Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (74009)	9/8/2010 1:45:45 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 74559

It certainly is a good place. Hawaii was originally populated by people from Cook Islands and since the USA took it over, it has developed spectacularly, complete with motorways, McDonalds, though not many drive by shootings still. New Orleans is murder central in USA. Honolulu is almost down to Japanese rates. There is something idyllic about Cook Islands compared with Hawaii though each has its attractions. There's a shortage of mod cons here. There are no footpaths for example. The road is a footpath. There are no traffic lights either, but those are not mod cons. They do have a roundabout in the main "city", Avarua, population about 1000. Cook Islanders, Hawaiians and New Zealanders migrated from Taiwan on an extended vacation. Now the cheeky Chinese are trying to take it over by force if necessary. We might have to defend it against their violent megalomania. If they get that, then they'll want to carry on and take over Polynesia including Hawaii. The Japanese tried that 100 years ago and finally had to be nuked into submission. Mqurice

To: average joe who wrote (74009)	9/9/2010 2:08:36 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Obama gives a clear choice about the direction the country can take in November and beyond. "...a $50 billion initial investment to create jobs improving roads, rail lines and airports — as long as those projects were not paid for by taxing billionaires, oil companies and other wealthy corporations. That, of course, is just how Mr. Obama intends to pay for them — and just how he should." nytimes.com A billion here a billion there and pretty soon we will be talking about real money...