An interesting solution

This suggestion was in a long email rant from my normally sane, pacifist, environment-loving, marathon-running, way- too-skinny friend who wishes to remain anonymous:  

"I propose we pack up the management of PCA and give them a one way ticket to China, where the queue for the firing squad is long, but moves really fast."  

The "PCA"  he's referring to as the Peanut Corporation of America, recently-alleged disseminator of salmonella-tainted peanut products invoking thousands of product recalls.  The firing squad he's referring to is the recent death sentence judgments the Chinese handed down to those responsible for the melamine-additive food scares.

After checking the list of products currently being recalled - and throwing out about $15 dollars in protein bars alone - I'm kinda thinking my friend's got a good point.  My budget is stretched as tight as most others, but weighed against the medical cost of fighting off a salmonella infection, and hopefully winning, the money isn't worth it.  Oh, the anguish, though, as it's against every fiber in my Irish-frugal being to throw out food!

Take a minute.  Check the list.

A version of good parenting

I cracked open a bottle of red this evening (damn the diet!) and treated myself to a glass in celebration of the latest news from Washington that the Obama administration has given the financial wizards of Wall Street a serious, plain-spoken slap up-side their pointy, greedy little heads - finally!  I'm as unhappy as the next taxpayer about the lack of limits set on the money (our money!!!) that was given away only to see some of it used for ridiculous bonuses and "rewards" - for failing!  sheesh.

Moving forward, it's cause for celebration that hopefully those crooks on Wall Street will get the message that they can't get rich on us anymore.  If you don't want to be a "senior executive" of a failing company using taxpayer's money to survive for a measly $500,000 a year, than get the hell out of the way and let someone else do it.  They (a $500,000 salaried executive vs. a $20 million executive) can't do any worse.

It's just plain good parenting to set limits on children who don't seem to get it and need serious reining in.  And those guys on Wall Street are just not getting it.