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• Many Companies Could Hire IF They Wanted To

  Mon Jun 13, 2011
  • The only reason to hire someone is because you have a productive job for them to do. If you don't, you don't hire someone.

• Are human beings extinction proof? Evolution expert anthropologist makes startling claim after Doomsday clock moves another minute further from midnight

  Sat Jun 11, 2011
  • 'Seen in its broadest context, the history of life on Earth soberly demonstrates that the vast majority of organisms that ever lived, perhaps 99 per cent of them, no longer do,'

• Walk away from your mortgage? Time to get 'ruthless' - Jun. 7, 2011

  Tue Jun 7, 2011
  • I can't fault the borrowers really, as long as they were acting in good faith when they entered into the loan. The nature of the mortgage contract is that the debt is secured by the house, not by somehow turning the homeowner into a slave to their debt.

• Why Can't More Poor People Escape Poverty? Psychologists Have A Radical New Explanation. | The New Republic

  Mon Jun 6, 2011
  • Who's fault is that? Its a force of nature, people are worse at decision making when they're poor. Nobody's fault. How do we go about making that correction?

• Doctors Soften Their Stance on Obama’s Health Overhaul: As Physicians’ Jobs Change, So Do Their Politics

  Mon May 30, 2011
  • So in the situation the article describes, who picks up the doctor's short end of the stick? The hospitals paying for liability coverage? I wonder if their position on the healthcare bill is changing.

• Should smokers be denied access to healthcare??

  Tue May 31, 2011
  • So if a child is raised on McDonalds say and lives in front of the video games and gets fat and unhealthy, turns 18 moves out on his own and resumes the lifestyle he was raised with. Who is at fault then and who should pay?

• Should smokers be denied access to healthcare??

  Tue May 31, 2011
  • I'm saying I wouldn't deny someone healthcare, or lock them up because they enjoyed something that ultimately cost the state money. I would however look to make them pay for it (as a demographic) so society isn't collectively on the hook for some specific people's costly behavior.

• Should smokers be denied access to healthcare??

  Tue May 31, 2011
  • Mostly Agree with NC above:

• DNA Found to Have "Impossible" Telepathic Properties

  Wed Feb 6, 2008
  • Extremist Moderate: Due to our tendency to avoid that which frightens us, we frequently show reluctance towards the study required for increasing our understanding of it.That is one of the most insightful things i've read on newsvine. MightyMait: