All of this results in domestic underemployment but that is what Obama wants because he can increase entitlements and, thus, government control over more lives.
If ones disagrees these are not Obama's motives and continue to advocate he is intelligent then I would like them to explain his unintentional stupidity. (See 1 below.)
Bill Gates offers some cogent advice as well. (See 1a below.)
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Ya'alon might as well talk to The Wall.( See 2 below.)
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And so it goes: (See 3 below.)
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From reports I get, patient care for the detainees at Gitmo is better than what our government provides veterans. Perhaps the Gitmo model is worth implementing?
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1) Over-Regulation Leads to Under-Innovation
By Neal Asbury
According to the 2013 Global Innovation Index, released by Cornell University, INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization, the United States ranks as the fifth most innovative country, behind Switzerland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and The Netherlands.
Where do new ideas come from? From start ups and visionaries that just need some support and capital to make their ideas a reality. This nation's entrepreneurs drive innovation, job creation and our economy.
Why can Sweden excel in innovation when the United States cannot? The answer is that Sweden understands the burden that regulations have on business and innovation.
While regulations cost American businesses $1.8 trillion a year, Sweden recognizes that when you cut red tape and reduce regulations, innovation can thrive and entrepreneurs can flourish.
In 2010, the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis was commissioned by the government to conduct studies of the effects of rules on enterprise.
The commission began compiling the latest research findings on regulatory burden, regulatory simplification and regulatory impact on business; examining what effects direct and indirect costs have on businesses and the economy; conducting an analysis of other regulatory effects, excluding financial costs, on companies and how they affect the companies' behavior in regard to investments and efficiency improvement; and analyzing what effect the structure of rules has on companies' productivity.
Their findings should not surprise anyone conducting business in America. In essence, they found that regulations prevent companies from growing and exploiting new markets; generate excessively high compliance costs for both companies and for the government; and contribute to companies becoming less capable of adapting to technological change or consumers' needs.
Sweden understands a basic truth about business: over-regulating crushes profitability, innovation, job creation, productivity, value and economic growth.
Ryan Young, a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, was a guest recently on my Made in America radio show and noted that 36 new regulations are passed in America every day, which continue to put a heavy burden on all businesses, but especially entrepreneurs.
Most troubling is what he calls "regulation without representation," which describes the power that this administration has bestowed upon regulatory agencies allowing them to pass 3,000 regulations without Congressional approval.
His most salient point was that most of the world's wealth hasn't been created yet, which means those countries that support the greatest innovation will also create the most wealth.
America cannot sit still while we allow other nations to excel in the global marketplace.
Part of that is allowing other countries to buy U.S.-made goods without excessive tariffs and regulations so they can experience American innovation firsthand.
This again is where Sweden has figured out the relationship between entrepreneurial support and exporting. Sweden has access to the world's largest free-trade market — the European Union, with 27 other member countries and 500 million consumers.
While other countries are doing a full-court press on signing off on the proposed European Trade agreement that could give U.S. manufacturers access to these markets, America is dithering its time, allowing trade unions to derail the process.
Is Sweden smarter than the United States? I don't think so. But they are smart enough to recognize that over-regulation kills an economy and job creation. Yet, our government has ignored the perils of over-regulation and has ceded authority to regularity agencies without Congressional oversight. They are amassing power and creating job security for thousands of bureaucrats who create no value for this nation.
If we can't support our nation's entrepreneurs by reducing regulatory pressures, over-taxation and letting companies compete on a level playing field on the global market, they'll stop innovating and even go elsewhere.
America must capture the crown as the most innovative country on earth. Take off the regulatory shackles and let entrepreneurs do what they do best: innovate.
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The Richest Man in the World.
Read down below....pay HEED!
~ Bill Gates ~
This should be posted in every school or kid's bedroom.
Love him or hate him , he sure hits the nail on the head with this!
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about
eleven things they did not and will not learn in school.
He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings
created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and
how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2: The world doesn't care about your self-esteem.
The world will expect you to accomplish something
BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school.
You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.
Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping:
They called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault,
so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring
as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills,
cleaning your clothes and listening to you
talk about how cool you thought you were:
So before you save the rain forest
from the parasites of your parent's generation,
try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers,
but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades
and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer.
*This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance toANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters.
You don't get summers off and very few employers
are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF.
(Do that on your own time.)
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life.
In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds.
Chances are you'll end up working for one.
If you can read this...thank a Teacher.
If you can read this in English...thank a Soldier!
And for life and everything else you have...thank the Creator! Now....think about this and smile if you agree and please pass this on....
If you don't agree, go stick your head in the SAND and take a DEEP BREATH!
2)--! Ya'alon: Israel, US Must Use 'All Means' To Block Iran Threat
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, talks with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon during a May 15 joint press conference at The Kirya, the Israeli Defense Force headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Getty Images)
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, talks with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon during a May 15 joint press conference at The Kirya, the Israeli Defense Force headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Getty Images)
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — Israel’s defense minister said Thursday that the Jewish state and its US ally should be prepared to use “all means” to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapons capability.
“I believe that it should be in the first priority of each of us to deal with this threat by all means, in all fields,” Moshe Ya’alon said at joint press conference with visiting US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
The Pentagon chief’s visit came as the United States and other major powers pressed talks with Iran on a long-term agreement to allay international concerns about its nuclear ambitions.
Israel has strongly opposed the negotiations with its arch-enemy, and has said repeatedly that it is prepared to go it alone if necessary with preemptive military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“I believe the United States and Israel share the same goal — not to allow a military nuclear Iran,” Ya’alon said.
“We might have differences, even disputes regarding how to get it but we have the open channels, the secretary of defense and myself.
“The bottom line is that Israel should be ready to defend itself, by itself.”
Hagel said the negotiations between the powers and Iran were not open-ended — the parties are working to a July 20 target for an agreement.
He said Washington was continuing to cooperate closely with its Israeli ally on the Iran issue, even while the negotiations continued.
“Because we’re on a diplomatic track … does not preclude all of the other security and defense measures that we continue to pursue outside that diplomatic track, including this relationship with Israel,” he said.
Hagel was on the last leg of Middle East, which also took him to Saudi Arabia, which has its own concerns about the nuclear talks with its regional rival.
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3) Paris: Jews Stabbed Hours After Brussels Attacks
by Tova Dvorin
Two Jewish men were attacked outside Paris Saturday night, French Interior Minister Bernard Caseneuve announced Sunday, as they were leaving a Creteil synagogue.
Caseneuve ordered police around France to increase security at Jewish houses of worship and other Jewish establishments, the Ministry stated. He condemned the attacked with "utmost severity."
Very few details are available on the attack. Sources told Israeli small-time news site 0404 Sunday morning that three French Jews were attacked - not two - and identified them as the synagogue's treasurer and his two sons. All three have been hospitalized, according to the report.
The men were stabbed just hours after a gunman entered Brussels' Jewish Museum Saturday afternoon and began shooting, killing three people - including two Israelis - and critically wounding another.
A national manhunt has begun for the shooter; local police are still looking for possible suspects, official announced Sunday morning, despite at least one arrest shortly after the shooting.
Several Jewish leaders have fiercely condemned the attacks, warning as well of growing anti-Semitism in Europe.
Israeli, European Victims of Belgium Attack Identified
by Tova Dvorin
The two Israelis killed in shooting attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Belgium are Emanuel and Miriam Riba, 54 and 53, from Tel Aviv, authorities announced Sunday. The couple leaves behind two daughters, ages 15 and 16, according to Yediot Aharonot.
The Israeli Embassy in Brussels has contacted local police to ensure that the bodies will be flown to Israel for the funeral.
Neighbors were shocked to hear the news.
"She is a very educated woman and he was always very discreet," a neighbor told Channel 2 Sunday. "Even though they were on shlichut [Israel advocacy mission - ed.] to Germany for several years, and only returned recently, we always had a great relationship - they always had a smile on their face."
