Fast food making a fast buck: McDonald's sales rise during economic crisis
The good news is, someone is doing well in this shithole economy.
The bad news....do you think our obesity rates are bad now?
Showing posts with label Economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economy. Show all posts
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Should We Or Shouldn't We?
As we all know by now, the economy is shit. And when talks of depression and recession and all that started, I thought, there are going to be a lot of suicides. It's a grim and a morbid thing to think of....but it's happening. There have been 3 that I know of so far and the news reported the other day that suicide hotline use has increased about 124%.
The thing is, with these three men who have commited suicide....should you feel sorry for them? I don't like to hear that people commit suicide, no matter the circumstances, and watching your company, which you built up with your own hands and time and all that, start to crumble is obviously a horrible thing to have to experience. But should you feel sorry for people who once were billionaires and now find it devastating to live in $500 million while many Americans are being laid off from their jobs and barely scraping by because the price of everything is skyrocketing? Do you feel sorry for people who lived lives of extreme luxury while their workers were probably paid a barely livable expense? It's a tough call.
It's kind of like where to place your feelings when it comes to people who are in debt. If someone develops a serious illness like cancer and their insurance companies screws them up the ass by withdrawing coverage and sticking them with the ridiculously high bills, obviously you have to feel bad for the person's situation. But these people who live above their means or need to live like Hollywood celebrities....that is a different story. Now banks and mortgage companies are at fault here as well, but people need to learn math better. If you are making alone or combined a salary of $2000 a month and you buy a house with a $3500 mortgage, you are OBVIOUSLY not going to be able to afford it unless you have a fortune in the bank. $3500 is greater than $2000 and this is not even including taxes, food, heating and electricity bills, etc.
Or look at that whole Bonnie and Clyde pokery that happened in Philadelphia. While I have no sympathy for either of them, the one thing that did annoy me was how much emphasis they put on Jocelyn Kirsch. "Clyde" (I forget what his name was) was just as every bit as guilty as she was, although he apparently was not stupid enough to go and commit more crimes after already getting caught. I may not have any sympathy for her ass with what she did, but after the article I read on her in The Inquirer, she is obviously sick mentally, so I do kind of feel some empathy for her. However, I do not feel that should excuse her from getting a harsh punishment, especially considering she went on more sprees even after being arrested.
Her father is fucking creepy. Who in the hell insists on doing his own daughter's breast augmentation? Is that even legal? Yuck!
Or if someone is an accident and ends up dying or getting seriously injured and they were not wearing their seatbelt. Yeah, it sucks, but its said over and over and over that wearing a seatbelt can reduce the risk of injury and/or death. If you choose not to or flat out refuse to wear a seatbelt and end up going through the windshield and dying or getting hurt, tell me why I should feel sorry for you. Now I know my empathy/sympathy gene sounds a little out of whack, but an old, but ever so true quote comes to mind....you make your bed, now you lay in it.
The thing is, with these three men who have commited suicide....should you feel sorry for them? I don't like to hear that people commit suicide, no matter the circumstances, and watching your company, which you built up with your own hands and time and all that, start to crumble is obviously a horrible thing to have to experience. But should you feel sorry for people who once were billionaires and now find it devastating to live in $500 million while many Americans are being laid off from their jobs and barely scraping by because the price of everything is skyrocketing? Do you feel sorry for people who lived lives of extreme luxury while their workers were probably paid a barely livable expense? It's a tough call.
It's kind of like where to place your feelings when it comes to people who are in debt. If someone develops a serious illness like cancer and their insurance companies screws them up the ass by withdrawing coverage and sticking them with the ridiculously high bills, obviously you have to feel bad for the person's situation. But these people who live above their means or need to live like Hollywood celebrities....that is a different story. Now banks and mortgage companies are at fault here as well, but people need to learn math better. If you are making alone or combined a salary of $2000 a month and you buy a house with a $3500 mortgage, you are OBVIOUSLY not going to be able to afford it unless you have a fortune in the bank. $3500 is greater than $2000 and this is not even including taxes, food, heating and electricity bills, etc.
