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To: i-node who wrote (849760)

4/14/2015 1:39:12 AM

From: tejek

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>> Its due to the president putting Putin in a corner. He thought Obama would be like Bush and let him do whatever he wanted.

It is entirely possible that Barack Obama's weakness, which caused Putin to do what he did today, is going to end up provoking Israel into a war with Iran. If it becomes apparent to Netanyahu that Israel's position is untenable, he will act. He will have no choice.

LOL. Do you know any Israelis? Apparently, you don't because you would never make such a statement if you did.

Netanyahu cannot allow a functioning defensive missile system in Iran without first knocking out Iran's nuclear development capabilities. Clearly, Netanyahu doesn't want to move against Obama's wishes, but he, not Putin, is the one backed into a corner.

Bibi is so full of BS his back teeth are floating in it.

Netanyahu will have American popular support when he goes after Iran, and he knows that.

No he won't. Read the polls.

I'm not certain but it is entirely possible Barack Obama has started WWIII

I am certain you don't know what you're talking about.

To: i-node who wrote (849760)	4/14/2015 10:41:52 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1576310

Entrepreneur Reads Study, Will Pay All Workers $70K DAN PRICE WANTS HIS EMPLOYEES TO BE AS HAPPY AS POSSIBLE By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff newser.com Posted Apr 14, 2015 8:49 AM CDT (NEWSER) – A number of studies have been done to determine exactly how much income we need to reach our happiness peak, and Dan Price read one that pegged the magic number at about $70,000 per year. But Price, the owner of a credit-card payment processing company, didn't just read about the study: He decided to put it into action. Yesterday, he told his 120 employees at Gravity Payments in Seattle that over the next three years, he'll gradually raise salaries until everyone in the company is making at least $70,000. It wasn't just the article that convinced him to make his move: He spoke to friends who "walk[ed] me through the math of making 40 grand a year," he tells the New York Times, and what they said about rent increases and credit card debt "just eats at me inside." He wanted to put his plan into action without an increase in price or a decrease in service for his customers, so he plans to pay for the salary increases by using up 75% to 80% of the company's profits this year—and by cutting his own salary from almost $1 million to, yes, $70,000. And there it will stay until the company gets back to the same level of profit it had before he made this change, he says. Currently, the average salary at Gravity Payments, which Price founded in 2004 as a 19-year-old Seattle Pacific University student, is $48,000; as part of Price's plan, about 70 employees will see their wages increase—30 will actually see their wages double. It's not the first time Price has made a similar move: In 2013, when a 2% payroll tax increase went into effect, he responded by giving all his employees making less than $100,000 a 2% raise, GeekWire reports.