Bleed the Seniors, they have all the money!!

Can't you just see a group of avaricious "bottom line" executives (similar to the ones you've been reading about lately in the financial world) sitting around a conference table making the smug, arrogant comment that you see above in the title.

Well, maybe I've gone a little too far but sometimes it sure feels like they may have said it..... but...remember, I was once one of them and heard what went on at management meetings.

Take the eye-care products found in Drug Chains and Mass Merchants as an example. I'm not making any eye-opening statements when I say people develop more & more eye problems as they age. Obviously the Senior-Friendly management folks at Bausch & Lomb know this and they set their pricing accordingly.

Seniors have a lot of dry-eye problems. Have you checked the prices of Bausch & Lomb dry-eye products lately? ... and they are not alone. Take a look at the prices on Alcon products and the new eye-care products coming to market.

But you only need to stroll down the aisle containing the eye-care dept. at

your local Walmart, CVS or Walgreen.. $8 and up for a tiny bottle of eye drops.

Here is one for you. My wife had a condition brought on by a dry eye problem. Her Opthamologist (I'm sure I'm spelling this incorrectly but let him contact his lawyer and correct the spelling. As a Senior on a fixed income I don't have the financial means to afford Spell-Checker.)

The Eye Doctor (much less spent on his degree) prescribed Zylet eye drops, made by you know who...you guessed it, the aforementioned Bausch & Lomb. It's an anti-biotic, tiny 5ml. bottle of eye drops...cost$70.

$70. ....Yes, you read that correctly.

The rest of the eye-care Dept. is not much better. What causes a category to be priced so outlandishly high? Monoply...identification of a group whom they feel they can gouge without much fear of backlash...namely

Seniors.

TIME OUT:

Time for an investigaton. The congressional commitees love to call hearings, sit high up on their thrones and hurl insults at the executives who have made our country so great. Why not look at this group?