Or look at that whole Bonnie and Clyde pokery that happened in Philadelphia. While I have no sympathy for either of them, the one thing that did annoy me was how much emphasis they put on Jocelyn Kirsch. "Clyde" (I forget what his name was) was just as every bit as guilty as she was, although he apparently was not stupid enough to go and commit more crimes after already getting caught. I may not have any sympathy for her ass with what she did, but after the article I read on her in The Inquirer, she is obviously sick mentally, so I do kind of feel some empathy for her. However, I do not feel that should excuse her from getting a harsh punishment, especially considering she went on more sprees even after being arrested.
Her father is fucking creepy. Who in the hell insists on doing his own daughter's breast augmentation? Is that even legal? Yuck!
Or if someone is an accident and ends up dying or getting seriously injured and they were not wearing their seatbelt. Yeah, it sucks, but its said over and over and over that wearing a seatbelt can reduce the risk of injury and/or death. If you choose not to or flat out refuse to wear a seatbelt and end up going through the windshield and dying or getting hurt, tell me why I should feel sorry for you. Now I know my empathy/sympathy gene sounds a little out of whack, but an old, but ever so true quote comes to mind....you make your bed, now you lay in it.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Things That Annoy Me Part II
The names women call their breasts- whether it be actual names or terms like "the girls" or "ta-ta's" or "twins" or god only knows what other terms exist....they are breasts. Or boobs. Every time I see the bumper sticker for Breast Cancer Awareness that says "Save the ta-ta's", I want to scratch someone's eyeballs out. Aside from my giant beef with the whole pink/ Susan G. Komen/breast cancer awareness crap, it's incredibly tacky and extremely classless.
My weight- I am sick of battling with it. I have the exercise part down; I just need to get the eating healthy part going. I'm also sick of people looking at me and saying how slim I am. I am 158 pounds. That is not slim. Far, far from it.
Weight loss "celebrities"- you know. The ones in People and shit that are normal people and they lose weight. And they lie out their asses. I just saw one recently with a lady who is 5'3 and 176 pounds and says she wears a size 12. Who is she fucking kidding? A size 12? At 176 pounds? I don't think so. No friggin way. I wore a size 12 at 150 pounds.
Ugg boots- they are especially horrendous when they are worn over sweatpants or velour pants
Pants with writing across the back-end
MTV- Your name is Music Television. Where is the music? This goes for you as well, Vh-1. Either play music again or change your name to RBRStv (rich brat reality shows).
My hair- I have a crooked hair line and it is impossible to straighten. The only thing that straightens it is an actual clothes iron. Today I managed to get it straightened, but in turn, the ends flipped out like crazy. Think Lady Miss Kier in the beginning. No, I did not do it on purpose.
McDonald's- I thought it was supposed to be cheap. I ordered a Southern Style chicken sandwhich the other day and the friggin thing cost me almost $4. And the chicken didn't even cover the entire bun! Plus, anymore when I go, no matter what one I go to, the fries are salted like it's salt's last day on earth. I don't even work nor have I ever worked for McDonald's and I know that fries are supposed to be salted in a triple arch pattern.
The economy- all of the stores going out of business and all of the people being laid off....it's depressing the hell out of me. I went out to compare 3 desks tonight that I am looking at and I found out that the National Wholesale Liquidators near me is closing. Yeah, it's kind of a creepy store, but it depressed the hell out of me to see it closing. I always kind of liked going there.
Technical schools- they are supposed to be an alternative to college and yet the cost a fortune to attend. I looked at ones in my area and how much for the medical assistant programs and most ran, at the very least, $10,000. Yeah, I am going to pay $10,000 so I can maybe make a little over double that when I come out. The hell with that. And god forbid should you request one simple piece of information from a school. Then they will harass you at least once a day with phone calls.
