(Akiit.com) Each year, the trustees of Social Security and Medicare issue their report delivering the news, invariably dismal, about the financial condition of the nation’s two largest entitlement programs. This year, in the report just issued, it’s worse than usual. Last year, the trustees forecast that Social Security and Medicare’s hospital ...
(Akiit.com) “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” Benito Mussolini When you look at professional sports, especially pro football in the US, you notice a pattern; almost every stadium is named after a corporate entity. Take a look at the NFL stadium ...
(Akiit.com) The most recent unemployment rate report seems to contain nothing but good news. The overall unemployment rate is down to 3.8 percent, the lowest that it has been since 2000. The Black unemployment rate, at 5.9 percent, is lower than it has ever been. With the white unemployment rate at ...
(Akiit.com) When we reach a certain age, we begin to realise that we aren’t immortal. Thinking about and even planning for, your passing on becomes less of an abstract and more of a sensible plan. Many people find a certain grace in the idea of having their affairs organised before their ...
(Akiit.com) Unfortunately, there have been a large number of terrorist attacks that have occurred in this millennium. Of course, 9/11 was one of the worst terrorist attacks of all time, and since then trains and buses have been targeted in numerous countries across the world. In light of the attacks that ...
(Akiit.com) Often the main motivating factor for starting a new business is financial gain. What if there was a way of receiving financial gain as well as improving the society in which we live? Many businesses are adapting business models in such a way as to encompass social enterprise. The health, ...
(Akiit.com) Civil law is different to criminal law because it’s not about whether or not someone breaks the law and people don’t go to prison at the end of it. It’s for seeking justice when something goes wrong and getting compensation for something that’s happened to you or your family. It ...
(Akiit.com) Remember Obamacare? The fight is far from over on the future of the Obama-era health insurance overhaul. Republicans are making a last-ditch effort this year to turn the program and the money over to the state. This isn’t full Obamacare repeal, but it would make a world of sense. States ...
(Akiit.com) Several recent polls, plus the popularity of Sen. Bernie Sanders, demonstrate that young people prefer socialism to free market capitalism. That, I believe, is a result of their ignorance and indoctrination during their school years, from kindergarten through college. For the most part, neither they nor many of their teachers ...
(Akiit.com) When you say yes to things that are not purposeful for you, you are essentially saying no to your real priorities. What is it about saying no that makes some of us so anxious? Many people overload their schedules simply because they are too concerned with what others think. Saying ...
(Akiit.com) Leaving a job is no easy decision. Many of us have bills to pay, which means getting another job lined up, which means sacrificing precious free time to trawl online job boards and fill out applications. Having a job, no matter how bad it is, offers a certain financial security. ...
(Akiit.com) If a person is only as good as their word, a business is only as good as their image. It does more than “look good.” It communicates the brand, the objectives and aims of the team, as well as the reputation they have managed to build. It’s time to look ...