O.K. I want to get one thing straight here.
I am exactly who Obama was referring to when he was talking about the 34 million Americans who needed or wanted health care.
But the funny thing is that there is NOTHING in the health care package that Obama put out there for me.
Obama keeps using rhetoric about how all the things people say about it that are negative. But when I use Common sense as I try to do, I see that they are not scare tactics.
Rationing? It HAS to happen or the costs of health care will supersede the G.D.P. of the whole world, forget the U.S. in fact it is happening already just ask my 5 month old daughter who now cannot get the prescription she needs because the state cannot afford it with the new health care plan of Obama’s.
Death panels? Same thing I mean think about it if you are going to ration anyway (as you have to) then doesn’t it make sense to be sure you are getting the most bang for your buck? So sorry all you 70 year olds out there who need a heart transplant, but those are too expensive to waste on you.
What about the claims about the lies of Obama re: keep your doctor, have access to doctors that didn’t exist before, and so on?
Well let’s look at it this way. When I was able to use the Medicare system it still didn’t help ME because there were not enough doctors taking the Medicare. The ones that were taking Medicare were so busy and inundated with patients that they could not take anymore patients.
Also now the government is going to tell them that they are going to get LESS reimbursement for the ones they do see… is that really going to make them want to see MORE patients?
So what is The Great Obama’s plan? Make me buy something I can’t afford or punish me for not. Even though I will get no benefit from the money I pay out. How is this better?
What we NEED is a plan that LOWERS cost and raises access. But that is exactly what we did NOT get from Obama’s health care plan.
May 19, 2010
April 26, 2010
who is really the greedy one?
SO the way I See it the government needs to stop accusing everyone else of being greedy.
They have a kind of sickness! They are the ones who continuously want to raise taxes.
Now they ought to know that raising taxes causes people to reduce overall spending. After all they proudly declare this as one of their tools to redirect the behavior of Americans.
For example the tobacco industry is being phased out of existence by Government deliberately (or so I have heard them claim). The way the gov’t is doing this is through taxing the product so heavily that people are driven away from using it just by sheer cost.
And yet when you see them in action they don’t seem to get it all the rest of the time.
“Hey we need to make money, let’s add a new tax on cars! Increase the taxes!!!”
G.M. is too big to fail! but they are about to go bankrupt! We gotta bail them out. Why won’t people buy these cars? They’re too expensive. It must be because the car company is too greedy. Increase the taxes!
See the car company wasn’t necessarily the greedy one. It was the government that was to greedy.
The Government is the ones who keep raising prices. All they can say is “more taxes, more taxes”.
“Too many people are unemployed MORE TAXES“.
Why are they unemployed? Because the businesses which would hire them are paying so much in taxes they cannot hire new employees.
“More people want health care MORE TAXES” why can’t they buy the health care policies now? Because they cost to much due to the taxes.
“People want a better education for their kids, MORE TAXES”. why can’t they get a good education with what is spent on them now? I mean after all we spend more per student in this country then ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. And we have the lowest educational quality. Why? Because the government has to interfere and create a bureaucracy that is unwieldy and expensive. The money isn’t spent on the students directly it is spent on the administrators and programs that gov’t has mandated the schools must do. And we have to have more money to administrate those. It doesn’t matter how much we pour in to the schools it will ALL get sucked up into some program that does little if anything to truly benefit the kids.
So who is the greedy one? Government. Not the manufacturers, not the teachers, not the doctors; the GOVERNMENT. And my fellow citizens I say “This needs to stop!” and it needs to stop NOW.
Smaller Government, Smaller taxes.
They have a kind of sickness! They are the ones who continuously want to raise taxes.
Now they ought to know that raising taxes causes people to reduce overall spending. After all they proudly declare this as one of their tools to redirect the behavior of Americans.
For example the tobacco industry is being phased out of existence by Government deliberately (or so I have heard them claim). The way the gov’t is doing this is through taxing the product so heavily that people are driven away from using it just by sheer cost.