Credit card debt collectors- they are absurd with their phone calls. We have ones calling for my father that call 6 or more times a day. I wish I knew more about the law because I would love to know how many of these DCs are breaking the law. My father has already been threatened with jail, so there is one law broken. They have called my next-door neighbor repeatedly, even after my mother screamed at them to not call her. I strongly dislike most lawyers and the legal system, but there are times I wish I was one or knew one.
Movies that fall into the following category- movies where a teen that is supposed to be a geek a nd falls in love with the most popular guy in school and trips and falls in front of him every time she sees him and then finally wins him in the end, football movies, comedians that once did really vile comedy and now do stupid family movies, talking animal movies, movies where kids become spies or agents of some sort, movies where ghetto hoodlum kids wake up one morning and decide to become dancers and that takes them out of the ghetto life....none of these storylines I would be bitching about if they have not been done over and over and over and....you get the point
My foot- which just stepped on my purse and cracked 3 of my Deee-Lite CD cases
My weight- I am sick of battling with it. I have the exercise part down; I just need to get the eating healthy part going. I'm also sick of people looking at me and saying how slim I am. I am 158 pounds. That is not slim. Far, far from it.
Weight loss "celebrities"- you know. The ones in People and shit that are normal people and they lose weight. And they lie out their asses. I just saw one recently with a lady who is 5'3 and 176 pounds and says she wears a size 12. Who is she fucking kidding? A size 12? At 176 pounds? I don't think so. No friggin way. I wore a size 12 at 150 pounds.
Ugg boots- they are especially horrendous when they are worn over sweatpants or velour pants
Pants with writing across the back-end
MTV- Your name is Music Television. Where is the music? This goes for you as well, Vh-1. Either play music again or change your name to RBRStv (rich brat reality shows).
My hair- I have a crooked hair line and it is impossible to straighten. The only thing that straightens it is an actual clothes iron. Today I managed to get it straightened, but in turn, the ends flipped out like crazy. Think Lady Miss Kier in the beginning. No, I did not do it on purpose.
McDonald's- I thought it was supposed to be cheap. I ordered a Southern Style chicken sandwhich the other day and the friggin thing cost me almost $4. And the chicken didn't even cover the entire bun! Plus, anymore when I go, no matter what one I go to, the fries are salted like it's salt's last day on earth. I don't even work nor have I ever worked for McDonald's and I know that fries are supposed to be salted in a triple arch pattern.
The economy- all of the stores going out of business and all of the people being laid off....it's depressing the hell out of me. I went out to compare 3 desks tonight that I am looking at and I found out that the National Wholesale Liquidators near me is closing. Yeah, it's kind of a creepy store, but it depressed the hell out of me to see it closing. I always kind of liked going there.
Technical schools- they are supposed to be an alternative to college and yet the cost a fortune to attend. I looked at ones in my area and how much for the medical assistant programs and most ran, at the very least, $10,000. Yeah, I am going to pay $10,000 so I can maybe make a little over double that when I come out. The hell with that. And god forbid should you request one simple piece of information from a school. Then they will harass you at least once a day with phone calls.
Credit card debt collectors- they are absurd with their phone calls. We have ones calling for my father that call 6 or more times a day. I wish I knew more about the law because I would love to know how many of these DCs are breaking the law. My father has already been threatened with jail, so there is one law broken. They have called my next-door neighbor repeatedly, even after my mother screamed at them to not call her. I strongly dislike most lawyers and the legal system, but there are times I wish I was one or knew one.
Movies that fall into the following category- movies where a teen that is supposed to be a geek a nd falls in love with the most popular guy in school and trips and falls in front of him every time she sees him and then finally wins him in the end, football movies, comedians that once did really vile comedy and now do stupid family movies, talking animal movies, movies where kids become spies or agents of some sort, movies where ghetto hoodlum kids wake up one morning and decide to become dancers and that takes them out of the ghetto life....none of these storylines I would be bitching about if they have not been done over and over and over and....you get the point
My foot- which just stepped on my purse and cracked 3 of my Deee-Lite CD cases
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