Page 1. It seems like the solar power company scandal in California has been sent to the back media burner. The stock market is still a virtual roller coaster. The GOP POTUS candidates are busy shooting each other with meaningless barbs while Obama still snares millions of dollars for his bid to extend his presidency. And the rich, well, they are prepared to pay more to fund entitlement programs for the not-so-rich. Social security is still going to eventually run out of money and college graduates can not find a job. Me? I got my social security check last month on time, ergo everything must be "hunky dory," as my mom used to say. If you have a few minutes today, have some fun and look up the etymology of that phrase.
Page 2. Baseball, are they still playing? Basketball players are resting. Football fantasy players have been turned upside down by injuries. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie protests he is still not running for president like so many other GOP candidates who are already in the race. Me? I have stopped fighting the world is a smaller place syndrome. It is. When a financial crisis in Greece effects jobs in Hays, Kansas, the world is indeed a smaller place. In my defense, however, the world is still roughly the same size. It is the people that get smaller as they debate genuine issues of who receives the larger slice of the world's economic pie. There is a limited amount of goods and services and each person feels compelled to want their fare share, earned or not.
Page 3. And with all that turmoil, Apple will sell more than 150 million iPhones next year. Can you use
food stamps to buy an iPhone? I understand there is a secret movement in Congress to modify the tax code to allow people who can not afford an iPhone to get a special tax credit to offset the purchase price. Isn't the world great?
"Don't even try to understand, just pick a place to make your stand."
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