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Entries from June 2009

GM Bailout Funds Failures – Fund Success Instead

Date June 12, 2009

 
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I read that the GM and Chrysler bailout will now cost about $2.4 million for each job it saves.  This is obscene.  It is much cheaper to provide them with unemployment funds and retraining. By doing this, the governments of Canada and the US are propping up the failures, companies that proved they can’t [...]

Garland’s Rant: I Am NOT A Consumer

Date June 2, 2009

Time to get on my soapbox.  I HATE the whole approach to calling customers “consumers”.  When I hear it, I think of mindless creatures endlessly consuming something – like Pac-Man gobbling up little pac-dots. I also hate Internet marketing terms like “squeeze” pages.  The connotation is that you “squeeze” the contact info and money out [...]