Free Enterprise. WE Win!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Why not....

"I" told you so!!!! ;D

Israelis Urge Europeans to Support Palestinian Statehood Bid:
blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2011/05/27/israelis-urge-europeans-to-support-palestinian-statehood-bid/

[The Virginian]

Are you Sure??
;D

[decoy409]

The guy that makes up tales and then can not defend them such as the housing barrage I sent your way including in your own neck of the woods knows what's going on? Why that is the name of this thread.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

May 27, 2011 15:20:57 GMT -5 The Virginian said:

Are you Sure??
;D

Pretty sure..

China's Inner Mongolia set for more unrest: group:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5itzViq7xECEyUyWmroUNskLl1M0A?docId=CNG.97e7beb3ccd09ba5b15138c14a923753.641

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Missed this!

Parts of China's Inner Mongolia "under martial law" as protests spread:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/27/china-protest-mongolians-idUSL3E7GR11X20110527

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

This is the paradox that is China. From above to this..
American "panda" movie stirs controversy among Chinese moviegoers:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/entertainment/2011-05/29/c_13899327.htm

However, the panda has won million of fans in China. On China' s most popular microblog website, weibo.com, comments on the movie reached nearly 270 million entries, and the number is still rising. Most of the netizens post questions such as "Why can' t we produce such brilliant movies ourselves?"

"I won't call it a cultural invasion," said Li Jiayi, a Beijing university student. "I see nothing bad for others to use our cultural elements to make a movie."

Yuan Weili, a girl in Shijiazhuang, capital city of north China' s Hebei Province, said at a cinema that she had been waiting three years to watch the sequel.

"I' m a huge fan of Po. In spite of being a cartoon, it is still loved by many adults like me," said the 25-year-old after watching the first show at midnight.

Nine-year-old Zhang Miao watched during the day with his parents. He made a Kung Fu pose and said, "I didn' t see 'Rio' , and I' m not interested in 'pirates' , but I gotta see Kong Fu Panda."

Cao Hui, deputy general manager with Shenzhen Global Digital Creations company, said instead of a "boycott," movie producers should learn from the movie to better make use of Chinese story elements.

"Technically, Kung Fu Panda is not more advanced than Chinese movies, but as for story telling skills, Chinese movies have a long way to go," said Cao.

I think most of us know why they will have no choice but to use the tried and true success of American brands to keep their tight rope balance act going for now.

[tyfighter3]

It's always nice to have your eyes opened to see the real perspective of things.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

I agree Ty.. K4U

Beijing steps up TV censorship:
www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a28a4614-8ad9-11e0-b2f1-00144feab49a.html#axzz1NtA7ducc

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

China’s Economy Slows, But Inflation Still a Threat:
www.cnbc.com/id/43219926/page/2/

At the same time, the economic returns on new highways and other public infrastructure projects are declining, now that the best locations have already been built up, and as planners extend construction to less affluent and more remote areas. While some economists predict this effect will take five or more years to become serious, others warn it could hit sooner.

“Growth will slow significantly in two or three years — the timing will be determined politically,” said Michael Pettis, an associate professor of finance at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. “And the slowdown will last much longer than anyone expects — perhaps over a decade.”

How are they going to combat this slowdown?

Hint: Happiness over GDP. Buy, buy, buy!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Yep...

China to Clean Up Billions in Local Government Debt:
economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/china-to-clean-up-billions-worth-of-local-debt/articleshow/8664443.cms

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Free The People, and all will prosper. Thanks JC.

China crackdown recalls Tiananmen: rights groups
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j1ISFxnXHcQORJ22HHeSV9OL44UA?docId=CNG.c25ee0dda3642b09205174b6d3bb70ef.341

India to launch 12 foreign satellites in next two years
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-to-launch-12-foreign-satellites-in-next-two-years/articleshow/8690325.cms

Gates Foundation spends $1.7B on farming in Africa
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hDmEAu9pyAGlwIUIGk_s1gP-LVaQ?docId=0e4e9665645e4dba9bbfa8daa6e6a8dc

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

China Land Price Fall Threatens Local Finances
www.cnbc.com/id/43245483/China_Land_Price_Fall_Threatens_Local_Finances

Ambitious Plan for China’s Water Crisis Spurs Concern
classic.cnbc.com/id/43246871

No pastoral idyll
Turbulence in Inner Mongolia makes managing China no easier
www.economist.com/node/18775303

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

The commies need more money. Surprise, surprise, capitalism wins again! Free Enterprise FTW!!!

