Tuesday, April 30, 2013

How much money has Apple in China?

According to the Apple earnings call, the company had a whopping $137 billion dollars in cash at the end of December.

 About two-thirds of that money, "about $91 billion," was "offshore" at the end of December, according to Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer.

 Apple employs 43,000 people in the United States and 20,000 overseas,

Sunday, April 28, 2013

The operating budget of the U.S. House of Representatives

The budget for the U.S. House of Representatives is 15% lower in 2013  than it was in 2010. 

They’ve cut $400 million out of their own operating budget.

The operating budget of the U.S. House of Representatives is amazingly high: 2.2 billions of  dollars

Monday, April 22, 2013

Big business and big government

Big business and big government are uniting to pursue their mutual interest in sticking  it to the little guy.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

How many people are sick in the US?

How many people are sick in the US?

In 2005, 133 million Americans had at least one chronic illness and each year  48 million people get sick  of foodborne diseases according the CDC.

Friday, April 19, 2013

25.9% of Housing units are in multi-unit structures in the U.S

25.9% of  Housing units are  in multi-unit structures in the U.S.

 41.8% in Massachusetts and
16.3% in Montana

Monday, April 15, 2013

Who did this in Boston?

The first suspect at 10 p.m  is a foreigner with a student visa.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

How Long Will Social Security Last?

The Trustees of Medicare and Social Security say that the trust funds will run out in eleven years for Medicare and about twenty years for Social Security.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Margaret Thatcher's Best Quotes

"No one would remember the good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well."

 "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families."

 "There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything.…No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do."

 "You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear."

 "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."