Drugs and Unemployment

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/astvdrugadsincreasesodoconcerns

Why is this story such a huge surprise? Anyone who watches the smallest amount of TV can tell you that drug commercials, more often than not, far out weigh all the other ads. Why are we surprised that prescription drugs are abused when we get bombarded by ads to buy them?

This nation needs to wake up and realize that it's not illegal drugs that are destroying this country. It is in fact the very legal prescription ones. Now if I have an infection, cancer, or some other major issue, sure I will go to my doctor. But some of these drugs "solve" problems that PEOPLE can solve themselves! Rather than shoot up kids with ADD and ADHD drugs, why not just let them be kids. Let them actually PLAY so that they can burn off their energy.

I have ALWAYS wondered why the FCC and FDA have allowed for this mass market advertising of prescription drugs. You can promote all the prescription drugs you want, but legalizing pot (which would be a massive tax influx) can not even be considered in rational discourse. The illegal drug "war" needs to end and the "war" on prescription drug ads needs to begin.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_economy

Another week, another "expert opinion" on where, or where not, the unemployment rate will top off. Can we stop with this bull shit? I understand people ideally want to know when things will happen but sometimes guessing only makes the situation worse. Which is more productive: guessing where the unemployment rate will stop, or trying to put people back to work? The truly sad thing is that the U.S. Congress (to be precise the Senate) is working for the good of the corporations and Wall Street and not for the common man (the people they supposedly were elected to represent). It has been mentioned multiple times that we need a New Deal for this crisis and yet EVERYONE knows that it would die a slow and horrible death once it got into the Senate. It is time this government and this administration MUST take a side! Either chose to do EVERYTHING in their power to put this nation's WORKERS, not investment bankers and corporations, back on their feet OR admit they don't care about middle America and are only concerned about their big money campaign donors!