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If you’re willing to move out of your present city and state…then there’s jobs all over the place!! So many American design firms need workers in China or overseas. Go there for 2 or 3 years!
I’ve seen more job ads in ASLA job listing now than I did last year. Things are slowly picking up! Yet, if I was a student…no way I pursue this…[Read more]

David,
Spoken like a true Republican! I’m not going into a political debate, but Government and Private sector need each other. Neither one has all the answers and solutions, both require checks and balance! 
If you let “private sector” have its way, you get guys like Bernie Madoof and Bernard Ebbers of WorldCom. Most economists agree the two…[Read more]

I’m not taking anyone to the woodshed. I believe in them more than some of them they believe in themselves. Distractions like unionizing unemployed people to get jobs that pay well, or co-ops that will sprout out of the thin air to share work evenly with anyone who joins, non-profits to give inexperienced people dream jobs on grant money, and…[Read more]

If you want a union, then start one. Don’t wait for someone else to do it.

I’m sure this is a really good response Andrew, but I am not reading it all right now 🙂

I haven’t taken a class yet…I think that’s the next step in this gameplan. One of my old professors from LSU offers a 2 day LARE  review. I think i’ll get a bunch of my colleagues together and see if we can hire him.
 
So what do you think was your trick to passing section C this time? i’ll be re-taking that one in June.

Sorry to hear it, I failed E too, the good news is I will never have to sit for C and E back to back again! Have you taken Rays or Jerry’s classes? I am doing the redline too.

Thanks for sharing. I hadn’t received an email notifying us that the scores were posted. I was lurking on the site yesterday though, hoping they’d be up.
 
Aaaaaand I failed section E. Big surprise. (not really. After my debaucle in June i was fully prepared to go down in flames again in December.) Guess it’s time to fork out another $150 for…[Read more]

We can argue about the pros and cons of unions all day, but even if you think unions are the greatest thing since sliced bread, what do you believe about “labor” in our profession? Do you think it is something anyone can be hired off of the street to do? All too many of you ever seem to do is talk about how great the profession is and how no one…[Read more]

David, my dear, that is the point – companies SHOULD NOT care for the public good, for the commons, other than as it will affect the long-term bottom line..THE GOVERNMENT CARES FOR THE COMMONS..it is a balance..!!! Private is good, but government is ESSENTIAL to protect communal rights..
to balance corporate greed..
tired..enough..

Well, to answer the question I don’t accept the premise.  I don’t think companies should work for the common good.  I think they should work for profit.  The common good is the responsibility of the common man and certainly not the governments responsibility.  I am my brothers keeper is not the phrase of a corporation, its a phrase for you and me.…[Read more]

Thanks Cliff. I think this is the thread…http://land8lounge.com/forum/topics/is-clarbs-redline-review Lots of little tidbits in there!

oh, that is thoughtful, Cary, and how do you propose to balance the  power of Walmart, to not pay the women in Mauritius 13cents an hour? Are you ok with the triangle shirtwaste factory fire – why did they ever need unions to argue for not having their doors CHAINED CLOSED when the fire started? yeah, unions haven’t done anything for us at a…[Read more]

No unions. 

Ididn’t do ANY DISCREDITING AT ALL, I just noted that their arguments are anecdotal..That is it! You still didn’t answer the question of why corporations should care at all about the commons, over profit..Why should they? And could Monkey Ward have succeeded without WWII, without the POSTOFFICE, without federally subsidized highways, cotton…[Read more]

I knew you couldn’t avoid a little discrediting, even if requested not to.  One more for good measure:
 
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2004/01/27/third_world_sweatshops/page/2
 
And thanks for the suggestion, I’ll check out Krugman!

never heard of either of your amazing economists..and they both have a the same reagan like use of small examples..But they don’t answer the question – why should Monkey ward, or Walmart, care about environmental destruction? Why should they not stop at paying workers 13cents an hour, if they can, because the workers have no power? Why should…[Read more]

I’ll just point to two amazing economists for that answer.  And please know, if your reply is to discredit either man for his incompetence or denigrate the web site they write for, you’ll be arguing in bad faith and making no point at all.  Argue against their c…[Read more]

you are kidding me, david chrico..free markets in the third world – you obviously have not travelled at all..the ‘free market’ has caused an international global shut-down, on the backs of the tax payers..The free-market gives you the slums of lagos, the slums of Manila, of which I am highly conversant..It is NOT the JOB of industry to look out…[Read more]

Congrats, Tanya.  Can you point me to Andrew G’s instructions.