How much money does the trillion-dollar federal bureaucracy in Washington spend in foreign aid budget?

How much money does the trillion-dollar federal bureaucracy in Washington spend in foreign aid budget?


$50 billion is the state /foreign operations budget.

To find value things you really have to dig.

To find value things you really have to dig.

More choice is always a bad thing.

Japanese system a model for America

Japanese system a model for America

The Japanese public debt was more than twice the annual gross domestic product of Japan in 2013.

The America's public debt was  was 72% of GDP.

Where the family dies

Where the family dies

In big, cosmopolitan cities with highly educated populations

How to Find a Job

How to Find a Job

About 25% of all new hires come from referrals and 90% of those are from current employees, according to HR consulting firm CareerXroads.

24 Years of Salary Deflation

24 Years of Salary Deflation

The average per capita personal income in 1990 in the United States was $18,667 per year.

The lowest salary for a Commercial Pilot in 2014  is $29,157  per year.

What is the difference between the Democratic party and the Republican party?

What is the difference between the Democratic party and the Republican party?

Their names.

Why higher-wage earners qualify for federal subsidies?

Why higher-wage earners qualify for federal subsidies?

Because insurance companies run the system

The best techniques to competitive success.

The best techniques to competitive success.

Check your  birth certificate.
Review your lifestyle .
Find amounts of leisure time.
Play where there is little competition and the least competitive players.
Train but not formally compete.
Do not go where the best talent goes.
Withstand pain.
Think that not winning is OK  but have a very clear goal of winning.
Know that very many want to win and know that very few will make it.
Train relentlessly for years.
Believe pain is cool.
Believe that it's possible to reach your goals.

When the legislative activity is interesting?

When the legislative activity is interesting?

When you spend a lot of time on federal lands or you are directly impacted by water rights in California.

The usual suspects for the always weaker-than-expected report for payrolls

The usual suspects for the always weaker-than-expected report for payrolls:

Weather.

The broader set of labor market indicators .

Unusually snowy and cold winter.

Swing in the seasonal factor.

Weather disruption.

Higher young-adult employment.

Weak performance in service sector.

Advertising pricing and Google's partner sites

Advertising pricing and Google's partner sites

Ad buyers and industry executives say the proliferation of new sites and automation in ad sales is driving down advertising pricing—by as much as 70% in some cases—making it tougher for sites to turn a profit from traditional online advertising. More news sites means more ad space is available.

Google's partner sites generated segment revenues of $3.52 billion, or 23% of total Google segment revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2013. This represents a 3% increase over fourth quarter 2012 Google network segment revenues of $3.44 billion.

Oxycodone , heroin and government regulation

Oxycodone , heroin and government regulation

According to a government-funded survey, in 1999, an anticipated 4 million Americans aged 12 years or older used oral sedatives, stimulants, antipsychotic agents, or opioids in ways not intended by prescribers.

Prescription opioid pain medications such as Oxycontin and Vicodin can have effects similar to heroin.

The number of heroin users in the U.S. has doubled since 2002 to 335,000 people, and deaths related to drug have jumped 44 percent in just five years.

OxyContin is a prescription narcotic pain reliever. Its active ingredient isoxycodone, a derivative of opium.

Improper labeling and use of oxycodone can lead to overdose and death. FDArecognizes that opioid medications are associated with prescription drug misuse.

The FDA approved the original formulation of OxyContin in Dec. 1995

Who will destroy America?

Who will destroy America?

The federal government that will always seek more power – no matter the circumstances.

Why the U.S. GDP Growth of 3.2% In the Fourth Quarter 2013 is not true?

Why the U.S. GDP Growth of 3.2% In the Fourth Quarter 2013 is not true?


Because for the fourth quarter of 2013, Walmart U.S. reported a 1.0 percent comp sales increase. Walmart U.S. gained market share in "food, consumables, health & wellness/OTC," as well as the entertainment categories and toys.

