I think we already are considering we're talking Vista vs. XP. Lots of religious fervor there.
Paul Chinnery Network Administrator Memorial Medical Center 231-845-2319 _____ From: Phil Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: So... how is the recession affecting your buying decisions? OH Brother!! Politics, how about some religious views too? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: So... how is the recession affecting your buying decisions? Probably not a great day to retort on this, but you will either agree or hunt me down.. 2009 is going to be a bad year in the economy. You don't bounce back from a trillion dollar globalwide investment loss, the largest downslide in the economy in over 70 years and a huge unemployment number.. I also don't care who is the President, they are not going to fix our problem. The president is a part of the checks and balances when it comes to the bills congress puts through, and yes he has an agenda and will push it with Congress; making it harder or easier to pass bills..Good or BAD. I can also tell you that I will be voting for McCain for the simple fact that Obama is moving this country toward a socialized economy no matter how you dress up the words. He wants to increase the taxes for me as a business owner and redistribute it in the form of higher taxes and a bloated government. Not to mention his provision for bring in illegals and giving them a driver license, benefits, social security(Which who will pay for that? You and I that's who). The welfare system kicked into high gear.....I did not work my butt off 60 to 70 hours a week to have someone who wants to sit on their butt for a year and take 60% welfare checks because McDonalds doesn't pay as much... among other personal value decisions.. If you have worked hard and saved you should not be penalized and your wealth redistributed simply because someone does not have as much. The very essence of this country was built upon hardwork and ingenuity, those who don't want to work and work hard are not entitled to the benefits of wealth from those that do. Also provide 100% healthcare..A noble goal, but the reality is that 100% healthcare is universal socialization and everyone paying a large piece to redistribute to everyone else who doesn't and the quality of care drops. Look at France...They pay CSG and CDRS(Healthcare, Social Security) taxes against their income and then their tax bracket after those taxes is up to 50%, this can equate to 60%+ of your income to taxes... Oh and to further my soapbox, One of the largest reasons we are where we are is a lack of personal responsibility (Mostly Wall Street and the Banks being greedy and making bad business decisions) and then demanding that our government pay for the mistakes of business owners, people who buy homes and cars we had no business buying, and saying, "Save me, I am a stupid person who takes no responsibility or my actions, but I will vote for whoever is going to promise me everything." Remember this. "A Government large enough to give you everything you want, is a government large enough to take everything you have." -- Henry Ford Ok off soapbox, back to regularly scheduled tech support. From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: So... how is the recession affecting your buying decisions? The college educational system which has grown by 440% in costs should be able to not be cutting budgets. IMO I think no matter who the President is everything will be better afterwards, whether we get the big spender and everyone sells stuff to the govt and we can cut out healthcare and use the govt's system to save money, or the cost saver gets in and it goes back to business as usual. Bush isn't going to do anything between now and then so that's probably why everything is topsy turvey, home sales went up last month for the first time so I think the end of the skid is coming to a close. (Thank God) On this end, I have seen a noticeable drop off in business, as a consultant, however, nothing worse than usual as the end of year is coming up and all the holidays, usually November/December are slow and I get a couple of big projects with the downtime, so we will see if I get those approved. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
