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		<title>Your lenders are spying on your clients</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mortgage brokers we are always in jeopardy of losing our customers to the lenders we work with. We deal with our clients for a short amount of time, but the lender is in constant communication with them for years. And whenever your customers are asked who their mortgage company is, they will usually answer [...]<p><a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com/your-lenders-are-spying-on-your-clients/">Your lenders are spying on your clients</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com">egodrivendevelopment.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As mortgage brokers we are always in jeopardy of losing our customers to the lenders we work with.</p>
<p>We deal with our clients for a short amount of time, but the lender is in constant communication with them for years. And whenever your customers are asked who their mortgage company is, they will usually answer the name of their lender.</p>
<p>Some lenders are better at stealing our clients then others.</p>
<p>As a real estate investor I have had loans with several different lenders. One of my properties had a loan from a lender called JB Nutter. This was a small bank that did a very poor job of marketing itself to its customers. I would hear from them 3 times a year. Once to send me a coupon book for the year, another to tell me how much interest I paid that year for my taxes, and another to tell me about how much money was in my escrow account.</p>
<p>They never once tried to offer me a refinance.</p>
<p>My current mortgage for my residence is with Countrywide. These guys know their stuff. They mail me a statement every month. And in every statement is an offer to refinance or get a line of credit, or insurance. They are always politely selling something. And if that weren&#8217;t enough, they mail me every couple months or so more offers to refinance or tap some equity. But at least they are not as sneaky as World Savings Bank.</p>
<p>One of my investment properties had one of their loans. They now have hooked up with the credit bureaus so that whenever someone with one of their loans gets their credit checked by a mortgage company or lender, they get notified. I like getting my credit checked every 3 months, and with my own mortgage company all it takes is a couple keystrokes of my computer. Imagine my surprise when I got a call at home from a World Savings rep asking me if I was thinking about refinancing. He told me he knew I had my credit checked by a mortgage company and that they were ready to give me a better offer then whatever I was getting,<br />
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They have a whole division of telemarketers who do nothing but call their loan holders who are getting their credit checked by other mortgage companies. So even if you get a client a World Savings loan, and that client comes back to you later for a refi, you are now going to have to compete with World Savings for this customer.</p>
<p>Pisses you off doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>And you can bet that now that one lender is doing this, others will follow suit,.</p>
<p>So what do we as mortgage brokers do about this?</p>
<p>Simple, we form close relationships with our clients, that basically makes them immune to any sales pitch by any other lender or mortgage company. I call it the &#8220;silent force field&#8221;.  We need to use every tool at our disposal to make sure that once a person becomes a client we never let them go.</p>
<p>I outline the &#8220;silent force field&#8217; completely in our Referrals on Demand product, but I will lay out some guidelines for you here.</p>
<p>1. You must stay in contact with them on a regular basis. Once a month minimum The easiest way to do this is through a monthly newsletter. Outsource this to a newsletter company and they will handle the production, printing, and mailing of the newsletter to your clients every month.</p>
<p>2. WOW your clients as soon as you can. Come up with a creative way to make a great impression on your clients. Here&#8217;s an example. There is dentist in Australia who was tired of having customers be afraid to see him. So he completely changed his office. Now instead of a regular dentist office, it looks more like someone&#8217;s living room. There is the aroma of fresh baked cinnamon buns in the air, (sugar free) that can be enjoyed with coffee or tea. There is no receptionist sitting there with the little window that they keep closing on you. This dentist now has a referral only practice, where the only way to work with him, is if you know someone who already works with him, and they give you a referral.</p>
<p>3. Get to know your clients and let them get to know you. Show your personality. Let them know about your family. Keep them informed about how your kids are doing in school. Remember, you do not want to seem like their bank. You want to seem like a family friend that happens to do mortgages. Have customer appreciation parties. Have house warming parties. Have a grand birthday party for yourself every year. Give yourself excuses to call your clients and get to know them socially.</p>
<p>4. Start a blog and write about whatever you want. Invite your clients to visit often and provide feedback.</p>
<p>5. Become a customer of your clients. If one of your clients owns a dry cleaners, get your clothes cleaned there. Reward them for doing business with you by doing business with them.</p>
<p>6. Get your clients to network amongst themselves. Create a referral club. Your dry cleaner client can go to your dentist client when his teeth hurt. And if you make the referral you look even better.</p>
<p>These are just a few ideas to help you keep your customers. People do business with people they like. By forming relationships with your past clients you can make sure they keep coming back to you.</p>
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		<title>What Investigative Reporting Entails</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The field of investigative reporting involves bringing to the fore facts and figure that affect human interests and fair governance. This means conducting in depth research, looking at public records, doing extensive interviews, as well as checking and rechecking of facts before publication. Whether print or television, investigative reporting is essentially “watchdog” reporting. This means [...]<p><a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com/what-investigative-reporting-entails/">What Investigative Reporting Entails</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com">egodrivendevelopment.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The field of investigative reporting involves bringing to the fore facts and figure that affect human interests and fair governance. This means conducting in depth research, looking at public records, doing extensive interviews, as well as checking and rechecking of facts before publication. Whether print or television, investigative reporting is essentially “watchdog” reporting. This means reporting crimes, unfair practices, injustice, as well as other human interest aspects like environment, disease, and so on.</p>
<p>Investigative journalism can move public opinion and instill fear in those treading the wrong path. Slave trade, gun running, terrorist activities, drug trafficking, money laundering and so on are brought to the notice of the world by investigative journalism.</p>
<p>An investigative journalist must be unafraid, determined, patient, watchful, fair, as well as dog minded to be successful. The questions a journalist seeks answers to are: who is responsible for the wrong doing; what methods were employed; what are the consequences; what can be done to correct the wrong; can the wrongdoers be brought to book?</p>
<p>The keys are to dig up the first lead, tip, or hunch. Then sniff around for facts. Form an investigative hypothesis. Next, like a detective, gather evidence that will prove undeniably the hypothesis. This will involve interviews, documents, records, proofs, and intense paper work. Organize the information and write the report. Check facts, check chances of libel, and the laws. To be good at your work it is advantageous if you are familiar with the law, know the procedures, can conduct quick and accurate research, follow the money trail, and dig out facts.<br />
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Investigative journalism is a specialized field that uses journalism skills, curiosity, advanced research methods, and a determination to right wrongs. This field of journalism is what helps shape democracy and protects the lives of the innocent. Done correctly it can raise public opinion to such an extent that the way the world thinks and functions can be changed.</p>
<p>An investigative journalist must work within the confines of ethics written and unwritten and the laws. The work could include revealing scandals and tracing infringements of laws, rules, or morals. Bring to public notice the policies of governments, companies, and other organizations. And, institute social change by describing social, economic, political, and cultural trends.</p>
<p>To be effective in investigative journalism the journalist must have high standards of functioning and be above corruption. The principles of truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fair play, and public accountability must be deeply ingrained in the mind and soul of the journalist. Since investigative journalism involves use of undercover sources and anonymous tips it is absolutely essential for the journalist to double check facts.</p>
<p>Investigative journalism is news with a difference. It is critical and in depth investigations to a happening or policy which will serve to prevent or correct a wrong, prevent crimes, save the planet from destruction, and shape the future of the world in more ways than one. It is reporting the unknown, the hidden, and so, the investigative journalist becomes the keeper or custodian of public conscience.</p>
<p>It is a field where a mere niggling thought or suspicion becomes an expose of wrong doings. It questions actions and decisions and brings to the limelight outrageous acts and in human actions. In simple terms an investigative journalist polices society in the larger interests of mankind.</p>
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		<title>Trying to define criminal law</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hear about law everyday whether we realize it or not. It&#8217;s in our Government, in our work, and even in our houses. One type of law is Criminal law, which is also known as Penal law. This is &#8220;The body of statutory and common law that deals with crime and the legal punishment of [...]<p><a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com/trying-to-define-criminal-law/">Trying to define criminal law</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com">egodrivendevelopment.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We hear about law everyday whether we realize it or not. It&#8217;s in our Government, in our work, and even in our houses. One type of law is Criminal law, which is also known as Penal law. This is &#8220;The body of statutory and common law that deals with crime and the legal punishment of criminal offenses.&#8221;</p>
