Would You Like Some E. Coli With That?

What the heck is the problem with the food industry in America? First there were mad cow scares, contaminated beef, tainted spinach, and now e. coli in the scallions. I'm beginning to lose faith in the food supply. Who is inspecting this food? Where is it grown? What kind of controls, other that cost and profit, are in play here?

Business in America cares little for anything beyond the bottom line. Up to this point that has simply meant that if you didn't like the quality of the product or service, you just didn't buy it. However, we all have to eat and if the food supply is in danger, we are all at risk. Obviously fast food restaurants may need to be avoided for reasons beyond their supply chain. Look at the conditions in the next fast food establishment you walk into. Look at the floor, the kitchen, and the restrooms, and you probably won't eat there. However, this tainted food is getting into the food supply at the grocery stores, too.

The system that is supposed to keep our food safe is broken and if it isn't fixed soon, we may all have to go back to growing our own food. The new Congress may want to pay attention to this issue before we all lose faith in the basic necessities of life.

Wealthy Poo

The richest 1% of the people in the world own 40% of all wealth.

The next time you hear some rich CEO say that health care costs are hurting the company bottom line, or telling you that YOU need to take a pay cut so the company can be "more competitive," you might want to remember who has all the money.

Two questions: Do you think that these people actually deserve to have all of that money? If not, how are we going to get it back in circulation?

One answer: Stop being stupid and believing everything that the rich tell you. There is NO shortage of resources. If there were, could they continue building 50,000 square foot homes? The shortage is in the resources that the rich decide that you and I can have. It's as simple as that and any other explanation is a distraction. You have no pension, no health insurance, and get paid less so that they can have bigger houses and bigger toys than ever before. You work harder and get less in return so that they can gather up all the money and power. You lose your job to somebody a thousand miles awaya who will do it for one quarter of the cost not because a company needs to be competitive, but so that the upper executives and big investors can take even more of the money for themselves. It's that simple.

So, how will this all end? How will the problem be solved? History, which the rich have encouraged us to forget and never teach our children, tells us that many people will die of poverty while the rich bathe in unsurpassed opulence. Eventually, there will be nothing but rich and poor, with the poor outnumbering the rich by a vast margin. Finally, in order to survive, the poor will take the wealth back, by force. In other words, history tells us that a lot of people are going to suffer and die before the distribution of resources reaches some reasonable equilibrium. It doesn't have to be that way, but history and human nature tell us that it will be that way. Greed is not and never has been good.