And as they say, now the “trickle down” effect.

If you’re under 60, you’d better not be looking for a promotion any time soon. With more people pushing their retirement back that means that younger people don’t have the opportunity to move into jobs that the retirees would leave behind.

A Republican “trickle down” that does work.

Okay. I work in the food ingredient industry. “Organic” has always been a slippery sort of term.

When it comes to marijuana, I have to laugh. I don’t smoke, but most people smoke marijuana. So do people really care that what they’re smoking is “organic”?

So WHY aren’t the Democrats, and why isn’t President Obama, screaming this from the rooftops? Why do they constantly expect the media to do THEIR job. If this was W, the Republicans and the Democrats had doctored the emails, the Republicans would have been ALL over it.

One other comment.

For those of you who mention OPEC.

OPEC operates totally in the open compared to the oil companies.

In 1975, after the oil embargo, etc. a book came out, “The Seven Sisters The Great Oil Companies and the World They Shaped.”

The book exposed how seven oil companies essentially raped the world when it came to oil prices.

I’m 65. Since then I’ve watched time and time again while we go through the same thing time and time again.

And consistently we hear how the DOJ needs to investigate these companies and consistently the DOJ does nothing.

So WHY do WE keep putting up with this?

I’m surprised that the farm belt isn’t all over this.

They are the prime beneficiary of the food stamp program.

Watch the government get out of the cheese market and watch dairy/cheese prices drop.

I am SO TIRED of the Republicans trying to get even for Nixon resigning.

Impeach Obama? For what?

By the time that W was into his second term it was recognized that the justifications for Iraq were totally bogus. That in the first time of this country’s history we had started a war where the US had not been attacked first. THAT wasn’t an impeachable offense? If that wasn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is.

Then we get the revelations that W had authorized the use of torture, which is a War Crime and a violation of the Geneva Conventions. Despite Yoo’s memos to the contrary, it had already been determined with Goldwater v. Carter that a President does not have the authority to revoke a treaty which had already been signed and ratified. THAT is an impeachable offense since the Geneva Conventions became the law of the US, per the Constitution.

Nancy Pelosi did the country a HUGE disservice when she took impeachment “off the table” with Bush.

Sure makes the Republican proposed obstruction on raising the debt ceiling even more ridiculous.

Another thought.

What if all of the students banned together and said that they were going to go bankrupt?

Would that mean that the government MUST bail them out?

Warren in 2016. Better than Clinton or Biden.

Americans should be outraged that this crap is still going on.

The Republicans STILL haven’t gotten over the fact that Nixon had to resign. They STILL haven’t come to terms with the fact that it was Barry Goldwater and not the Democrats that brought Nixon down.

The Democrats have had ample cause to call for the impeachment of two Republican Presidents. Reagan and W. In both cases the Republicans got weak kneed Democrats to “take impeachment off the table”. At the same time, with Obama, he sneezes and they call for impeachment. At what point are they going to suffer a backlash from Americans because of this?

If Clinton becomes the candidate, yeah, I’d be unhappy, but I’d vote for her.

Elizabeth Warren in 2016!!

Okay, I was “lucky” enough to have the government pay for my college degree (Vietnam).

You have to wonder when there is going to be a huge blowback with colleges and universities when it comes to them selling the value of getting degrees.

My guess is that it will first show up when kids quit getting 4 year degrees in things such as Japanese history (the degree for the son of one of our friends). I can see those departments closing down.

How many kids are going to pursue teaching degrees in the current environment?

I am waiting also for the first college/university that gets de-certified because they’ve gotten rid of the biology department and their biology graduates only know about creationism.

Keep in mind that some of the failure to fully prosecute these abuses lies in the military’s system of review.

You get a military court that finds someone guilty and then a commanding officer who reverses the decision and the person goes free.

Funny in most big city police departments you no longer have the police trying their own for infractions. That’s all been turned over to civilian review boards.

So why not do that with the military. These aren’t military crimes, so to speak, they’re civilian crimes.

So if the Fed KNOWS that these people were shortchanged, why aren’t they DOING anything about it? They are the ones who are supposed to be protecting the citizens of this country.

I was in the AF from ’67 to ’71.

Sexual harassment and proselytizing have been issues since then. Typically the academies are the worst places.

This has been going on for 50 years.

Until the President and the Secretary of Defense start throwing some of these senior officers out of the service, it’s going to continue.

Let’s see.

50 hearings on Benghazi.
100 votes to repeal Obamacare.
No action on any jobs bills.
Sequester action?
Threatened holding the country hostage over the debt ceiling AGAIN.

Congress’ approval rating below 17%, yet Americans keep sending these folks back to Congress.

The only sadomasochistic country on the face of the earth.

If you look at the numbers, it was about even Democrats and Republican opposition.

Beyond that, I have sold ingredients to the pharmaceutical industry.

What most don’t realize is that there are not that many manufacturing facilities for drugs throughout the world. For tax reasons Puerto Rico and Ireland are two of the biggies. Now combine that with the fact that these formulations don’t change significantly. There are minor changes, such as color, but the active ingredients are the same. So if Viagra was being produced in Ireland, it’s probably one of two plants in the world producing the stuff. So the Viagra that you get in Ireland is the same as the Viagra that you get in the US. The drug companies, but especially the FDA are the culprits in this ruse.

What is really maddening. Let’s say a drug is manufactured in Elk Grove Village. It meets US standards. It then gets shipped to Canada, where it also meets their standards, which are the same as ours. The FDA has fought long and hard to prevent that drug from coming back into the US. Horse manure.

That’s what Harry Reid said recently.

Please don’t misinterpret my posts as being blind to the parties.

Max Baucus (thankfully he’s retiring) was one of the major factors for the pharmaceutical company Amgen getting half a billion dollars from the fiscal cliff deal.

The bottom line is that CONGRESS has prevented negotiated pricing. Since the majority of politicians opposed to this are Republicans, I’ll hold them for being primarily to blame.