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Financial Debt: America's New Public Enemy
All this new "reform" debt means more new plants and business locations not opening... more product lines and new innovations not being launched... more research into problem-solving technologies not being sponsored... and more jobs not being created. If you are looking for work, or to improve on your current job, you need someone to invest in you. It's tough hunting this season.

Economic Reform Leaves America Unhappy
If you haven't seen "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," you should. Normally, Hollywood preaches a predictable liberal sermon about greedy corporations, the evil military, mythical global warming, and the fantasy triumph of progressive ideas. But someone in Tinsel Town messed up with "Prize Winner"... this 2005 movie, starring Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson, is an outstanding metaphor for the real relationship between the government and the economy in today's America.

Personal Responsibility Keeps You Strong
Dependence on the government, and the largesse of entitlements, could bring this republic down.

Government Takeover: Is Your Small Business Next?
The President this morning gave another campaign speech highlighting all the things the U.S. government has done to help America's economy. The recently-signed finance reform bill, he noted, will end corruption and bail-outs of those fat cats on Wall Street. Meanwhile, he said the government is working on a $50 billion package of loans for small businesses, ostensibly to create jobs and get the economy moving.

They Keep Saying The Rich Don't Pay Their Fair Share
These are facts: the top one percent of wage earners in America carry a full 40% of the tax burden. That's only about 1.4 million of us, carrying 40% of the load for the other approximately 300 million. And if the tax rates go back to pre-2001 levels, those 1.4 million who have all that money to invest (and with which to employ vast numbers of other wage earners) will certainly keep that money in their pockets... and that means it'll be sheltered from taxation.

"Economic Reform" Bringing New Heat To Election Summer
Now that the political parties' primaries have largely ended, and with less than three months before the crucial mid-term elections in the United States, the campaigning for America's heart and soul is underway in earnest. U.S. voters will be asked nothing less than what kind of nation they want to be, and there is a crisp divide between the two competing ideologies on offer. One side offers a governing philosophy of high taxes and high (some would say outrageous) spending centered around so-called "entitlements." The other side wants you to agree with Henry David Thoreau, who said "That government is best which governs least," and seeks smaller government, low taxes, and reliance on private-sector entrepreneurialism to drive economic growth and prosperity.

Government Takeover Is Never A Good Idea
I have argued that there are two sorts of people out there (and inside each of us): the Entrepreneur, who is self-reliant, personally responsible and lives by a sense of obligation to his fellow human... and the Victim, who relies on others to solve his problems, and lives by a sense of entitlement. If, as a society, we lean toward Victimhood, we're in trouble. If we can give Entrepreneurship the upper hand, we might just solve this mess.

This Economic Reform Seems Bad For Small Business
Yesterday's news included a sound byte from President Obama, urging Congress (and his opponents in the Republican Party) to stop blocking his next stimulus, this one ostensibly for small businesses... right after all of them return from vacation.

Real Economic Reform Will Be Like Pulling Teeth
I had the pleasure of playing golf and having lunch with one of my beloved sons the other day. We covered a variety of topics, from my recovery from dental surgery to his worries about the future of our country and our economy. And it occurred to us that the story of the former was a pretty good allegory for the unfolding story of the latter.

Economic "Reform" Is A Dragon You Can Slay
The economy is showing scary signs. It's going to get worse before it gets better, and our generation may have to deal with the sort of privations and difficulties faced by our grandparents and great-grandparents in the Great Depression of the 1930s; I only hope it isn't even worse. Are you ready?

I've Figured Out President Obama's Religion
I've been hearing a lot of talk lately about President Obama's religion (if any). A recent poll discovered that a high and rising number of Americans believe Mr. Obama is a Muslim. This prompted a strong protest from a White House spokesperson, who claimed the president is "obviously a Christian," based on the fact that he does things like meet regularly with spiritual advisors (things that a Muslim would also do, as would a Buddhist or a Hindu or a Navajo medicine man).

