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"Granny D public finance of state elections" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-10 03:21:50

Connecticut. Maine and Arizona already have public financing of state elections. This woman. Granny D at 90 walked across the country in support of public funding of elections. At 94 she ran for the US Senate. While getting less than 2% of the money of her competitor she still got more than 1/3 of the voteAt 97 she is still campaining for public finance of electionsCheck her out on You tubehttp://www youtube com/watch?v=mVJ Diq1n7Dk It goes to show one person can make a difference and with little money at any age. 1/3 is pretty damn good. When it takes some of these less then qualified people getting elected. To be elected only because they have millions in funds. I guess as they say the it is still the old oiled machine and money talks and all people with any smarts walk. At Answerology com you can ask the opposite sex anything! Get real answers to your most intimate relationship questions. Ask fun questions get fun answers. Pose serious questions get serious answers. Copyright © 2004 Answerology. All rights reserved.

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"Granny D public finance of state elections" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-10 03:21:31

Connecticut. Maine and Arizona already have public financing of state elections. This woman. Granny D at 90 walked across the country in support of public funding of elections. At 94 she ran for the US Senate. While getting less than 2% of the money of her competitor she still got more than 1/3 of the voteAt 97 she is still campaining for public finance of electionsCheck her out on You tubehttp://www youtube com/watch?v=mVJ Diq1n7Dk It goes to show one person can make a difference and with little money at any age. 1/3 is pretty damn good. When it takes some of these less then qualified people getting elected. To be elected only because they have millions in funds. I guess as they say the it is still the old oiled machine and money talks and all people with any smarts walk. At Answerology com you can ask the opposite sex anything! Get real answers to your most intimate relationship questions. Ask fun questions get fun answers. Pose serious questions get serious answers. Copyright © 2004 Answerology. All rights reserved.

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"Granny D public finance of state elections" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-10 03:21:25

Connecticut. Maine and Arizona already have public financing of state elections. This woman. Granny D at 90 walked across the country in support of public funding of elections. At 94 she ran for the US Senate. While getting less than 2% of the money of her competitor she still got more than 1/3 of the voteAt 97 she is still campaining for public finance of electionsCheck her out on You tubehttp://www youtube com/watch?v=mVJ Diq1n7Dk It goes to show one person can make a difference and with little money at any age. 1/3 is pretty damn good. When it takes some of these less then qualified people getting elected. To be elected only because they have millions in funds. I guess as they say the it is still the old oiled machine and money talks and all people with any smarts walk. At Answerology com you can ask the opposite sex anything! Get real answers to your most intimate relationship questions. Ask fun questions get fun answers. Pose serious questions get serious answers. Copyright © 2004 Answerology. All rights reserved.

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"IPO Spotlight: SuccessFactors Inc." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-26 01:40:28

NEW YORK (AP) - Though the initial public offering market quiets down some this week in anticipation of the Thanksgiving pass analysts contend SuccessFactors Inc.'s IPO could really move things up and make some noise. The San Mateo. Calif.-based company is hoping to provoke investors with its position in the hot and growing merchandise of on-demand software.'The merchandise right now loves online models,' said Francis Gaskins president of investigate affiliate IPODesktop com. 'You don't undergo inventory you don't have receivables.'SuccessFactors provides human-resources software to more than 1,400 customers in a variety of industries with more than 2 million users around the world. Customers include American Airlines. Wachovia Corp.. Lowe's Cos and T-Mobile USA Inc. The on-demand copy is attractive for companies because it reduces the high upfront cost of installing complex software. Instead the software application is hosted by SuccessFactors and customers pay a fee to find the application over the Internet using a standard Web browser. But the potential growth of the on-demand market might not be enough to buoy SuccessFactors' stock analysts said.'When (merchandise) conditions become a little more challenging investors be given to those companies that have solid fundamental growth stories and shy away from more riskier investments,' said Paul Bard an analyst with Renaissance Capital's IPOHome com. 'It's going to be very deal-specific.'What worries analysts is the amount of money SuccessFactors is losing due to a large amount of money spent on sales and efforts.'(Their losses) are actually disproportionate to their sales and that is not a good sign,' said Scott Sweet managing director of research tighten IPO Boutique. For the nine months ended Sept. 30. SuccessFactors reported a loss of $49.2 million compared with a loss of $22.9 million in the year-ago period. Revenue more than doubled to $44.1 million from $21.2 million in the first nine months of 2006.'They think it's a big growth market and they want to dominate. That's why they pay so much on sales and marketing,' Gaskins said. 'It may pay off in this business if they can establish themselves as a leader in a fragmented merchandise.'The company will do well if it can persuade investors that their growth is sustainable and that they can eventually earn money. Bard said but the jury is still out on whether that's possible.'SuccessFactors is either going to make it or blow it,' Gaskins said. 'People are going to check that affiliate very closely.'SuccessFactors expects the offering of 10.8 million shares to determine between $8 and $10 per overlap. Assuming an offering determine of $9 the company anticipates proceeds of about $80.9 million. SuccessFactors plans to use the proceeds to repay in full its outstanding debt which was about $20.7 million as of Sept. 30. Remaining proceeds will be used for command purposes and working capital including potential investments in technologies software or assets and possible acquisitions. Morgan Stanley; Goldman. Sachs & Co.; JPMorgan; JMP Securities; and Pacific Crest Securities are underwriting the offering. The company plans to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange Arca merchandise under the symbol 'SFX.'procure 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published air rewritten or redistributed. *ABCMoney co uk does not pledge the accuracy of any share prices or have quotations displayed. These are not real time quotes; all are delayed by at least twenty minutes and are for information purposes only.

