It's an ATM Thing

Dear America,

happy wednesday

this has been one of those weeks I feel all over the place.  it is hard to focus on what seems to be the thing in question, the  thing of most importance, the thing that rises above all other things.

First, let me say this.  Given the new age of  being able to fool everyone under the anonymous atmosphere operating as blogs everywhere, let me  just say I am not a liberal masquerading around as a conservative.   I am all right and right of center, all the way -- and while we are at it -- I am all girl.  Did you happen to see this today from The Daily Bell?  Fascinating stuff; and get a load of me, believing all of us who spill our heart out everyday, and interact, communing with the world, do so with integrity intact.  Well, blow me down this fine hump day, why don't you. We seem to be getting crazier by the net-minute.


And now moving on.org to our president, the Innovator-in-Chief:  what the hell were you thinking?   wow.  falling back on my theme for the week -- that is, if I can gather my thoughts together long enough to come up with one --  let me say, unfukeenbelievable.  Just in case you missed it, theme for week = UNFUKEENBELIEVABLE. [hey, if I am gonna go bad girl and say a bad word I might as well get a full week out of it...right Joe? -- and by that, I am addressing our impromptu job creator extraordinaire by default, Joe Biden, who throws the F-bomb around quite freely -- and not my papa Joe...although, I do believe, in this moment, he just might let my dirty mouth slide as well].

"There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM, you don't go to a bank teller, or you go to the airport and you're using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate."

SO Mr. All about Math, Science, Engineering, Technology, Green Energy, Innovation -- is now questioning the very thing he is trying awfully hard to toot; and, if I'm not mistaken, complaining about it; being a glass half empty kind of guy; building it up only to tear it down (which, low and behold, defines a bureaucrat in and of itself).

Perhaps -- if he were to put on his Free Market thinking cap -- he might realize that with that fancy smancy kiosk or ATM, the higher paid technological expertise market has grown through the roof -- creation, engineering, manufacturing, construction, maintenance, security, new product innovation, industry improvements,  like kiosks and ATM's, are all gaining -- being able to save money in one area, in order to have the freedom to reinvest in another.   Considering the possible upsides, a closer look  might  make it seem more like a fair exchange, if not, more than fair.

In other words, a kiosk in the airport streamlines operations to allow for more money to go to, perhaps, more airplane safety concerns  instead of adding another check-in attendant... just sayin'.   And really, it's so easy,  anybody can do it.  The airlines were actually paying people to do this?  What a rip off that truly was (I know, I know,  there is a time for everything under heaven...).

It is just funny how this guy thinks, that's all.  Not surprisingly, given the indoctrination imbedded into nearly all of his nifty fifty years, we can easily surmise that free market ideas run counter to his natural inclination.  Sad, really.  How crazy is it that we elected an American president who just doesn't get  it half the time; some of our most basic, fundamental beliefs and principles don't even get past the door, any connection is by chance, happenstance, or dumb luck -- or worse, just words, rhetoric, free market language that he throws around haphazardly just to sound good.  Speaking of hidden agendas and masking reality,  Obama is fooling no one.

And now, in rapid fire, let's take a fancy at all of the various issues hitting Washington this week:

• The unlawful war in Libya, with the House suing the White House -- when nearly 90 days later, Gadhafi is still there, we are spending money we do not have, we are unclear with the mission, and we don't even know who the rebels are -- talk about a good mystery...unfukeenbelievable.
• The review of Muslim radicalization in America's prisons right under our nose....unfukeenbelievable.
• The sale of firearms to Drug Cartels by our very own ATF guys, with approval by Holder...."operation fast and furious"...is that for real?  that's something I might come up with and admittedly, I'm a goofy girl.   unfukeenbelievable.
• The NLRB suing an American Enterprise, Boeing, for going into a "right-to-work" state
• and all the while, Huma is arriving home to her twitter twit of a husband right now -- oh to be a fly on the wall...unfukeenbelievable.
• not to mention, the Debt factor, rising at a rate of about 2 B's a day, with the president not even close to taking the lead.  unfukeenbelievable.
• and what to do, what to do..how do we create more jobs --- that's a hard one...such a quandary...a mystery....

Our president continues to use Joe as his go-to guy for all of his special projects -- from overseeing stimulus funds, to following-the-recovery -dot-gov, to "shovel ready" infrastructure (leave it a bureaucrat to not allow extra room for red tape), to working out a deal with republicans on the Bush Tax cuts, to jobs creation in 2009 - and again in 2010 - and again in 2011.

"Nobody messes with Joe," were the president's exact words, while at the meeting in North Carolina a couple of days ago -- at CREE, Inc. -- a meeting aptly titled, "Jobs Council: The President's Council on Jobs and Competition" .  While the backdrop wallpaper, behind Joe when he was addressing "the council," showed a repeated phrase:  "Making Government More Accountable."

Perhaps first off, unfukeenbelievable -- do you want competition, or not?  do you want innovation to evolve some industry when possibly extinguishing another, or not?  and really, what does the government have to do with it anyway?  Albeit a nice idea, but a meeting on JOBS and competitiveness focuses it's main message upon "making government more accountable" -- guys? -- hello? -- maybe this is your first mistake.

