America's third world population struggling to survive

The words in blue are links to relevant pages on another website.

In the USA there are ways to get food if you are going to go hungry.

You can get food stamps or SNAP (a food program) or the homeless who are in a different situation and cannot readily cook a meal can go to a free meal program.

Food banks are good especially if you have a stove and can cook.

You can help people by telling them where to go for assistance.

For the families who are homeless there is public housing.

People can get creative. They can look around and find an affordably priced  used  motorhome.Save money and park it somewhere for free or in a cheap location. It may have to be moved from time to time.

Poverty is the issue and it is becoming more of an issue everyday in America, the richest country on earth.

USA 2012 Mileage Tax Deduction Rates

This might not excite you very much but there are new rates for mileage allowance for 2012.

 If you are in business there are two ways to take a deduction for your vehicle.

One is straight mileage allowance and the other is depreciation.

If you want to deduct medical miles or moving miles or charity miles you can do that at a different rate.

Read all about it here: 

www.taxman123.com/2012_mileage_allowance.html

Lipitor - Life and Death

Roger Chartier - 12/8/2011

Pfizor invented Lipitor and they have had the world by the throat price wise.

It may be the best anti-cholestrol - statin drug on the market for most people who can take it but the price was absurd and so many people on fixed incomes who were strongly advised to take it by their doctor with prescription  couldn't afford to pay over $120 a month for the drug.

Three years ago Lipitor, Pfizer’s #1 selling drug, raked in  for $12.4 billion in revenue that year alone. That is billion, not million.

Here's the rub for Pfizer, the 7 year patent ran out last week and the generic (identical ) versions are cheaper.

If you pay cash it is cheaper but if you have insurance and your co-pay was $20.00, it now may be as low as under $4.00

 So, how many people died because they couldn't afford their medication? I don't know but I am sure that it is a fact that someone had clogged arteries and died because they couldn't pay the exorbitant profit for the manufacturer.

I understand that the cost of research is high but there is a point where absolute corporate greed takes over.

The price fixers never look you in the eyes as you are dying in the hospital.
They have to look good in the eyes of share holders who don't care about anything but $$$$$$$$$$.

I am not a communist but it's hard to believe in capitalism when capitalism it bites you hard on the ass.

Pirates and a bottle of rum

The old pirate song
"Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rum" is a real pirate sort of song with swashbuckling both implied and described.

It is the most fun song about death  that I can think of.

 "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest"... 

Well,  you know that a dead man's chest would be too small for fifteen men to stand on unless it referred to something else and that something else is a rocky island called just that.
"Dead Man's Chest."

 Pirates often stashed their loot on small islands in  hidden places.

Read the lyrics of the song and you'll get an idea what Robert Lewis Stevenson was writing about in his book "Treasure Island".

 The website http://www.yo-ho-ho-and-a-bottle-of-rum.com/ is both hilarious and informative and a good source for more info about pirates and their shenanigans.