How greed destroyed a great company.

No, not Boeing this time.

Dell Computer.

Back before I built my own machines, back when I knew squat about PC's, I started out with Dell machines, and thier ultra wonderful 24/7/365 support.

In fact, I still have 2 vintage dell machines on my network that are still up and running, the oldest now 9 years old and still functioning perfectly.

Then support was farmed out to india, and the machines are built in mexico, and now Dell simply doesn't give a shit.

A once great company, the former leader of the industry, is now totally fucked.

Want to complain about Dell? Forget it

Now they are TELLING us.

China Tells Congress To Back Off Businesses

Things are still lovey dovey between Corporate America, the globalist free traders, and the Communist Chinese.

When we lose the majority of the United States seventh fleet and our bases on Guam defending Taiwan,will they still be in bed with the reds?

The Nontaxpaying Affluent Grew by 15% in One Year

The chances of having a large income but not paying taxes on any of it are growing, according to the data, issued in the Internal Revenue Service's annual report to Congress on well-to-do Americans who live tax free. About one in every 436 high-income Americans paid no taxes in 2002, up from one in 531 in 2001 and one in 1,010 in 2000.

Over all, the top 2 percent of earners, the 2.5 million filers with income of $200,000 or more, paid almost 27 cents in taxes for each dollar of income they reported in 2002, other I.R.S. data showed. This group accounted for 53.5 percent of the income tax paid by all Americans.

Among that high-income group, however, almost 83,000, or one in 33, paid less than a dime in taxes for every dollar of income. An additional 79,000 paid less than 15 cents. The average for all Americans was 13 cents.