And yet when you see them in action they don’t seem to get it all the rest of the time.
“Hey we need to make money, let’s add a new tax on cars! Increase the taxes!!!”
G.M. is too big to fail! but they are about to go bankrupt! We gotta bail them out. Why won’t people buy these cars? They’re too expensive. It must be because the car company is too greedy. Increase the taxes!
See the car company wasn’t necessarily the greedy one. It was the government that was to greedy.
The Government is the ones who keep raising prices. All they can say is “more taxes, more taxes”.
“Too many people are unemployed MORE TAXES“.
Why are they unemployed? Because the businesses which would hire them are paying so much in taxes they cannot hire new employees.
“More people want health care MORE TAXES” why can’t they buy the health care policies now? Because they cost to much due to the taxes.
“People want a better education for their kids, MORE TAXES”. why can’t they get a good education with what is spent on them now? I mean after all we spend more per student in this country then ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. And we have the lowest educational quality. Why? Because the government has to interfere and create a bureaucracy that is unwieldy and expensive. The money isn’t spent on the students directly it is spent on the administrators and programs that gov’t has mandated the schools must do. And we have to have more money to administrate those. It doesn’t matter how much we pour in to the schools it will ALL get sucked up into some program that does little if anything to truly benefit the kids.
So who is the greedy one? Government. Not the manufacturers, not the teachers, not the doctors; the GOVERNMENT. And my fellow citizens I say “This needs to stop!” and it needs to stop NOW.
Smaller Government, Smaller taxes.
Kudos to Arizona!
That’s right I want to say congratulations to Arizona for making the bold and difficult choice to do the right thing.
Many people are totally against the recent legislation which passed in Arizona but what was done was needed! I hear people crying out how this will lead to racial profiling, or this is just an attempt to single out a race for harassment but I would disagree.
I believe if you have a certain person or group of people who are breaking the law then you need to arrest them. PERIOD!!!
It is NOT profiling or discrimination to bust someone for breaking the law.
“oh but this is aimed at Latinos.” they say. I say no it is not. The main perpetrators in Arizona may come over the Mexican border but they are Somalis, or they are Afghans, Venezuelans, or whatever. The point is they are here in our country ILLEGALLY! Therefore they need to be apprehended and dealt with as such.
On one of my favorite radio shows last night the host had a guest who asked the question “would you like to have to prove your citizenship every time you are pulled over?” And my answer is “I ALREADY DO!” if I am pulled over I have to show my driver’s license…oops that would be a proof of citizenship… people already are doing this every day. The only difference is that now the police in Arizona have the authority to, GASP!!!!!!!, enforce the law OH NO WHAT A HORRIBLE THING!!!
How about if I put it in terms all you Obama care advocates can understand… Since you are so up on doing EVERYTHING the way everyone else in the world does it… In ANY other country in this world you have to register with the local authorities and provide proof that you are there legally. If they are doing it why don’t we? I mean that WAS the argument you used to explain whyh we so desperately needed this really bad health care plan that is going to do nothing it promised but cost us twice as much. (Just like the guy YOU put into office.)
Oh but wait maybe THAT is the real problem you have with this. This will actually SAVE us money, it will do something positive for the American citizens and it is a GOOD idea.
Hmm that is a problem.
No really though think about it… Arizona has been named the kidnapping capital of the WORLD because of illegals coming up and kidnapping our citizens, they face crime epidemics of unparalleled audacity, (drugs, theft, rape, violent AND nonviolent crimes of all sorts.) They are seeing a sharp decline in heath care because of an over loaded system, and in the middle of all this they are seeing NO action whatsoever from the federal government. The Governor of Arizona has pleaded with the president for some kind of aid and has apparently had ALL her pleas fall on deaf ears.
I think it may be possible that the recent murder of a law abiding rancher at the hands of illegals was the tipping point.
When you have people being massacred in their own back yards you have to do something.
I think the real issue here is that the federal government is at fault for not doing something to fix the problem while there was still a chance.
