You really can’t slip anything past these guys with their mad Wikipedia skillz…

With their familiarity with the KKKlan you’d think they get “Karl” right.

NotsoBreitbart: Him dead

But his idiocy lives on He’s still here

OT

Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates and Stephen Hadley are joining forces again to create a powerhouse GOP consulting shop

The headline “Bush League” is just way too easy. I’m hoping Tbogg does something about that.

Shhhh, I believe that ol’ Silent Cal.

Completing a statement with a sentence the implies a demand for

an amount of security that’s simply not available to the vast majority of Americans

doesn’t change the meaning or your objection? I know as I look around that more and more people in my area, including the employed, are losing that security.

Maybe we’re working off a different definition of Bourgeois, The one I’m using is:

Bourgeois 1. A person belonging to the middle class.

Maybe we’re talking about two different demographics. The group I’m talking about are defined as above “poverty level” but only with maximum hours/shifts. And only if they work every scheduled day. Missing a day for a child’s illness not only affects their income but jeopardizes their job. They work under a “three strikes your out” attendance policy. And refusing a twelve hour shift because your baby sitter( most likely a friend or family member) can’t cover for you is two strikes.

If a basic, stable, level of economic security is out of reach then a person really has no “choice”. It’s not a matter of driving a older car, you don’t have a car. It’s not a matter of cutting back or growing a garden, even if the owner of the double-wide palace you rent would allow you to, you can’t afford the water bill.

The “choice” for these women is along the lines of “choosing” to believe in gravity… make the wrong choice and you’re going to fall, hard.

Ann Romney notwithstanding

There’s the rub. Ann Rmoney (and her economic circumstances) is the subject of this whole little brouhaha.
The complete snip is:

… a bourgeois indulgence that’s only available to the financially privileged. Even those who “sacrifice” to stay home with the kids get to do so only because they have an amount of security that’s simply not available to the vast majority of Americans

My experience with several hundred direct reports (overwhelmingly young mothers) is that the very idea of a choice was a myth. They weren’t sacrificing “extra’s” for a simpler lifestyle. If they weren’t working, their children didn’t have a home.
And their problems with childcare, transportation, illness, etc became my problems. The Professional Human Resources methodology of fire and replace not only creates devastation in their lives, but the constant churn wreaks havoc on plant performance.
Choice implies a viable alternative that doesn’t exist for the majority of young women. Only to those with the “security that’s simply not available to the vast majority of Americans”.

Plenty of families choose a more modest standard of living so kids can be raised by their own parents instead of hired help.

But the issue is that the Rmoney’s didn’t have to worry about economic consequences to their “choice”… and they bought all the help they desired.

Leave Ann Rmoney alone!!!
On the subject of working women’s issues she has just as much expertise as the Old Fat White Men do on women’s healthcare.

your kid’s savings account is being used to pay for hookers for BofA execs.

I checked with Jon Corzine in accounting… apparently “Hookers and Blow” are a legitimate business expense… and since money is fungible…

Poor Mark… he’s still all butt hurt because Hitch didn’t “Get Right” before he died.

While field employee sanitation is an issue, the large scale e coli outbreaks in leafy greens have been traceable to adjacent animal operations and pour waste handling/ runoff control issues. In some areas the use of allegedly “treated” waste water discharge for irrigation also may be blamed.

The major problem with self inspection is that Production and the bottom line will always control the decisions made. One of the most frustrating complaints, even in well designed QA programs, is that quality issues are consistently overridden by production decisions.

Even the very best QA and SPC systems have failures. The management decisions to ignore those failures is a monetary one.

This situation may be worse under the current administration but the FDA has been a pretty hollow entity for at least a couple decades. Particularly on the Food side. They have been almost entirely restricted to reaction to the numerous food contamination events of the past. Inspection, monitoring, verification of bacterial testing, etc are nonexistent from the FDA until people die from noncompliance with regulation.

Food safety has been handed off to private business ie YUM, AIB, and in house QA. If you can fake it through a pre-announced one day audit every six to twelve months you can ship as much Listeria or E. coli contaminated product as you chose too.

Thanks

Book Title? How about: “Pink Slime? Hit it with some ammonia and Pack It!!”
or “Hey, Processing Additives are on the label. We’re cool with the FDA”

On a sadder note, A young woman lost her arm in an plant accident this last week. It didn’t need to happen.

Also, too! To get back a little closer to the books subject, the issues in farming, production and labor don’t necessarily exist because of a lack of awareness, rules or regulation. They exist for a lot of same reasons many of our other societal problems exist: lack of enforcement, deceptive practices driven by “Profit”, privatization of inspections, underfunded regulatory agencies, etc, etc.

One of the under recognized benefits of the Space Program was the concept of HACCP and GMP programs. We know this stuff!! We know about Occupational Health and Safety (small town in Wisconsin).

The pennies in cost just violate The Rules of Acquisition.

If you have eaten at any restaurant or purchased any processed potato product for home consumption in the past 15 yrs, there is a pretty good chance that my initials were included in the production code. I have found them in stores and restaurants from both coasts to South America.

But I don’t do that any more.

Goldman Sachs is a piker in the “Vampire Squid” category when you compare them to Monsanto. The entire Ag/food production industry is a very scary place from the inside. I am never surprised when one of our periodic food contamination scares comes along. In fact, I’m amazed we don’t have more of them and it’s just plain dumb luck we don’t.
That being said, my personal favorite Ag/Food story is the cyclical story on the plight of the “poor” farmer. If you live in a Ag state you’ve seen them: in the spring it’s the “Water situation/crappy weather – may not get a crop in” story and in the fall it’s the ” prices are too low/ no workers just don’t make it worth harvesting” story or some variation.
Meanwhile the news crew is interviewing the farmer leaning on a brand new 50 thousand dollar truck with tens of millions of dollars of equipment and land in the background. And in this region, I know his business situation because I reviewed his books along with his operation before we contracted his crop. I know every acre he planted, his source and cost of seed, the amount of herbicide/pesticide he purchased. Who has his trucking contract, how much labor he has working harvest, etc. Pretty much every detail of his business except the daily balance in his checking account.
So while he is on the news whining, I know what he is really saying is “ignore that seven or eight figure net worth and let me cry poor me”.

Ok, end rant. It’s just that time of year (contract time) and I didn’t even get to production facilities. That’s alright though because folks have been writing about it for decades, since Upton Sinclair’s day, and it has only gotten marginally better.

But just think how much pictures of the kids peeing on mittens lawn would be worth.

For some reason, I read ” Linda Dorr, Tea Party compostriot”