<p>Inside of criminal law there is four major theories of criminal justice:<br />
- Punishment<br />
- Deterrence<br />
- Incapacitation<br />
- Rehabilitation</p>
<p>This form of law is essential in many cases because it can distinguis between crimes from civil wrongs. Criminal law has been around for ages, and is seeing as the fundamental system of regulating the behavior of individuals and groups relatively to what is defined as the social norms. This differs between civil crimes, where the difference is between two individuals and their individual rights and obligations under the law which is ruling the entire society.<br />
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An example of a civil law case is a dispute between two individuals over a contract that they made to for example sell an automobile. In that case one individual feels that their individual rights for a fair automobile sale have been breached by the other party. Where as in a criminal case, you would have for example a murderer, who is infringing on the right of safety that we all have. Given those two examples I&#8217;m sure you can appreciate how important Criminal law is, and the important role that it plays in everyone of our societies.</p>
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		<title>Titanic Precautions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many movies have been made about the tragic story of the Titanic. Arrogance and ignorance was definitely present during its maiden voyage, which was Titanic’s last voyage. Many warnings were given, but unfortunately, the warnings were not taken seriously. On April 14th, 1912 Titanic received six warnings that icebergs were present in their perimeter. On [...]<p><a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com/titanic-precautions/">Titanic Precautions</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com">egodrivendevelopment.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many movies have been made about the tragic story of the Titanic. Arrogance and ignorance was definitely present during its maiden voyage, which was Titanic’s last voyage.</p>
<p>Many warnings were given, but unfortunately, the warnings were not taken seriously. On April 14th, 1912 Titanic received six warnings that icebergs were present in their perimeter. On the night of April 14th, Titanic struck an iceberg and ultimately sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.</p>
<p>For other entities, what happened to the Titanic does NOT have to happen to them. Many have learned from the mistakes that Titanic had made.</p>
<p>There are several examples that follow and form a parallel to what happened to Titanic and how an entity can learn from Titanic’s mistakes.</p>
<p>1. The Titanic only had 16 lifeboats, which was not nearly enough to save everyone on the ship.</p>
<p>Only about 60% of the entire lifeboats’ capacity was utilized! Does your company have a disaster plan in place? Are your computers, especially your servers, being backed up on a regular basis? Many servers are now being backed up on a daily basis and sometimes on an hourly basis.</p>
<p>When I was working at a Helpdesk, one of our afternoon gals was named the “Backup Queen” because she took EVERY major server backup VERY seriously. The company was very lucky to have the “Backup Queen” because there were several instances where our most critical server had crashed and lost information. Fortunately, information restoration was quick and painless due to the machine being backed up on a regular basis.</p>
<p>We were very lucky to have someone who took the initiative to handle the server backups. Is your company that lucky? Yes, doing backups can be VERY unexciting. However, losing valuable data can be very exciting, but in a negative way.</p>
<p>2. The crewmen in the lookout tower, or the “crow’s nest,” were not issued binoculars to better search for icebergs.</p>
<p>Employees were not given the proper tools to use to do their job. Is your company using the right software for the job? Are you saving money on upgrading your operating system and software, but are losing customers? If you are losing customers, you’re NOT really saving any money at all.</p>
<p>The right equipment can range from the very basic, such as issuing headphones that are compatible with the phone system to customer service representatives, to ensuring that a backup generator can adequately run due to a power outage.</p>
<p>3. Titanic had a total of 16 watertight compartments. Initially, it sounded fine, but unfortunately, each compartment did not hold water on its own. Every compartment was similar to an ice cube tray. When one compartment overflowed, water flowed into the next compartment. Each compartment did not completely seal off water on its own.</p>
<p>Does your company have a good disaster recovery plan in place? If a flood or a fire struck the premises, would you be able to resume business operations in a matter of days or would it take a matter of months?</p>
<p>Is your information that you have on site being sent off site so you CAN have another place to access your valuable information?</p>
<p>4. The Titanic was going at full speed at night in iceberg-infested waters.</p>
<p>Are your machines at your business running at 100% capacity on a continuous basis? How much is downtime costing you when those machines need to be fixed? Are you REALLY saving money by not buying more machinery? Does the cost of more machinery outweigh the cost of your present machines’ downtime?</p>
<p>5. The Titanic did not heed to the many iceberg warnings.</p>
<p>Titanic received six iceberg warnings on the day it sank! Is your sales force, customer service department and/or helpdesk REALLY listening to your customers? Sam Walton, the founder of Wal Mart, said that the most important person to an organization can be the one who greets that customers. Too many companies don’t even realize just how MUCH each person represents their company!</p>
<p>There is WAY too much competition in the marketplace NOT to heed warnings. Industries like telecom, automobile, office supplies, soft drinks, and restaurant industries, just to name a few, had better take warnings seriously. Some companies might not get the luxury of six warnings that the Titanic got. Sometimes, only one warning can break a company. That’s why companies that DO encourage, and take seriously, customer feedback are invaluable and can be a gold mine.</p>
<p>6. The Titanic only had white flare guns to signal for help.</p>
<p>Red is the standard color for a flare gun used to signal for help. When the Titanic was sinking, white flare guns were shot off from the ship. One or two ships many miles away say the white flares, but did not interpret the white flares as warning messages.</p>
<p>Does your entity use the proper means of communication? Is it ensured that all of the parties involved completely understand what the other parties are saying? Many groups within an organization speak entirely different languages. Sales, technology and management translations may as similar to translating three different foreign languages.<br />
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7. Bruce Ismay, the president of White Star, pressured Captain Smith into unrealistic and dangerous goals.</p>
<p>Ismay wanted the Titanic to arrive in New York on Tuesday, April 16th. In order to meet this goal, the ship would have to travel at full speed a majority of the time. The coercion from Ismay turned out to be dangerous due to the ship’s demise.</p>
<p>Ismay’s level was similar to a CEO’s level. Is your company’s CEO and the rest of the management staff setting realistic goals? Are your managers providing bilateral communication? Feedback is vital to any company’s survival because many managers are not involved in day-to-day activities.</p>
<p>8. The two wireless operators’ priorities were not focused on the ship’s priorities.</p>
<p>Many of the aristocrats in first class passage had paid both operators bonuses to wire messages to New York. One of the Titanic’s operators told another ship to “shut up” after being given another iceberg warning. It was a powerful rebuke that may have cost thousands of lives.</p>
<p>Is your customer service department doing all it can to retain and acquire it customers? A polite and knowledgeable customer service representative can save the company thousands of dollars and maybe more! I have had the fortunate experience of dealing with many great customer service representatives. I have told many of the rep’s supervisors that I really appreciated their help as well and that they are lucky to have such great rep’s on their team.</p>
<p>9. The Titanic’s steel construction was never tested in cold temperature.</p>
<p>The steel that made up ocean liners in the early 20th Century was brittle to begin with. Unfortunately, the steel was never stress-tested to determine what stress levels the structure could endure.</p>
<p>Is adequate testing being done on your company’s products? Are your prototypes up to the challenges of customers’ demands? Are an automobile company’s crash tests being utilized to the fullest extent?</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>male enhancement device uses in the last two decades as a way to have been used to increase penis size. In fact, penis pump unit has recently under development in the light of penis enlargement. This is due to problems with the penis pump and saw the successful penis enlargement.</p>
<p>What penis enhancement pump.</p>
<p>A penis enlargement pump is a hollow plastic tube that is on the penis in a good seal on the base put. A small hand pump attached and, when used, the blood is removed from the body to force blood into the penis. This process is what makes him appear larger. To maintain an erection, a close loop should be placed around the base of the penis to hold blood in. Some men have difficulty with this method and an erection can have sex for about 30 minutes.</p>
<p>How penis enlargement device from the pump</p>
<p>One of the main problems of the pump is the results you get. As mentioned above, offer a temporary solution penis pump male enhancement, penis enlargement and concurrent services .A penis traction device gently stretch the penis longer and thicker over time. More blood, then you can fill the penis, so that an erection bigger and stronger.</p>
