For the last couple years, I, as founder of the Jmaximus Institute of Freedom, have been trying to promote the idea that there is a great untapped potential in using the Great Lakes for Wind [Power] Farms. When I contatced the state and federal authorities, none of them would provide any help and in fact told me "my idea was not realistic". Now it appears that others have either read some of my articles or came to similar conclusions long after I did, because now according to MSN:
Government and industry officials are set to meet in Madison and Toledo, Ohio, this month to talk about the prospects for installing giant electricity-generating windmills out in the Great Lakes.
Read more about it here. You see one of my old posts on this subject here.
Am I bitter? No, I just wish I would have not listened to the naysayers and followed up on this...
President Bush is pushing a "Medical Savings Account" as a subsitute for regular health insurance, but according to a report on 60 Minutes "Hospitals: Is the Price Right? - CBS News", hospitals charge you up to 10 times as much if don't have insurance.
Several weeks ago, I mentioned this fact in a previous post. In it I discuss how Bush's plan is bad. Medical Savings Accounts are rip-off's to begin with. The cheapest one I found has a deductable of $10,000 dollars, and then covers next to nothing, and still costs $200/month. Then you have the fact that people don't have the knowledge that the insurance companies do on the real fair market value of medical services.
Doctors simply won't give you this information ahead of time.
Can you image if you went to Walmart and they charged you $50/pound for Catfish if you paid cash or $5/pound if you paid with a credit card? This kind of price gouging should be banned, and health care providers should have to publish prices that apply to everyone equally.
For years now, real wages for America's middle class have been declining, yet somehow America's excutives pay has skyrocketed, according a CBS report "Exec's Big $lice Of American Pie - CBS News" based on a study done by Harvard Law School grad.
It says that the Top 5 excutives at a company are paid nearly 10% of that companies gross earnings. When you subtract expenses, in some cases, a single exec might be paid half of the companies profit. These are same people who then turn around and claim $15/hr is out of line for a factory worker.
What's really sad is these guys are usually only there for a few years, and even the ones who destroy companies still get paid as if they single handedly invented the wheel. Kmart is a perfect example of this.
MUSIC AT THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.
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"THE MOB OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE OF MUSIC AT THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION"
9/6/1901
The exposition is most remembered because U.S. President William McKinle...