Wooden parts Generate Billions of rupiah

Who could have thought any wooden parts of the coconut (or called glugu) can bring up thousands of dots motif. He is, M Amin, who may chance to see it and make it as a motif. "I every day see that my board sides, inspired from there, my goal (see time around the board), how fashion can be a motive," said M Amin, owner of Batik Glugu Abadi, to Kompas.com, on the sidelines -interrupted fashion show organized by the Bank BRI, Jakarta, late last June.

Glugu his batik motif is somewhat unique. Owing to the general. Who guessed the new batik business legitimately established May 14, 2010, has achieved a turnover of Rp 1.5 billion as of December 2010.
This motif is in fact he had observed since the start of the furniture business in 1999. However, efforts have been for a dozen years they do this for a while left to run the batik business. "A log of wood can be 10 motifs. Depending on what we are dimpled like," he said.
Until now, Amin has a collection of about 3,500 motifs. Because of the many motives, batik uniforms were ordered as many offices and schools in the region Boyolali to the Yogyakarta area.
Batiknya also now has a patent, he gets dated February 7, 2010, and copyrights (February 4, 2010).
Prior success selling batik as now, Amin who claimed not to have this batik skills, test for ten years. "I picture wood pattern, I photocopy. Then, I asked for the number of places to buatin shirt with a motif that I carry. No one can," he says.
Finally, he tried his own with the help of CorelDraw application usage, which is used to "play" motifs obtained from these parts of coconut wood. After that, during the six months before the batik business legal standing, he did a test that is by producing clothing with a number of motives which he created as many as 20 scores. "It's so happy. Pantes Want to see what is not used," he related the reason why use so many clothes.
Because they do not have a stock of expertise batik, she was wearing was an expert workforce, which now consists of 18 permanent staff person. "Right now I'm still learning batik," he said.
He admitted, his batik glugu can adapt to local batik-batik motifs. "Kan, batik meaning the point. If we had a point, then fine batik name," he said, where the motif glugu tend to be a point, and smaller lines, like scratches in the wood parts of the coconut.
When asked about the initial capital to make batik, Amin was reluctant to mention it. "I assess the achievements of the struggle that's needed. So the funds that I have when it is sucked into this business," he related to the initial capital.
One thing is for sure, he had never borrowed money to banks. "My philosophy, man and nature, if put together it is not limited to power," he said.
Batik glugu were marketed at prices quite affordable. Cotton is valued around Rp 70,000 per two feet. With the same size, silk materials valued around Rp 300,000. "Happiness us that the work of people liked, so do not need expensive," he said, taking her home as a place of manufacture and sales.
One thing she expected is when people look at parts of the motif of palm wood, then one can immediately judge, "That's batik glugu," he said briefly.

U.S. Workers Really Lazy?

One object of anger and even elite citizens of the United States behind a pile of debt and economic problems are slow-growing U.S. worker productivity. Even the word "lazy workers" also stuck out as the U.S. economic crisis in 2008. This crisis helped to bankrupt U.S. companies, including General Motors.
This economic crisis forced the U.S. government to spend 800 billion dollars to help U.S. corporations, the difficulties in funding. On 24 November 2008 for instance, Ron Paul, launching the words "Oh No, Not Another Bailout!" RonPaul.com on its website. This paper sparked comments about American workers, who are considered not diligent not to say lazy.

Ron Paul is a member of Parliament (House of Representatiives) of the Republican Party, and was a U.S. presidential candidate from the Republican in the U.S. presidential election in 2008.
2008 crisis, such as reviving the polemic that has also appeared in 1992, when Toyota Motor Corp., the U.S. invaded the automotive market. In the Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1992 edition, Chairman of the Lower House of Japan, Yoshio Sakurauchi once said that, "The American workers are lazy and unproductive and that's one reason why their products can not match the standards of Japanese products ..." This is the answer Sakurauchi, already late, over U.S. criticism about the invasion of Toyota to the U.S. market.
U.S. economic crisis, which is now getting stuck with a pile of debt on top of 14.23 billion U.S. dollars, also cornered former Governor of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan.

Former Central Bank governor is considered to play a role behind the crisis by running the monetary policy which was considered wrong to peg interest rates low for so many years, which makes the U.S. flooded the money, and some funds were translated into actions in the speculative stock market and the market capital.
Alan Greenspan (served from 1987 to 2006 period) behind the accused the other aspects behind the U.S. economic crisis. Business Insider website issued a paper titled "Alan Greenspan blames The Bad U.S. Economy On The Lazy Young Work Force And The U.S. Copying China".
Greenspan even said, American workers now, which has replaced the baby boomer generation, is not a better worker than they replace. He even suggested that immigrants allowed into the U.S. to improve the performance of the U.S. economy.
There are many different combinations as the cause of economic crisis, and one of them is the accusation that at least a matter of U.S. workers are less productive, if for example, compared with China (see Kompas, issue of Friday, August 5, 2011).
CNBC.com site also presents data about hours worked per week in various countries. China has stated hours of work for 44 hours during the week and have 21 days holiday a year. Data is used data from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Taxation (Income Tax), China Center for Labor and Environment (Retirement Age, the Standard Work Week).
On the other side of the workers in the U.S. have worked only 33.8 hours a week and have a longer holiday, ie 25 days. This data is taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Working Hours), USA.