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Well, the Saudis are going green, and GE's heading the project. Not only does this show the greater demand across the world for cleaner energy and better health coverage, but this is also a big PR move for GE. There's a lot of politics that go into selling your product, constantly trying to make as many people as possible feel like you're on their side, like you agree with them. Whether it's for the sake of increasing profits or if GE really does care we may never know, but a decision like this helps brand loyalty and will bring in more customers than it loses.

You don't have to read much of this article to understand the gist of what the author is saying. As we all know, the business cycle fluctuates like a sin graph, except, at the same time, the real GDP steadily increases as more innovations are made the things can be done for cheaper. Paying attention to those ups and downs are important for governments because, when the downs occur, the government needs to put in more spending to cover for private industries and to try and stimulate the economy. However, what the US government has failed to do now-a-days is lower spending when the economy has built its way back up and above where it was before. This isn't because US citizens will start mass protests in the streets against a higher sales tax or less funding for the public education system, but because officials want to ignore the fundamental concept that, just like the economy went down before, so shall it in the future times.

The article talks about the importance of budget planning and spending.