Maverick! Maverick! Maverick!
Live debate blogging 3
I wish John McCain would stop this nonsense about handing the health care system over to the government. Someone needs to ask him why that would be so bad, given the failure of the private system to provide health care to all.
Live debate blogging 2
Jim Lehrer is getting angry at these guys, legitimately, I think, for not answering his question. If they are planning to bail out the financial sector then where do they get the money to do what they want to do?
Live debate blogging 1
John McCain has some basic themes he is hitting, some that are fine, some that are the standard cliches — earmark reform, cut government spending, spend more on defense, Obama is liberal, etc.
Obama is targeting the culture of the last eight years and the anti-regulatory attitude.
Outsourcing blues
I’m hanging at Charlie Brown’s with some people from my wife’s office to say goodbye to some people who were laid off to make room for an outsourcing company.
Not unusual, I know, but nevertheless, it made for some interesting discussion.
Basically, what the people at Charlie Brown’s were saying was that the outsourcing has resulted in significant extra work for the people left behind because the outsourcing company — in this case in India but it could be a company located down the street — had no stake in the outcome, in whether their work helped the bottom line for the company they were contracted to.
It’s a sad situation that needs remedy.
