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Friday, July 18, 2008

What Do You Do For A Living?

What do you do for a living?

I have found in my recent unemployment this question above is a loaded one for Americans. We put so much stock in what we do for a living as to let it define us as people, or worse yet, so much self esteem is generated from your occupation.

Really is what anybody does going to be on their tombstone it was so important? Doubtful.

Is this an American paradigm?

Is this why secretaries are now administrative assistants, and sales people are now store associates. etc, etc, etc?...do we have so much ego and self esteem tied to these crappy positions we have to make new titles to justify our self worth?

I have decided to NOT let what I do for a living define who I am as a person anymore.

Will you?



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FDA Finds Own Ass With At Least One Hand

FDA gives all-clear on tomatoes, not peppers

Jalapeno, serrano varieties focus of salmonella hunt

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration declared on Thursday that it is again safe to eat all tomatoes now on sale in the U.S., canceling its warning in June that some tomatoes were the cause of a still-unsolved outbreak of salmonella poisoning.


Entire article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-tomatoes-salmonella18jul18,0,5415704.story


The Federal Government is so inefficient as to almost be laughable, almost.

This snafu caused massive financial harm to the agricultural industry because the FDA is not accountable to anyone and cannot perform it's primary job function.

What does the FDA approval rating mean for me? Nothing, not a damn thing.

Thank You Federal Government!


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Beware The Military Indutrial Complex

Defense work fires up Michigan
Military spending climbs statewide, led by surge of contracts in Macomb County
as reported by Jim Lynch / The Detroit News

STERLING HEIGHTS -- Military contracting is showing signs of becoming a bright spot for Michigan -- a state desperate to diversify its economy.

Led by a host of new defense industry ventures in Macomb County, military spending is climbing statewide, signaling a trend officials hope could be the shot in the arm Michigan needs.


Full article:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080718/BIZ/807180385

Eisenhower warned against this exactly in his farewell speech from 1961.
The man was a former general AND visionary.

I highly recommend it, I found it at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_industrial_complex

When the only business left is the business of supplying a never ending war, you have George Orwell's 1984 and EXACTLY what Eisenhower warned against.

Thank You Republican Party for enslaving us all, slavery is freedom.


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