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		<title>The Way In Which Some People Abuse The Benefit Of Sick Pay</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article describes how some people abuse the benefit of sick pay in the workplace. I am going to explain a couple of examples of this, which I have come across over the last couple of years. There are many people who are in employment where if they are off work sick, they do not [...]<p><a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com/the-way-in-which-some-people-abuse-the-benefit-of-sick-pay/">The Way In Which Some People Abuse The Benefit Of Sick Pay</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com">egodrivendevelopment.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article describes how some people abuse the benefit of sick pay in the workplace. I am going to explain a couple of examples of this, which I have come across over the last couple of years.</p>
<p>There are many people who are in employment where if they are off work sick, they do not get paid. It must very much annoy these people to hear about the fortunate workers who are still paid when they are ill, abusing the system.</p>
<p>I have a friend who recently told me about a lady he works with. At times she will come to work with a really bad cold or cough, when really she should be at home in bed. By going to work she could be infecting other people with her germs of course. She would be asked why she had come to work when she obviously should be in bed. Her response would be that she did not want to waste her sick days when she was ill. She might as well come to work and be ill there, it would be no fun at home, she would continue.<br />
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This woman treated her sick entitlement as extra holiday days. The bosses who were unaware of her attitude presumed that when she did actually phone in sick, that she must be extremely ill, when in fact she would be perfectly fit and healthy.</p>
<p>Another example of abusing the sick entitlement system is a story I heard recently. The company involved had around fifteen percent of its full time staff in one of its buildings, on long term sick leave. The company then announced the closure of that particular building which would include all of the staff being made redundant. The office though would remain open for the next six months, however the only people who worked ninety percent of that six month period would be able to have full redundancy payouts. The amount of people who suddenly stopped having depression and bad backs was astonishing, they called it a miracle.</p>
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		<title>The Quickest Way to Get is to Give</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s true. You can’t really get what you want in life until you have given it to others. Doesn’t sound like it makes much sense, does it? How can you give what you don’t have? As you open your mind to the possibility and ask this question of yourself, you allow opportunity to come to [...]<p><a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com/the-quickest-way-to-get-is-to-give/">The Quickest Way to Get is to Give</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com">egodrivendevelopment.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s true.  You can’t really get what you want in life until you have given it to others.  Doesn’t sound like it makes much sense, does it?  How can you give what you don’t have?  As you open your mind to the possibility and ask this question of yourself, you allow opportunity to come to you and knock at your door.  Then you will find a way that it is possible to give to others what you want, before receiving it yourself.</p>
<p>It almost sounds like a chain letter and in a way it is.  The chain letter is a facetious reference as so many of us have been exposed to them by now and know they are illegitimate scams.  Yet the basic principles are: you give before you receive, and you give with the faith and expectation of receiving.  A similar modern example can be seen in the film ‘Pay It Forward’.  By giving to others, you allow good things to happen to you.  And this all boils down to the simple law of attraction.</p>
<p>The law of attraction is like any other law of nature, like gravity.  And like gravity, it is not one that has been generally ‘discovered’ yet.  As a result, most of us are walking around thinking in a completely disordered paradigm.</p>
<p>Disordered paradigms of thought are displayed over and over in history, and discoveries of natural laws and observations of reality have brought order to transform the mistaken beliefs that had been accepted for fact.  You can think of many examples, such as the belief that the world is flat, or the belief that we are at the center of the universe.  Or the great changes that resulted as a discovery of the force of electricity and harnessing its natural power.</p>
<p>In this same way, we are able to make a change in our own disordered thought patterns.  Right now 99% of us are probably dissatisfied.  Dissatisfaction means larger life is seeking to be expressed through us, and it is being blocked.  Self-sabotage is a very real process working in the invisible realms of the unconscious mind.<br />
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The good news is there are a lot of simple, small but powerful techniques you can use to reprogram that all powerful unconscious mind of yours, to order your own life as you want it.  Yes, there IS a way to eliminate the chaos in your life, and it starts within.  It starts by eliminating the often unseen chaos in your own mind.</p>
<p>The technique in this article is only one of a vast array that you can use on a daily basis to improve your life dramatically.  In this article you are learning how to use the law of attraction to attract to yourself what you want.</p>
<p>The law of attraction, like gravity, is undefiable.  You will attract what you are sending out.  Your thoughts are real in the world of attraction.</p>
<p>If your mind is resonating with patterns of anxiety, stress, anger, sadness, envy, grief, or any other negative emotion, you will be attracting more of the same in your life.</p>
<p>One step you can take to change this is to focus on giving to others before you receive yourself.  In this way you are changing your vibration and your focus.  And you open yourself to receive what you had been closing off before.</p>
<p>It is very simple to give.  Give of what you have, and everyone has something to give.  We all have innate value to offer the world.  An abiding philosophy in the law of attraction is to always offer an increase in value, to give back more in value than you receive in money.  In this way you continue to give more than you get and attract more and larger life back to yourself.</p>
<p>Take a moment to look within and find something, anything, no matter how small or simple, to give to anyone, friend or stranger.  Start the practice of giving, and you will take one step towards raising your level of vibration and enhancing the value of what you attract in your own life.  Give something selflessly today, knowing that you will receive it multiplied back in your life, tenfold.</p>
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		<title>The Morality of Child Labor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO&#8217;s often denounce child labor as their employees rush from one five star hotel to another, $3000 subnotebooks and PDA&#8217;s in hand. The hairsplitting distinction made by the ILO between &#8220;child work&#8221; and &#8220;child labor&#8221; conveniently targets impoverished countries while letting [...]<p><a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com/the-morality-of-child-labor/">The Morality of Child Labor</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com">egodrivendevelopment.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO&#8217;s often denounce child labor as their employees rush from one five star hotel to another, $3000 subnotebooks and PDA&#8217;s in hand. The hairsplitting distinction made by the ILO between &#8220;child work&#8221; and &#8220;child labor&#8221; conveniently targets impoverished countries while letting its budget contributors &#8211; the developed ones &#8211; off-the-hook.</p>
<p>Reports regarding child labor surface periodically. Children crawling in mines, faces ashen, body deformed. The agile fingers of famished infants weaving soccer balls for their more privileged counterparts in the USA. Tiny figures huddled in sweatshops, toiling in unspeakable conditions. It is all heart-rending and it gave rise to a veritable not-so-cottage industry of activists, commentators, legal eagles, scholars, and opportunistically sympathetic politicians.</p>
<p>Ask the denizens of Thailand, sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, or Morocco and they will tell you how they regard this altruistic hyperactivity &#8211; with suspicion and resentment. Underneath the compelling arguments lurks an agenda of trade protectionism, they wholeheartedly believe. Stringent &#8211; and expensive &#8211; labor and environmental provisions in international treaties may well be a ploy to fend off imports based on cheap labor and the competition they wreak on well-ensconced domestic industries and their political stooges.</p>
<p>This is especially galling since the sanctimonious West has amassed its wealth on the broken backs of slaves and kids. The 1900 census in the USA found that 18 percent of all children &#8211; almost two million in all &#8211; were gainfully employed. The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional laws banning child labor as late as 1916. This decision was overturned only in 1941.</p>
<p>The GAO published a report last week in which it criticized the Labor Department for paying insufficient attention to working conditions in manufacturing and mining in the USA, where many children are still employed. The Bureau of Labor Statistics pegs the number of working children between the ages of 15-17 in the USA at 3.7 million. One in 16 of these worked in factories and construction. More than 600 teens died of work-related accidents in the last ten years.</p>
<p>Child labor &#8211; let alone child prostitution, child soldiers, and child slavery &#8211; are phenomena best avoided. But they cannot and should not be tackled in isolation. Nor should underage labor be subjected to blanket castigation. Working in the gold mines or fisheries of the Philippines is hardly comparable to waiting on tables in a Nigerian or, for that matter, American restaurant.</p>
<p>There are gradations and hues of child labor. That children should not be exposed to hazardous conditions, long working hours, used as means of payment, physically punished, or serve as sex slaves is commonly agreed. That they should not help their parents plant and harvest may be more debatable.</p>
