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By HOLLY WISE Murray Ledger & Times Newspaper
The Murray-Calloway County Senior Center began preparing their facility
for the baby boomer generation long before Gov. Ernie Fletcher
initiated the Kentucky Elder Readiness Initiative (KERI) in 2005.
A lot of the foresight goes to Center Director Eric Kelleher.
People like Lou Dobbs of CNN sound the alarm about outsourcing and what it does to American jobs and American workers. No broadcaster, no reporter sounded an alarm about outsourcing and the risks to the Chinese worker. Everyone took for granted that they worked longer hours, but that is to be expected in fledgling economies. We all believed both the American and Chinese governments when they told us that cheap goods are good for America and good for China.
Until Loretta Tofani and the Salt Lake Tribune, that is.
J. C. Penney Recalls Disney Winnie the Pooh Play Set. The issue again - lead paint in Chinese manufactured toys. The toy priced at $40 isn't the "cheap goods" we expect from Chinese manufacture.
