I would think too, but every time I do I realize just how retarded this country is. I therefore have abstained from all rational thought and am doing quite well because of it ^.^

So Brad,

If I understood correctly what you are, in a way, trying to point out, you are basically saying that while Excalpius may claim to have worked for several companies that made lots of money, that does not necessarily mean he has the knowledge of how the economics part worked.

Kinda like looking at the resumes of 2 people, 1 has several comapnies he worked for, major companies, with great reviews and the other has 1 or 2 with several years invested in each. The second guys sound better in my opinion. More stable, more knowledge.

Am I correct in my assumption?

To sum up economics in the U.S....The government and irresponsible big business digs the hole...and we...as in us and our next several generations are left to try and fill it in. Which is pretty much an exercise in futility since they just keep making the hole bigger and bigger since there isn't anyone stopping them. I think what we need is a private group of people that can take direct and immediate actions against this type of behavior. If your company goes belly up....sucks to be you. Especially these car makers that pay they're workers high wages to put out crappy cars in the first place. Let'em go under.

I think if you look back you will see that I have admitted I was in error at least twice when I have been corrected.

Then it would be my turn to stand corrected!

They can't do any worse with our money than the GOP has over the past 8 years.  I believe they will handle it sanely with an eye on everyone's needs, not just their rich friends and patrons.  And if they don't they I will be one to call them out.  But based on what they do or don't do, not based on your fears of what they might do.  That's just silly.

If you say so.  I read everything and felt my response demonstrated quite clearly that you had missed the letter and spirit of what our founding fathers intended for this country.

After 80 years, no President or congress has done anything but tinker with the welfare state, clearly with the support of the majority of the American people.  Except for some right wing nutjob pundits, no one even talks about repealing welfare anymore, except from the perspective of welfare REFORM...in the hopes of making it more effective.  You can't seriously see large scale protests over welfare out there?   There are NONE.

Actually, it appears to be your delusion that I said anything of the kind.  Please stick to debating the actual points I am making.  Putting words into my mouth and debating some phantom imaginary poster only discredits your position.

I have forgotten nothing.  I lived through all of that.

The USS Cole, first towers bombing, etc. were standard terrorist fare.  Nothing on the level of 9-11.

We had UN mandates to go into Kosovo and help/be the peacekeepers.  We only maintained the no-fly zone during Clinton's administration as the first gulf war was during Bush Sr.'s administration.  Not sure why you are bringing that up, as it's clear that there is again no comparison with either of the two Bush Iraq wars and we didn't spent a trillion dollars on preemptive invasion or lose 4,000+ soldiers in combat during those years.

Either way, THERE'S NO COMPARISON, objectively or relatively. 

He's better than Bush for the past 8 years...period. 

And again, you're saying I said things I didn't say.

And, for the record, holding seances is EQUALLY IGNORANT as consulting astrology.  Period.

You also might want to proof-read better.  It's getting hard to make sense of your point through the typos and insults. 

Somewhat.  What I am saying is that in many companies, the guy in charge is "the talent".  Maybe he's a great designer or a great artist or an actor.  But that doesn't mean he's a business person.  At Stardock as well as in most businesses, I am in charge of running the company. I don't make the skins or design the skins or write the software. My value add is that I know a lot about a lot of things but I am not the key talent in any of the actual products.

For example, let's say someone is a famous visual effects artist who did worked on Titanic's special effects. That person could easily get investment capital and start an effects house with lots of employees and work making visual effects for movies.  But that doesn't make the CEO good at business economics.

As a real world example, I work with Chris Taylor, founder and CEO of Gas Powered Games. Terrific guy. Genius. But he is the central talent that GPG is built around and he would be the first to tell you that his forte is not business economics. 

Stardock's success, for instance, is not because I'm personally skilled at making skins or writing software or developing games. The people around me are not there to accentuate my existing capabilities at desktop enhancement coding or skinning. I've never written a line of code in any of our key desktop enhancement programs. I'm not an artist. 

Most businesses are more along the lines of a Stardock than of the model in which the founder/CEO is the hyper-talent that the company revolves around.

Whether it is the government or a big company, we should always be wary of concentrations of power. The more power that the individual has in a society, the freeer and more prosperous we can become.

The fundamental problem with Republicans and Democrats is that they both back a concentration of power.  The Democrats prefer the government and the Republicans prefer big business. Neither should be trusted.

BTW, for the record, it wasn't Nancy Reagan who did seances. It was Hillary Clinton.

Of course they can.  The plans they are already talking about are worse. 

Then again, you think democrats are willing to "spend" your money "sanely".  Wow.

Frogboy, you spent a lot of time making assumptions and listing off business 101 issues. I don't feel this thread is about teaching everyone about business affairs, etc. etc. But to make things crystal clear...

I have built LLCs (like the one in November), S-Corps, and C-Corps. 

I have been the founder/President/CEO handling day-to-day operations for most of them.  I've been the Chairman of the Board for more than one.

Some of these companies have come and gone.  Some have been in business for almost 20 years.  And one is a household name.

Some have received outside seven and eight figure investments. Some have been single-project funded.

Some have collapsed in partnership disputes, while other have been bought and sold.

But there's lots of businesses and lots of businessmen.  Economics is more art than science, more opinion than tried and true.  If it wasn't, we wouldn't have booms and recessions, would we? 

Regardless, I've dealt with everything you've dealt with on a day to day basis, for years, and then I've dealt with the next orders of magnitude.

(now on to the rest of your post)

So you can prove there is no Human Spirit?

I always find it interesting when people claim to be superior in intellect to others based on their beliefs. And yes not believing in a religion or god, is still only a belief as you can neither prove or disprove, the existence of. Only at our deaths will we know for certain.

Acting condescending(bordering on insulting) toward others who do not share your Opinions/beliefs does not show superiority nor maturity.

Since when did this post become a 'Mine is bigger than yours' and 'I'm right and the rest of you are idiots'? Arrogance is not an appealing quality and the magnitude that has been shown in a few of your comments tends to bring out the shovels and galoshes.

Let us hope that Obama will not mimic what you have shown so far here.

Humilty brings cooperation, arrogance brings disdain.

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