she said Novartis is cutting 1200 jobs and her company has fired one out of three...one of her fellow reps who has called on me for over ten years was fired on Friday. These were all "financial" republics who said back in 2000 "bush is my boy" and other nausea-inducing blather. Sadly, as they are really bright, pleasant people, if totally self-directed, they are now singing a different song. Honest to God she said, "how could we know bush would be so bad?" My head exploded as I told her they are all bad and out for the top 5% only, not working people. She asked me who to vote for and I said the Democratic nominee...whomever that is, just do it. She said she would.