The Economy

Downsizing the Department of Transportation -

Manipulating Science -

Commentators way wiser than I are proclaiming the slight decrease in the unemployment rate signals a turn-around for the American economy. Let me state my less wise view:

Although...

this may seem mean spirited, it is not intended to be. My intention with this illustration is to put a mirror on humanity. While the controversy of Helen Keller being played by a sighted and hearing actress on Broadway was discussed in the news, for some reason, I pondered the shape of the music industry and how the pirating of digital media has affected it's stability.

To those that believed or stated that laissez-faire-capitalism, which we've never really had as an economic system, and probably shouldn't...

was the culprit of the busting economic bubble of late... there is invisible, there is transparent and there is apparent. Well apparently after peeling back the translucent layers, the guilt seems to be with congressional meddling, market twisting creative regulations and a goodhearted, yet backward left-right hand shake of Government greasing palms and wheels so to speak, as opposed to keeping hands off.

Of Course LOSERS being Rip-Offs and Pirates... or in other words Our Family Members and Friends

Spurred into action by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disastrous effect this had on its subsidized economy, the government of Cuba was forced to take radical steps to feed its people. The solution it chose -- essentially unprecedented both within the developed and undeveloped world -- was to establish a self-sustaining system of agriculture that by necessity was essentially organic.

Viva Vitality!

Are Small Farmers Forced to Choke Down Overbearing Federal Regulations with the the Food Safety Bill H.R. 875

Currently under consideration in the US Senate] ... We ALL need to Watch This One....

ask this Farmer... "The biggest one, in my opinion, is a provision to give the FDA unprecedented power to make warrantless searches on any American farm to determine if practices are “science based.”

Since MOST Creature Comforts are now provided, it seems the only incentive left for getting off assistance is to get a job

JUST for the SAKE of getting a job ... ???

IS THAT A BASIC NEED?
Currently there is a TV marketing campaign advertising 'Safe Link' or similar branding depending on the locale. These are cell phones for welfare recipients implying life is much safer with a cell phone. That may be true but prior to the advent of our cellular culture would also imply that EVERYONE was UNSAFE... now welfare recipients have an implied right of safety therefore we see this as extremely UN NEEDED and an extremely BAD use of funds... so before we start downloading ringtones... How about giving some of our local police forces RAISES! ????