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To: combjelly who wrote (684996)	11/15/2012 5:27:53 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576953

I have big demand for a new company I want to start but don't have the money to start it.

To: combjelly who wrote (684996)	11/15/2012 5:55:28 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576953

>> Talk about not knowing how the economy works. Demand creates jobs. No amount of investment is going to business owners to hire if there isn't enough demand to cover the cost of the employee. I suppose you think that when Apple decided to INVEST money into developing the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, consumers were lined up demanding those devices? Devices they they could not even have envisioned at the time? Do you think when the first CT scanners were sold there was demand for it? Hell no. EMI had been trying to sell it for years and couldn't do it. They couldn't raise the capital. Do you think when a drug manufacturer develops a drug to make women's eyelashes grow there was any demand for it? No one would have even thought about it. Innovation creates demand. Investment creates innovation. When you take investment capital out of the hands of investors -- whether wealthy or just plain old people like you and me, innovation suffers, demand suffers, and economic growth suffers. Tell whoever writes your paycheck that the capital that started his or her business doesn't create demand. If a software developer told me that he'd be looking for a job as it suggests to me he doesn't have a creative bone in his body.

To: combjelly who wrote (684996)	11/15/2012 6:11:55 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576953

Penitentiary President By Michael J. Fell on Nov 15, 2012 in exposing Obama, National Defense and Military, Politics Why is Barack Obama about to be sworn in for a second term instead of being fingerprinted and booked into a federal penitentiary? There are at least three people who may eventually be able to respond to that question. In a joint press conference, three Republican senators said the only way for Congress to get to the bottom of what happened during the Benghazi terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate resulting in four American deaths, including that of Chris Stevens, the American Ambassador to Libya, was to form a Select Committee. During the press conference, Senators John McCain R-AZ, Lindsey Graham R-SC and Kelly Ayotte R-NH stated that the bloody 9/11 terrorist attack crosses the jurisdictions of the Armed Services, the Intelligence and the Foreign Relations Committees. They concluded that a Select Committee was required in order for each investigator to hear all the testimony from administration officials scheduled to appear before those three committees. Graham included resigned CIA Director David Petraeus among those needing to testify: “I’d like to ask General Petraeus some questions.” McCain also stated Petraeus would be a “very important witness for a Select Committee.” In addition to Petraeus, the senators called for Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to appear. Graham noted there was precedent for setting up just such a committee, reminding the press of similar committees established to investigate the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals. The three senators will officially introduce a Senate resolution calling for the formation of the committee. thehill.com Not surprisingly, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-NV said he would not support the formation of a Select Committee. Reid is not the only one intent on obstructing the truth. An obviously negligent American media has intentionally hidden a string of deliberate lies coming from the Obama administration. They have willfully propagated the White House’s faux reality about what led to the ruthless slaughter of four Americans. Why were four Americans abandoned to fate without any attempt to rescue them? Why the misrepresentations and multiple conflicting stories coming from the State Department, the CIA and the FBI? Why were Ambassador Stevens and three others callously left to die? Why were terrorists allowed to hunt Americans down like dogs? The media malpractice regarding coverage of the 9/11 Benghazi terrorist attack is not the only shameful behavior. Obama and his administration have repeatedly claimed the attack resulted from a spontaneous demonstration sparked by anger at an anti-Islamic video nobody had heard of, much less seen. This bogus claim has been made repeatedly. UN Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on five Sunday morning talk shows making the phony claim that the best intelligence available up to that point was that the attack was sparked by this unknown video. If that was not enough, speaking before the UN General Assembly on September 25th Obama blamed the same video six times. That the administration actively endeavored to squash any notion this could have been a deliberately planned terrorist attack timed for the anniversary of 9/11 is no surprise. Such an admission would have conflicted with the Obama re-election campaign’s fairy tale narrative that Al Qaeda had been pulverized, terrorism was on the run and his rudderless foreign policy initiatives were making America safer and more respected throughout the world. Where was the “mainstream media?” Where was the investigative reporting about the series of attacks carried out in April and June by militants in Benghazi against the U.N., the Red Cross, the U.S. consulate, and the British consulate? Where were the disclosures about the requests from Ambassador Stevens and others for additional security? Where was the story about how those requests had been denied? How could the White House national security team watch the attack in real time, yet neglect to call in back-up support from the U.S. military? Why did the White House hide the fact that within two hours of the start of the assault they were notified via email that a terrorist group linked to al Qaeda had claimed credit for the attack? In light of these as yet unanswered questions, a Select Committee is more than appropriate. If Harry Reid and the so called mainstream media insist on obstructing the truth, they should join members of the current Administration. Wearing stripes; breaking up rocks in the hot sun.

To: combjelly who wrote (684996)	11/16/2012 1:58:38 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576953

CJ, Demand creates jobs. What creates demand? Higher taxes? More government spending? Investment is the process in which innovations are made, productivity is increased, costs come down. Demand will follow the innovators and the low cost producers. When demand is fueled by speculative bubbles, it cannot last. That's what happened with the real estate bubble and the resulting financial crisis. That's what is going to happen with all of the governments of the free world "easing" their monetary policies in order to pump demand. Mix in the usual class warfare and the desire to bridge rich and poor via regulation, and you end up with government that does much more harm than good. Like I said, it cannot last. Tenchusatsu