciated!