(Re) Chic

This is a rant about a recent lawsuit against Scotts Miracle-Gro.   You were warned.  Since working with Grow Food, Grow Hope in Wilmington, OH I have come to appreciate and love the organic movement for what I thought it was: a fad with a great idea.  Its all well and good to think that organic is the way to be and that you should only eat/shop/garden organic because its healthier and you're not subjecting yourself and the environment to all those nasty chemicals.  And I have totally agreed with that, but there was always that voice in my head saying 'that's what the EPA is for, they take care of these things and make sure they are safe even if they are slightly harsh chemicals'. Boy was I wrong.  This morning a representative of Scotts Miracle-Gro company plead guilty to violating environmental protection laws as well as marketing items that had not been approved by the EPA.  Those items were sold for TWO YEARS before being pulled off the market...

So its been really hard for me to understand the national deficit. I know that we have one, and people tell me that if we didn't have one our economy would fall apart, but I don't understand that. I know that my parents never wanted me to have a credit card and 23 year old me still doesn't have one because of how easy it makes wracking up debt because let me tell you it would be WAY easy to run that card for lots of things I can't pay for on my VISTA salary.   But today I read an article that made me even more confused about how our government budgets run.  In this article the state of Ohio hasn't gotten back millions of dollars they are owed by fines given to businesses who violate the smoking ban.  $1.5 million dollars according to a report written in the Dayton Daily News.  Now, I don't know about you but I feel like if someone owned me over a million dollars I would be knocking on their door asking them for the money...so why doesn't the state ...