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Steven Collier — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:37:59 -0500

Help the people losing their jobs, not the fat cat executives with their abominably excessive compensation and perks and the union bosses with their fiefdoms who have made the companies unprofitable and don't have a clue about how to succeed in the flat world of the 21st century! And make a stride toward true free trade.

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Steven Collier — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:46:47 -0500

Just pumping more $$ into lousy executive management and a corporate culture that lacks any innovative or competitive spirit will just result in another bailout being required in the future. The federal government should figure out how to help the employees who will lose their jobs and retirement, not the executives and administrative bureaucracy that have dragged GM out of competitiveness in the global marketplace.

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Steven Collier — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:22:40 -0400

At least with Obama we'll be dealing with the economy in informed, 21st century concepts and actions, not in the 1950s that John "W" McCain is comfortable with. And Obama might survive an entire term to follow through on economic policy and action whereas a McCain presidency will likely have Sarah "I can see a dollar bill from my house" Palin doing even worse than "W".

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Steven Collier — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:26:02 -0400

Capitalism is the best form of economic organization and discipline that there is, but it is not perfect. Not only are there always winners and losers, ts strongest motivator is often greed. That is, the greed and ambition of a few can overpower the values and leadership of many because it leads to financial gain and that in turn leads to power. Greed unchecked by regulation will run rampant over anyone and everyone. But, regulation is the substitution of error for chance and central planning and regulation has eventually failed to deliver for these very same victims time and again.

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Steven Collier — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:44:23 -0400

I think that the individuals with financial disaster should be given assistance, thereby indirectly benefiting the institutions. The executive leadership of the institutions should be thrown out and banned from ever holding executive positions in investor-owned or federally insured institutioins.

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Steven Collier — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:41:28 -0400

Leadership can be learned and developed. Some individuals seem to have greater gifts than others in the areas of persuasion and inspiration. Others have external advantages derived from wealth or power that may have been inherited or imposed rather than obtained through leadership skill. Not that leadership is always good. At one extreme there are the likes of Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Dick Cheney, Jeff Skilling, et. al. At the other there are the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Ghandi, Bill George.

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Steven Collier — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:01:55 -0400

And this is further complicated by the fact that much of what both lay consumers and industry experts understand to be green is just not. Check out the green "mythbusting" in WIRED magazine's 15th anniversary issue. Well intentioned advocates and consumers may actually be making things worst by falling for some of the green myths.