Government Takeover Will Continue
Our current government will keep taking over as many aspects of American life as they can, attacking freedom wherever they see it and installing socialist programs in its place, until we stand up and take our government back. It's supposed to be "by, of, and for the People" - it's time we put things to rights.

The Best Defense Is To Be Offensive?
I'm a little spooked by all the near misses the bad guys have had lately. I'm afraid all the practice they're getting will improve their game, and it only takes one ball in the basket to make a big mess in our world. Meanwhile, since our government doesn't have to worry about putting energy and resources into the folly of national security that has distracted so many previous administrations, they're free to focus all their efforts on printing money and "fundamentally transforming" our economy with a storm of socialism.

Ten Kindnesses You Can Do Today
Here are ten ideas for things you can do today (maybe even all ten of them) to show kindness to someone else. Try doing at least one of these things every day this week, and see how you feel. Look back over the week and see if you don't think you had more of a tendency to smile... and less time to think about your troubles.

Need Flexibility? Start Your Business In Cyberspace
Think about the flexibility an internet business would offer you in four key areas.
There's An Economic Storm Coming
It's time to pay attention to things like the economy, politics, and the way things are going in the world. If you're like me (and I know I am :), these may be things you haven't spent much time or energy on... and, frankly, don't like to think about. But there are major economic storm clouds gathering, and if you educate yourself now about how to deal with the coming storm, you could be one of the few who come out okay - or even way better than okay.

Liberalism Is A Dangerous Religion
I've heard it said that Liberalism - also known as Progressivism, and even as Socialism and Marxism - is a religion. This is an assertion at which liberals scoff. But what is a religion, really? If you look at the elements by which religion is popularly defined, the assertion that liberalism is a religion is pretty hard to refute.

Economic Reform Needs Reason And Sense
I've noticed an interesting trend lately in U.S. national politics: Republicans manage to look and sound stupid while saying smart things, while Democrats look and sound smart while saying stupid things.

Are You Human?
People are like those websites that ask you to read squiggly letters and type what you read into the little box. Have you seen those? It's a security measure: the website wants to make sure you're human, and not a software program or a robot. Evidently robot software programs can't read squiggly letters, so if you can type the right letters into the little box, you must be human.

What's So Special About You?
The fact is, our only hope is that the home-gaming generation wakes up and realizes that freedom isn't free, the future isn't certain, and the Constitution of the United States that we celebrate today is the only thing that really makes us special. It isn't "us." It's only us if we get back to being the ballast of the world that our Founding Fathers designed our nation to be.

Thank God For Godless Communism
Though many so-called progressives would love to separate them, from my point of view there are two other continua which march more-or-less in lockstep with communism-capitalism. These are statism-liberty, and atheism-faith. If I correctly remember my eighth-grade history (a subject which is, due to the progressivism currently under discussion, no longer much taught), capitalism has as its running-buddies individual liberty and faith in God. Communism's pals, in stark contrast, are authoritarian control of individuals by the state, and denial of the Almighty in favor of an allegiance to the state that amounts to idolatry.

Government Takeover Just Doesn't Work
I'm not advocating text/driving. It's dangerous. Before it was against the law, people did it, they had accidents, and some people even died. I am, however, suggesting that there are better ways to attack such a problem than to make a law against it. And this new study proves I'm right. If even one more person died in a traffic fatality because of this law, it's too many.
Can't We All Just Get Along?
I heard a radio commentator the other day describe this politicized shift in the definition of "hate." To liberals, "hate" is any opinion with which liberals don't agree.

4.3 The impact of economic liberalisation
The potential impacts of economic liberalisation on VET are twofold: change in incentives to invest in training and the availability of public funding for VET.
4.1 The potential for training interventions: The demand for training
As is well known, the supply of training does not usually create its own demand. Clearly, therefore, training provision for the poor has been powerfully shaped by the nature of the demand for training among targeted groups, in particular in the informal sector. Lack of effective demand is a key reason for both the limited training provision for the poor (and hence outputs and impacts) in most countries as well as the overall failure of national training systems to reorient their activities in support of the poor.

