Social Security Disability has become an income replacement plan.  As much as I hate it, people will do what they have to do to provide some kind of security to their lives.  The real issue is the lack of jobs, the lack of jobs that pay any kind of living wage, and the further lack of any jobs at any level that have an...more

So, the corollary to that is US taxpayers underwrite the true cost of people who want to take cruises.    They should pay for their assistance.  If they need to raise rates on their cruises to cover it they will face the realities of the marketplace.  Carnival is big, but it isn't the only cruise line out there.  ...more

I hate when people do things like this.  It's like spending five grand on a purse or twenty grand on a dress.  I know it's their money.  I know they can do what they want with it.  But there is a vulgarity in it I don't admire at all.  There are people starving in this world. Starving.  Children dying of preventable di...more

Good god people.  Get a job!

Funny that the Red States get much more federal tax dollars in relation to their paid tax revenue than the Blue States.  Your "fact" is just wrong.  The Blue States are carrying the Red.

".... or fly in small planes.."? The risk takers?  Puh-leeze.  Who writes this crap?

Same boat as you.  Going to be 50 in a few months, and thinking of giving myself that present.  I remember my first job, riding into work day after day on the bus and thinking how much this just SUCKS.  I resolved at that point, to get myself in a position to be able to retire early.  Live well below my means, house pa...more

I have to agree.  Written to produce an inflammatory response only.  Very little fact. Much hyperbole. And written with very aggressive language.  Here's my emotional response: the "journalist" who wrote this is a jerk!

Try Antonio Perez of KODAK, or perhaps you're saving that for the "Criminally Incompetent CEO's" article.  He and his management team took an iconic American corporation and drove it into the ground.  Yes, the market was changing and their core product was under assault, but isn't that what you pay these heads-of-hair ...more