Yes. But not illegals and undocumented workers as your projects do.

Market just shat itself again/:zz:

Nope. They made plenty of profit. Our economy has boomed for years. They just wanted more.

How much in taxes did the Top Ten richest companies in the United States pay last year, Joey? There are many charts and news articles - just google and post it here.

If the company is still here, and wouldn't have been otherwise, I guess it worked for that company.


The housing bubble was started from the mandated lending to otherwise unqualified buyers, directed by the government through the Community Reinvestment Act.


They must forward the taxes - now as far as them paying none, you're correct in that most companies will not take a hit on profit to pay a levied tax, so that means the price of the product would have to go up. If that company thinks that the new price to pay the new tax would be noncompetitive with, say, a company outside the country not having to pay the tax, they're going to move.

No they don't. They have a duty to their shareholders and the customers buying their products.

I have no control over the contractors that work on the same projects I work on. They hire the way they feel they need to. As for my company, we have hired 5 people all Americans and college graduates (crazy right?) in the last 16 months all while the sky is falling.
Perhaps cream rises to the top.
Glad your business is able to help out too!

If the Republicans won't allow any stimulus/job creation, then all the fed has left is allowing inflation to creep up.

That's is the joke of this fake "we're going broke! We can't pay our bills!" discussion - we are a sovereign nation. We could always print all the money we want to pay off every bill we have.

Yes, we have to rein in spending. But it's not the ridiculous crisis the right has made it out to be for the past month, just to screw Obama.

I am with you on the too many people and the likely hood of London type behaviors finding their way around. What is it that makes you think that jobs will never return? You seem like a reasonable person and I am actually curious and happy to hear and debate your opinions.
Also what would be your plan for creation of jobs?
It has to fall on the private sector one way or another, no?

Yes, it extends to the very richest of our nation wanting to live in this great country, while trying to get very single penny they can out of the economy, and screw anyone else. Especially the poor, the have nots, the hungery.

The rich are having a very bad time ... they have hoarded most of the money in the economy, 1.2 Trillion dollars. That means there is no money left for the other 90% to purchase their goods and services.

Of course, if your job is to make money by gambling (Wall Street) which way the country goes doesn't matter, as you can make as much money in the destruction of an empire as you can during the creation.

Don't forget they all shorted, and were profit-taking last few days, too.

I'm sorry but if that 60k per year IT worker cant find a job working IT, but can find a job trimming hedges. That is what he/she should do, while he/she continues to look for a job in IT.

whats the alternative? dont work and collect tax payer funded unemployment?

How unbelievably ignorant.

:tro:

personal responsibility. nobody wants that.

I made no distinction about who has this sense.
I am glad to know you are doing as much to help the poor and indigent in this country. I am certain you are volunteering your time and money to help.
Or does that responsibility fall on the "wealthy" too?

Of course they should take any job they could get (and afford to live upon - even if it takes two jobs) - but those jobs are not available. They are not existent. There are not millions of jobs sitting there empty, unfilled because the lazy unemployed class won't take them.

How unbelievably ignorant.

Do you work in commercial construction or houses/apartments? I'd guess commercial. If not, I'd like to know where private housing is thriving in multiple states right now.

See, here's the agreement in our country, according to our founding fathers, and our Constitution and Bill of Rights: we all contribute to our common society, through taxes, to our common national welfare. And even if we don't like something ... wars, or welfare ... the deal is that you have a say through the ballot box, but when you are on the losing side, you still have to do it. So everyone in this country has a responsibility to contribute. The first contribution is being an informed voter.

your inability to understand reality is quite funny. You have no clue on inflation, stimulus, fed policy,etc. Sorry I have to get back to work. 10 yr T note just hit all time low and it is time to make some $.

Primarily single family homes but we do work in the occasional multi-dwelling and rarer still in commercial.

Really? Do you have anything constructive to offer regarding the Feds options, or just want to be snarky? You want to talk about the Feds announcement (or lack of it) that there will be no QE3, that they are not doing anything? Or just wanna be snarky?

Seriously - where are single family homes being built right now? Where is housing growth?

Private home building is thriving in CO, LA, GA, IN, NH, FL (only larger homes), AZ, CA (not southern). Those are where the majority of my projects are.
Informed voter has become an oxymoron.

