http://abelferraratv.com Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:04:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://abelferraratv.com/an-opinion-on-michael-moritz-immigration-lessons-from-english-soccer/ http://abelferraratv.com/an-opinion-on-michael-moritz-immigration-lessons-from-english-soccer/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:04:47 +0000 admin http://abelferraratv.com/an-opinion-on-michael-moritz-immigration-lessons-from-english-soccer/ The only protectionism I engage in is continually improving my output and understanding of my field. If someone can come in and do my job as competently and is willing how to engage employees take less, then they're welcome to compete against me for it. The only reasonable response I can engage in is either increasing my value or decreasing my price. Here's a question for you - should we pass laws so your neighbor is not legally allowed to compete for your job? Or the guy in the next Read More]]> http://abelferraratv.com/an-opinion-on-michael-moritz-immigration-lessons-from-english-soccer/feed/ 0 http://abelferraratv.com/a-commentary-on-review-outlook-brain-gain-and-drain/ http://abelferraratv.com/a-commentary-on-review-outlook-brain-gain-and-drain/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:01:39 +0000 admin http://abelferraratv.com/a-commentary-on-review-outlook-brain-gain-and-drain/ Environmental Health and Safety. And no, he had excellent grades and always delivers on jobs. Just not many jobs out there to apply to. No vacancies to create the kind of upward mobility Americans used to take for granted. When you pay your dues, shouldn't you be able to move up a little, eventually? My son is not an isolated example. America has an abundance of college educated people, and most of them are working in jobs where college really wasn't needed, but we were all told to Read More]]> http://abelferraratv.com/a-commentary-on-review-outlook-brain-gain-and-drain/feed/ 0 http://abelferraratv.com/my-take-on-the-democratization-of-credit-is-over/ http://abelferraratv.com/my-take-on-the-democratization-of-credit-is-over/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:01:27 +0000 admin http://abelferraratv.com/my-take-on-the-democratization-of-credit-is-over/ I really doubt the central thesis of this article. Legitimate (not just a warm body) subprime worked for years with manageable loss rates. In housing, wildly inflated prices is doing the real damage. For credit damage cards and other non-housing related consumer credit, subprime lending at rates over 20% (not to mention fee income) can be wildly profitable during normal business cycles. 5 or 6% loss rates, 5 or 6% cost of funds and interest charges over 20% is a very profitable equation. Read More]]> http://abelferraratv.com/my-take-on-the-democratization-of-credit-is-over/feed/ 0 http://abelferraratv.com/a-response-to-jim-towey-pastors-for-obamacare/ http://abelferraratv.com/a-response-to-jim-towey-pastors-for-obamacare/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:00:42 +0000 admin http://abelferraratv.com/a-response-to-jim-towey-pastors-for-obamacare/ Are we for the fetus and against the child? President Obama's healthcare leaders born or made reform now requires coverage for children born with pre existing conditions. If religious leaders view life, both born and unborn, as precious unlike some who equate life with property, i.e. Gov Huckabee, and want to repeal healthcare then maybe some religious leader feel a moral obligation to support the healthcare law. Knowing you are going to be parents of a child with born a medical condition Read More]]> http://abelferraratv.com/a-response-to-jim-towey-pastors-for-obamacare/feed/ 0 http://abelferraratv.com/commentary-on-brian-riedl-the-bush-tax-cuts-and-the-deficit-myth/ http://abelferraratv.com/commentary-on-brian-riedl-the-bush-tax-cuts-and-the-deficit-myth/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:54:13 +0000 admin http://abelferraratv.com/commentary-on-brian-riedl-the-bush-tax-cuts-and-the-deficit-myth/ Even worse is when liberals claim that bush gave tax cuts to the rich. I am still not sure how taking less of something I own can be viewed as giving me something. As others have noted, the arguement that tax cuts have to be paid for is a lie, and teh problem with all of the assumptions (noted in the article) is that there is NO way to measure the change in behavior resulting from the cuts. If you cut the rate from 20% to 15%, you do generate 5 cents less per dollar but