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But the research isn't coming out of Harvard Business School. Instead, it's originating from Dorseyville Middle School in Pittsburgh and was conducted by 14-year old Suvir Mirchandani.
What started out as a sixth-grade science fair project has now garnered national attention, something my middle school presentation on UFOs never did. It began when Mirchandani noticed just how much printed material he was handed each day way more than in elementary school. While most of us just smell the paper and then pass it on, this young man was operating at a much higher level: He thought that there must be a way to make the process more cost-efficient. Recycled paper was a given, nearly everybody had thought of that. But reducing the amount of ink might be the trick.
So, Mirchandani enlarged a sampling of the most common letters in various typefaces, weighed them and determined the most efficient font. His conclusion: the school district could save 24% or $21,000 annually, if teachers simply switched to a thinner, more efficient font namely, the classic and stylish Garamond. Besides saving money, his study noted that the lower ink consumption would reduce environmental damage. Not content to reduce the budget of just his local school district, young Mirchandani turned his attention to the $1.8 billion printing budget of the U.S. government.
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Or we can continue to remain free and follow the Constitution by fully funding our defense against any and all nations.We should start by reducing our defense spending to a percentage of GDP equal to the average percent of GDP of all the nations we're currently defending for free.
Obama likes to talk about his balanced approach to the debt. It involves raising taxes and spending more money, and will magically reduce the debt at some unknown point in the future. My guess is that will either be when hell freezes over, or when the US defaults on all its debts.
We should start by reducing our defense spending to a percentage of GDP equal to the average percent of GDP of all the nations we're currently defending for free.
We should start by reducing our defense spending to a percentage of GDP equal to the average percent of GDP of all the nations we're currently defending for free.
how about cutting every item in the federal budget by 25%? everything, across the board, no exceptions.
We should start by reducing our defense spending to a percentage of GDP equal to the average percent of GDP of all the nations we're currently defending for free.
how about cutting every item in the federal budget by 25%? everything, across the board, no exceptions.
So the nws, nasa, fda, cdc. You don't understand how our economy works, don't you?
Yep,
Reduce defense to 400 billion---Bring troops home throughout the world and dock half of our navy.
Cut unemployment to 50 weeks
Cut welfare back to 2009 levels
Stop bailing out wall street
Leave infrastructure, science and r&d investment at the current low level here at home. Lowest level since the 90's.
The problem is every time someone proposes a cut in the increase in a program the Dems scream that women and children will be begging in the streets while dogs eat the bodies of the elderly who have starved to death.
The Dems are the biggest obstacle to fiscal sanity.
It's a poor argument because you could say the same about all gov't workers.Yep,
Reduce defense to 400 billion---Bring troops home throughout the world and dock half of our navy.
Cut unemployment to 50 weeks
Cut welfare back to 2009 levels
Stop bailing out wall street
Leave infrastructure, science and r&d investment at the current low level here at home. Lowest level since the 90's.
what do you suggest we do with the people who will be unemployed by a defense cut that large? put them on unemployment for 50 weeks? then what?
Is it better to have people employed building miliitary hardware or unemployed collecting a meager check from the govt?
these issues are never as simple as you want to make them out to be.
WHY does Government have to fund it? Have something against the private sector/INVENTION/Entrepeneurship on an INDIVIDUAL level doing it without Government help?Yep,
Reduce defense to 400 billion---Bring troops home throughout the world and dock half of our navy.
Cut unemployment to 50 weeks
Cut welfare back to 2009 levels
Stop bailing out wall street
Leave infrastructure, science and r&d investment at the current low level here at home. Lowest level since the 90's.
It's a poor argument because you could say the same about all gov't workers.Yep,
Reduce defense to 400 billion---Bring troops home throughout the world and dock half of our navy.
Cut unemployment to 50 weeks
Cut welfare back to 2009 levels
Stop bailing out wall street
Leave infrastructure, science and r&d investment at the current low level here at home. Lowest level since the 90's.
what do you suggest we do with the people who will be unemployed by a defense cut that large? put them on unemployment for 50 weeks? then what?
Is it better to have people employed building miliitary hardware or unemployed collecting a meager check from the govt?
these issues are never as simple as you want to make them out to be.
The better argument is, Defense is a responsibility of the federal gov't, blueberry prices are not. We spend more for our military because our military's mission is much bigger. It is bigger because we are a super power. It is good we are a superpower because otherwise wars break out and death and misery ensue.
WHY does Government have to fund it? Have something against the private sector/INVENTION/Entrepeneurship on an INDIVIDUAL level doing it without Government help?Yep,
Reduce defense to 400 billion---Bring troops home throughout the world and dock half of our navy.
Cut unemployment to 50 weeks
Cut welfare back to 2009 levels
Stop bailing out wall street
Leave infrastructure, science and r&d investment at the current low level here at home. Lowest level since the 90's.
THINK MATT...if you dare.
