Visual view of Obama's stimulus plan

I am a big fan of creating information visualization problems in purposeful,understandable, and beautiful ways. While creating some of our own reports this way, Charly mentioned that there is a nice treemap visualization on A breakdown of Obama's stimulus plan. The treemap boxes are proportional to the size of the proposed cost of each program.



The ones in this posting were created with IBM’s free Many Eyes tool. It is a very simple tool to create many types of information visualization. It gives you opportunity to look at things differently and uncover hidden aspects of data with one glance.

Variable pay

Wages should be paid variably every week. Every fourth week the wage is more (for example 30-50% more). Other weeks are reduced to give the same overall pay.
Consequence is that people might live on the basic wage and treat the extra amount as investment money. There might be careful planning to get a new mortgage. The fourth week wage should increase depending on the profitability of the company – and that applies to everybody and not just some people on top. People may look at their salary in two ways: 1) current expenses and 2) capital money

This could have a powerful effect on investment attitude and economy.