Get out of the picture! Set the jobs free!  Let the people go!  Get out of the way!  ....just for starters (but what do I know, I'm just the 800 lb gorilla in the room...oh yes... going right back to the beginning and the great big mystery back behind the blogosphere these days --  you never know now do ya?)

So, we have nobody messes with Joe and making government more accountable, this is what the president proposes to do to save the economy and create more jobs.

hmmm -- maybe a little innovation might come in handy here...

Please.  Somebody.  Anybody.  Isn't there a couple of fuk'nbigdeal-robots for this?

and there you go, G is all over the place all over again.   and some might even think in such a way that is totally unfukeenbelievable (whatever); but with regard to the week-on-blog, this is considered great follow through, a key quality for any free market mover and shaker. 

Make it a Good Day, G

Dear America,

Perhaps every couple of hundred years a people has to do what a people has to do... Revolution, anyone?

I got to thinking about all of this hullabaloo about health care, reform, the need for government to step in and help us poor souls and it just started making me so crazy. The politics of spin and timing and bad economics along with the prevailing winds of "the sky is falling we must do something now before it's too late" is basically creating a culture of fear. Dare I say, rushing to solve this issue from a position of fear and deprivation will only rush us into another bad new deal.

They say that the 47 million "Americans" not covered amounts to about 15% of our nation -- so 85% are covered! They also say that due to the government provisions already in place, nobody is turned away from an emergency room -- ever -- even those who are here illegally! They also say that we in America are blessed with the BEST health care in the world, hence the story goes everyone and their mother COME HERE for recovery to reap the benefits of American innovation and organization second to none.

I love that word INNOVATION. It is funny that a product today pokes fun of the very word in a television commercial...Post Shredded Wheat. Have you seen it? The spokesperson says, "we take the NO out of Innovation"...reveling in the very nature that this product doesn't need to change.

Why do they capitalize on the idea of no innovation? Because like my dad always said if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Some things started out a good idea and just kept on going being a good idea. Simple. And taking it one step further, I can't help but think of my grandmother who has been eating Shredded Wheat since the age of 10! Today, at the age of 92, she still makes a bowl of it every morning, divining a count of 22 pieces as if it were a religious experience (and maybe it is). Of course, at the risk of digressing, she is an example of what eating right and taking care of yourself is all about. Again, personal responsibility goes a long, long way. Enough said.

Our country and our fellow Americans have always been recognized for our innovation, our discoveries, our inventions, our attitude, our good Samaritans, our military who saves the world, and most importantly, our ability to year in and year out be the country where dreams can come true and anyone can grow up to be anything. When you put us all together we are this country.

So what is really happening here? Is it not the current political agenda in play that has us all bushwhacked? For really then, after careful study, doesn't this issue simply become a tool to create another bureaucracy?

By definition, a bureaucracy is "any administration in which the need to follow complex procedures impedes effective action". Just because government believes they are acting in ways which are presumably what is best for us doesn't make it so. We must think it through for ourselves and trust our own judgment otherwise we will grow to become a people dependent on the government for everything!

I just obtained health insurance for myself after leaving my previous employer and turning down the expensive option of going on Cobra. It took me three days to shop around, apply and get approved (even with pre-existing conditions). It was amazing how easy and efficient it was and, in the end, amounts to half of what I would have had to pay if choosing the Cobra option. Here's the kicker, I remain with the same health insurance I was previously on with my company, but getting even BETTER service; for with my old company I was only receiving an HMO, and now I have a PPO, allowing me even more choice when it comes to taking care of me.

I cover my daughter, too, under a separate policy and have had that ever since she was born and she is now twelve.

It was so easy and such a good experience, I will even tell you who the lucky show of health innovation and organization won my loyalty over -- Anthem Blue Cross.

Now here's another kicker, I am single too. So break those old prejudices and preconceived ideas of single mothers; even us poor single mothers can get health insurance! But let me be clear, I am certainly not rich, and currently inbetween opportunities with employers, but the point is I got insurance.

I believe that people, in general, would rather just get a free lunch out of our government; make someone else responsible for our ills and pay for it. Who really wants to pay for health insurance anyway, certainly not me. It is no fun being responsible for ourselves sometimes. No fun being the adult. And no fun in paying out each and every month for an insurance on something we hope we never really need to use, like in the catastrophic ailments.

So perhaps what we must do is revolutionize our health care system -- simplify it, extinguish waste and fraud -- and maybe even allow for the industry to ultimately prosper. You know, it is okay if our doctors and nurses and hospices and cancer centers and alternative medicine clinics all prosper from giving us such great care. It is who we are as a culture to think and grow rich and be healthy and happy as we do it. It is who we are as Americans. It is what we are made of and what dreams are made of everyday.

If we limit ourselves under this veil of fear we will not prevail. Our country will go on life support and slowly fall into a coma of no return.

Make it a good day, G