<p>As Miriam Wasserman observes in &#8220;Eliminating Child Labor&#8221;, published in the Federal Bank of Boston&#8217;s &#8220;Regional Review&#8221;, second quarter of 2000, it depends on &#8220;family income, education policy, production technologies, and cultural norms.&#8221; About a quarter of children under-14 throughout the world are regular workers. This statistic masks vast disparities between regions like Africa (42 percent) and Latin America (17 percent).</p>
<p>In many impoverished locales, child labor is all that stands between the family unit and all-pervasive, life threatening, destitution. Child labor declines markedly as income per capita grows. To deprive these bread-earners of the opportunity to lift themselves and their families incrementally above malnutrition, disease, and famine &#8211; is an apex of immoral hypocrisy.<br />
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Quoted by &#8220;The Economist&#8221;, a representative of the much decried Ecuador Banana Growers Association and Ecuador&#8217;s Labor Minister, summed up the dilemma neatly: &#8220;Just because they are under age doesn&#8217;t mean we should reject them, they have a right to survive. You can&#8217;t just say they can&#8217;t work, you have to provide alternatives.&#8221;</p>
<p>Regrettably, the debate is so laden with emotions and self-serving arguments that the facts are often overlooked.</p>
<p>The outcry against soccer balls stitched by children in Pakistan led to the relocation of workshops ran by Nike and Reebok. Thousands lost their jobs, including countless women and 7000 of their progeny. The average family income &#8211; anyhow meager &#8211; fell by 20 percent. Economists Drusilla Brown, Alan Deardorif, and Robert Stern observe wryly:</p>
<p>&#8220;While Baden Sports can quite credibly claim that their soccer balls are not sewn by children, the relocation of their production facility undoubtedly did nothing for their former child workers and their families.&#8221;</p>
<p>Such examples abound. Manufacturers &#8211; fearing legal reprisals and &#8220;reputation risks&#8221; (naming-and-shaming by overzealous NGO&#8217;s) &#8211; engage in preemptive sacking. German garment workshops fired 50,000 children in Bangladesh in 1993 in anticipation of the American never-legislated Child Labor Deterrence Act.</p>
<p>Quoted by Wasserstein, former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, notes:</p>
<p>&#8220;Stopping child labor without doing anything else could leave children worse off. If they are working out of necessity, as most are, stopping them could force them into prostitution or other employment with greater personal dangers. The most important thing is that they be in school and receive the education to help them leave poverty.&#8221;</p>
<p>Contrary to hype, three quarters of all children work in agriculture and with their families. Less than 1 percent work in mining and another 2 percent in construction. Most of the rest work in retail outlets and services, including &#8220;personal services&#8221; &#8211; a euphemism for prostitution. UNICEF and the ILO are in the throes of establishing school networks for child laborers and providing their parents with alternative employment.</p>
<p>But this is a drop in the sea of neglect. Poor countries rarely proffer education on a regular basis to more than two thirds of their eligible school-age children. This is especially true in rural areas where child labor is a widespread blight. Education &#8211; especially for women &#8211; is considered an unaffordable luxury by many hard-pressed parents. In many cultures, work is still considered to be indispensable in shaping the child&#8217;s morality and strength of character and in teaching him or her a trade.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Economist&#8221; elaborates:</p>
<p>&#8220;In Africa children are generally treated as mini-adults; from an early age every child will have tasks to perform in the home, such as sweeping or fetching water. It is also common to see children working in shops or on the streets. Poor families will often send a child to a richer relation as a housemaid or houseboy, in the hope that he will get an education.&#8221;</p>
<p>A solution recently gaining steam is to provide families in poor countries with access to loans secured by the future earnings of their educated offspring. The idea &#8211; first proposed by Jean-Marie Baland of the University of Namur and James A. Robinson of the University of California at Berkeley &#8211; has now permeated the mainstream.</p>
<p>Even the World Bank has contributed a few studies, notably, in June, &#8220;Child Labor: The Role of Income Variability and Access to Credit Across Countries&#8221; authored by Rajeev Dehejia of the NBER and Roberta Gatti of the Bank&#8217;s Development Research Group.</p>
<p>Abusive child labor is abhorrent and should be banned and eradicated. All other forms should be phased out gradually. Developing countries already produce millions of unemployable graduates a year &#8211; 100,000 in Morocco alone. Unemployment is rife and reaches, in certain countries &#8211; such as Macedonia &#8211; more than one third of the workforce. Children at work may be harshly treated by their supervisors but at least they are kept off the far more menacing streets. Some kids even end up with a skill and are rendered employable.</p>
