Waves of new fund cuts imperil US nursing homes by AP

Now, now, no point in getting snarky--this is just a friendly discussion. Maybe where you are you can get bulbs for 5.48 at Lowe's (and where is that?) but not where I am. Remember I said I have been using these bulbs since they 1st hit the market so I do BUY THEM AND USE THEM--but--some people may not want to or be able to afford to use them--that should be their choice not Congress and the lobbyists that make a lot of money from these mandates. I've been taking my garbage to recycling for 25 years too--long before other people--so I think I'm a pretty good steward for the eco-system. (Just think of all the GASOLINE I have used over the years driving into town to go to the recycling place--BAD ME). But that is another post!!
I stand by my statement about quality--it has gone down drastically--and will continue to since there will be no competition--when you are the only guy making bulbs why should you maintain quality?
Another poster pointed out the mercury factor--funny there was an article in the local paper (2 days ago)about the disposal of the bulbs and how most people are too lazy to go the extra steps it takes to dispose of the bulbs properly and that the government is already predicting that MOST of the bulbs will wind up in landfills---Hmmm, isn't this the same government that passed the law that mandates their use? Yeah right!! I bet in a few years you will be seeing a whole new industry built up around trying to stop the mercury pollution caused by these bulbs. Twenty years from now some fat politician will be standing at a podium railling at the public for contaminating the environment with mercury from these bulbs. These bulbs really are the gift that keeps on giving--I bet these bulbs alone could be the answer to our failing economy--all of those green energy jobs we can invent to solve a Problem that we started--Ahhh--I can see the profits now that GE can make---produce a bulb that is toxic to the environment--make a fortune in profits --then come along after the environment is polluted and solve the problem. Brilliant!!

Poor little incandescent bulb--relegated to the ash heap of history--just because of a few kw's. And the fact that you can't make any money from a .25 light bulb.

..."Sometimes I wonder about the kneejerk reactions". Oh I see--my opinion is kneejerk--I guess your opinion is fact? ---Right

.."So maybe you are already in the dark? C'mon" ----Whatever!!

I remember breaking an old fashioned thermometer when I was a kid and chasing those pretty little silver balls around and trying to make them into one big silver ball. If the light bulb breaks I 'll have to leave the room to get a new light bulb. Might take me fifteen minutes. I will then take those remnants of mercury containing light bulb and carefully put them in the garbage and then they will go to our local, county paid for, very expensive burn facility and be burned at a very high temp. But, I think the CFL bulbs are sturdier and they don't break as easily as those old cheap ones.

I'm well aware that there are an awful lot of people around who like to blame President Clinton, personally, for everything that's ever gone wrong in this country, but your history is a little weak and Clinton is not the villain here. Clinton did not originate the idea of "stealing the Social Security" (I assume you mean the Social Security Reserve Fund) -- even the (very) conservative Hoover Institution says that, "(T)hroughout the history of Social Security, whenever there has been a large reserve, Congress has invariably spent it." http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3532911.html

I also fail to see the connection between Clinton's healthcare reform proposal and "paying off the Federal (budget) Deficit" (although he did pay off the budget deficit, which had been greatly increased during the Reagan and Bush I administrations, and turned over a sizeable budget surplus to Shrub, who promply squandered it and ran up another huge budget deficit).

IMHO, This is where I see the future going with our seniors:

Anyone not financially able to place our elderly citizens in a private run nursing home will be at the mercy of the already spoiled and already stressed populace, with all this new technology that has only made our lives so much more complicated.
I see these poor individuals, being neglected, battered, and starved. What a sad state of affairs.