Word: eating
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...swaps, the House voted down the big bailout. Mr. Market was a very unhappy camper, dropping 777 points and change - or $1.2 trillion in market value. "This is a huge cow patty with a piece of marshmallow stuck in the middle of it, and I am not going to eat that cow patty," vowed Representative Paul Broun, Republican of Georgia...
There's just one problem, Congressman Cow Patty: A lot of us did eat it, including many of your constituents. The $1.2 trillion - let's spell that out as $1,200,000,000,000 - that disappeared from the stock market on Monday didn't go down a black hole in lower Manhattan. It came out of America's 401(k)s, mutual funds, pension funds and personal portfolios. We've got $17.6 trillion in retirement assets invested as of 2007. There is some $12 trillion invested in mutual funds alone (well, at least before yesterday); about...
...resolute that taxpayer money won't be used "to give a golden parachute to Wall Street that our grandchildren may still be paying for many decades from now." But Wall Street is all of us, including the Congressman from the 10th District in Georgia. We are all going to eat the cow patty. The only question is, how big will...
...lost millions of dollars. After studying farms and facilities and reviewing the FDA's practices for preventing contamination, the GAO makes an urgent if predictable recommendation: the FDA's authority must be expanded and its strategy updated, or Americans' health will continued to be threatened by the food they eat...
...fresh-produce oversight matters more than ever: "[T]he consumption of fresh produce has increased as both health experts and the U.S. government have encouraged Americans to eat fruits and vegetables as part of a healthy diet. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average American annually consumed 13 pounds more fresh fruit and 50 pounds more fresh vegetables from 2003 through 2005 than from 1983 through 1985, an increase of about 14 percent and 41 percent, respectively...