Since the derivative investment boys and girls can not play nice, we need to re-enact Glass Seagal.  No deposit banks sleeping with investment banks and no short selling at all.  This will at least give 401K accounts a chance against day traders.  This should limit the exposure to the tax payer to horrific investments ...more

The smaller dairy farmers are all going out of business.  The price of milk is so low that it is impossible to make a living unless the farm is a factory with three shifts milking cows around the clock.  The quality of the milk is lower but you get what you pay for.

I am an engineer. The entire company has been on a 10% salary reduction for five years and our paychecks have been slow in arriving.  It is company policy that raises are limited to 4% per year and are not retroactive.  Many client companies are treating consulting work as a commodity.  Even educated people are seeing ...more

If we can't fix our roads or pay our police, fire protection and teachers, none of these guys should get a dime unless they are actually putting in time on behalf of the government.  They could be negotiating for hostage release or or providing some other service.  And I do not mean representing business to the current...more

After four years of working hard and doing unpaid overtime and no raises and higher insurance premiums passed on by the company it has become obvious to me that working harder leads to less pay.  I travel for work and my reward is travel expenses going back to 2008 remain unpaid.  It can become hard to keep a positive ...more