Quick Hits: Some local, some national

News that makes you cringe in disbelief.

One:  The economic numbers that were posted last week were at best pathetic.  We cannot continue to add less jobs than our population growth.  And we sure cannot say as a nation that having 1/3rd of the country on food stamps is a great economic indicator.  So, to my Democrat friends, quit sugar coating the economy, it is not well.

PS I, the stock market is now a more global market measure than a US measure.

PS II, sequester had nothing to do with the economic news last week.  To say so is foolish.

Two:  Congratulations, a few hours early, to the new Laredo Chief of Police Ray Garner.

Three:  Affordable Care Act;  as the President's one time preacher once said:  "The chickens are coming home to roost."  Enough said.

Four:  The Laredo Chamber of Commerce (LCC) is sending a resolution to Washington legislators requesting the look at sequestration and it's impact on the flow of commerce at the Port of Laredo.  I hope they included a section asking why the President and his Cabinet are cutting essential services instead of cutting waste, which there is plenty of.  But, I doubt that will even be mentioned.

Five:(This will be a full blog later this week, but here is a teaser)  Drugs in Schools, a headline in the Sunday April 7th Laredo Morning Times.  There was a list posted on the types of drugs being abused by our school kids.  What was missing though was the list of drugs being abused by our school districts and parents who want  a narcotic induced modification to their kids behavior, when nothing more than good parenting and a little discipline at school might suffice.