Many people are totally against the recent legislation which passed in Arizona but what was done was needed! I hear people crying out how this will lead to racial profiling, or this is just an attempt to single out a race for harassment but I would disagree.
I believe if you have a certain person or group of people who are breaking the law then you need to arrest them. PERIOD!!!
It is NOT profiling or discrimination to bust someone for breaking the law.
“oh but this is aimed at Latinos.” they say. I say no it is not. The main perpetrators in Arizona may come over the Mexican border but they are Somalis, or they are Afghans, Venezuelans, or whatever. The point is they are here in our country ILLEGALLY! Therefore they need to be apprehended and dealt with as such.
On one of my favorite radio shows last night the host had a guest who asked the question “would you like to have to prove your citizenship every time you are pulled over?” And my answer is “I ALREADY DO!” if I am pulled over I have to show my driver’s license…oops that would be a proof of citizenship… people already are doing this every day. The only difference is that now the police in Arizona have the authority to, GASP!!!!!!!, enforce the law OH NO WHAT A HORRIBLE THING!!!
How about if I put it in terms all you Obama care advocates can understand… Since you are so up on doing EVERYTHING the way everyone else in the world does it… In ANY other country in this world you have to register with the local authorities and provide proof that you are there legally. If they are doing it why don’t we? I mean that WAS the argument you used to explain whyh we so desperately needed this really bad health care plan that is going to do nothing it promised but cost us twice as much. (Just like the guy YOU put into office.)
Oh but wait maybe THAT is the real problem you have with this. This will actually SAVE us money, it will do something positive for the American citizens and it is a GOOD idea.
Hmm that is a problem.
No really though think about it… Arizona has been named the kidnapping capital of the WORLD because of illegals coming up and kidnapping our citizens, they face crime epidemics of unparalleled audacity, (drugs, theft, rape, violent AND nonviolent crimes of all sorts.) They are seeing a sharp decline in heath care because of an over loaded system, and in the middle of all this they are seeing NO action whatsoever from the federal government. The Governor of Arizona has pleaded with the president for some kind of aid and has apparently had ALL her pleas fall on deaf ears.
I think it may be possible that the recent murder of a law abiding rancher at the hands of illegals was the tipping point.
When you have people being massacred in their own back yards you have to do something.
I think the real issue here is that the federal government is at fault for not doing something to fix the problem while there was still a chance.
April 08, 2010
What to do?
So I am dealing with a dilemma. First I am a little alarmed. At the same time I am impressed.
I am alarmed at the tactics of the Democrats. They are doing everything they can to wrongfully discredit all opponents, they are denying reality and making outrageous claims that are proven to be lies.
Yet I gotta tell you if half the stuff they do say is true then we ought to be giving these people major kudos and even sports contracts.
One of the situations I am referring to is a democrat senator who claims that a conservative threw a rock through his office headquarters in his home state. (oh those evil conservatives).
Turns out though that the office in question was 30 stories off the ground. I mean WOW that guy needs to be in sports!
Then there is the case of a man who allegedly spit, that's right spit, on a senator while said politician was walking through the crowds beside Ms. Pelosi on the way to congress.
Unfortunately for the politician the whole event was filmed and the film proof denies what he claims.
apparently a group has claimed they are going to defeat the tea party movement by exaggerating the actions of said group. they outright have claimed they will go out and infiltrate the tea party and deliberately misspell signs and they will loudly hurl epithets and in general act racist and whatever.
So all the things that we see going on that are so negative about the tea party are, apparently, deliberately engineered to discredit the tea party.
This is a little scary because what they are doing is denying people the chance to practice their constitutional rights.
I have to say that I am offended by these actions because I served in the U.S. Military to protect the freedoms that they are trying to walk all over.
if you cannot accept the fact that there are people who disagree with you or your view then you shouldn't be here.
and that brings me to one more point I keep wanting to make...
I live(d?) in the United States of America and I loved my country.
I loved my country because, while it was not perfect, it was a place that was created on a different premise... that "all men are created equal" and we saw a major difference in our country because of that.
