Opinion

Buy American and Hire American is the presidential order of the day. Your thoughts?

During yesterday's press conference on the debt ceiling, the budget, tax increases and spending controls, President Obama rejected the idea of a short-term deal to end the impasse. He added: "We might as well do it now, pull off the band aid, eat our peas." Time will tell.

Here's what our readers said about the continuing "taxing-and-spending" debate raging in Washington, D.C.

While legislators were able to head off a government shutdown, readers found very little to celebrate. Here's what we heard.

“It disgusts me how our national politicians act and spend our money. The $38 billion was nothing to cut -- a pathetic effort to correct previous run-a-way spending. The U.S. economy is like the Titanic. We haven’t hit the iceberg yet, but it’s visible through the fog.”
— Mike Uhl
Fatal Funnel, Inc. 

(The letters are in response to a Dec. 13 editorial: "A deduction, endangered.")

Joe Scarlett describes the three key elements to success in work, and life

Schlage, a brand of Allegion plc, launched Schlage Touch, an electronlc lock innovation. 

In doing so, the company released results of a consumer survey of 2,000 adults that found the majority of Americans would consider a keless electronic lock if they could more easily access their home without compromising security.

A post-hurricane opinion piece, titled "We need to retreat from the beach," appeared in the Thursday New York Times. In it, a Duke University professor argues, "We should strongly discourage the reconstruction of destroyed or badly damaged beachfront homes in New Jersey and New York."

What do you think? Let us know here.