HP to cut workforce by 3,000

Hewlett-Packard plans to cut 3,000 jobs over the next few years as it ramps up its use of automated data centers for business customers, the company announced Tuesday. They are planning to invest 1 billion dollars into these new automated data centers. HP will cut about 9,000 jobs in its enterprise services division as a result, but over the same time period, the company expects to add about 6,000 employees to its sales and delivery teams.
A lot of people think that HP is doing something wrong here, and that it's wrong to fire people. But it's a business, not a charity. A business tries to make as much money as possible. I know if i ran a business and if i fired people my business would do better, I'd do it in a heart beat.




http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/01/technology/HP_layoffs/index.htm?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Nearly 150 dead from weekend storm in Central America

A topical storm in Guatamala has killed 123 people so far, with another 90 missing and 69 injured. Guatemala also is feeling the effect of the Pacaya volcano, which erupted Thursday night and continued to spew ash Tuesday. Three people were killed when they were crushed by rocks strewn by the volcano. As a result of a landslide, caused by a storm, a big sink hole has appeared. It's actually really cool, i think, that something like that can happen. It looks like a big hole going straight through the earth (See picture below).




http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/01/central.america.storm.deaths/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Turkey slams Israel for 'bloody massacre'

Israel's closest Muslim ally accused the Jewish state Tuesday of a "bloody massacre" against an aid flotilla of six ships carrying humanitarian goods bound for blockaded Gaza. As a result there will be no transportation of people or supplies in or out of Gaza. Israeli soldiers rappelled onto the deck of the ships from a helicopter. The boarding of the ships took place in international waters more than 70 nautical miles (130 km) outside Israeli territorial waters, according to IHH, one of the flotilla organizers. The six ships were carrying more than 10,000 tons of aid and 600 passengers from more than 20 countries, according to the Free Gaza Movement.

That's bad that Israeli soldiers rappelled onto the decks of ships, outside of their territory, and murdered all those people.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/06/01/gaza.raid.resolution/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Robots to begin cuts to gushing well

The oil has been gushing out of that thing for so long now, it's been constantly putting out oil for weeks now. It will take a long time to recover from that, and they should have been prepared for stuff like this. Now he wants robots to go down and cut the hole bigger, so he can fit a custom made cap on it. The long term solution is drilling two relief valves, which will be done in august, which is a lot of oil spilling into the ocean untill then. Government estimates are that up to 19,000 barrels (798,000 gallons) of oil a day are flowing into the Gulf. And it started on April 20th, so it's been like 45 days!





http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/01/gulf.oil.spill/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Jobs and Welfare blog entry

All Things Being Unequal:

Between 1974 and 2004 the income going to the wealthiest 20% of household income increased from 45.4% to 53.5%. while the share of the bottom 20% decreased from 5.8% to 4.1%. Today the distance between top earners and the middle class is growing. As middle class face higher costs for healthcare, energy, child care, food, education, and retirement. But few agree on what, if anything, the government should do. Proponents also argue that the government should increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans and reduce taxes on middle-class and low-income workers to more fairly redistribute the nation's wealth. People in poverty also get help from the government, like the food stamp program, and also welfare .

I don't think that taxes should be raised on wealthy people, and lowered on middle-class, and poor people. Just because someone is succesful, and makes a lot of money, doesn't mean he/she doesn't deserve that money. They work hard to make that money, and they have a lot of responsibilities. A lot of wealthy people own their own business, and if they were taxed more, then they would have less money for their business, and couldn't hire as many people. If someone takes risks, and starts their own business, and it becomes successful, why should they be taxed more? Their already giving over 30% of their salary to the government, why should it be raised? Or someone who works hard and rises in a company.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002487-503544.html

Stupid Pirates

So some more Somali pirates attacked a U.S. navy frigate. The frigate returned fire, and captured the stupid pirates, and sunk their boat. Why would 3 somali pirates on a little boat shoot at a huge navy frigate? They fired on the frigate then started to run away, but the navy caught up with them, obviously. It reminds me of that episode of south park where cartman, butters, and other people went to be pirates, and Cartman was like the captain of the pirates, but then the U.S. navy shot all the pirates.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/04/01/navy.pirates/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Anti-abortion activist to be sentenced in doctor's slaying

So the guy killed a doctor that does abortions, i still think he should go to jail for murder. He said he had to do it to save the babies lives, but it's the women making the choice to abort, not the doctor, and just because that doctor is dead doesn't mean they can't do abortions. They will just go to a different doctor, so killing him was pointless. So i think he should still get life in prison.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/01/kansas.abortion.roeder.sentence/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29