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How much profit?

Well…having been sitting here bored for the past couple of weeks, I’ve watched much more tv than I usually do and a thought struck me as I saw the stupid flashlight commercial for the hundredth time…how much profit is there in a stupid flashlight that you get 2 for 20 bucks? Maybe that question should be how much does it cost to air a commercial that many times? I counted the other day and in just the few hours that I watched, there were over twenty times that the commercial aired…and that doesn’t count the other flashlight that they run over with the military truck…which looks identical to the other one. This whole idea started with the commercials for The Addiction Network…whose commercials appear to be about half of all of them on tv these days and that same thought came to mind…how much profit is there in addiction? And how many people are really addicted to things…it has gotten so bad that they are making fun of themselves in a new commercial….just a few thoughts that I wanted to get down before I forget them….

Welfare for the rich, courtesy of the republicans…

Well…wanted to touch on a couple of things today starting with the rush to privatization of schools across the country, especially in higher education where this privatization leads to the presidents and people running the universities making millions while everyone else takes a pay cut and loses their benefits. In a recent study, it was found that the average pay of the ceos of these private schools is an average of 7 million dollars a year…yep, that is 7 million that is paid for by you and me since the majority of their funding comes from grants and subsidized student loans paid for by the federal government. This is one of the problems that I have with the repubs, as long as the well off can suck off the government and take advantage of loopholes in the laws they are all for it, but when anyone in the middle class gets any benefit from the government, they howl about “welfare” and these people are no better than bloodsuckers that are stealing money from the rich. But, the worst part of this whole story is the fact that private universities have the worst graduation rate of any class of universities and don’t really care if their students are successful, after all, the university has already gotten it’s money and if the student leaves, it’s all profit for them. Just another case of welfare for the rich where they have rigged the system to steal from the rest of America…aren’t you getting tired of that yet? Geez…