Kidtrick writes a funny and 9 people disapprove - one of the more witty comments in some time.  How sensitive are we today.

I remember the radio ads for Ayds during the Arthur Godfrey morning show on CBS.  Ayds was a long time sponsor.  I listened to the show as well as the Don Mc Neal show that followed in the mid 60s.  The makers of Ayds were very unlucky in the 70s with the name as shar72758 stated.  By the way, Godfrey's reputation was ...more

There are those who predict (and have predicted) that Mexico will be a world power in the later 21st Century.  Included in the discussion is development of Pacific coast port(s) to rival LA/Long Beach, advanced oil production methods, strategic location in Latin America, growing population and access to North American ...more

I agree with the first statement Re: reinstate the draft.  However, I have problems with the remainder as dodging service and looking for handouts is far more wide spread and, if you will, bi-partisan.  there are many reasons we can not get your and my congressional hired help to "fix" the budget - too many with a hand...more

Its a government program, just like medicare.   We would surely suffer and have the same discussion of 75 years ago if we privatized.  When I was younger I would likely have agreed with you but after watching people not save to send kids to school or retirement and generally wasteful behavior after getting out of struc...more

Sleep well Edward.  Can you imagine the chaos that we would have if we privatized the SS  retirement program.  Bad investments would leave certainly hundreds of thousand, if not millions, with no retirement program that had any reliability.  In about a decade or so we would have the same discussion as was had 75 years ...more

Someone is on the right track.  We have wage limits for those younger than 70 now in effect and it is a de facto means test based system.  When you, Goodideagoneawry, retire is up to you, as it was to me and to leev100 in a reply below.  Spirit should consider Stengle's comments.  We are in very real need to tweak the ...more

These are all worthy of consideration and discussion.  As a retiree, I also believe that a 1 year freeze on Cola would be beneficial.  I'm thinking  that you and I have lived long enough to not go haywire on this and understand a correction is called for that will involve us.  We have not tweaked this in far to long - ...more

Just to reiterate a few of the comments on this string with personal observation in the good ol' US of A: This is far from being the first time for this kind of activity from a commercial airline pilot - I've known it to happen on mid-market cities with International designation.  Major legacy airline in dispute on ...more