Tax payers money...billions...not sure what testing they did before buying or they knew it and still bought them because they got their cut.

use Camel Case (aka Upper Camel Case) for classes: VelocityResponseWriter

This is also called Pascal case.

It is almost laughable how soon people forget where they have been, how much national debt has has been piled to bring this meager growth in economy. The main reason the employers are hiring is the extension of temporary tax cuts. It is only a short term boost to the market for the time being.

Those laughable people have a different name this year... voters.

I won't address the rest of your post. HN political discussions usually make me cringe and I don't have a dog in this fight anyway.

Lots of these things will be coming out of white house this election year. They will propose specific changes to woo parts of population.

This one is for those who are more technical oriented, couple of days ago white house talked about reducing the corporate tax, till now they were all about increasing it. But these are just things they will put forward which according to them will be done if reelected. We all know when happens once politicians get reelected.

The Second term is the one where things really start to go bad. Most of the damage gets done because they don't have anything to loose so they push through whatever they feel like even if it's bad for the country. It helps however if one party does not control both the Whitehouse and the Congress/Senate. it does not seem to matter what party is in power, when they have full control really terrible laws tend to get passed.

Do rich people use more road, parks or any public facilities more than the average person? In fact they use less. Is they any other reason than a rich person makes more money so should pay more taxes. In that context rich should also pay more at restaurants and for all other things that will also help the economy.

They worked hard to create the wealth and jobs in the ventures they created. Any one disagreeing that entrepreneurs means wealthy for this article do not create jobs, I have a question for them, does government create jobs?

Down voting is not going to help, have you heard his any speech in last year? in most of his speeches he has talked about distribution of wealth.

What motivation does the smart people have if that happens? Entrepreneurs work hard and give up their social and personal lives to become successful and at the end of it if distribution of wealth happens who would want to do that?

So my comment was not just a remark but is a fact and he talks about wealth distribution any chance he gets.

Another example, proving government intervention in private industry is a bad idea and let markets and consumer demand work out their course.

Not sure when Washington will understand that? seems definitely not under current administration.

No surprises here. Unions give to democrats who support them after getting elected, its a vicious cycle. And many of them are government unions using tax payer money, go figure. Big corporations always stay on the fence as they do not want to be on one side if the other side gets the reign.

I agree.