山寨機 英到中筆議
*讀書會 山寨機 英到中筆議
中國仿冒手機:積非成是
A day after Chinese and Russian leaders blamed a free-wheeling U.S financial system as the source of the global economic crisis, European here are taking comfort in what they see as their kinder, gentler version of capitalism.
"In Europe, we have a social-market economy" said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in an interview. "We have universal health care, a more generous system of social security, a general principle of almost free university education. And we want to keep that."
我們的先聖先賢八十七年前,於美洲大陸創建了自由為藍圖的美國,並致力於實踐人生而平等的理念。如今,內戰正考驗著我們的國家,或者說,考驗著任何一個基於以上信念所建立的國家是否能不墜不滅。我們所要面對的就是這樣的戰爭。階段目標已然達成,而戰場也成了為美國奉獻生命之人最後的安息之地。
然後,從更深遠的角度來看,我們無法為國奉獻犧牲,也無法榮耀這座戰場。為美國壯烈成仁的人們所成就的一切,都遠在我們之上。歷史終將遺忘我們此時此地說過的話,而他們的奉獻將名留青史。對我們而言,為建國犧牲的生命將永遠走在前方引領我們。他們為國家肝腦塗地的義行,也將使我們做出更多更獻。在上帝的看顧之下,美國將以自由之名重生,以民有、民治、民享治國的美國將永存於斯。
舉債併購潮肇禍 報業泡沫化
Newspaper industry is Bubbling because to raise debt to get the mergence trend.
Tribune Company, the second biggest newspaper group in the U.S, was beat down by the economic recession, and applied Chapter 11 bankruptcy at 8th. Comparison with the U.S. newspaper groups were competing to merge other minor journal about one to two years age, now they have to downsize internal part, sell multi-storey buildings, and even announce bankruptcy. These reveal newspaper industry, as real estate, is facing the crisis of the bursting of bubble and requiring reorganization to restart.
Due to the economic recession, U.S second largest news company Tribune filed for bankruptcy on Dec.10. In contrast to the past two years, U.S news enterprises merged small newspapers competitively with huge funds, now they start to downsize, sell buildings and even on the verge of bankruptcy. Apparently, newspapers are no different from house market suffering market bubble, and both of them need a fresh start.
First of all, with shrinking profit margin, most newspapers still run a lucrative business. To look news sector as a whole, the advertising revenue dropped fifteen percent this year alone.
Even though many newspapers still stay in the black, there are no more buyouts underneath huge debts going on compared with those mergers in the past two years. For Tribune, it was sold to the real estate tycoon Sam Zell in record high 8.2 billion dollars borrowing from the bank. Now there are Chicago Tribune, L.A Times and 23 TV stations under Tribune’s name. The debts Tribune owed are three times its assets.
Facing The Trend of Unemployment
Due to the recession, a great trend of layoff appears in every line of industries throughout the world and creates increasing number of unemployment in population. In neighboring Korea, there is a jobless father in every seven families. According to the statistics of Bureau Of Laborer, the diminishing demand of man power in first quarter of next year is foreseen. Every clue indicates that the trend of layoff will be getting fierce as recession worsens.
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