Why rich people are hated?

Why  rich people are hated?

Because envy creates hatred

Average time for an IPO

Average time for an IPO

Venture-capital firms, which typically invest in startups several years after angels, wait a median 7.35 years for a startup in their portfolio to achieve liquidity through an IPO, and a median 5.21 years for an acquisition, according to 2012 data from Dow Jones
VentureSource

The businesses of the future

The businesses of the future:

Reselling NSA data collection 

Data on Americans to be stored outside the country.

Email services that never touch an American server.

Who determines the difference between the official history and true history?

Who determines the difference between the official history and true history?

The winner

What is a liberal arts education good for?

What is a  liberal arts education good for?

Though  is a waste of time and money , is a force for good and it should not be demolished.

Which are the most mobile metropolitan areas in the U.S.?

Which are  the most mobile metropolitan areas in the U.S.?

Salt Lake City and San Francisco, in which mobility rates are similar to those in western Europe and Canada.

An Example of Bonds Versus Stocks

An Example of Bonds Versus Stocks

Pimco, one of the world’s largest bond funds, set an unfortunate record in 2013. Its flagship fund saw the most outflows of any mutual fund ever in one year — a net outflow of $41 billion in 2013.

 The Dow ended 2013 with a gain of 72.37 points, or 0.4%, at 16,576.66, setting a record-high close for the 52nd time in 2013 and contributing to a 26.5% annual gain, the largest since 1995.

How to be the best salesman

How to be the best salesman

Explain damaging myths about what your produce or service is fighting.

Answer the question:

Why do so many people seem to think things that I am selling are getting worse?

Explain the myths and the answers to  the question with a lot of data, sophisticated data and curious data.

The age of entitlements has ended up creating social segregation.

Workless class doesn’t vote

Workless class doesn’t have a voice.

Workless class doesn’t matter.

Workless class lives in the age of entitlements.

The age of entitlements has ended up creating  social segregation.

A new data on sale

A new data on sale:

Your location data will be sold to marketers.

Location that includes doctors visits.

In the U.S., companies don't have to get a consent before collecting and sharing your personal information, including your location.

The Reality About Inequality

The Reality About Inequality

'A fair chance in the race of life' does come through the true free market alone.

Places with some kind of free market

Places with some kind of free market

Hong Kong ,Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, New Zealand and Canada.

The Wrong Question to the Right Answer?

The Wrong Question to the Right Answer?

Can the Fed taper its bond purchases?

The current and future trends regarding Mergers & Acquisitions

The current and future trends regarding Mergers & Acquisitions

The current and future trends regarding Mergers & Acquisitions in the technology sector is based on the tendency of big corporation to invest in companies that help them compromise legally citizen’s privacy issues.

Mergers and Acquisitions will be in the next two years mainly in technologies and business that subtly can use hardware or software to get data from users behaviors.

In my humble opinion in the next two years the most important mergers and acquisitions will always have an issue related to ACLU, NSA or the American Psychological Association.

Who will be politically dominant?

Who will be politically dominant?

Elitist, lobbies and bureaucrats in Washington , D.C.

As technology continues to widen the gap between the very rich and the struggling, shrinking middle class, elitist, lobbies and bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. will become even more politically dominant.

What is necessary to believe in order to succeed?

In order to succeed it is necessary to believe that what you are doing is very important.

It is one thing to tell someone you support him, it is another thing to work at making him believe, that what he is doing is very important to him, and that he must succeed.

Who is the most important customer of the United States?

Who is the most important  customer of  the United States?

Main export partners according the C.I.A. are Canada 18.9%, Mexico 14%, China 7.2%, Japan 4.5% (2012 est.)

Relation between jobs and births in the U.S.

Relation between jobs and births in the U.S.

For all of 2013, the economy added 2.2 million jobs -- on par with 2012's gains.

A total of 3,953,590 births were registered in the United States in 2011.

