Shortages mean they more or less accurately predicted their production run. If they had run up big inventories it means that they over estimated demand and over produced to massive cost overruns. I would fire the person who made that mistake. Who wants the first batch anyway? You know they're going to tweak it and fix a few blemishes here and there. High inventories would mean they would have to drop the price, possibly below the cost and no one wants a fire sale like that disaster the PS3.

2 billion dollars in military aid to Egypt

8 billion dollars in direct military spending for S Korea (50% of the defense budget)

18 billion dollars spent in direct military spending in Germany

1 billion dollars a year in military aid credits/discounts to Saudi Arabia

400 million dollars a year in military aid to Jordan

400 million dollars a year in multipurpose aid to the PA (out of a total of 2.1 billion dollars per year from all sources)

2-4 billion dollars a year in indirect military protectionism for Taiwan (costs of maintaining a carrier group in the region)

~300 million dollars a year in military aid & spending for and in Yemen

Doesn't seem so blind, but then again, the Arab states are masters at shaping their message to sound like it's coming out of your mouth.

God helps them who help themselves, that sort of thing?

Anyway on the few times I've seen Ms. Orman I noted she didn't tell anyone anything they couldn't have figured out on their own. They just wanted someone to tell them to do it. BTW for a wealthy lesbian in a committed relationship with no kids 2 incomes her advice about spending is actually pretty reasonable and grounded in what households experience. She's not telling anyone to magically transform their life in a secret way that will make them rich. The other talk show morons? It's really just bullying and shouting at people because they're weak and you're strong. That doesn't help anyone. Imagine if you will if you went to a psychotherapist who charged you $200 for an hour of browbeating your. You wouldn't come back. Or if you did then maybe you just are a pathetic loser who's beyond help.

I'd be shocked if young master Gore sees prison time. It's trite to say money buys verdict but it's more or less true. And not simply the venue of the wealthy. Many middle class households are caught up in 'ordinary' bogus drug cases that result in $30,000 or more spent on avoiding jail time. The point of the system is really not to screw the black man, it's to shake loose as many dollars as possible from the middle class people able to pay it. Criminal defense lawyers don't work for free and only reluctantly get assigned to pro bono or indigent work. Here in Wake, you'll find that the 'average' bullshit drug felony charge is automatically pegged at about $10,000 legal fees before trial. If it goes to Superior court, $30,000. That doesn't include bail, booking or any other chump change charge. Now if you're a crackhead or working poor, the system isn't going to be able to squeeze that out of you so the pressure is for you to just cop to what they offer you, do your 90-180-270 day sentence or whatever, get going with your 3 years probation at $30-100/month including piss tests and move on. You're probably going to reoffend anyhow but the system has limited capacity to lock everyone up so they just pile on more fines and fees and probation. It's not like a plantation so much as a modern day workhouse. A kind of indentured servitude.

Are in prison for non violent drug felonies under mandatory sentencing 'guidelines'. Couple this with the virtual disappearance of parole in the US in lieu of mandatory time (no less than 6/7ths of the sentence) you can see how the whole notion of drug laws is patently stupid. We might as well randomly scoop up people off the street and lock them up arbitrarily for the benefit it does to anyone. Sad thing is that you could probably get 30% of the Americans to support that too.

It's one notch above cheap fragile plastic junk. I don't know whether all of them were always thus or they simply skimped on them as they became more popular but the RAZR is a throwaway phone now. $30 from Sprint and that's overpriced given the short life it will give you. We shouldn't imagine that Apple will follow the path of cheapening down the product given they've never done that with any other product they've sold. Instead they will drop the price a little and add more better features to it over time, like 30GB flash, 3G and so on.