Vietnam to Revamp Stock Market Rules
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576362444048367236.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

This is what happens when you try and choke off private growth to keep your own fascist dictatorship in place. Bring on the Chinese consumer! Thanks JC.

Chinese Entrepreneurs Are Leaving China
blogs.forbes.com/gordonchang/2011/06/05/chinese-entrepreneurs-are-leaving-china/

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Soclaism is dying and enterprise is being freed! Time for the govt to make sure that the people are looked after, and stay out of our lives!

Canadian values becoming more conservative: Poll
www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Canadian+values+becoming+more+conservative+Poll/4914288/story.html

OTTAWA — Canadian ideals are shifting to the right, being taken over by a "unique strain of conservatism," former Reform party leader Preston Manning said while discussing the results of a poll from his Calgary-based think-tank.

This was the second year the Manning Centre for Building Democracy conducted the poll, which asked Canadians about their attitudes toward values and policies generally ascribed to Conservatives. Last year's results indicated similar movements, with more people saying they don't want government peddling grand views and having its hands in all aspects of society.

The only exception to this opinion is public safety and security policies, Manning said in an interview Wednesday.

Of those surveyed, 65 per cent said government should focus on current issues, and 67 per cent said government should decrease in size in order to do more.

Canada, it seems, has arrived at a point where its citizens have shifted their expectations for government, said Allan Gregg, the chair of Harris Decima, which helped with the polling.

"(Government) is no longer the grand designer," Gregg said. "Now it's expected to manage problems as they arise."

But the national shift isn't necessarily being ascribed to Conservative leader Stephen Harper, who has been prime minister for slightly more than five years.

"This can't be traced back the last two or three or four years," said Andre Turcotte, president of Feedback Research Centre, which also helped with polling and interpreting the results. Instead, he said, this is something that has been happening since the late 1980s — around the same time the Reform Party began its rise.

In fact, Harper wasn't in line with the movement until 2008, when there was a "turning point," he said.

Turcotte couldn't speculate to whether it was by design or surprise, but he said that in 2008, Harper managed to tap into what many wanted out of government — being smaller and more focused on specific issues.

On the eve of the Conservative party's convention, Manning offered several warnings to today's politicians.

"As these conservative values become mainstream values, people will less and less identify them with Conservatives. People will just say these are Canadian values," he said, offering that the Conservatives will soon find it more difficult to distinguish themselves from other federal parties.

Finding ways to stand out among the parties won't be an easy task, Manning said, since the poll suggested a large portion of the country's electorate has become "seriously disengaged" from politics, and is moving toward a world of "self, family and friends."

"People are looking for a realignment of Canadian values," he said. "They don't believe in big government solutions to big problems."

Instead, the poll results suggest that Canadians are adopting a "unique conservatism" that combines free market principles while government takes smaller role in day-to-day life but keeps a close eye on safety and security.

The poll was conducted from May 4 to 11, almost immediately after the election that saw the New Democrats leapfrog over the Liberals, who tumbled from Official opposition to third party.

A total of 1,000 interviews were conducted with randomly selected Canadians, resulting in a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points within a 95 per cent confidence interval.

[decoy409]

Say,this must be what's going on. After all,one writer and a concept from their own fog,must be what's going on!

[decoy409]

Burger here has it going on! Come on over and support Burger.

After all,this is what's going on!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Your right! Finally!







Instead, the poll results suggest that Canadians are adopting a "unique conservatism" that combines free market principles while government takes smaller role in day-to-day life but keeps a close eye on safety and security.


Free Enterprise!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

You can't beat free enterprise becase it lets ideas flourish, and people have the freedom to believe what the choose.

Love not war, who has time for war when eveyone has things to do? Like watch American Idol, or go to the ball game, or go to the mall.

