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October 14, 2009

relaxation

Halo theory has merit. I once heard a manager tell me a team member could do no wrong. I felt pity for both the manager and the team member. Who wants to work on a pedestal?

I've found the best teams are those that realize each member compensates of others' weaknesses. Each member's strengths and weaknesses are respected. Then again, I have been on really good work teams only a few times.

So, I read this article about paper batteries. I had to check the original article out. The Economist article failed to mention the paper's capacitance(optimally, 38−50 mAh g−1). AAAA battery has 625 mAh capacitance and weighs 6.5g. Interesting idea but the battery isn't an effective battery.

Can I make a plea that we need to be better neighbors?

I remember this strategy. In a business game, my team was easily drawn to my idea to diversify into International markets. However, I learned the pain or the cost of such a strategy short-term though long-term, the strategy was sound. Carrefour is caught between what is good for shareholders and what is good for the company long-term.

More news about the Great Recession.

Here are the costs of healthcare reform:

All this will cost $829 billion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a non-partisan agency

By imposing taxes on the most expensive insurance plans and planning swingeing cuts in Medicare, the state health scheme for the elderly, the CBO says the bill will not increase the government deficit. (These ideas, of course, are not part of the bill itself. They are bills to come.)

And the bill is likely to cost far more than currently advertised, because of two wheezes. One is a lethargic implementation plan, which means that the full annual cost will not kick in for a few years yet (thus making the CBO’s mandatory ten-year cost estimate misleadingly low). The second is the assumption of heroic cost savings from Medicare and big cuts in payments. Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, scoffs that “this legislation is an example of the triumph of budgeting hope over experience.”

Let me close my eyes tightly and dream that I die before I have to pay for my healthcare bills in old age. Stop taking away from LBJ's legacy!

This bill will probably help the economy short-term since healthcare is already 15.2% with the government spending at 45%. How could we not trust healthcare spending to those whose spending is so controlled?

If you want to do something, write your congressman and senator.

Posted by azileretsis at October 14, 2009 11:50 PM

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