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• Drastic cuts boost bottom line at U.S. firms

  Fri Jul 24, 2009
  • Something that gets overlooked with cost cutting is just what the cost that was cut was being spent in the first place.

• Should we care if Favre is being selfish?

  Wed May 6, 2009
  • I have and still do respect Brett Favre. But what get's me is that he doesn't seem to realize that he has another 40+ years of life in front of him after football. And with all the scads of money he's made over the years, he also has scads of options.

• Does America need a new retirement system?

  Tue May 5, 2009
  • I was surprised when I read "Indeed, put the words “401(k)” and “guaranteed income” in the same sentence, and you quickly get a hot debate going among any number of retirement experts and lawmakers along the political spectrum."

• Should insurance giant AIG, which has received $170 billion in aid from the federal government, dole out tens of millions of dollars in bonuses to employees?

  Sat Mar 14, 2009
  • Why would anyone vote for the statement "Absolutely. AIG needs to retain talented employees who are needed to turn the company around." ? Bonues exist because the firm was successful. AIG is not that.

• Do you believe Brett Favre has played his last NFL game?

  Wed Feb 11, 2009
  • I agree with all you folks that Brett is an incredible talent. The NFL is something less without his skill and attitude. But it has always astounded me that he doesn't seem to have an exit strategy.

• Wall Street's entitlement culture hard to shake

  Fri Jan 23, 2009
  • From the article .... "How much does it take to retain good people? The truth is, there are an awful lot of talented unemployed people right now," Post said. "There's a mythology that there are only a precious few geniuses that can run these places."

• Kennedy says she'll have to work twice as hard

  Fri Dec 26, 2008
  • Work twice as hard?  It seems like there must be someone in the whole of the state who, if they did work twice as hard, we would see twice the results.  I have nothing against the Kennedy clan, but why would even she want to choose her?

• Obama: Full-on geek or just 'nerd-adjacent?'

  Fri Dec 26, 2008
  • Geek?  Perhaps, so.  But its all relative.  If being a geek means - unlike our current president - knowing that science is not a belief system, where what is true shouldn't be influenced by how you want things to be, then I agree that Mr.

• 'Mutts like me' shows Obama's racial comfort

  Sat Nov 8, 2008
  • I'm more than pleased to see so many comments along the lines of what I wanted to add.  I'm a mutt too, Swiss-German and Swedish.  My kids are even more so.  It just happens that Mr.

• 'Mutts like me' shows Obama's racial comfort

  Sat Nov 8, 2008
  • Reading through many of the comments, I'm more than pleased to see so many people took his comments the same way I did.  I'm a mutt too, German/Swiss and Swedish.  My kids are even more so.   OK, so Mr.