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Location is the most important accommodation factor when traveling as a tourist. Being both gay and a world traveler, SAFETY is the most important factor: I guess it amounts to location. I wouldn't want to be arrested in a gay-bar raid in Texas, Jamaica or Russia for damn sure.

Housing rentals offer tourists the best opportunity to experience the local lifestyle. This is what my partner and I are going to start doing; it's sooo much cheaper and you get the insider view of the city that hotels and hostels cannot offer.

Race and ethnicity should not be a factor in hiring and promotion. I think if anything, Obama is proof positive that minorities are fully capable of the exact discrimination this kind of legislation was meant to prevent.

The Segway PUMA will not achieve commercial success. What kind of f*ckery is this!? I didn't even know about this aluminum jelly fish with wheels until I saw it here. Oh My, no way would I be on the road with the PUMA. no, no, no.

Communities should be allowed to print their own currency for use at local businesses. It keeps local businesses alive, benefits the customer and promotes community-identity and offers a needed edge to compete with the bigger box-stores who have larger bank accounts.

Socialism is the most effective economic system. Name one socialist country that failed as systemically as American Capitalism is currently or Russian Communism failing in the 1990s. What's that!? Oh, that's right, there isn't one! Abre los Ojos!

The federal government should allow General Motors (GM) to file for bankruptcy.

The U.S. unemployment rate will reach double digits in 2009.

It was appropriate for the Obama Administration to force GM's CEO Rick Wagoner to resign. Someone had to give the bitch the boot.

The U.S. dollar should be the world's reserve currency. It already is the de facto reserve currency, hence why it's super strong at the moment.

The MTA fare hikes are not justified. Absolutely NOT! These knuckleheads are WAY overpaid, ignorant and not worthy of what it is they demand, they think they OWN the subway system like it's their private kingdom and we're the serfs who should be lucky it just runs. A*holes!

The Bush Administration is more responsible than the Obama Administration for the U.S. stock market decline in 2009. All of this lands squarely in Camp Bush. I suspect historians will be as kind to him as they have to Hoover.

The New Deal shortened the Great Depression. I think the major contribution was long term, there was major infrastructure development, benefits, we still use today, especially here in the n-y-c.

AIG should be forced to reveal the names of executives that received bonuses. And let them face the public if they feel the 'deserved' that money. Let them answer to Lil Tuffy!

Virgin America is the low-cost U.S. airline I prefer to fly with. When I was a ruthless pharmaceutical executive in my twenties, London became my base camp for a period and Virgin holds a very special place in my heart. I would follow Virgin to the ends of the Universe and that's a fact.

The Dow will go below 6,000 in 2009. October 2009 will be horrible. We will have 14.25% unemployment and the Dow will barely be in the 4,000 range and this is when we will refer to all of this as "The New Depression." Gratefully, I predict a slow and steady uptick after this, but it will be as many as 10-15 years before we see the Dow at 13,000 again or unemployment below 3%.

The U.S. government should not have given AIG more money. Break up AIG in small bits like they did with AT&T, let the strong ones grow and the weak ones die and regulate gargantuan corporations like this so our national economy is not effected by their incompetency!

The $787 billion stimulus bill is satisfactory. We have to start somewhere. It's easy to criticize it for what it doesn't do, we need to focus on what it can do and build from there.

Governments should nationalize insolvent banks in response to the financial crisis. This notion of nationalizing banks as being awful needs to stop, can it really be worse than what's happening now due to poor to no regulation? Wake up and don't believe the lies!

Congress should have passed the $787 billion stimulus bill.

Microsoft retail stores will not effectively compete with Apple. Apple's "California Cool" is part of its DNA from the beginning. You can't just whip something up like that to compete. Wannabe's rarely appear to be authentic.

The Glass-Steagall Act should be reinstated.

The economic stimulus plan should not include a 'Buy American' provision. That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard, we live in a globalised world and economy--Now is not the time for the Dark Age, part deux! We're already in a Depression.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union should agree to cut wages. All of us are making sacrifices. I think Unions should take a page from non-union workers who took pay cuts to save the jobs of fellow colleagues. That's America at her best!

Pepsi's new logo is worse. But all carbonated sugar should be banned and considered a deadly drug.

The government should regulate salaries of companies who have received bailout funds. Hell to the YES! It's disgusting that Wall Street is pathologically greedy that they'll take tax money they didn't even earn! This is the kind of stuff that starts revolutions.

It is not appropriate to market VitaminWater as a healthy alternative to soft drinks. It's the same fast track to Diabetes Type 2. 13 grams of "crystalline fructose" which is High Fructose Corn Syrup in a 240 ml serving is NOT "healthy" by any definition.

Foreclosures should have the highest priority for the remaining $350 billion spent in financial bailout funds. It starts and ends with the people.

Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package. Pouring money into roads, schools, the foundation of a green industry vs. sending $$ to Iraq, Israel and military contracts? Sounds good to me... and forget the tax cuts. I'm so ready for Bush to go!

Employers should monitor employee Internet access in the workplace. Depends, if you work for a private company they can do whatever they like--find another place to work or use a MY PC system to bypass their monitoring.

The federal government's financial bailout package will not help stabilize the U.S. economy. It will repurpose it, but that's different from stabilising it. "American-style Capitalism" has cratered just like the collapse of "USSR style Communism" in the early 90's. Life is about to get real interesting.

The U.S. government should implement a moratorium on home foreclosures. It makes sense to keep homeowners in their homes for both the owner and the bank AND the neighborhood. Who gets what as a result of foreclosure can be hashed out off-line without evicting people. So stupid!

The media has not played a significant role in the financial markets' response to current economic conditions. Classic Kill the Messenger question. Significant? no. It wasn't the media that was selling toxic products, or shaping the botched rescue policies they just filmed the ship sinking and brought it to you in real time.

The U.S. recession will last throughout 2009. Are you kidding me, it will get deeper in 2009 and *MAY* recover in mid 2010, but *MAY* go even deeper than anyone had wanted, well into the next several years. Econometrics don't lie, we do.

There should not be an international central bank. Complete and absolute exploitation by the global plutocracy put on the backs of the billions who have no clue.

Management is most responsible for the U.S. auto industry's financial problems. Anytime a corporation fails there's only one place to look; the CEO and management. The US auto industry is a dinosaur that has just realized it better evolve or it will die.

Governments should not infuse capital directly into failing banks as part of their response to the financial crisis. The government needs to infuse capital directly into MY bank account is what it needs to do to, to end this crisis.

AIG should have been bailed out by the federal government. *BUT* not with largesse they have currently received. Nobody can fully articulate how the money is going to stimulate the overall economy.

Facebook is worth the $15 billion valuation implied by Microsoft's investment. Oooh, Hella yes! In my opinion, they're getting a steal, it's a seamless merge that adds more dimensional benefits to Microsoft's platform than what Facebook is getting: technical know-how.

The financial crisis will lead to another economic depression.