Life as is...

My soap box is currently being redone, so I wont grandstand today. Just a little blog so everyone will know that i am still alive. I am at work today and taking a break so that i can stretch my mind. Not much going on in the news right now that i can gripe about, the politicians are kinda in a lull as they prepare for their big push into November. I follow politics closely, and always have, but I have to admit...There isnt much to be excited about in the next election. I usually fall along the conservative republican side but as of late, they have kinda been pissing me off as well. I am worried about our country and the direction its going. If we dont stop, take a breath, and take care of whats important in this country, we are doomed. The people of Roman Empire can attest to that .I do believe it is easy to get to big for your britches and expect to much. Simplicity is the key. The people in this country are the ticket to success. It is not the duty of the government to invest in business and spend all our money to bailout companies. If a company over spends itself and fails, oh well. that is business. How much is enough profit. If your company post a quarterly profit of 10 million dollars, celebrate, do the happy dance, and keep doing what your doing. But we get greedy, and want 20 Million. so we overextend our budgets and our credit to "grow " our business in order to raise our profits. It only takes a few times of this until you are in dangerous territory and set up to fail. When you have overextended yourself, you have no wiggle room to compensate for a slowing economy. Even the top economist will tell you that the Market will have to "reset" occasionally...it cant always just go up. So when big business has all their eggs in one basket, and begins to fail, I shouldn't have to spend my money to save them. I mean, after all, they were making 10 million quarterly profit not long ago and i didnt see a penny of that money, now they get my money as well?? I was recently forced to spend a great deal of my money to bail out several large companies that were "to big to fail".
I keep checking my mailbox, but no check yet. Hell, just a thank you would be great.

    Take General Motors for instance.....They have the largest market share of vehicle sales in the world. They were tanking...going down for the last time. Everyone said."but what will happen to all those unemployed workers that GM lays off?" So we spent Millions upon millions to save them. Do you not think, that with such a large market in vehicle sales, that someone will step up and fill the void? Maybe someone with better management skills? That's capitalism! You tried, you failed, my turn! Maybe if the Unions didn't force the companies to pay $40.00 an hour to turn a screw, or pay the bosses extraordinary bonuses, they could have toughed it out.

     I remember when the big Airlines would get in financial trouble back years ago and come running to the government for help. (They used to be the worst at this). It's like they wanted us to think if they shut down, we would have to walk from Chicago to San Francisco if we needed to travel. Remember TWA or Braniff? guess what, other companies took over where they left off and we are still flying the friendly skies.

     I would love to see a swing back to how things used to work. Back when we depended on our workers to produce the goods we need. The farmers were growing our food, and raising our beef. Companies that depend on American consumers could actually afford to keep their businesses in America. We invest our tax money in us, not the rest of the world. we are not a third world country dependent on big brother to help us get by. We sure dont need anyone else to fight our fights for us. We are the USA, we should be what everyone else wants to be. We cower to no one, and cater to no one. You want our help, we will be there, but be ready to stand on your own when we are done. We should invest in our schools and our future. get back in the space program before somebody gets the upper hand on us. make our people proud and willing to work for what they have. to stop expecting handouts because they arent coming. bring back the Civilian Conservation Corps. If you cant get a job or feed your family, you can work fixing up our infrastructure to bring our deteriorating country back to life. People need something to be proud of in themselves. People that need housing could labor in run down neighborhoods remodeling houses for the needy, building sweat equity for their own house. No one should be homeless, no child should go hungry, not in the United States. We are better than that.

     Okay, I realize that I did get on my soapbox again..and for that I am sorry. I just care a great deal for this country and want to see things change. We are the greatest country in the world, and we need to act like it.