tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post2913807257273729534..comments2024-02-12T05:40:49.379-07:00Comments on The Cynical Pharmacist: Who's Really Exploiting The System?Jason DeVillainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-35955297003434224232021-07-19T22:01:08.494-07:002021-07-19T22:01:08.494-07:00is an attack on a computer system, especially one ...is an attack on a computer system, especially one that takes advantage of a particular vulnerability it offers to intruders. is used as a verb exploit introduces the act of successfully making such an attack. Whether the known exploit is due to a vulnerability in the software even hardware, developers can code patches to plug the hole.Henry Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05119506024318735590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-60425417108345063532013-09-25T12:19:52.922-07:002013-09-25T12:19:52.922-07:00Here's the NYAG's press release about the ...Here's the NYAG's press release about the alleged white-collar charity crime. Let's see if the mainstream media or the right-wing news outlets report it with the same abundance and outrage as they do when someone on food stamps is caught scamming the system. <a href="http://www.ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-announces-arrest-former-nonprofit-director-involvement-scheme-steal"Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-25944175210453910302013-09-17T20:25:42.374-07:002013-09-17T20:25:42.374-07:00Those criminal food stamp recipients cheating the ...Those <a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/strange/floriduh-blog/sfl-flduh-food-stamp-card-facebook-20130912,0,6204842.story" rel="nofollow">criminal food stamp recipients</a> cheating the system for a couple of hundred dollars. It's just those type of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/nyregion/an-anonymous-whistle-blower-exposed-a-scandal-at-a-jewish-charity.html" rel="nofollowJason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-42668507278803347462013-09-05T12:01:06.350-07:002013-09-05T12:01:06.350-07:00How's this for hypocrisy? The wrong Republican...How's this for hypocrisy? <a href="http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/09/05/20343586-the-wrong-republican-to-talk-about-food-stamps" rel="nofollow">The wrong Republican to talk about food stamps</a>Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-19638644401208768472013-07-19T20:47:22.935-07:002013-07-19T20:47:22.935-07:00Republicans show they are willing to compromise on...Republicans show they are willing to compromise on the farm bill by eliminating the part they refused to compromise on, <a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/427829/july-17-2013/food-stamp-funding" rel="nofollow">food stamps</a>.Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-19309411935318830772013-07-15T19:14:42.440-07:002013-07-15T19:14:42.440-07:00Those damn poor people cheating the system with th...Those damn poor people cheating the system with their sense of entitlement. Who the hell do they think they are with their incessant <a href="http://youtu.be/IuqGrz-Y_Lc" rel="nofollow">Money on the Mind</a>?Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-23284033797548455222013-07-04T19:12:06.691-07:002013-07-04T19:12:06.691-07:00Is the United States in debt due of the costs of i...Is the United States in debt due of the costs of it's social programs? Hardly. According to the <a href="http://nationalpriorities.org/" rel="nofollow">National Priorities Project</a>, our Government has spent at least <a href="http://nationalpriorities.org/blog/2011/08/16/How-Safe-Are-You/" rel="nofollow">$8 TRILLION dollars</a> on national security since 9/11/2001? Do you consider that Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-10505774048544699912013-07-02T14:25:30.178-07:002013-07-02T14:25:30.178-07:00If only our leaders would put a stop to those damn...If only our leaders would put a stop to those damn welfare recipients exploiting the system again and abusing us hardworking taxpayers. <br /><br />Using allowed deductions and legal loopholes, large corporations enjoyed a 12.6 percent tax rate far below the 35 percent tax that is the statutory rate imposed by the federal government on corporate profits according to recent study by the <a href="Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-56122387194313915492013-05-31T09:52:02.816-07:002013-05-31T09:52:02.816-07:00See? It's not just me. Paul Krugman sees the s...See? It's not just me. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/opinion/from-the-mouths-of-babes.html" rel="nofollow">Paul Krugman</a> sees the same thing happening.<br /><br />"Like many observers, I usually read reports about political goings-on with a sort of weary cynicism. Every once in a while, however, politicians do something so wrong, substantively and morally, that cynicism Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-28179133994812397462013-05-20T09:58:03.128-07:002013-05-20T09:58:03.128-07:00In response to Jane Mayer's recent report in T...In response to Jane Mayer's recent report in The New Yorker, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/27/130527fa_fact_mayer" rel="nofollow">A Word from Our Sponsor:<br /> Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch.</a>, a link to the film.<br /><br />Who are "really" the entitled people in America? Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream - <a href="Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-41384103975578677202013-05-18T18:04:31.795-07:002013-05-18T18:04:31.795-07:00Tax Havens 101: The high cost of going offshore.Tax Havens 101: <a href="http://posologist.blogspot.com/2013/05/tax-havens-101-high-cost-of-going.html" rel="nofollow">The high cost of going offshore</a>.Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-54576611970711887462013-05-16T19:25:25.865-07:002013-05-16T19:25:25.865-07:00Conservative critics of SNAP and other federal soc...Conservative critics of SNAP and other federal social programs like to portray them as turning the United States into an "entitlement society" by undermining the work ethic and creating a class of people dependent on government programs.