Wednesday, August 26, 2009

A great loss......

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die"
Edward Kennedy
1932-2009

2 comments:

The Naughty Wife said...

What is your political take on the 2010 'front door' GPS Census? There's a lot of crazy stuff going on and the future is very frightning!

PDXsubcuck said...

Gee, with the military stuff the government doesn't really need to actually go to your front door to know where it is. With all the photo stuff on the net and things like that it is amazing what is already know about you and where you live. The county you live in knows where you live, can enter your property with few restrictions, zoning, building permits, inspections...what don't they know?

I worry more about the influence of big business on the government (bailing out the banks with no real changes on how they do business) and other things than that. While I see the need to bail out companies providing jobs I don't see the need to bail out the companies that got us into this mess. I also feel that change must happen in the health field, the soaring costs (double by 2014 or so?), the overhead (profit), the cost per person and the percentage of the GDP that goes for it far exceeds any other country but we don't get what we pay for and that soaring cost hurts our competitive position in the world. Seems like some want us to rush to join the Third World rather than join Western Europe in ambling there as slow as we can.

As far as knowing things what the stores you shop at know about you even when you make the effort to live as a cash person rather than cards...keeps me thinking our real threat is big business and the government always caving into them.

Lets get back to cooking and sex...