The world is a fucking mess these days.
There's a nasty disease killing hundreds of children in parts of Asia, and instead of licensing the cheaper, more effective vaccine that the Chinese came up with, the countries being hardest hit by this outbreak of Japanese encephalitis are sticking with the less effective, more expensive vaccine that they can't afford to give to larger groups of children.
Another mass casualty happened in Iraq, most likely due to fears centered on the possibility of yet another insurgent suicide bombing. Oh, and that constitution of theirs is nowhere near approval yet. And we're spending something like $186 MILLION a day there. Awesome.
The poverty rate in America shot up AGAIN this year, bumping it up to 12.7%. Just goes to show that what some analysts (and politicos) have been saying all along is true....the jobs being added to the economy lately are not jobs that provide a living wage. It's all well and good to have the unemployment numbers go do, but what good is it if the people finally finding employment aren't finding employment they can live off of?
And do I even have to mention the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina? My friend's sister (who works here at The Company as well) works in the HR department for a group which has a large number of employees in the Alabama/Louisiana/Mississippi area. Today she's in Little Rock, helping administer programs to assist our displaced employees. I cannot even begin to imagine what it's like for these people right now, and all I can do is hope it gets better for them, eventually.
Man, I have got to stop reading the news in the morning. It's just an entirely too depressing way to start the day.
There's a nasty disease killing hundreds of children in parts of Asia, and instead of licensing the cheaper, more effective vaccine that the Chinese came up with, the countries being hardest hit by this outbreak of Japanese encephalitis are sticking with the less effective, more expensive vaccine that they can't afford to give to larger groups of children.
Another mass casualty happened in Iraq, most likely due to fears centered on the possibility of yet another insurgent suicide bombing. Oh, and that constitution of theirs is nowhere near approval yet. And we're spending something like $186 MILLION a day there. Awesome.
The poverty rate in America shot up AGAIN this year, bumping it up to 12.7%. Just goes to show that what some analysts (and politicos) have been saying all along is true....the jobs being added to the economy lately are not jobs that provide a living wage. It's all well and good to have the unemployment numbers go do, but what good is it if the people finally finding employment aren't finding employment they can live off of?
And do I even have to mention the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina? My friend's sister (who works here at The Company as well) works in the HR department for a group which has a large number of employees in the Alabama/Louisiana/Mississippi area. Today she's in Little Rock, helping administer programs to assist our displaced employees. I cannot even begin to imagine what it's like for these people right now, and all I can do is hope it gets better for them, eventually.
Man, I have got to stop reading the news in the morning. It's just an entirely too depressing way to start the day.
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