<br /><br />That's not true of SNAP and it's not true of other federal health and income security programs. <a href="http://Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-75379832598187741822013-04-06T19:06:21.937-07:002013-04-06T19:06:21.937-07:00Rumor has it that President Obama is going to pres...Rumor has it that President Obama is going to present his deficit reduction plan on Wednesday, and it will include cuts to social security and other social welfare programs in order to appease the Party of Hate.<br /><br />I hope it's not true that he's considering selling out the loyal Democratic Americans who had absolutely nothing to do with creating the Federal deficit and debt, in Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-24488898396576018252013-04-05T01:15:37.056-07:002013-04-05T01:15:37.056-07:00Why is it that Senator Sanders can see what's ...Why is it that Senator Sanders can see what's happening so clearly, explain it to the public so simply, fight on behalf of the publics' best interests, but other Senators can't, or won't? <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=28E428A4-A4F4-4BDD-AB35-4F1D4AFB9B8B" rel="nofollow">Sen. Bernie Sanders</a> on Thursday urged President Obama to keep his promise not to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-27533939854079546252013-04-04T18:50:59.832-07:002013-04-04T18:50:59.832-07:00Those damn welfare criminals! Exploiting the syste...Those damn welfare criminals! Exploiting the system and stashing loads of their cash offshore, while I'm busting my ass at work just trying to get by. Oh, wait..<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.icij.org/" rel="nofollow">International Consortium of Investigative Journalists</a>, a Washington-based group that, along with affiliated news media organizations, announced its coup on Thursday, Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-18946708188359802472013-03-29T14:39:04.525-07:002013-03-29T14:39:04.525-07:00Why is social welfare reform even being considered...Why is social welfare reform even being considered as part of the national debt solution? Are the Democrats about to sell us out through compromise? <a href="http://posologist.blogspot.com/2013/03/democracy-vs-dollarocracy.html" rel="nofollow">Democracy vs Dollarocracy</a>Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-33027615688852443972013-03-26T11:52:35.284-07:002013-03-26T11:52:35.284-07:00Here's the problem I have with the so-called &...Here's the problem I have with the so-called "mandate" that corporations must pursue profits at "all" costs - IT'S A COP OUT - used to justify excessive greed on the part of corporate insiders. They use that mandate as a tool to reflect blame off of themselves.<br /><br />Corporations are run by PEOPLE.<br /><br />Like Jason often says, people who work for a Jeff Healitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07918815466692533843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-7845305244283392342013-03-25T23:40:21.366-07:002013-03-25T23:40:21.366-07:00Thanks, this is very good information.I think it i...Thanks, this is very good information.I think it is useful advice. I admire the time and effort you put into your well-detailed nice blog. I'll hope to see more of your write ups. Keep it up!!! <a href="http://www.allenspharmacy.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">allens pharmacy</a> Offers the widest selection of cosmetics and perfumery in store and online. Allens Pharmacyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06771141365166175925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-2890518768255919182013-03-25T20:53:35.739-07:002013-03-25T20:53:35.739-07:00Counterpoint to my views about co-ops. - How Worke...Counterpoint to my views about co-ops. - <a href="http://billmoyers.com/2013/03/22/how-worker-owned-companies-work/" rel="nofollow">How Worker-Owned Companies Work</a>. And by-the-way, I bank at a credit union and I invest through The Vanguard Group (a pseudo-co-op).Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-60912282528967947922013-03-24T15:44:53.865-07:002013-03-24T15:44:53.865-07:00Okay, here comes my cynicism again.
While Dr. Wol...Okay, here comes my cynicism again.<br /><br />While Dr. Wolff does a fantastic job of describing the problem we're facing with capitalism today, I don't agree with all of his solutions. And that's not to diss the fine doctor, because we need more educators including the public on finding ways to fix the problem. Change will only occur if people participate. (yes, I said that)<br /><Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-25821704775602293932013-03-23T21:43:50.328-07:002013-03-23T21:43:50.328-07:00Richard Wolff’s smart, blunt talk about the crisis...Richard Wolff’s smart, blunt talk about the crisis of capitalism on his first Moyers & Company appearance was so compelling and provocative, they asked him to return.<br /><br />This time, the economics expert answers questions sent in by their viewers, diving further into economic inequality, the limitations of industry regulation, and the widening gap between a booming stock market and a Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-85795100237293967312013-03-23T20:53:05.778-07:002013-03-23T20:53:05.778-07:00Like we need a study to tell us that?Like we need a study to tell us that?Jason DeVillainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438164334321654816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144715271254999018.post-40632406997265489202013-03-23T19:19:29.761-07:002013-03-23T19:19:29.761-07:00The ultra-rich share few of the priorities of most...The ultra-rich share few of the priorities of most Americans, but their access to policymakers is greater, a study finds. Source: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-page-wealth-and-politics-20130322,0,3575694.story" rel="nofollow">The 1% aren't like the rest of us</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com