The Ribas were in Berlin on shlichut from 2007-2011, neighbors told Yediot Aharonot. Emmanuel worked in the Public Security Ministry since returning from Germany.
Another neighbor said he was shocked.
"They were on shlichut but never thought that something like this could happen - we talked every few days," he said. "They were an intelligent, charming couple and it's hard to understand that this could happen to them."
The other victims included a French woman, 23, who was killed at the scene; another shooting victim, in critical condition, is Belgian.
A gunman entered Brussels' Jewish Museum Saturday afternoon and began shooting, killing three people - including the two Israelis - and critically wounding another.
A national manhunt has begun for the shooter; local police are still looking for possible suspects, official announced Sunday morning, despite at least one arrest shortly after the shooting.
It was the first fatal attack on a Jewish center since the early 1980s in Belgium, home to some 40,000 Jews. Roughly half live in Brussels and the remainder in Antwerp.
Controversy Over Whether Brussels Attack 'Anti-Semitic'
by AFP and Arutz Sheva Staff
France's President Francois Hollande said on Sunday there was no doubt about the "anti-Semitic character" of the attack on a Jewish museum in Belgium which left three dead, including a Frenchwoman.
"The anti-Semitic character of this act, a shooting in the Jewish museum in Brussels with the intention to kill, is in no doubt," said Hollande, speaking in his southwestern political stronghold of Tulle where he went to vote in the European elections.
A gunman entered Brussels' Jewish Museum Saturday afternoon and began shooting, killing three people - a young French woman, and Emmanuel and Miriam Riva, 54 and 53, from Tel Aviv.
A national manhunt has begun for the shooter; local police are still looking for possible suspects, official announced Sunday morning, despite at least one arrest shortly after the shooting.
It was the first fatal attack on a Jewish center since the early 1980s in Belgium, home to some 40,000 Jews. Roughly half live in Brussels and the remainder in Antwerp.
Several Jewish leaders have fiercely condemned the attacks, warning as well of growing anti-Semitism in Europe.
However, authorities have hesitated to instantly label the attack as a specific act of anti-Semitism.
Interior Minister Joelle Milquet stated late Saturday that while "there are strong grounds for presuming so," there is not enough information about the shooter or the motive to make a full confirmation of the shooting as a hate crime. However, officials have stated that an investigation has indicated that the attack was "murder with premeditation."
The Belgium public prosecutor's office said Sunday that it had no grounds at this stage to state whether an attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels was a terrorist or anti-Semitic act.
Saying that there was no claim so far, deputy public prosecutor Ine Van Wymersch said: "I cannot confirm that it is a terrorist or anti-Semitic act" and added that "all leads remain open."
But the anti-Semitic nature of the attack is obvious to Jewish leaders, who instantly slammed what many perceive to be growing tolerance for anti-Semitic hate crimes in Europe.
Joel Rubinfeld, head of Belgium's Anti-Semitism League, told AFP shortly after the attack that it was "clearly a terrorist act" and condemned the "climate of hate."
European Jewish Council (EJC) President Dr. Moshe Cantor agreed.
"While we don’t not yet have full information regarding the background to this attack, we are acutely aware of the permanent threat to Jewish targets in Belgium and across the whole of Europe," Cantor stated Saturday night. "European governments must send out a clear message of zero tolerance towards any manifestation of anti-Semitism."
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released an official statement condemning the attack as a "tragic reminder of the frightening atmosphere for Jews in parts of Europe" Saturday night - and urging the international community to stop anti-Semitism as a uniquely European phenomenon.
"We know that while the overall number of recorded anti-Semitic attacks in parts of Europe where reliable statistics are available may have gone down in the past year, at the same time the number of violent incidents against Jews has actually increased," ADL National Director Abraham Foxman stated.
"The rise in Europe of openly anti-Semitic political parties, the proliferation of clearly anti-Semitic expressions on social media platforms and the disturbingly high levels of anti-Semitic attitudes in many places in Europe contribute to a witches’ brew of hate in which those who are inclined to engage in violence against Jews can find encouragement."
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