You have to admit it now, once people are shown the truth they are set free.

China's 'Wealth Drain': New Signs That Rich Chinese Are Set on Emigrating
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2077139,00.html

According to a new study, a majority of Chinese who have more than 10 million Yuan ($1.53 million) worth of individual assets find the idea of real—estate investment a lot less tempting than so—called "investment emigration." Nearly 60% of people interviewed claim they are either considering emigration through investment overseas, or have already completed the process, according to the 2011 Private Wealth Report on China published by China Merchants Bank and a business consulting firm Bain & Company. The richer you are, the study suggests, the likelier it is that you resort to emigration. And among those who possess more than 100 million yuan, 27 % have already emigrated while 47% are considering leaving............

..........The fact that more and more rich Chinese are seeking to emigrate is turning into a hot topic in China, and statistics prove that the trend is a real one. According to Caixin online, a Chinese website specialized in finance, the compound annual growth rate of overseas investment by Chinese individuals approached 100% between 2008 and 2010. The compound growth rate of the Chinese who used investments to emigrate to the United States in the past five years is 73%.
So why are wealthy Chinese so eager to leave their country? The simplest answer is that there are a lot of things in China that even the richest cannot buy (emigration is obviously not one of them). China's rich are fond of saying that nothing "is a problem if money can solve it." Among the irresolvable problems that spark emigration, there are material ones, and emotional ones.
The former includes issues like laws and regulations, the education system, social welfare, inheritance tax, quality of air, investing atmosphere, food safety, ability to travel, and so on. In short, these are the material factors that any State must provide to its people in order to ensure their happiness. In emerging countries such as China, these factors are still often found wanting.

Happiness not GDP

Have fun being #1

Vietnamese threat to China, from the sea?
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/Vietnamese-threat-to-China-from-the-sea/articleshow/8819885.cms

Protesters clash with police in China
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jqdg_c1U3KonHAkIlHu1gkwioFFQ?docId=CNG.fbec89d1617bd62a55b6d7f687c79964.491

Bomber targets govt building in north China: report
www.montrealgazette.com/news/Bomber+targets+govt+building+north+China+report/4931617/story.html

Russia, China Face Final Test(Arab Times)
www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/170139/reftab/36/t/Russia-China-face-final-test/Default.aspx

[tyfighter3]

You wonder why your energy cost is rising. Free interprise, What's that when this is going on. It's a must read.
www.ogj.com/index/article-display/5561155634/articles/oil-gas-journal/general-interest-2/hse/20100/june-2011/aep-sees__6-8_billion.html

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

We are finding balance, it's not that they think that reducing emmsions is bad, from your article Ty.

AEP noted that it has invested more than $7.2 billion since 1990 to reduce emissions from its coal-fired plants. Nitrogen oxide emissions are 80% lower and sulfur dioxide emissions are 73% lower. The company owns nearly 25,000 Mw of coal-fired capacity.

AEP said, “We support regulations that achieve long-term environmental benefits while protecting customers, the economy, and the reliability of the electric grid…and have worked for months to develop a compliance plan that will mitigate the impact of these rules for our customers and preserve jobs.”

I would even bet that they think it's a good thing now that c02 can be used for enhanced oil recovery, and possibly concentrated to help with the production of bio mass. Plus the new coal plant at Boundy dam here in Sask, is not only fitted with Co2 capture, it will also be fitted to catch the S02 to make sulfuric acid.

These regs take place in 2020 so there is time for bickers. Free enterprise , IMO, doesn't mean the business is free to do what they what, because we know that can be criminal, it means that they should be kept in check by the govt for the well being of the people, and the people should make sure that the govt is doing what's best for the people, and govenrment shouldn't be running businesses, the people should.

[tyfighter3]

Reducing emissions isn't bad but here in IL AEP has already asked for a Rate increase that takes that 10 to 35% increase in our bill to take place way before 2020, like before the end of this year. Utility Bills are a big expense to Small business's let alone the private person. We the consumer have been nickeled and dimmed to death by by all of the little increases that our government has put into place against Companies that makes them increase their prices when they don't want to at this place or time because they know what kind of damage it will do to the consumer. I don't want a government that does what is best for me, I can handle that one for myself.

