Just Minor Details

•Financial Meltdown • Ft. Hood • Stimulus •Public Option•

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:57:38 +0000

Connect the dots. Our government has failed in regulating our financial system resulting in one of the worst financial debacles in history. The military bureaucracy in an effort to be politically correct ignored signals that could have prevented the recent terrorist blood bath at Ft. Hood. The President’s stimulus package has not prevented a rapid and uncontrollable rise in unemployment. Despite these disastrous results, some still want to rely on bureaucrats to manage, control or administer programs that have a major impact on Americans.

Connect the dots. We are continually presented with evidence that clearly shows the ineptitude of politically influenced government run programs and delivery systems. Yet some continue to press for the government to get involved with not only regulating, but in providing us with an alternative to private sector health insurance. Evidently they are not able to connect the dots or more than likely can, but refuse to recognize the ineptitude that is inherent in big government programs.

Government Management–Oxymoronic

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:42:23 +0000

Recently we saw our government’s first effort to give itself another giant pork barrel. How anyone can believe that a new bureaucracy will give us efficient health care is beyond me. What have they ever managed efficiently? Certainly not Social Security, the financial markets or the many wars we are engaged in. But, like Blind Boone, we are going down the road often traveled, giving our government control over our lives and finances. We keep doing it without regard for its dismal record of failures. Unfortunately in this case past performance is indicative of future results. If the Senate does not act with pragmatic wisdom, we are doomed to be a nation of tin cup holders begging for alms from the state.

Healthcare reform—Goodbye jobs!

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:26:47 +0000

We are in a rush to cut costs in the healthcare industry. It is something that must be done. The first cut will be the meanest—jobs will be lost by some of the most needy and least paid workers in the system. Not doctors, nurses or care givers, but the workers that answer phones, record information, file and maintain patient records. If you have ever had responsibility for bottom line results, you know that the biggest and easiest cost reductions are in labor. Healthcare is not much different from any other industry. We pay for the wasted labor that is inherent in the system. We pay the costs as they are passed through to the government and insurance companies with higher taxes and higher insurance premiums.

The push to automate and electronicate vital health records and information is necessary. Unfortunately, It will result in job loses at a time that we have record unemployment. We desperately need to streamline the system, but not now when every job lost increases the burden on taxpayers. In better times, there would be other comparable jobs available. These are not better times.

Walmart–Not!

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:17:02 +0000

Sam Walton was a retail genius and a good man, but I don’t think he realized how devastating his intended and the unintended consequences of creating the largest company in America would be to the American way of life. The unintended consequences are horrific.

Watch television for any length of time these days and it is impossible to avoid the retail behemoth’s ads. Save money – Live Better. Gone is the smiley faced bandit slashing prices with a swipe of his sword. It has been replaced by the sophisticated marketing program featuring a harried housewife/working woman/single mom dealing with the daily budget. Wal-Mart can save you $800.00 a year on lunches or $800.00 on an alternative to fast food breakfasts—lowest prices guaranteed. Halloween and everything else costs less at Walmart. They claim to save the average american family $3,000 plus each year. The pitch is part of a marketing makeover for Walmart.

They want to become the solution for all Americans looking to save money and stretch their available retail dollars—that is their job. But, will they bring great harm to the American food producers and food retailers? If the past is an indication of the future, they will.

William Pitt the Elder 1770:”Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins.”

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:52:27 +0000

How can we rationalize how the White House is treating FOX. Let us determine whether FOX is a news organization or not. Let us have a sometime adversarial debate of current events that may change our lives! Regardless of your views on FOX, the actions of our President cannot sit well. It is an arrogant and unnecessary abuse of power. FOX needs to put an empty suit mannequin on every set–or better yet, a chicken. The other networks need to show some mettle by taking a serious stand by refusing White House staffers and spokespersons time on news and / or opinion shows.