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		<title>The Great Importance of Doing Business with Ethics</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most people, money makes the world go round and business bears that money. Businessmen will perhaps do anything just to achieve the ultimate goal of having a business, and that is to earn income. Net profit or income financially means a surplus of sales or revenues after deducting costs and expenses. Whether you are [...]<p><a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com/the-great-importance-of-doing-business-with-ethics/">The Great Importance of Doing Business with Ethics</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.egodrivendevelopment.com">egodrivendevelopment.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For most people, money makes the world go round and business bears that money.  Businessmen will perhaps do anything just to achieve the ultimate goal of having a business, and that is to earn income. Net profit or income financially means a surplus of sales or revenues after deducting costs and expenses. Whether you are engage in profession, occupation, work or trade, you are in business and you speak income. When you earn an income you suffer taxes, the worst nightmare for every income earners. Income tax is your punishment of doing well in business. This sounds ridiculous but this is the reality, you pay when you earn. Because tax is legislative, noncompliance to this would results to crimes. This thing called income tax had already made billions of liars around the world. Some governments imposed taxes which are already too much to burden the flow of business. Others make tax laws that are already beyond the ability of taxpayers. However these facts must not result in the existence of enormous number of dishonest people in the world.</p>
<p>Ethics in business rarely exists nowadays. Perhaps it is because for most people, profit will come without the need of business ethics. This, I don’t agree. The word ethics is derived from the Greek word ethos, which means &#8220;character,&#8221; and from the Latin word mores, which means &#8220;customs.&#8221; According to the encyclopedia ethics is the branch of philosophy that defines what is good for the individual and for society and establishes the nature of obligations, or duties, that people owe themselves and one another. Maybe ethics is not needed to earn profit if you define profit or income as money. But deeply speaking, business is not just for money. Yes it is definitely for profit, but profit is not just financial profit. We need profit that will not just sustain our pocket or our stomach. Significantly, we also need profits that will feed our hearts and soul. Considering that we are great businessmen, we should extend our minds to this principle. We need business ethics to earn these high valued profits. We must be concerned to the virtue of our character and to the common good.<br />
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Your business is not just for the survival of your life on Earth but it can also be your road to the survival of your soul. If you’re in business and had a company, you can help your employees by providing them enough salaries and other benefits that will make their lives better. You can be honest and pay your exact tax for the government who will eventually use it for your country’s development. (Assuming your government is straight and not corrupt) But don’t mind them, be honest even others are not. We are talking here your soul survival and not theirs. You can also serve your customers by providing them their needs and giving them convenience. Customer care is so important for your customers as also important for your business to earn public trust and loyalty. If you build infrastructures for your company you contribute to the development of your place in terms of buildings and infrastructures. When you got ethics in business you practice fair business competition. Fair business competition is a challenge for every business to improve the qualities of their products and services, and the end benefits are to the consumers.</p>
<p>Doing business with clean conscience is doing business with good night sleeps. It is also doing business with gladness of your heart and soul. Gratitude will come to you and you will become a stress free businessman if you do business with ethics. These and other spiritual profits will straightly come to you and the good thing on this is you are not taxed on this kind of profits. As an extraordinary businessman, you do not only set your long-term goals for 10 years or for a life time. You must also consider eternity and set goals to achieve profits that will benefit your soul. You need profits that last forever, profits that will give us everlasting life and happiness, and profits that will earn us the key to heaven.  These profits will benefits us in the short run, midterm run, long run and eternal run, as God is great from the beginning and unto the never-ending.</p>
<p>Do business and believe in God. Building our business in God’s place is like building it in rocks which are in great foundations. Let us be kind and grateful to our employees as they are our best assets. Let’s give them bread and they will give us a ham sandwich. Let us have huge care to our customers as they are our best revenue generators. Let’s give them good price, high quality products and best services and they will give us their respect and loyalty. Let us be fair to our competitors as they are our great motivators. Let us give them fair game and they will give us the true meaning of winning. Let us be thankful to our Father Almighty God as He is our greatest business partner. Let’s serve Him and He will give us joy and peace of mind.</p>
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