[tyfighter3]

When Companies are forced to spend money, some people think that will create jobs, that it will do but at who's expense. They will past all of those cost right on down the line. So if someone is forced to spend 8 or 9 billion, where do you think they will get the money from? So when someone that wants to open up a small business and goes down to their Utility Company and ask for the power to be turn on and then told that they need the first 3 months up front for a down payment and find that now it cost 30% more to get opened. That right there puts a stop to a lot of New Business that want to open up.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

It's not about the govt doing what's best for you, it's making sure that what is going on isn't criminal. These companies would continue to poison and pollute as long s you let them that shit causes cancer. We have seen what complete freedom in the banking industry causes.

I understand that right now it's very hard to swallow a 30% rate increase, we have been experiencing the same thing, with new technology we can find way to reuse things better and balance costs out. If things were better people would open that business, pass it on, and wages would keep pace with the increase as usual. However, jobs haven't kick in as soon as with other recovers, and the markets are way out ahead of the economy. This is because of the overbuilt housing market, the lack of grunt work thing. It's honestly time to rip those houses down and re plant some crops in places that that can happen. That is a lot of grunt work, and a great reward in the end.

Unfortunately because of the type of bust, it will take longer to see the results that we all want to see. However, if there wasn't anything happening then I would really start to worry. However, it's human nature to preserver. There was a manager for Blackstone talking on fri morning on cnbc, and he said that the is unprecedented times, because for the first time in post war history, govt is shrinking. It has been view for a while, and it was his as well; and it will continue to do so because there is no more room for government growth. Good thing the banks and business have a cash pile ready to go to work.

[tyfighter3]

Government is always the last to cut back in a recession, all you have to look at is where the job losses are coming from now. The Banks and most Company's do have a ton of cash on hand but for the most part people are still in a debt reduction mood and with regulation uncertainly hanging over there heads, it will be awhile before Banks can loan it out or business start to spend it. The bottle neck is WHERE? We know that it's going to happen but there are things that could be done to speed it up.

[The Virginian]

All our manufacturers are currently announcing price increases of 6-15% - most will be effective August 1st. Get ready - It's about to hit the Fan!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

I hear you Ty, however, the point that I have been making and again the manager at Blackstone said the same thing, there is no more room for governmental growth. Us Canadians were at the same point in the 90's. The Liberal(socialist) govt cut back govt spending, and became a conservative party. Since then we have grown together as a country under the understanding that the Govt needs to be around less, and spend less; and that is exactly what Mr. Manning's poll found, and that is what I see. Now, if a socialists country like Canada can agree on spending reduction, and a common ground so that we can turn a surplus, I have a hard time believing that the most entrepreneurial country in the world can't do the same thing. We all still have different political views, but we all agree, cut the spending you pigs!

The reserves that have been announce, the re-shoring initiative that are being taking, the innovation that is happing, will all kick in and start to work. I was reading an article the other day and it referd to the USA as a country that was rich in Natural resources, just three years ago, it was, the US has used up all thier natural resources. It's amazing what an announcement of few billion barrels of oil, and a few billion cubic feet of NG will do to people opinions of the situation.

[tyfighter3]

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[tyfighter3]

Years ago we knew that there was oil and gas in the shale but we didn't have the TEC to get it out and really didn't know how much there was. Could you really call it a Resource then? But now we do have the TEC to get it out of the ground and we can really show that it is a Resource that is a Game Changer for all of us. We need more Refinery's built here in the US( EPA get out of the way), More pipelines and Storage built to handle the added production. Have the Large Gas Stations put in CNG tanks for Cars and Trucks( wouldn't take them long to do it) More Cars and trucks that run on CNG. The cost difference of $2 compared to $4 per gallon is a game changer in itself. You know how much money that would put back into the consumers pocket. We could see DOW 20000 if that happened.Free enterprise at it's best. Oh and the JOBS it would create. Our Housing problems gone.

[tyfighter3]

All of this could happen without it costing the Taxpayers any money. That's something I like very much.