...Merge, downsize, split the stock and/or split the business, rinse, lather, repeat. Corporations are in constant motion and adjustment of their books in order to manage the market, the labor costs, the tax laws, SEC, and the international equities market. All is a hedge on a future that is profitable to a select few, but it impacts all of us. It seems that the interests of these large corporations cause a great deal of uncertainty for their employees and the market in order to be competitive. It was a lot simpler when HP made money by having a superior, high value, affordable product . Now that is no longer the focus because of the complexity of our laws and the incentives offered to a select few who benefit more from a dose of chaos and uncertainty and losses. Especially loss of labor costs whenever it suits them.

780,000 Officers is just the tip of the industry when you also consider all of the criminal courts and related services, the prisons and jails managed at municipal, county, state, and federal levels, the border patrol, cyber-security, tsa, dea, fbi, atf, related intelligence resources, the list goes on and on and on. In today's economy this is one of the biggest sectors of the domestic economy when you tally it all up. And Its is not expected to turn a profit, like most other jobs. Most enterprise in America that employs people is supposed to be profitable. Perhaps expecting profit in all other sectors of the economy, except criminal justice, is the real reason why its getting so bloated. Perhaps if the public was as willing to spend a dollar on education for every ten dollars they waste on locking up 1% of the adult population, there wouldn't be a need to criminalize so many in order to create jobs for others. Fear and ignorance distort the public discourse and lead to poor decisions and public policy. Perhaps we are a long way from evolving out of this short coming. But it would be great if common sense would just overwhelm the populous and we could find better ways to live our lives together, share prosperity, and accept a more peaceful narrative. But that would be boring, I guess, so let's avoid that at all cost.

Now that's the first pertinent response I've yet heard.

Why should we trust anything JP Morgan says when they are proven liars and frauds and they are protected by policy. The fact is that bank robbery has been conveniently been redefined as identity theft, therefore JP Morgan has less at stake when they say this happened. One minute they're secure, the next, they're not but they can point to the perpetrators with certainty. Yeah right, I trust them, its the commie gangster's fault. Not one US Banker has taken the fall yet, but we're supposed to blame Russia for our fucked up security and banking laws. Eric Holder will no doubt be well paid for his epic failure. Its unbelievable how distracted and hypnotized Americans have become lately. Common sense has eluded us. If we won't toss Dimon in jail then lets just make him President or drop him from B-2. Its really getting absurd. Russia is not our enemy, our policy is the problem we need fix first and foremost. WAKE UP AMERICA!!

Talk about hand me downs, this makes wearing you mothers wedding gown or grandmothers wedding ring seem like a quaint gesture. Re-gifting doesn't come close to re-wombing in terms of tradition and family heritage....

Same story for a high school girlfriend who was exceptional in every way. She said she lost her sense of smell at around 5 or 6 years of age and for no apparent reason .

Nothing else unusual, except for a nose missing from her face (... just kidding ;-)

Back in high school (Jurassic Period) my girlfriend Holly had absolutely no sense of smell. She said that she just stopped smelling things when she was very young, perhaps 5 or 6 for no apparent reason. Otherwise, she was completely healthy. She was a top scholar, a "triple threat" on the stage, beautiful, talented, creative, curvy, great kisser, the whole package. The fact that she couldn't smell anything was just a wonderful gift from the lord, as far as I was concerned. . High school was a great time for a girlfriend that could not smell my feet, my athletics, morning breath, beer, weed, ciggies, cheap cologne, other chicks, my friends, or my dog... it was ideal at the time. Suddenly farts were funny again.

But I wouldn't want to be around if babies arrived on the scene. If you cant smell baby shit then you're a public nuisance with infants. Anyway, she is still alive, 160 million years later....

Bring Out The Gimp!

Exactly. Like we're really supposed to believe that he was 32 just before it happened....I might look stupid but he looked 62 all along.

So, she let you slide on the subterranean ski-lift tickets?

Why would I have guessed?

Maybe its a marketing scheme to get the transoceanic business folks to insist on first class, where they can escape the claustrophobia, light up a ciggy, and join the mile high club. Also, if you don't allow cell phones then you have to entertain all of the children on the plane with your magic tricks, gum and breath mints. (Ambien optional).

Yahoo directory was almost completely forgotten, but they just had to bring it up again...Now they have an excuse to clean house before lunch is delivered. That's the way the fortune cookie crumbles.

Electrons are right handed and left brained.

I'm sorry your Corvette is being cited for child pornography and its distribution....

OK...how much for the scantily clad women? I'll be their best boy. I'll trade in a gaffer and key grip..