Yes, that's the article I just read and why I sent compliments to you. Keep up the good work! Maybe someday the blind will see. (but I doubt it)

BRAVO!!! on your insight and comments! (topic: Would a carbon tax help)

Thanks for your positive comment, it is a true event in my life and what I believe.

GM used taxpayer bailout money to pay back the first bailout money. They really helped US taxpayers. In the meantime, boandholders lost nearly everything.

No, not really. GM was low on liquidity, so the Government took a portion of their equity share and turned it into a loan. GM's fiscal position improved dramatically, and they never had to access the funds loaned by the government. So they paid it back with $700 million in interest. GM now has over $30 Billion in cash and marketable securities.

Good observation. I agree..

Comprof, you posted a great article today. I responded this way. --- -- The last paragraph of the article says; --- "If we learn nothing from the BPeconomic tragedy-and, like those examples that overshadow it, it is far more an economic disaster than an environmental one-we should learn that the quarterly earnings report and the daily stock price have never been ways to measure a healthy economy. If the BP debacle inspires us to measure our progress in new, sustainable ways, it will change the way we treat our people and natural resources and therefore be the last such disaster of this kind." ========================== Perhaps this is indeed number 10, but if we don't wake up soon, maybe the next will be the real # 1.

Yes, the earth is about 4.6 billion years old (with a statistical error probability of 100.000 years). The oldest rocks have been dated at 3.2 billion years. If you have problems with this you needs to expand your reading sources. And for the creationists, this has nothing to do with God having directing it. Neither is it contrary to Biblical teachings as the correct translation of the oldest known version of Genesis 1:1 is actually "In the beginning that was not the beginning". You were given eyes and a brain to think with so expand your reference sources and use them.

Post continued === Is that what you want? -- Please tell me no. --- You seem to have a concept of how the earth was created in the last 41/2 billion years. Please let me know that you also have the ability to look at least 100 to 200 years into the future.

Comprof, Glad to know that you “hope I am right”. Yes, the first computers had great costs in their research stages, and the human race may have first discovered electricity when one of our forefathers, Ben, flew his kite. – And yes, photosynthesis has been occurring for 3 billion years or so. And, yes, that is the only reason we have an oxygen containing environment today. --- It is for those reasons, and more, when we choose to drill miles into the earth to discover resources that took billions of years to create, that we must learn to use the sunlight that reaches our earth today and every day. --- You are an intelligent person and you must know that if we use all of the resources that have been building on our planet for the last 3 billion years, in the next 100, or 200 years, there will be none left for future generations. --- Is that what you want? -- Please tell me no. --- You seem to have a concept of how the earth was created in the last 41/2 billion years. Please le