Posted on 01/20/2010 5:12:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I hear you. It’s a sin.
>As you can see, half are related to healthcare. Healthcare is experiencing rapid growth, due in large part to the aging of the baby-boom generation, which will require more medical care.<
This is why Fedzilla MUST have complete control of health care. If the government gains control this industry will also decline like all the other industries have.
The health care industry is actually growing now. It hasn’t been environmentally regulated and taxed out of existence, so it continues to thrive as long as the government doesn’t have complete control of it. The only way they can destroy that industry as well is to control it.
Amen. The entire hand-made sector of the economy has been destroyed by competition from countries with no protections for laborers whatsoever -- child laborers, slave laborers, etc. Plus the economic warfare going on against the dollar rounds out the devastation. Fat cats in this country have sold the workers down the river in order to pay owners, shareholders and executives lavishly, while squeezing the workers every way possible. Yet unionization brings about a faster descent into communism. The missing element is public morality.
I don’t know anyone who would be interested in a cook book with a half million recipes. You have to spend your time and invest your talents in something that is actually MARKETABLE.
Finding good fabric is hard.
I am just learning how to spin. I can’t wait till I am able to pick out the wool straight from the sheep, clean, comb, and dye it myself, spin it and then crochet it into something lovely!
Might sound boring to some, but the idea of taking something from scratch and producing something useful and beautiful is an amazing talent we need to hold on to.
Have fun with your knitting!
I’d have to say:
A lathe
A Bridgeport-style milling machine
A metal-cutting bandsaw
A welding outfit.
Sheet, tube, and bar stock, mainly in steel.
I was at a company that had those assets, plus a good all-round machinist. I was impressed by the variety of stuff he could make up to the owner’s specifications.
All you say is true, but on a shoestring budget the lathe is the key - all other metal shaping operations can be done on it except welding.
FWIW: http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/series/index.html
It was marketable.
I was making good money off of data mining by using this as an example of what could be done. That was a year and a half ago.
sigh
Healthcare IT is growing by leaps and bounds. Porkulus is forcing hospitals and physician offices to go to an all electronic patient record (the better for Big Brother to know what you're up to, health-wise, anyway). If they don't show "meaningful use" of computer technology by a certain date (I forget when), they not only do not get Medicare reimbursement, they get fined!
If they do meet the guidelines, then they get nice multi-million $ bonuses.
Our local branch of a large medical tech company has been hiring so many new employees that they have no office space for them.
In short; “cheap & nasty!”-Thomas Carlyle
Ping
data mining?
Is that like being a cyber sleuth?
What in the hell is self-enrichment education?
> Is that like being a cyber sleuth?
Only on the weekends.
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