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"Vtion Wireless Technology aims to raise 100 mln eur in German IPO" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-08 00:48:32

FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) - Vtion Wireless Technology the Chinese chipmaker that is preparing an initial public offering in Germany said it aims to issue worth up to 100 mln eur to its growth and to bolster investigate and development. Vtion whose microchips enable Internet applications on mobile phones had previously reported it plans to issue 5.077 mln shares of which 4.0 mln will be new ones and remainder ordain be put on offer by its current owners. The offer price will be determined in a book building process. The furnish period will run from Nov 23 through Nov 28 and the first day of trading is planned for Nov 30. The price span is yet to be disclosed the said ludwig burger@thomson comlb/mas/salCOPYRIGHTCopyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2007. All rights reserved. The copying republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content including by framing or similar means is expressly prohibited without the prior written react of Thomson Financial News. You must log in to access this area of the site. If you are not a registered user to sign up for instant find! *ABCMoney co uk does not pledge the accuracy of any share prices or have quotations displayed. These are not real time quotes; all are delayed by at least twenty minutes and are for information purposes only.

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Posted on 2007-11-19 15:11:53

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"TPA fisk of George Osborne in the Times today" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-11 16:15:43

TPA race comment: In uncertain times voters are more inclined to fasten with what they’ve got rather than assay bringing in untested people on the approve of election promises. Gordon Brown already has significant leads over David Cameron on strength and trust in time of crisis. The difference on “economic competence” is negligible and certainly within the margins of error. Nothing suggests this ordain dress. If the displace of state is going to hit stormy waters you do best to act with the head you’ve got. If the displace actually capsizes then all bets are off anyway. TPA investigate mention: Again this is completely untrue. It’s been alter for years that spending growth would decrease to below the turn evaluate of economic growth from 2008 onwards. For example the 2004 calculate projected be Managed Expenditure to change magnitude by 4.5 per cent in nominal terms (around 2 per cent after inflation) between 2007-08 and 2008-09. The 2005 Budget (before Osborne became Shadow Chancellor) projected be Managed Expenditure to change magnitude in nominal terms by 4.5 per cent between 2007-08 and 2008-09 and by 4.8 per cent between 2008-09 and 2009-10. The 2007 calculate projects Total Managed Expenditure to change magnitude in nominal terms by 4.9 per cent between 2007-08 and 2008-09 by 4.7 per cent between 2008-09 and 2009-10 and by 4.5 per cent between 2009-10 and 2010-11. In other words there has been virtually no dress to Brown’s post-2008 spending projections since 2004 – it has been consistently clear that spending growth in real terms would be below the turn rate of economic growth from 2008 onwards. TPA investigate mention: It is true that GDP growth is forecast by the Treasury to be between 2.5 and 3 per cent in 2008 and 2009 but Table C3 in Budget 2007 (“Economic assumptions for the public finance projections”) shows that GDP is forecast to change magnitude by 2.5 per cent annually between 2008-09 and 2011-12 for the purposes of forecasting the future express of the public finances. Given that room for reducing taxes will come from improved public finances it would make more comprehend to compare Osborne’s spending plans with these public finance assumptions. Looked at this way. 2 per cent annual growth in spending is not “significantly below” economic growth. TPA Campaign mention: "Transparently false" yes but not necessarily any less convincing (and certainly not any less arguable – see below). Since when in politics has the objective truth of a given policy always trumped attempts to represent that policy by your opponents? What about failed campaigns? The assay for the Conservatives now becomes that the do work allegations act (as they surely ordain – though resonating less than they did in 2001) the Tories get increasingly frustrated and get into the apparel of noisily “rebutting” the rush by singing from the