On 2011-04-17 15:00, tommy wrote:
Why would you not want salt?

On 2011-04-17 18:05, diehards2080 wrote:
I use to be big into bodybuilding and powerlifting up until about 2 yrs ago and got lazy. Point is I learned the hard way when trying to construct your diet for any goal you have to prepare your own food because you will not know what you are getting period. The biggest one was salt consumption. That would mess me up big time. When it was time for me to diet down it wasnt too bad for me. I needed the extra salt intake due to the amount of cardio I was doing plus the extra water retention help my joints.

On 2011-04-17 13:52, landmark wrote:
One of my pet peeves is people who salt their food without tasting the food beforehand. I know it's none of my business, but it irks me.

On 2011-04-20 15:51, Carrie Sue wrote:
Okay, I've got to throw in my $0.02 here.

The food companies are not trying to kill you. Salt is not harmful. It's a flavor enhancer and necessary to maintain the electrolyte balance in human biofunctions.

For those who already struggle with high blood pressure, it is necessary to limit salt intake. But for everybody else, what the body does not need it will eliminate. Salt does not cause high blood pressure! I'm a perfect example of this, as I eat more salt than anybody I know, and my blood pressure when checked is always perfectly normal. My sodium level when checked is also usually normal, unless I've been in the hospital and haven't been able to eat for two days like last year. I couldn't ask for extra salt for my food fast enough to get my sodium level up so they would release me.

So the FDA can just go chase themselves if they want to regulate the salt content of foods. There are already low salt alternatives out there for those who need it, but it's none of the government's business how much the rest of us eat. It tastes good, so leave me alone!

Carrie

On Wednesday, Kalamazoo Gazette columnist Julie Mack pointed out that the city's pension system was underfunded by four million dollars, that its cash reserves have shrunk in three years from $1.7 million to just $300,000, that the city was spending somewhere between $80,000 and $100,000 a year in overdraft fees and that in the same week that Benton Harbor told the state it didn't need an emergency financial manager, the city asked the State Treasury for advance funds so it could make its payroll....

For the record, the emergency manager, Joe Harris, has already been in Benton Harbor for more than a year. He was appointed, not by Governor Snyder, but by Jennifer Granholm, but it's the teeth in Snyder's new law that allowed Harris to strip the city commission of its decision making powers.

Yeah, it makes you wince, but Harris is confident. He thinks Benton Harbor will soon be a model of an efficiently-run city, a city making do with what it's got.

We can only cross our fingers and hope he's right, because what happens in Benton Harbor will soon tell us if the state's power to literally dispense with a city's democratic process is a good idea, or is pushing all this to the very edge of constitutionality too great a price to pay.

Other states may start similar programs, with adjustments to accommodate local laws, as they try to streamline the process for fixing ailing communities, Imber said. He is part of a Grant Thornton team advising the Nassau County interim finance authority, the state-appointed agency that took control of the suburban New York county’s finances in January.

The Michigan law is “credit positive” because it enables the state to intervene earlier when municipalities are financially stressed and boosts the powers of emergency managers, Moody’s Investors Service said March 21. Such steps may be needed to prevent a Chapter 9 bankruptcy, it said.

Snyder’s Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act also calls for a state financial review if a municipality defaults on a bond or note payment or receives a long-term debt rating “within or below the BBB category or its equivalent” by one of the major credit-rating companies.

On 2011-04-22 18:22, Carrie Sue wrote:
Benton Harbor appears to be in a bad way.

Quote:

On Wednesday, Kalamazoo Gazette columnist Julie Mack pointed out that the city's pension system was underfunded by four million dollars, that its cash reserves have shrunk in three years from $1.7 million to just $300,000, that the city was spending somewhere between $80,000 and $100,000 a year in overdraft fees and that in the same week that Benton Harbor told the state it didn't need an emergency financial manager, the city asked the State Treasury for advance funds so it could make its payroll....

For the record, the emergency manager, Joe Harris, has already been in Benton Harbor for more than a year. He was appointed, not by Governor Snyder, but by Jennifer Granholm, but it's the teeth in Snyder's new law that allowed Harris to strip the city commission of its decision making powers.

Yeah, it makes you wince, but Harris is confident. He thinks Benton Harbor will soon be a model of an efficiently-run city, a city making do with what it's got.

We can only cross our fingers and hope he's right, because what happens in Benton Harbor will soon tell us if the state's power to literally dispense with a city's democratic process is a good idea, or is pushing all this to the very edge of constitutionality too great a price to pay.

http://www.wwmt.com/articles/manager-138......ton.html

What's your solution?

Carrie