We had better health care available to us because of our freedoms, we had the ability to say what we wanted without fear, we had the ability to live the life we wanted without interference from other people.
Now we have people saying "we need to have health care like Canada, or like France or like England.
My view is that if you want the health care offered in England or Canada or whatever then you need to move to those countries! The funny thing is that all the Canadians who could afford to would come here for their health care. If the Canadian system is so good why do they have to come here?
And similar concern is raised regarding all the other countries used as examples.
I mean both Canada and Mexico have the state sponsored health care option and yet we still get hundreds of illegal aliens coming up from Mexico for health care because even the cheap options here (E.R.'s) are a thousand times better than what is in Mexico. And as I said before the Canadians who can afford it come here too.
I say leave the health care alone... or is this really an effort to keep the illegals out? maybe that's it? if they are coming here to use the health care we have then if we change the care maybe they will stay away...
Whatever. I want the Government to keep their hands to themselves and stop trying to fix things in ways that make them worse.
I am alarmed at the tactics of the Democrats. They are doing everything they can to wrongfully discredit all opponents, they are denying reality and making outrageous claims that are proven to be lies.
Yet I gotta tell you if half the stuff they do say is true then we ought to be giving these people major kudos and even sports contracts.
One of the situations I am referring to is a democrat senator who claims that a conservative threw a rock through his office headquarters in his home state. (oh those evil conservatives).
Turns out though that the office in question was 30 stories off the ground. I mean WOW that guy needs to be in sports!
Then there is the case of a man who allegedly spit, that's right spit, on a senator while said politician was walking through the crowds beside Ms. Pelosi on the way to congress.
Unfortunately for the politician the whole event was filmed and the film proof denies what he claims.
apparently a group has claimed they are going to defeat the tea party movement by exaggerating the actions of said group. they outright have claimed they will go out and infiltrate the tea party and deliberately misspell signs and they will loudly hurl epithets and in general act racist and whatever.
So all the things that we see going on that are so negative about the tea party are, apparently, deliberately engineered to discredit the tea party.
This is a little scary because what they are doing is denying people the chance to practice their constitutional rights.
I have to say that I am offended by these actions because I served in the U.S. Military to protect the freedoms that they are trying to walk all over.
if you cannot accept the fact that there are people who disagree with you or your view then you shouldn't be here.
and that brings me to one more point I keep wanting to make...
I live(d?) in the United States of America and I loved my country.
I loved my country because, while it was not perfect, it was a place that was created on a different premise... that "all men are created equal" and we saw a major difference in our country because of that.
We had better health care available to us because of our freedoms, we had the ability to say what we wanted without fear, we had the ability to live the life we wanted without interference from other people.
Now we have people saying "we need to have health care like Canada, or like France or like England.
My view is that if you want the health care offered in England or Canada or whatever then you need to move to those countries! The funny thing is that all the Canadians who could afford to would come here for their health care. If the Canadian system is so good why do they have to come here?
And similar concern is raised regarding all the other countries used as examples.
I mean both Canada and Mexico have the state sponsored health care option and yet we still get hundreds of illegal aliens coming up from Mexico for health care because even the cheap options here (E.R.'s) are a thousand times better than what is in Mexico. And as I said before the Canadians who can afford it come here too.
I say leave the health care alone... or is this really an effort to keep the illegals out? maybe that's it? if they are coming here to use the health care we have then if we change the care maybe they will stay away...
Whatever. I want the Government to keep their hands to themselves and stop trying to fix things in ways that make them worse.
March 31, 2010
Restaurant style health care
I thought of a really good analogy and I wanted to share it with you.
The recent Health care bill passage and the subsequent broo ha ha caused a friend of mine to ask why so many people are against such a good idea.
I responded that my main problem was that I couldn't afford it and neither could our children but he didn't seem to understand. So I am going to try to explain it through this analogy.
first I have to point out that I am exactly the kind of person that president Obama Described every time he said these are the people we need to help... that is I am without health care I would like to have health care but I can't even miss a day of work because my finances are so tight that a day off work literally could mean I can't pay the rent, let alone have the extra cash to spend on an expensive health care policy.