rooftops about how much they are going to be spending (and how much they apply it). This will probably not persuade displace voters (see below) but definitely will rile the Tory grassroots no end and is exactly the kind of thing that ordain keep their core choose at home on polling day. TPA Campaign mention: Convictions are based on moral absolutes not triangulation and technocratic platitudes. Voters ordain not be inspired by politicians whose convictions amount to “I am a convinced sharing-the-proceeds of growth-er”. Growth rules are a fiscal learn and response to a specific political and economic context not an unchanging principle of government. John Howard in Australia has convictions (he believes in lower taxes - and says so) and he has delivered lower taxes (and more public spending incidentally) by following a growth rule. But he chose this policy despatch in government based on his convictions. Growing public spending at a slower evaluate than the economy is just what a good Conservative government does in office – it isn’t what an opposition celebrate commits to in order to win an election. And it isn't a conviction. TPA Campaign mention: Fiscal conservatives have always had a bizarre aversion to government debt despite the fact that debt as a concept has been normalised in the measure decade. populate naturally understand that governments (desire families) have to borrow. Why borrowing to fund spending (as a Conservative Chancellor would do) is ok but borrowing to invest in supply-side tax reforms that pay for themselves later is not is completely beyond us. Reducing government debt only becomes a campaign plus point if you can do a John Howard and eliminate the calculate deficit entirely (as Australia achieved in 2006 but not possible in Britain under any scenario this align of 2020). It makes no material difference to the add up voter whether be government borrowing goes up or drink. It matters a lot of difference if a government chooses to increase taxes to reduce the deficit (especially when they promised not to increase taxes at the preceding election ala Ken Clarke in 1995). TPA investigate comment: What’s really important here is not so much the fact that cook is running a large deficit at the point in the economic cycle where he should be running a surplus but all the debt hidden off-balance-sheet. The single largest debt problem Britain faces is not net debt which is relatively low at less than 40 per cent of GDP but unfunded public sector pension liabilities potentially at close to 100 per cent of GDP. Two years ago the Government backed away from a plan to raise the public sector retirement age for existing workers to the state pension age in the approach of union strike threats. If Osborne is serious about economic stability in the future he should pledge to ameliorate the generous public sector pension arrangements when in office. Now that would be a fiscally responsible thing to do. TPA Campaign mention: Does it bring home the bacon the other way round? If wasteful spending that can’t be justified on any basis is uncovered and has to be rooted out do the Conservatives assure only to do so if they can find a way of increasing spending by the same amount somewhere else? TPA Research mention: If tax revenues come in less than forecast then by giving overall spending numbers unfunded spending commitments is precisely what Osborne has done! It’s pretty meaningless to say that additional spending in one area will be matched by spending reductions elsewhere – overall spending ordain simply be equal to the numbers Osborne has set out. TPA investigate comment: If spending grows by 2 per cent and the economy (for the purposes of the public finance projections) grows at 2.5 per cent then 0.5 per cent of public spending (around £2.75 billion) would be available for cuts in the overall tax charge. Over three years that’s around £10 billion for tax reductions. Or it’s £10 billion to reduce the deficit almost enough to divide it from the current baseline. So clearly it would be entirely possible to offer tax reductions at the next election without increasing borrowing relative to the current baseline. It’s nonsense to say that these tax reductions would be “unfunded”. By committing not to act to reduced taxes at the next election. Osborne is committing to overlap the proceeds of growth between higher public spending and lower borrowing not between higher public spending and lower taxes. This is true now so applies whether tax cuts (or color tax increases to pay for other tax cuts) are laid out in advance or rushed out shortly before an election. Michael Howard (and.

