Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Even Tho I Write This Blog, You Cannot Hold Me Responsible!

While you read this post and any of the others that I have written, Please remember that I am not responsible for the content. I am watching the current fiasco with Rupert Murdoch and News Corps. He is taking the route that Florida's felon Governor, Rick Scott took in his defense, when Hospital Corporation of America was fined, the largest amount in American history, for Medicaid fraud. They did not know. They were the head of large corporations. They know facts and figures and have them at their fingertips. They knew their profits and margins, so their businesses could run efficiently. They knew every detail about their respective corporations, and yet when the crap hit the fan, they hid, like the cowards they are, and claimed they knew nothing about the crimes. These so called leaders have stood by and allowed the people that worked for them to be thrown under the bus. Years ago, when I was placed in my first leadership position, I was taught that you made a decision and right or wrong you stood by those decisions. If the choices you made were wrong, you then stood up and accepted the repercussions of that choice. You do not sit and watch the people that worked for you accept the blame. True leadership is about integrity, honesty, decision making, giving direction, sharing a vision and then directing people how to accomplish that vision. Today's business and political leaders are about one thing, profits. Get there fast and I don't care how you get there. If you get caught doing something to increase the profits and there is a problem, I will then cut you loose to save my own skin. Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Scott are definitely, two men, I would never want to share a foxhole with. As the enemy advances, they would not only flee, they would point out your position, so the advancing forces would take you down to  further increase their chance of survival. My advice to both of you is this. Be a man. Step up and accept the penalties for your decisions. You have always been first in line with huge bonuses and pay increases, so do the honorable thing. Take the heat that you and your companies deserve. I for one do not believe either person will do so. That is why I call them cowards. The remark I made at the beginning of this post is just a way to point out how leaders of today try to avoid responsibility. I for one will always stand by anything I state in my blogs. If there is something  wrong, and someone points out the error I will accept the blame and move on. That is how we are all supposed to do it.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Casey Anthony Is An Amateur, When It Comes To Hurting Children!

The first and most important point I want to make is whatever happened to Caylee Anthony it was and still is a complete tragedy. Nothing can change the horrible fact that a little girl died for no reason and we still do not know what happened to her. When I state that Casey Anthony is nothing but a hobbyist, when it comes to hurting children let me explain. Watching Ms. Anthony being released from prison the other night I was struck by the number of people, who turned out in the middle of the night to catch a glimpse of her and shout things like, "baby killer" and "justice for Caylee". I wander what type of person goes to this length, because of one child. I also wander where are these same people, as well as the face book Moms and Blogosphere Moms when each day there are assaults on the well being of all of our children. Why are they not standing in front of insurance companies offices and shouting , "baby killers"?  Why are the not asking our political leaders for, "justice for our children"?

 In Florida Felon Governor Scott has gutted education in the amount of $1.75 billion. This is destroying our children's lives and chances for a life time of better wages and a good life. In Wisconsin, the Union busting idiot governor, Scott Walker has cut to the tune of $835 million and the demonstration against him has died down. In the federal government half of the $38 billion in spending cuts have come at the expense of health, labor and education. These all have devastating effects on our children. Parents do not have jobs. They loose health care, if they even have it in the first place and of course the quality of education continues to go down. Where are the greedy businesses that are laying off people and cutting back the benefits they have offered in the past. They are flush with cash and yet instead of investing in their corporations they elect to increase bonuses and pay for the upper management people. These are the true monsters in our society today. They make decisions that effect all of our children, not just one.
My question then to everyone of you, is where is the parental protection from the greed and stupidity of our leaders. Where are the claws of Motherhood as these people take from your children. Where is the outrage that comes from knowing that your children are being destroyed, slowly. Do you only follow the story line if it involves sex, lies  and videotape? Come on people show the emotional outburst that you had when Casey was found. "not guilty." If you will become involved I will drive around downtown parking garages, changing cars to throw off the news helicopters. Actually I will do just about anything to arouse the strong emotions I saw when even before the trial started, the lynch mobs were forming. Everyone should be fighting mad, because as much hurt as someone did to little Caylee Anthony, it was amateur hour compared to the damage that is being done to the rest of your children. Get angry. Get vocal. Get involved and change the direction of your children's lives, now!

The Mother of All Yard Sales, Could This Solve Our Debt Problem?

The last few posts I have shown signs of confusion, but over the weekend I believe there was a revelation on our debt problems. Let's hold the "Mother of all Garage Sales. Within a few weeks we would invite people and representatives from around the world. It would be the social and business event of the century. Everything must go would be the mantra.

Let's start with the Pentagon. They could bring old nuclear war heads to D.C. What terrorist in their right mind could pass up a clearance sale like that. I am sure we could bring in a cool $100 million dollars, especially if we throw in a couple of intercontinental missiles to close the deal. Some old jet aircraft, with an aircraft carrier group could be sold off to the highest bidder. Let's not forget about our artillery and tank groups. More money in the pot.

Next we could look at some of our building in the nations capital. The Capital building and the Congressional office buildings would bring in a huge amount. It is not like we need it for anything. No work has been accomplished there in years. Plus we definitely have no signs of intelligent life anywhere in the area. While we are selling of the buildings that Congress uses, we could sweeten the deal by placing the fleet of limos, that members of Congress have at their disposal in the deal.

National Parks would be placed on the auction block. Hell the Republicans have been after closing them since Teddy Roosevelt. We have some nice timber and natural resource areas that big business could destroy, but at a price. They pay and reduce the debt, they can ruin any pristine parts of America. They would not have to worry about regulations that would lower their profits. They could strip trees, dig mines and drill for oil at their hearts content.

Let me think. What else could we do without. Schools, think how much we could cut the deficit, if we eliminate education from the budget. We could sell them to foreign countries. Then they could just educate their people here and have them in place to take our jobs. I know what would we do with our uneducated children? Who cares. That does not bother people now. We will just eliminate the cost and appearance of educating them.

Health Care. We could sell off our hospitals. Now I know that most hospitals are private companies or groups, so first we have to nationalize them. This way we could make a profit at the garage sell and eliminate health care costs, because no Americans would be able to use them. Simple, no use, we don't have to pay. People will die and then we don't have to pay Social Security benefits. This sale idea is sounding better and better.

Getting back to our nations capital. There are thousands of museums and memorials around the city. Some foreign countries do not have memorials for their veterans. We could sell the Vietnam Memorial to Vietnam. They lost people in that war also and they don't have to change the name. Washington Monument may not be a huge draw, unless we let them change names and pay us naming rights, similar to sports teams. The Washington Monument would become the Queen Elizabeth, Tostidos, Monument and the Lincoln  Memorial  would become the Hosni Mubarak, Citibank, Memorial.

At this point we are probably operating at a surplus, so get this Republicans, we can now give the big businesses and wealthy elite more tax breaks. We could lower their tax rate to zero. It doesn't get any better then this. I can only imagine the euphoria that the Republicans and Tea Party people are going through right now. John Boehner is somewhere crying in elation over this idea and Eric Cantor just wet his pants.  My only question to the Republicans and Tea Partiers. Why didn't you all think of this?  So lets' all roll up our sleeves and get busy. It will take several weeks to put this together. Congress could pass an extension to the debt ceiling and if we move quick enough, we could get this done before the next debt ceiling is hit. Together we can do this.