We have been best friends since our school days. My friend and I have almost the similar likings and like to share things about everything. We have been exchanging every secret that we have till now. But now, I suppose that I was totally wrong, when one day she seemed suddenly a stranger to me. It was during the last five years that we have been living in separate places and had been in contact with each other only through cell phones. We both have been busy in our own life. I, with my parents have moved to different city and was busy adjusting with the new surroundings and with my new job.
There are a lot of hopes and dreams tied up with opening a web site. When it falls over, for whatever reason, you cannot help but reflect on its passing, the loss of its life, its soul flowing unknown and unloved into the binary sea.
Before writing my thoughts I want to aver here that " I love animals" !!! Do not take my stand on this topic in any other sense please!!!
To sacrifice lives of a few beings, to save millions- how this can be immoral?
Use of animals in scientific research or testing the authenticity of a medicine is not a new thing. It has been there ever since the research started. It is more of a necessity. Animals are considered to be ancestors of humans and has DNA resembling closest to human's DNA . Hence, any kind of research or medicine is first tested on animals so as to get inkling of how it is going to affect humans or other animals.
Let us ponder upon aforementioned thought and relate it to history and our present. We have seen in history as well as in present scenario that there have been some great and brave people who have sacrificed their lives only to save million other people. Do you really call this immoral? Analogous to it scientists don't have any other option but to sacrifice some beings( more of animals) lives only to cure hundreds of diseases , to do research so as save humanity and to do several other noble work which can save lives of billion of people.Immoral is something when life of a being is not sacrificed but use for pleasure purposes like wearing its skin, eating its flesh or simple killing it as it gives amusement to some inane people. If something is immoral . it is the act of poaching or mass killing of innocent animals in the name of religion. When we hear cruel incidents like mass killing of dolphins in Denmark as a festival , mass killing of seals in Japan as a part of entertainment and many more such barbarous events , it goes way beyond the question of immorality. But, when their life is sacrificed to cure deadly diseases like cancer, AIDS , hepatitis , to save millions of innocent people it is acceptable or more so understandable. No matter how genius is the scientist who has developed a medicine , the medicine cannot be given directly to humans or patients. One single mistake can cause millions to loose their lives hence, animal testing is a way to prevent that mistake.
If there is something that we should stop , which is actually reprobate and cruel , then we should stop poaching, mass killing of animals, animals shows which involve torturous training and hunting for amusement .
The same work can be termed as moral or immoral , only the intentions behind that work make it different. Hence, the killing of an animal or being can be termed as immoral if the purpose is mere pleasure or can be termed as moral if the purpose is to save million other animals and humans.
New home sales fell according to a report by the Commerce Department released June 23. A slide in new home sales statistics was expected following the home buyer tax credit expired at the end of April. But the 32.7 percent drop in May was a lot more than expected. Existing home sales dropped as well, surprising forecasters who expected them to rise. Unemployment appears to be the main reason the housing market is flagging without the tax credit. Sharp declines within the housing market are threatening the fitful U.S. economic recovery.
Source for this article: May New home sales fall to record low in May after tax credit expires
A new low - new home sales
New home sales, in March and April, surged as homebuyers hurried to purchase homes before the April 30 deadline for the tax credit. Homebuyers have until June 30 to close the deals if they want the home tax credit, but the Senate may vote to push that deadline back to Sept. 30. CNNMoney.com reports that the May decline of 32.7 percent is there to represent a drop to 300,000 homes from 446,000 in April. Sales year-over-year fell 18.3 percent. The Commerce Department said the May figures are the slowest sales pace since it started tracking home sales statistics in 1963. It September 1981, the prior record was set when new homes sold at an annual rate of 338,000.
Consumer spending takes a hit
The decline in new home sales leads to a decline in housing prices, which leads to a decline consumer spending also -- the biggest threat to economic recovery. Business Week reports the drop in residential construction will sap consumer spending that really accounts for 70 percent of the U.S. economy. There’s direct correlation between home sales and spending on things like furniture, appliances and building materials. On June 11 the Commerce Department reported that sales at U.S. retailers fell 1.2 percent in May, which is the first decline that has happened in eight months, led by a record 9.3 percent plunge at building-material stores.
Government seems wary of new home sales
New home sales fell quickly across the U.S., with sales down more than 50 percent within the West. MarketWatch reports that housing market stats in May seemed dismal across the board. Housing stats fell around 10 percent, building permits fell 5.9 percent, mortgage applications dropped and also the home builders' index fell by five points. As the silver lining, mortgage rates stayed low. One more glimmer of hope could very well be that government statisticians have low confidence within the monthly Commerce Department new home sales report, which is subject to major revisions, sampling flaws and statistical errors. The government explains that it can take up to four months to set up a statistically significant trend in sales.
To blame is the US unemployment rate
New home sales are being affected by the U.S. job market. Edward Leamer, who's an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles, told MarketWatch that unemployment is the main reason housing is weakening without the tax credit to spur demand. The U.S. economy would have to grow at a 6 percent rate to create “significant reductions” in joblessness. “People won’t buy homes when they are worried about their jobs,” he told them.
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businessweek.com
businessweek.com/news/2010-06-23/housing-market-threatens-u-s-recovery-as-sales-slide.html
Marketwatch.com
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In some cases self-deluded souls act out their folly with stubbornly consistent consequences. Sixty seconds after tools and equipment are lovingly laid upon the workbench this idyll of perfect preparation and expectation clears to reveal the somber reality, the horror, and a clear path to God.
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