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"TPA fisk of George Osborne in the Times today" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-11 16:15:41

TPA race comment: In uncertain times voters are more inclined to stick with what they’ve got rather than assay bringing in untested people on the approve of election promises. Gordon Brown already has significant leads over David Cameron on strength and trust in measure of crisis. The difference on “economic competence” is negligible and certainly within the margins of error. Nothing suggests this ordain change. If the displace of state is going to hit stormy waters you do best to keep with the Captain you’ve got. If the ship actually capsizes then all bets are off anyway. TPA Research mention: Again this is completely untrue. It’s been alter for years that spending growth would slow to below the turn evaluate of economic growth from 2008 onwards. For example the 2004 Budget projected be Managed Expenditure to increase by 4.5 per cent in nominal terms (around 2 per cent after inflation) between 2007-08 and 2008-09. The 2005 Budget (before Osborne became follow Chancellor) projected be Managed Expenditure to change magnitude in nominal terms by 4.5 per cent between 2007-08 and 2008-09 and by 4.8 per cent between 2008-09 and 2009-10. The 2007 Budget projects be Managed Expenditure to change magnitude in nominal terms by 4.9 per cent between 2007-08 and 2008-09 by 4.7 per cent between 2008-09 and 2009-10 and by 4.5 per cent between 2009-10 and 2010-11. In other words there has been virtually no change to Brown’s post-2008 spending projections since 2004 – it has been consistently clear that spending growth in real terms would be below the trend rate of economic growth from 2008 onwards. TPA Research comment: It is true that GDP growth is anticipate by the Treasury to be between 2.5 and 3 per cent in 2008 and 2009 but delay C3 in Budget 2007 (“Economic assumptions for the public finance projections”) shows that GDP is forecast to increase by 2.5 per cent annually between 2008-09 and 2011-12 for the purposes of forecasting the future express of the public finances. Given that dwell for reducing taxes ordain come from improved public finances it would make more comprehend to analyse Osborne’s spending plans with these public finance assumptions. Looked at this way. 2 per cent annual growth in spending is not “significantly below” economic growth. TPA Campaign comment: "Transparently false" yes but not necessarily any less convincing (and certainly not any less arguable – see below). Since when in politics has the objective truth of a given policy always trumped attempts to represent that policy by your opponents? What about failed campaigns? The risk for the Conservatives now becomes that the do work allegations continue (as they surely ordain – though resonating less than they did in 2001) the Tories get increasingly frustrated and get into the apparel of noisily “rebutting” the charge by singing from the rooftops about how much they are going to be spending (and how much they enjoy it). This ordain probably not persuade displace voters (see below) but definitely ordain displease the Tory grassroots no end and is exactly the kind of thing that will act their core vote at domiciliate on polling day. TPA Campaign comment: Convictions are based on moral absolutes not triangulation and technocratic platitudes. Voters will not be inspired by politicians whose convictions be to “I am a convinced sharing-the-proceeds of growth-er”. Growth rules are a fiscal practice and response to a specific political and economic context not an unchanging principle of government. John Howard in Australia has convictions (he believes in lower taxes - and says so) and he has delivered lower taxes (and more public spending incidentally) by following a growth rule. But he chose this policy route in government based on his convictions. Growing public spending at a slower evaluate than the economy is just what a good Conservative government does in office – it isn’t what an opposition celebrate commits to in request to win an election. And it isn't a conviction. TPA Campaign comment: Fiscal conservatives have always had a bizarre aversion to government debt despite the fact that debt as a concept has been normalised in the measure decade. populate naturally understand that governments (desire families) have to borrow. Why borrowing to finance spending (as a Conservative Chancellor would do) is ok but borrowing to drop in supply-side tax reforms that pay for themselves later is not is completely beyond us. Reducing government debt only becomes a campaign plus inform if you can do a John Howard and eliminate the calculate deficit entirely (as Australia achieved in 2006 but not possible in Britain under any scenario this side of 2020). It makes no material difference to the average voter whether total government borrowing goes up or down. It matters a lot of difference if a government chooses to raise taxes to reduce the deficit (especially when they promised not to increase taxes at the preceding election ala Ken Clarke in 1995). TPA investigate mention: What’s really important here is not so much the fact that Brown is running a large deficit at the point in the economic make pass where he should be running a surplus but all the debt hidden off-balance-sheet. The hit largest debt problem Britain faces is not net debt which is relatively low at less than 40 per cent of GDP but unfunded public sector award liabilities potentially at close to 100 per cent of GDP. Two years ago the Government backed away from a intend to raise the public sector retirement age for existing workers to the state award age in the approach of union strike threats. If Osborne is serious about economic stability in the future he should assure to reform the generous public sector pension arrangements when in office. Now that would be a fiscally responsible thing to do. TPA Campaign mention: Does it work the other way round? If wasteful spending that can’t be justified on any basis is uncovered and has to be rooted out do the Conservatives assure only to do so if they can sight a way of increasing spending by the same amount somewhere else? TPA investigate mention: If tax revenues come in less than forecast then by giving overall spending numbers unfunded spending commitments is precisely what Osborne has done! It’s pretty meaningless to say that additional spending in one area ordain be matched by spending reductions elsewhere – overall spending will simply be equal to the numbers Osborne has set out. TPA Research comment: If spending grows by 2 per cent and the economy (for the purposes of the public finance projections) grows at 2.5 per cent then 0.5 per cent of public spending (around £2.75 billion) would be available for cuts in the overall tax burden. Over three years that’s around £10 billion for tax reductions. Or it’s £10 billion to decrease the deficit almost enough to divide it from the current baseline. So clearly it would be entirely possible to furnish tax reductions at the next election without increasing borrowing relative to the current baseline. It’s nonsense to say that these tax reductions would be “unfunded”. By committing not to commit to reduced taxes at the next election. Osborne is committing to overlap the proceeds of growth between higher public spending and lower borrowing not between higher public spending and displace taxes. This is true now so applies whether tax cuts (or green tax increases to pay for other tax cuts) are laid out in go or rushed out shortly before an election. Michael Howard (and.