But the plan instituted here does absolutely nothing for me.
When I first moved here I was on medicare because I was without a job and at least a year ago there were no doctors in my area who were accepting patients of my status. (that's right none, zip, zero, nada, niente...) Now He wants to add more people into a system that already has too many patients and not enough doctors, while lowering the amount that system will pay the doctors?
How does this help me?
Plus MY taxes are still going to increase to pay for it.
I See it as being like a restaurant. I go in to have a meal I am not rich, and I want to save some of my hard earned cash, so I will only have a grilled cheese sandwich. because it is the cheapest item.
But then when I get the bill I find I am also paying for the Lobster Thermidor and the $500 an ounce caviar that the diner at the next table chose to eat.
What's more that diner chose that meal in part because he KNEW he wouldn't be paying for it.
And even worse than that, this plan doesn't meet all the needs... you want vegetables with that? tough those aren't covered because no one likes them and they are too expensive... HUH????
So what am I supposed to do? My first and primary care giver will still be the E.R. just as it was/is before the interference of the government. I still will suffer poor health and limited choice but in the end it will cost me more.
And Our fearless leader did this to help me? with help like that I will soon and up dead. OH THANK you oh SO much Mr. President. (please note that last was said with all the sarcasm I could muster.)
Maybe I will start using this as a curse... "May you be helped by the liberals." Hmm then again I really wouldn't wish this poor excuse for "reform" on my worst enemies.
Am I in favor of reform of some kind? YES! I want reform that actually addresses COST of service not something that ADDS taxes so the cost is higher!
I want reform that creates an affordable alternative!
Not a threat that if I do not buy the Policies the Government chose then I will have to go to jail or be fined for it. (for crying out loud like I already said I cannot afford health care as it is, and now the insurance companies have hiked their rates as much as 37% and they are looking at ANOTHER hike of up to 15% JUST BECAUSE OF THIS LEGISLATION!!!)
maybe if Medicare paid at least the operating costs of the doctors then there would be more doctors who would accept it.
Maybe if there was a standardized rate for services then everyone would know where they were on things.
Maybe if the Insurance companies weren't allowed to wheedle special treatment out of hospitals and doctors so everyone else had to pay more.
Maybe if there was a limit or clause that a person could not sue doctors willy nilly. That they had to have a truly justified case, not just an "oh I feel bad that gramps died, even though he had a bad heart and scarfed down bacon and quadruple burgers like water, so now I want to get all I can out of the doctor/s to assuage my pain."
Maybe if the Malpractice insurers had to hold down costs for the doctors so the doctors wouldn't have to pay out millions of dollars thereby increasing their overhead...
But Obama did NONE of that. Oh no his idea is to tax everything... yeah that will make it more affordable, raise costs... that always makes it cheaper huh?.
His plan is to cut back on how much medicare will pay... yeah the doctors will be able to stay in business while declaring bankruptcy because they cannot get enough to pay the bills.
His plan is to throw all the people who don't buy insurance into jail... oh yeah that will fix it all, nevermind that the jail systems in this country are ALL overcrowded... yeah hmm I can't afford to buy this service that makes me a felon... good plan.
His plan is to tell people they can't get needed surgery because they are too old for it to be worthwhile, or they just plain don't have a good enough quality of life... That is exactly like saying... "you may as well just crawl off somewhere and die to ease your suffering."
Wait a minute maybe that is the plan! If we kill off all the old people, the sick people and the poor people then health care would have to get cheaper.
I mean, it will work because all you will have left is the strong, healthy and rich people.
Ah Utopia here it comes and who cares what happens to the peasant rabble.
A word though Mr. President, I know you abhor History and reality but this plan has been tried before in a way (that is the "let the peasants suffer" concept) And it has never worked out well before.
The recent Health care bill passage and the subsequent broo ha ha caused a friend of mine to ask why so many people are against such a good idea.