Indiana surprises me. Where? Central? In association with the wind farms?

AZ isn't going to have any water. I can't believe they are still building there.

OK too, for some reason people live there.

The bank executives sure the f.uck don't and have no repercussions for their actions.

Are you saying these people should have different rules? Wake up.

the bank execs who screwed us should be put in a cell with Bubba or have their asses kicked in a public setting.

Well they aren't and if they can get away with criminal behavior then why can't the poor?

The leaders of society are mostly scumbag criminals. Lead by example and this is the result.

Where in Indiana?

Do youl read your boo bees bedtime stories??

This is a hilarious accounting - in cartoon form - of the reality of how the Republicans decided to use the "debt ceiling blockage" strategy. Be sure to go down to the bottom of the introduction and click "start" (it is not the cartoons on the right)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...deal-timeline/

When you make a comment stating "we will never go broke because we can just print more money" it shows that you have no knowledge or understanding of fiscal policy and there is no sense in discussing it with you. You simply do not understand. My 3 yr old has that kind of logic. The Fed said a lot today, more than it usually does. The last thing we need is QEIII.

Oh for christ sakes, you fool, I didn't say we would ever do that, or that it would remotely ever be a reasonable or logical solution, it would be terrible. I suspected you to have a small bit of common sense in a discussion!

But it is indeed why we would never go "bankrupt".

You are so filled with your prejudices and assumptions. You trot them out at the drop of a hat, be they valid or not. Are you already blaming "union thugs" for any Democratic victories in Wisconsin today? Even though the Koch Brothers have spent more outside money on the GOP side?

the best news the past few weeks is no QEIII

Riot were you bullied in school?

Like you? No. Not at all.

I'm tired of Wiphans massive and repetitive jumping to unsubstantiated conclusions. If you say A, Wiphan snarks back attacking you for C, D and E. Predictable and boring. And bullshit.

he's a smart guy who understands what is going on in the state he resides.

Not smart enough to realize the basic financial parameter givens of a normal discussion.

only in your opinion.

Yes, we each get one of those! ;)

And to slightly change the subject, this is completely hilarious:

"Tea Party! American Thanks You!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Kuo8lb6Bg

S & P against GOP "Balanced Budget Amendment"
 

Washington Post:

House and Senate Republicans have rallied around the notion of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution as a solution to the country’s dire fiscal straits. But over the weekend, the head of Standard & Poor’s sovereign ratings division dismissed the idea, arguing that it would be more harmful than helpful to the country’s creditworthiness.

“In general, we think that fiscal rules like these just diminish the flexibility of the government to respond” to crises, S&P managing director John Chambers told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Saturday when asked whether it’s important that Congress send a balanced budget amendment to the states in order to restore the country’s AAA credit rating.

Chambers made the remarks one day after S&P downgraded the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA+ for the first time in the country’s history.

Since the start of the 112th Congress, Republicans in both chambers have voiced increasing support for a balanced budget amendment, and a pledge to “cut, cap and balance” the federal budget — first raised during the debate over raising the country’s debt ceiling — has become a rallying point among conservatives in the broader battle over the federal budget.

if they'd put all their efforts into finding ways to increase hiring, we'd be far better off.

i called the honorable sen. pryors office today, which my husband said was probably a waste of time.
i told the lady who answered the phone that i was calling because of a line i'd read in the paper earlier today. that leaders in england were cutting their vacations short, and returning to handle the crisis with the looting, etc. i asked her why our leaders weren't doing the same.

i think i'll email bozeman and rep. ross, and ask them the same thing.

and what ever happened with this?

http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/03/news...down/index.htm


or was that all just a waste of time for the people involved? what's the point in having people work on something, if you're not going to use the results?

the reps have named the six members of the super committee....

which will now become a super waste of time, effort, with no reason to meet.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44088093...per-committee/


maybe, just maybe....lol...anyway, maybe they can at least do what is suggested in the article, tax reform and close loopholes.

you've got a party that refuses to touch the biggest part of future budget problems, and a party that refuses to look at raising taxes even on billionaires. now, without a bit of a move on both those issues, our problems will continue to spiral out of control.