Social Safety Nets and Poverty and Social Impact Analysis
Certain government expenditures, such as temporary income transfers or public works programs, can help form social safety nets to protect the poor from the short-term adverse effects of reforms.

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HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND ATTRACTING INWARD FDI
One of the characteristics of rich industrial economies is the availability of a workforce with a high level of human capital. Whether human capital has been the key driver of economic prosperity or vice-versa is still a matter of debate. Nevertheless, long time series trends in educational attainment and economic growth during the last century indicate that HRD and economic prosperity went hand in hand10. Some developing countries followed similar trends in human capital and economic growth. What was distinctive about these developing countries is that they appeared to have realised large economic benefits in attracting MNEs into host economies, and have thus mobilised inward FDI to attain rapid economic growth.
7.1 Making the case for reform: A pro-poor training strategy
The need for fundamental reform of VET provision in most developing countries is compelling and should, therefore, be seriously addressed by governments and all other major stakeholders as a matter of urgency.

MERX: An Evolution to a Broader Market (MERX Profile)
MERX: An Evolution to a Broader Market (MERX Profile) “Regardless of the moniker, the majority of government initiative elemental roots can be traced back to the New Public Management (NPM) ideology in which efficiency, accountability, decentralisation and marketisation are the main components or drivers (J.E. Lane, Public Sector Reform: Only deregulation, privatization and marketisation, Public Sector Reform, 1997).

Weighing in on Health Care Reform
There is no question that health care reform is needed. We have the most expensive system, in total cost and per-capita, in the world. One would expect, twice the results. Yet, we are well behind the rest of the industrialized world in those indices most used to measure the health of a population. The question is what type of reform do we need. The factors leading to our high costs are complex. the factors leading to our lagging in health indices are even more complex. Quick, politically expedient fixes are not what we need. Debate driven and financed by those interest groups with the most to loose by reform is not what we need. Shaping opinion by spreading fear and mis-information is not what we need. We need to take a careful, analytic approach, making use of those experts who study and compare systems around the world.
The Rising Cost of Healthcare…Can Small Business Keep Up?
Three words. Health Care Reform. Combined, they have become a hot topic in recent months. Although the thought of any reform on America’s health care will affect all Americans, a special group of interest is small business. As Capitol Hill struggles to create a bill that will satisfy all, small businesses face a critical turning point in regards to keeping up with healthcare changes.
Healthcare Reform: beyond Quality and Cost Cuts: The Brand
Many organizations are focusing, appropriately so, on cost containment and cost/quality performance measures. These will be the ticket to play in healthcare reform. Others are building Accountable Care Organizaions. All appropriate activities. The Winners in Healthcare Reform are also in the process of establishing meaningful, valuable, recognized Healthcare Brands to appeal to those growing numbers of insured under the reform measures. The time to begin is NOW!
What Will Health Care Reform Cost You?
Even though small businesses (fewer than 50 employees) escaped a health coverage mandate, the historic health care reform package enacted in March 2010 will affect every business in ways large and small. Here is a rundown of some of the administrative and tax costs you're likely to encounter as a result of health care reform; only you will be able to tally the costs to your business.
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Small Business Medical Insurance - Six Health Care Reform Questions, and Answers
Health care reform is back in the headlines as a recent court struck it down as unconstitutional and Congress continues to debate its future. Regardless of the outcome, medical insurance for small business is certainly going to be impacted, one way or another, in the coming months and years. Below are six important questions about health care reform as it relates to small employers.

Some Things Are Easier For Your Business in a Recession
If your business is feeling the impact of the economic downturn, think differently about how you could take advantage of the current economic circumstances. Some things are definitely more challenging, but others might actually be easier in these tough economic times.
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