Obama care website issues

The fact that the website Obama has promised to be up and running many months ago is not operational is deceiving. The affordable care act in my mind has already failed because the deadlines Obama has set for it have been breached and the many many millions of dollars that have been thrust into building the site have been all for nothing, so I have seen so far. Not a single person has been able to sign up to the site and receive health insurance by this government mandated system. The cost alone so far has been enormous paying programmers huge amounts of money to create a site that doesn't even work. If its a matter of server capacity that should have been addressed initially before creating the code for the site. If nobody let Obama know that the qualifications for the site were not yet met, then its already evident that nobody put any thought into the functionality of the site and just looked at it for the money it would be making them in the short term. Not to mention the cost of the actual healthcare on the taxpayers, this website and obamas care act is not something I want to involve myself with.

Swiss CEO Pay

Now it's my belief that if a company is run successfully and efficiently, yielding high profit margins, a CEO should be able to grant him or herself or be granted significant pay for efforts leading to that success in managing a company. If you can afford to be allotted significant pay from a company and not cause any detriment to its revenue and profit or others salaries then that should be sufficient. Novartis was mentioned in this article and I can't help but have bias because I interned with the company while living in Greensboro, NC for a decent amount of time. I know a lot of people who work for the company and know that the company is worth upwards of 60 billion dollars. It doesn't shock me that they would pay the chairman 76 million and obviously this does not really dent their budgets when I know the animal health division alone spends at least that much annually on developing projects, its part of the companies risk factor. If shareholders were put in charge of the pay behind chairmen and other people in high positions would that also give shareholders the right to manage other financials of the company? I don't think that is at all fair, people should be given control over the things they have experience with and should be allowed to continue their current practices as long as the companies in question, like Novartis, stay successful without intervention by outside forces.

Twitter

As twitter becomes more and more prevalent, it has grown to support a large following and has pages for companies, celebrities, people, and a lot more. Twitter is used by businesses for advertising to promote products and according to some of the articles has not yet reached its full potential. Twitter is a great way for people to connect easily and see things quickly as it emerges into the more "modern" social networking outlet. The stock itself has already fared better than Facebook's and seems to be a lot more popular. Twitter shares are forecasted to improve in price but is that really the case? How will we know when the company peaks or what will happen if another site takes its place as it is seeming to do with Facebook. Competition will be a large factor in determining where the company goes into the future.

Bigfoot Shooting

It seems the whole premise behind Bigfoot is all about marketing. The fact that this "creature" is used now as a business model to make money makes the events in the shooting even more absurd. The fact that someone was allegedly so curious but obviously fearful about the creature that they had to bring out guns in a group of people just makes little myths like this extremely dangerous. Maybe there is a Bigfoot, there isn't any proof however to back up this claim. It is for that reason the curiosity of many has peaked because the idea of Bigfoot is so old and still unproven. If a person were to find the real creature there would be a lot of fame and money to follow them. I just don't see the point of heading out late at night looking for a creature that may or may not exist- they ended up running into more trouble than was necessary and now all participants may end up with jail time over an unknown creature. I'm unsure if that's embarrassing or just depressing.

NSA Spying

I'm unsure how to feel about the NSA spying on world leaders and others alike. If government organizations feel the need to spy on world leaders to try and gain information, then it seems that's the business they're in and there is no way to stop them. I find it interesting that the NSA would feel the need to spy on so many world leaders, what is that they have to gain to learn? Why is there interest in these 35 particular leaders? Many questions that there will be no answer to. The fact that they spy on international figures is not surprising however, I would like to know who they were spying on and why.

Moscow Riots

It seems Russia is having difficulty containing as well as keeping out violent immigrant populations. Because of Russia's expansionist past, the former Soviet Nation had left many countries around its borders without true leaders and stable governments when they pulled out from the regions. These regions today are underdeveloped and have poor economies. Immigrants flock to Russia for the hope of jobs in construction and other labor type positions that most Russian citizens do not want to do. The problem they face now described in the article is that most Russian's think the immigrants are clogging up the country causing problems and breaking the law all too often. Many Russian's want to get rid of the immigrants altogether and believe they're the biggest cause of Russian crime and problems. It's interesting to see the former soviet union dealing with the backlash of its former client state's people. It seems the problems stemming back to the 1960s to early 1990s are catching up with Russia in the form of cheap labor and crime. I would like to see how Putin balances immigration or how he could reform the immigration process to try and weed out criminals that come in, although illegal immigration may just be a lot more of the problem. Maybe Putin will have a bright idea to calm his people and stop the criminal actions taken by immigrants against Russians and Russian business's, although the rioting that took place included the looting of Russian business's that employed immigrants. As this progresses it will be something to look out for in Russian policy in terms of immigration and how they're going to deal with the problem. We could relate this to the United States immigration problem as many immigrants come in just looking for jobs but some along the way happen to find criminal ventures sometimes more appealing. Maybe the United States will learn from Russia or vice versa in the coming years countries deal with these problems.

TV

Personally, I feel as though the reason TV excelled with the show about the Gangster versus the female executive was purely won because TV is meant to be more surreal and exciting for the average person. The average person excels to change things and do things in a legal way, like the business executive was portrayed in the article to do. People don't want to watch the struggle of a female executive fighting to succeed and do well- I see the point about it being contoured to showing the struggle of women in the workplace but wouldn't something more covert and less inspiring be more interesting? A female executive would be inspiring and would seem more reasonable in the turn of the century to have a higher position. What isn't seen as normal in the late 90s would be someone involved in criminal enterprises, a gangster. A life filled with excitement, violence, money, control, and the constant struggle of avoiding the law. All of these things make something exciting and surreal to the average person at home after a hard days work at their current job. It's the kind of show that when its done correctly, can be for both genders as well. This kind of show I think would appeal to the mass of audiences and be extremely appealing, more so than a female executive doing an everyday job, especially if that job resembles someones boss. Why would people want to go back to work? Why not just watch something you as the viewer have never experienced before and never will experience. Something that will be exciting, interesting, and new in someones life.