tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062044641165131850.post679256293501937152..comments2023-10-15T04:10:39.168-06:00Comments on Sans Auto: 10 biggest corporationsGarretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970191392795369846noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062044641165131850.post-39010270465724094642008-03-04T20:59:00.000-07:002008-03-04T20:59:00.000-07:00Hey Sans,I feel your pain when it comes to big bus...Hey Sans,<BR/><BR/>I feel your pain when it comes to big business/corporations. What makes it rather scary is reading about the looming spectre of Peak Oil and its effects on the 'western' lifestyle. If you read James Kunstler's blog, you know that there are a whole bunch of people who recognize that Peak Oil has already passed and the happy motoring public will not continue with oil at $5 a gallon. And that doesn't even mention what happens to Wal-Mart and their Warehouse on Wheels.<BR/><BR/>Canada is a fabulous country, although not perfect. Feel free to drop by for a visit, there are plenty-six kilometres of singletrack waiting to be explored.Colin Madlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096567704713672660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062044641165131850.post-45568512054591080282008-03-04T20:16:00.000-07:002008-03-04T20:16:00.000-07:00Teacher, 35 years,I know that the IB program puts ...Teacher, 35 years,<BR/>I know that the IB program puts students ahead scholastically because they leave high school and enter their sophmore year of college. Based on US educational system standards, this would be 'ahead'. That doesn't make it better, and I can see your point. I haven't investigated the IB program beyond some conversations with my wife, so my understanding isn't all that it could be. <BR/><BR/>Maybe an education that presents some of the problems in the US gov't would be helpful for kids. Maybe it would help them want to take control of what really is a great system by letting them see it how others do and forcing them to defend it. I guess I have very little data to argue with, but the education I received pertaining to politics and world history was grossly insufficient and I think change would be good. The IB may not be the best change, but would it be better? I don't know.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for being a teacher. It's an over-worked, underpaid, somtimes thankless job. Thank you for working to educate kids.Garretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12970191392795369846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062044641165131850.post-6396296656851150942008-03-04T16:56:00.000-07:002008-03-04T16:56:00.000-07:00You said "While scholastically this program puts s...You said "While scholastically this program puts students well ahead with a broad understanding of the world..."<BR/><BR/>How do you know this is a fact?<BR/>Why on earth would anyone want to let their kids education be controlled by some communist bureaucrat from the UN? <BR/><BR/>IB is nothing more than the UN's push for world government. You can have world class reading, math and languages without paying big $$ to these people who do not respect our constitutuional republic form of government which is the best in the world even though it is being abused.<BR/><BR/>- Teacher, 35 yearsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062044641165131850.post-68466716760019063002008-03-04T14:23:00.000-07:002008-03-04T14:23:00.000-07:00Walmart is big because their "stuff" costs less. S...Walmart is big because their "stuff" costs less. So you have a corporation who takes advantage of the poor (offering lower wages and fewer benefits for their workers, selling goods produced under inhumane circumstances to keep costs down)focusing its marketing on people who need to get the most for their money (the poor). The only way to break the cycle is for shoppers to differentiate need from want. Some of the most economically challenged people I know are addicted to cigarettes and fast food.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com