Owen: Will I get paid for overtime? lipitor purchase A@barfle: and that is exactly what the Republican Party has not wanted to happen because they want the government barefoot and prone, and would very much prefer that all those who depend on it drop dead as long as they get theirs. Am I too unkind? The biggest pigs at the Federal trough are always the rich and the well funded. Everyone else needs the government as the most reliable and usually most legally accountable and disinterested party available for long term concern for the general welfare. Most buisnesses – and especially the ever changing place names of the major international corporations – seem to be fly by night outfits, actually, however lush their corporate quarters. Every decade or so they seem to have name changes and identity crisis and rack up huge debts in merger and acquisition costs. It keeps people in money and I appreciate the value of negative numbers on a balance sheet.