Cloudy this morning and cool. The forecast has changed to say we won't see the sun for at least the next seven days. My fuzzy little stubborn "alarm clocks" annoyed me into feeding them about 2am. Then they started in again an hour later. They weren't happy when I ignored them for their mid-morning feeding til 9am. They still haven't adjusted to the time change. And I am sleep deprived. Oh, well.

Robert Reich makes a good point in his latest post. The CEOs of corporations like McDonalds complain the low and middle income people aren't patronizing them and their profits are falling but they are in fact part of their own problem. They pay low wages to front line workers which forces those workers to sign up for SNAP or other benefits to make up the shortfall. The CEOs "earn" hundreds of dollars more than their average workers but have been, with their corporations, of the Republicans reduction in their taxes. So we pay for the benefits for the lowest wage workers AND we pay for their tax breaks. Their workers don't earn enough to buy the goods they push across the counter to the few low and middle income patrons who are still coming through the door. (Confession here: I haven't patronized a McDonalds in eight years. That was the first time in over a decade before that and only because Mom and I were driving to Denver and couldn't find any other eatery open at the time. The food was incredibly disappointing.)