The researchers found that 3,952,841 babies were born in 2012, which is about 700 fewer than 2011.

How to help the poor in the U.S.

How to help the poor in the U.S.

Supplementing the income of people who work in qualifying low-income jobs.

Promoting work over dependence.

Educate both parents.

Eliminate unemployment insurance.

Dismantling  federal programs  and turning the money that funded them over to counties.

Eliminate federal and state involvement.

Allow counties to use their discretion as to how they should structure anti-poverty initiatives.

Measure economic mobility.

America is becoming Europe

America is becoming Europe, Europe is becoming Germany, and Germany is becoming Japan, a flat GDP Growth Rate forever.

How to Keep People Unhealthy

How to Keep People Unhealthy

Giving them the best free medical treatment.

How does the United States Congress work?

How does the United States Congress work?

The United States Congress works preserving the status quo to preserve all of its options for the future.

An America of Value: Making U.S. Government Pay Off

An America of Value: Making U.S. Government Pay Off

For America, the gap between soaring expenses and stagnant incomes is filled by debt.

At the same time, 40% of Americans, work in jobs that don't have any future.

America's higher problem calls for both wiser choices by American people and better value from U.S. Government.

What's really needed in America is major structural change. To remain viable, America needs to cut expenditures dramatically.

For decades, America have ridden the American-loan gravy train, using the proceeds to build palatial bureaucracy , reduce entrepreneurship and, most notably, hire armies of civil service and administrators.

When something can't go on forever, it will stop.

Who is the most significant and important human being ever to have lived?

Who is the most significant and important human being ever to have lived?

According the  algorithms and quantitative analysis of Steven Skiena, a professor of computer science at Stony Brook University, and Charles Ward, an engineer at Google, Jesus Christ is the most significant and important human being ever to have lived, and Napoleon Bonaparte is in a surprising second place.The top five are Jesus, Napoleon, Mohammed, Shakespeare, and Abraham Lincoln.

Why there is not educational reform that leads to more engineers, scientists and doctors?

Why there is not educational reform that leads to more engineers, scientists and doctors?

Because IQ tends to remain relatively stable over the lifespan.

The four branches of government

The four branches of government are the legislative branch,  the judicial branch,  the executive branch and the paranoid branch , the branch that defends us from the amorphous and constant threat of something.

Liberal logical thinking:

Liberal logical thinking:

Taxing anything  should create more users of anything.

How to force yourself into new positions of responsibility.

How to force yourself into new positions of responsibility.

Leave the comfortable zone.
Become  a hard worker.
Pursuit toughness.
Have no tolerance for  weakness.
Be worried about making ends meet.
Think life is complicated.
Replace fear for  hope.
Start all over again.

What is a captive insurance company?

What is a captive insurance company?


A captive insurance company is an insurance company owned by the
insured.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is pushing life insurers to disclose the potential cost if they are forced to halt use of controversial "captive" entities.

There is a huge tax saving associated with a captive program.

The Best Financial Advice I Ever Got

The Best Financial Advice I Ever Got (or Gave)

Everything Is Cyclical

What technology is needed in teaching?

What technology is needed in teaching?

A technology capturing student speaking performances as part of an educational assessment of verbal communication skills.

We pretend to be free they pretend to govern us.

We pretend to be free they pretend to govern us.


John Cox, a leading government reform advocate in California has a vision for making California's government more responsive and less beholden to special interests. All it would take, he says, is increasing the number of elected  representatives nearly one hundredfold.

His mother was an educator; his stepfather a lifelong postal worker.

How to boost an economy with cheap foreign labor but not at the expense of security.

How to boost an economy with cheap foreign labor but not at the expense of security.

Keeping the foreign labor in a permanent illegal status.

The larger problem in the U.S.

The larger problem in the U.S.


Printing money doesn't address the larger problem in the U.S.: that there are not enough jobs to employ the flood of newly minted American professionals.