that assumes Read More]]> http://abelferraratv.com/commentary-on-brian-riedl-the-bush-tax-cuts-and-the-deficit-myth/feed/ 0 http://abelferraratv.com/analysis-on-bill-to-slow-overseas-hiring-debated/ http://abelferraratv.com/analysis-on-bill-to-slow-overseas-hiring-debated/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:53:08 +0000 admin http://abelferraratv.com/analysis-on-bill-to-slow-overseas-hiring-debated/ I think you're assuming that the product was designed in the US because it has the name of a US company. HP, for example, just moved their PC holistic development to Taiwan. Many companies are moving development overseas. First went the factories, then the factory support, then the application and sales suport and now the development. This is happening at a very rapid pace and our government is doing nothing to improve tax or trade policies to slow the trend. The Chairman of Intel Corporation Read More]]> http://abelferraratv.com/analysis-on-bill-to-slow-overseas-hiring-debated/feed/ 0 http://abelferraratv.com/some-thoughts-on-guns-and-free-speech/ http://abelferraratv.com/some-thoughts-on-guns-and-free-speech/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:42:44 +0000 admin http://abelferraratv.com/some-thoughts-on-guns-and-free-speech/ My position also. The NRA's stated mission is how to communicate effectively protect the 2nd Amendment Rights of its members, and this carve-out was to protect their ability to communicate with those members in a timely manner on critical issues of the day (elections). Remember, it was the NRA who were in the front-rank protesting, and contesting, McCain-Feingold; and they stated then that it infringed upon their right to communicate with their members on protecting their 2nd Amendment Read More]]> http://abelferraratv.com/some-thoughts-on-guns-and-free-speech/feed/ 0 http://abelferraratv.com/opinion-on-herman-cain-my-plan-to-revive-economic-growth/ http://abelferraratv.com/opinion-on-herman-cain-my-plan-to-revive-economic-growth/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:41:41 +0000 admin http://abelferraratv.com/opinion-on-herman-cain-my-plan-to-revive-economic-growth/ I appreciate the thought process that went into this plan, but I don't like it for one or two reasons. First, corporations don't pay taxes. The corporate tax and capital gains tax should be zero. Second, I worry about the future of having a national sales quotes tax, and an income tax at the same rate. Some would think that the rates are set in stone and thus would move together. If we raise the income tax by 1%, shouldn't we raise the sales tax by 1% would be the line of thinking. I Read More]]> http://abelferraratv.com/opinion-on-herman-cain-my-plan-to-revive-economic-growth/feed/ 0 http://abelferraratv.com/my-take-on-u.s.-car-business-in-major-shift/ http://abelferraratv.com/my-take-on-u.s.-car-business-in-major-shift/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:40:43 +0000 admin http://abelferraratv.com/my-take-on-u.s.-car-business-in-major-shift/ Joseph, you forget that collective bargaining is a process that can at any time invove the Feds. Management was to blame for not dealing properly with the UAW. Roger Smith did more damage to GM than any so called union thug. Smith put GM on the path to distruction. Jim Wagoner on the other hand, did all he could to work within the confines and limits of GM's corporate and financial realities when it came to bargaing with unions. Had GM not invested in home mortgages and credit through Read More]]> http://abelferraratv.com/my-take-on-u.s.-car-business-in-major-shift/feed/ 0 http://abelferraratv.com/my-view-on-justice-department-joins-college-football-brawl/ http://abelferraratv.com/my-view-on-justice-department-joins-college-football-brawl/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:39:56 +0000 admin http://abelferraratv.com/my-view-on-justice-department-joins-college-football-brawl/ Rebecca, Obama's unilateral decision to order US military involvement in the Libyan conflict resolution techniques trampled all over Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution and flouted the War Powers Resolution of 1973 in the process also making it...well...illegal as hell. If you're concerned about illegal activity, it's hard to imagine how NCAA decisions concerning football rise to the level of Obama's lawlessness in regards to engaging the US military in Libya. Accordingly, I Read More]]> http://abelferraratv.com/my-view-on-justice-department-joins-college-football-brawl/feed/ 0