Marco Antônio Costa: Lula não consegue se comunicar direito e passa imagem de radical louco

Uzbekistan is one of the world’s youngest countries – earning independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and holding its first parliamentary elections three years later, Uzbekistan is full of potential and opportunity. Many economists agree that the nation is home to one of the fastest-growing economies in the world and should be on everyone’s list as one of the emerging markets of the 21st century. But the question a potential investor should ask is ‘why?’ What is it about Uzbekistan leaving investors champing at the bit to get in on the action? The simplest answer to that question is resources.

Authorities report more meltdown on Main Street. Can you cope with the stress of higher food and gas prices? Can you live daily knowing that you can no longer find your dream much less live it? The motivational speakers tell you that thoughts become things, and the law of attraction can bring wealth, if you just visualize what you want and hold that vision consistently. Is this true? What if there is a piece of that puzzle missing? What if you have had that missing piece of the puzzle since birth, regardless of your circumstances? And what if through this maze of depression in pre-poverty you learned where to find that lost puzzle piece? If you have the answer, will you listen? Probably not, because the answer is simple and you feel you live in complicated circumstances not of your choosing. Yet, these circumstances exist because of choices made. You chose to do it your way, and lost. Now the national and global communities are facing traumatic consequences. Is it too late?

It’s not fair to call workers freeloaders, because those who do are the ones that have kept their wages stagnant for decades. The CEOs and upper management are receiving bloated compensation packages at the expense of the workers and stockholders. Workers are not an expense because they invest their time and effort in a company for both wages and hopes that their continued good service will give their life financial stability. Here I have suggested an equitable way to distribute profits to stockholders, upper management, and workers.

Our official unemployment rate right now is well over 8% in the summer of 2012 and in the third quarter. I say official unemployment rate because the actual unemployment rate is quite a bit higher. You see, they do not count those who have run out of unemployment benefits and are no longer eligible. This also doesn’t include people that have taken very low-paying jobs just so they can afford to maintain some semblance of their previous lifestyle and are severely under employed. It also doesn’t account for those who have taken early retirements, buyout packages, or have just stopped looking until the economy gets better.

Is it just me or do you find it alarming that President Obama is running around a swing state promising people in Ohio that he can balance the budget with no cuts to social services, the military, and perhaps even bail out the college tuition fund, government underfunded pensions, and pay for everyone’s food stamps, healthcare, and whatever else he’s offering this week, perhaps an iPhone 5 and iPad for every voter? Of course, he finally admits he will be raising taxes because he plans on doing cuts and increasing revenue. That’s a big problem for taxpayers.