When the recession hit, this company,
Marvin Windows and Doors, chose not to lay off workers. It cut
back hours and production and bonuses and cut benefits, but it chose to not
lay anyone off.
I can't help but believe that if most American companies adopted the
attitudes and policies of Marvin Windows and Doors, there would have been no
recession, and unemployment would be below 5%, and all of us would be more
prosperous.
And then you have idiots like
Bradlee Dean. It is roundly depressing that we live in a world in
which it might be necessary to explain to some people what is wrong burning
witches.
Michelle Bachmann, by the way, is on the record: "the separation of church
and state is a myth."
This addiction to processed food is the result of decades of
vision and hard work by the industry. For 50 years, says David A. Kessler,
former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and author of “The End
of Overeating,” companies strove to create food that was “energy-dense, highly
stimulating, and went down easy. They put it on every street corner and made it
mobile, and they made it socially acceptable to eat anytime and anyplace. They
created a food carnival, and that’s where we live. And if you’re used to
self-stimulation every 15 minutes, well, you can’t run into the kitchen to
satisfy that urge. NY Times, 2011-09-25
The amazing thing is the way the fast food industry, heavily subsidized
by the government, has succeeded in convincing so many Americans that being
manipulated by a multi-billion dollar industry-- at their own expense-- is
an expression of personal "freedom" while the very thought of the
government doing anything to reduce obesity and diabetes and heart disease--
like requiring fast food outlets to disclose just how many calories are in
their foods--
just makes them hysterical.