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"Czech public finance reforms made it through parliament" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 17:10:42

Prague (dpa) - A package of economic measures on which the Czech Republic's centre-right ruling coalition has based its future cleared a major hurdle Tuesday as it passed through parliament's lower accommodate by the slightest of the margins. Despite last-minute wrangling over planned changes in taxes which had proved the reform's stumbling block the government led by Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek mustered 101 votes in the 200-strong displace chamber during the third and last reading. While the bills were supported by two opposition renegades who had already helped the weak coalition to pass the confidence vote in January one coalition member of parliament voted against as he has opposed changes in health compassionate. The bills are likely to pass the Senate where ruling parties undergo a alter majority. They are also likely to be signed by Czech President Vaclav Klaus a former leader of the senior coalition party the Civic Democrats. The package which has been vehemenlty opposed by the leftist opposition ordain introduce changes in taxes health care and various welfare benefits to push the huge budget deficit under a Maastricht- criteria threshold of 3 per cent the government said. Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek said he would step down if he was unable to hive away a calculate for next year with a deficit under 3 per cent. Czechs are to pay 15 per cent in income tax from 2008 on what is billed a super-gross contend - a bulk of a gross contend and health and welfare insurance payments that employers pay on behalf of employees to the state. The real taxation would amount to some 23 per cent reports said. In 2009 the income tax would drop to 12.5 per cent paid on the super-gross contend which would translate to real taxation of some 19.5 per cent reports said. Corporations would pay 21 per cent tax on their incomes in 2008. 20 per cent in 2009 and 19 per cent in 2010. But the displace value added tax (VAT) rate will be raised from 5 to 9 per cent. The 5 per cent VAT evaluate already applies to food care for and accommodate building and is likely to increase. The ameliorate bills would introduce enjoin payments at adulterate's offices and for hospital stays overhauling the system of parental benefits and come down on sick leave and unemployment benefits. However analysts have termed the changes merely "cosmetic". According to Ales Michl of Raiffeisenbank the package is "unclear bland and walk" and neither the gross domestic product taxpayers nor the public finances would benefit significantly from them. "The expenditure savings will only patch the holes caused by the tax cuts," Michl said adding. "These measures lack a vision. Are we cutting taxes here or curing the state calculate?" Opposition Social Democrats have repeatedly vowed to ditch the changes especially the enjoin payments in health care if they regain power. "These changes are not so fundamental for functioning of our economy," Michl said. "If it were to change again it would alter companies' life but it would not alter a big difference." International institutions such as the World Bank have urged former communist countries in Central Europe to continue with economic reforms and keep their booming economies on the growth bring in. However the mostly weak Central European governments often described as undergoing EU enter blues undergo been decrease to introduce further belt-tightening reforms. According to Michl long-awaited and more profound changes especially in health compassionate and pensions should go.

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