Blog Guy, as the proprietor of a very visual blog, can you tell me the easiest way to get people to look at a photograph?
Sure. Just tell them not to. It’s simple reverse psychology. For example, DO NOT look at the picture in this blog.
Okie dokie. You got it, Blog Guy.
Wait a minute! Hold on. You’re REALLY not going to look?
Of course not. I know you must have a good reason to tell me not to look, and whatever it is, that’s enough for this simple country girl.
Then you’re one person in a billion. Nobody else would…
Aiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee!!!!! It hurts so much! My eyeballs are exploding!!!!!! What have I done? What have I done?
You’ve restored my faith in humanity, that’s what. Have a great weekend.
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People watch the Breitling Jet Team perform aerobatics over the Mediterranean Sea from a beach in Tel Aviv October 19, 2011. The team, flying seven L-39 Albatros jets, are the largest civilian aerobatic display team in Europe and are based in Dijon, France.
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NEW YORK Oct 13 (Reuters) - The chief executive of the
world’s largest money manager said Thursday he welcomed the
anti-Wall Street protests spreading around the country, saying
they would help add balance to the debate on America’s future.”I believe we should not turn our backs on these protests,”
said BlackRock Inc Chief Executive Laurence Fink at the
Financial Times’ View from the Top conference in New York.”Maybe we will get some balance,” he added, noting that it
would be helpful to have both right-leaning Tea Party members
and the more left-leaning Wall Street protesters contribute to
the national debate on economic issues.BlackRock is the world’s largest money manager with more
than $3 trillion worth of assets under management.The Occupy Wall Street movement has sparked nationwide
protests in more than 1,400 cities, according to Occupy
Together, which has become an online hub for protest activity.Protesters are upset that the billions of dollars in bank
bailouts doled out during the recession allowed banks to resume
earning huge profits while average Americans have had no relief
from high unemployment and job insecurity.The jobless rate has been at or above 9 percent since March
and roughly 45 percent of the 14 million Americans without jobs
have been unemployed for six months or more.Earlier on Thursday, Steven Rattner, a former adviser to
the U.S. treasury secretary who led efforts to overhaul the
U.S. auto industry, said healthy profits for U.S. companies
have not trickled down to workers or the broader economy.Fink said having multiple voices involved in the debate is
important, as the country faces serious challenges that will
not soon fade away.”The two real engines of the economy over the last 10 to 20
years were consumer (spending) and housing,” he said, “and I
don’t think those are going to come back any time soon.”Fink said it could take two to three years before those
sectors recover. While he said the Federal Reserve has not been
given enough credit for stepping in to stabilize the economy,
he said the country now needs clarity and leadership from
lawmakers.Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate defeated President
Barack Obama’s $447 billion job-creation package, suggesting
Washington is too paralyzed to take major steps to spur hiring
before the 2012 elections.”We need to find our footing. It’s so much about leadership
and clarity and we just haven’t found our footing as a
country,” Fink said.He said the current sense of malaise infecting the country
reminded him of the 1970s when the United States faced high
unemployment and inflation.”We were really pessimistic about who we were in the 70s,
but we showed resiliency many years ago. We should have the
same capacity,” he said.But with jobs scarce, Fink warned that overly aggressive
regulation of the financial industry could eventually drive
firms in the United States as well as Britain and Europe to
less costly bases in Singapore and Hong Kong.If firms find “that the cost of doing business in the UK,
Europe and the U.S. rises, you’re going to see movement of
people and trading activity” to other countries, Fink said.
@7 months ago
#UPDATE #1BlackRocks #Fink #says #dont #ignore #Wall #St #protests
