"Due to doping allegations at the time, SCA initially refused to pay Armstrong $5 million in bonus money that Tailwind Sports, the owner of Armstrong's U.S. Postal team, had promised him if he won a sixth Tour title in 2004. Tailwind Sports took out insurance coverage with SCA."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/07/us-usa-armstrong-lawsuit-idUSBRE91615Y20130207
Okay - let me get this right - One company waives 5 million dollars in front of someone and then is surprised that this person may have cheated to win. Hmmmmm.
ChrisZ
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Timing is everything
For some reason there is a push to reinstate the draft. While it might be a good idea, it has missed its mark. The time to do that was while we were in the middle of two wars in the early 2000's. Right now, with fiscal problems and winding down the existing war, there is no money or time to train extra recruits.
One thing it would do is to spread the load of the military around and by that get more families involved. Right now the military is almost an exclusive club, with may people not even knowing someone serving. Out of sight, our of mind means most people do not care what is happening around the world.
My question is would the draft provide the best talent we need? The job of the military has changed from quantity to quality and the training is more intense and costly today, would a draft provide us with better people as we tap into those who might not consider a military career?
My bottom line is if you want to put together a youth service program - great - just make sure you can pay for it. But to re institute the draft at this time does not make any sense.
ChrisZ
One thing it would do is to spread the load of the military around and by that get more families involved. Right now the military is almost an exclusive club, with may people not even knowing someone serving. Out of sight, our of mind means most people do not care what is happening around the world.
My question is would the draft provide the best talent we need? The job of the military has changed from quantity to quality and the training is more intense and costly today, would a draft provide us with better people as we tap into those who might not consider a military career?
My bottom line is if you want to put together a youth service program - great - just make sure you can pay for it. But to re institute the draft at this time does not make any sense.
ChrisZ
Sunday, February 03, 2013
Real Job Killing Policy
The real elephant in the room:
Help no longer wanted - Republican American 2/1/2013
The Republicans and Democrats can argue till they are blue in the face about whose policies are killing jobs, but the real answer is in the article - Technology.
In recent history, we have had a similar change in our society, during the Industrial Revolution, when people left farming to go work in the factories. The problem this time is that there is no alternative for people whose jobs disappear as the new jobs are for robots!
Short term, both the Republicans and the Democrats know that increased taxes and government spending will ease the transition, but the question still is "What work will the majority of people do that creates value?"
This is the question we need to be asking - this will also be what drives government health care (even if run by private companies with will be highly regulated) or will we decide to accept 10+ unemployment as normal and just keep paying people who cannot find work? NOT!
Chris Z
Help no longer wanted - Republican American 2/1/2013
The Republicans and Democrats can argue till they are blue in the face about whose policies are killing jobs, but the real answer is in the article - Technology.
In recent history, we have had a similar change in our society, during the Industrial Revolution, when people left farming to go work in the factories. The problem this time is that there is no alternative for people whose jobs disappear as the new jobs are for robots!
Short term, both the Republicans and the Democrats know that increased taxes and government spending will ease the transition, but the question still is "What work will the majority of people do that creates value?"
This is the question we need to be asking - this will also be what drives government health care (even if run by private companies with will be highly regulated) or will we decide to accept 10+ unemployment as normal and just keep paying people who cannot find work? NOT!
Chris Z
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