I see an economic diasater coming...

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I think its really neat that a dead bulb works.Just a glass tube touching the globe will light it up if the plasma globe is turned on.My brother showed that trick.Even a curly q bulb with gas in it will lite up if you touch to a plasma globe thats turned on.The long tube type bulbs make a lot more light than the curly q bulb.triffid

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Maybe it could be a breakthrough for your project? I hope so .triffid

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We need to watch congress and china to figure out whats going to happen next.

Congress should be watched, but it might not do any good.  They're playing games with their personal agenda(s).

China to see if they continue to buy our debt.Congress we need to watch anyway.

They're beginning to balk, since I think they realize they might not be paid for our debts, regardless of how long we take.  If they demand their money, it'll look bad for this country.

I believe the entitlement checks will keep coming but the money will buy less and less.triffid

Yes, exactly!!  At least 35 years of creeping inflation.  People where are hardly hanging on by their fingernails.

--Lee

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Trouble in paradise!!! More to come I think!!!Hundreds of foreign students on a State Department cultural exchange visa program walked off their factory jobs in protest on Wednesday.
The J-1 visa program brings foreign students to the country to work for two months and learn English, and was designed in part to fill seasonal tourism jobs at resorts and seaside towns. The 400 students employed at a Pennsylvania factory that makes Hershey's candies told The New York Times that even though they make $8.35 an hour, their rent and program fees are deducted from their paychecks, leaving them with less money than they spent to get the visas and travel to the country in the first place.
Some of the students were assigned night shifts, and said they were pressured to work faster and faster on the factory lines.
Hershey's said they didn't hire the students when the Times asked:

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A spokesman for Hershey's, Kirk Saville, said the chocolate company did not directly operate the Palmyra packing plant, which is managed by a company called Exel. A spokeswoman for Exel said it had found the student workers through another staffing company.
Last December, the AP revealed that federal immigration officials were investigating two human-trafficking abuse cases related to J-1 visas. Strip clubs openly solicited J-1 visa holders in job listings, and some foreign students told the AP they were forced into sexual slavery when their passports were confiscated by a ring of criminals. About 150,000 J-1 visas were given out in 2008. Businesses save about 8 percent by using a foreign worker because of Social Security and other taxes they do not have to pay.