I responded that my main problem was that I couldn't afford it and neither could our children but he didn't seem to understand. So I am going to try to explain it through this analogy.
first I have to point out that I am exactly the kind of person that president Obama Described every time he said these are the people we need to help... that is I am without health care I would like to have health care but I can't even miss a day of work because my finances are so tight that a day off work literally could mean I can't pay the rent, let alone have the extra cash to spend on an expensive health care policy.
But the plan instituted here does absolutely nothing for me.
When I first moved here I was on medicare because I was without a job and at least a year ago there were no doctors in my area who were accepting patients of my status. (that's right none, zip, zero, nada, niente...) Now He wants to add more people into a system that already has too many patients and not enough doctors, while lowering the amount that system will pay the doctors?
How does this help me?
Plus MY taxes are still going to increase to pay for it.
I See it as being like a restaurant. I go in to have a meal I am not rich, and I want to save some of my hard earned cash, so I will only have a grilled cheese sandwich. because it is the cheapest item.
But then when I get the bill I find I am also paying for the Lobster Thermidor and the $500 an ounce caviar that the diner at the next table chose to eat.
What's more that diner chose that meal in part because he KNEW he wouldn't be paying for it.
And even worse than that, this plan doesn't meet all the needs... you want vegetables with that? tough those aren't covered because no one likes them and they are too expensive... HUH????
So what am I supposed to do? My first and primary care giver will still be the E.R. just as it was/is before the interference of the government. I still will suffer poor health and limited choice but in the end it will cost me more.
And Our fearless leader did this to help me? with help like that I will soon and up dead. OH THANK you oh SO much Mr. President. (please note that last was said with all the sarcasm I could muster.)
Maybe I will start using this as a curse... "May you be helped by the liberals." Hmm then again I really wouldn't wish this poor excuse for "reform" on my worst enemies.
Am I in favor of reform of some kind? YES! I want reform that actually addresses COST of service not something that ADDS taxes so the cost is higher!
I want reform that creates an affordable alternative!
Not a threat that if I do not buy the Policies the Government chose then I will have to go to jail or be fined for it. (for crying out loud like I already said I cannot afford health care as it is, and now the insurance companies have hiked their rates as much as 37% and they are looking at ANOTHER hike of up to 15% JUST BECAUSE OF THIS LEGISLATION!!!)
maybe if Medicare paid at least the operating costs of the doctors then there would be more doctors who would accept it.
Maybe if there was a standardized rate for services then everyone would know where they were on things.
Maybe if the Insurance companies weren't allowed to wheedle special treatment out of hospitals and doctors so everyone else had to pay more.
Maybe if there was a limit or clause that a person could not sue doctors willy nilly. That they had to have a truly justified case, not just an "oh I feel bad that gramps died, even though he had a bad heart and scarfed down bacon and quadruple burgers like water, so now I want to get all I can out of the doctor/s to assuage my pain."
Maybe if the Malpractice insurers had to hold down costs for the doctors so the doctors wouldn't have to pay out millions of dollars thereby increasing their overhead...
But Obama did NONE of that. Oh no his idea is to tax everything... yeah that will make it more affordable, raise costs... that always makes it cheaper huh?.
His plan is to cut back on how much medicare will pay... yeah the doctors will be able to stay in business while declaring bankruptcy because they cannot get enough to pay the bills.
His plan is to throw all the people who don't buy insurance into jail... oh yeah that will fix it all, nevermind that the jail systems in this country are ALL overcrowded... yeah hmm I can't afford to buy this service that makes me a felon... good plan.
His plan is to tell people they can't get needed surgery because they are too old for it to be worthwhile, or they just plain don't have a good enough quality of life... That is exactly like saying... "you may as well just crawl off somewhere and die to ease your suffering."
Wait a minute maybe that is the plan! If we kill off all the old people, the sick people and the poor people then health care would have to get cheaper.
I mean, it will work because all you will have left is the strong, healthy and rich people.
Ah Utopia here it comes and who cares what happens to the peasant rabble.
A word though Mr. President, I know you abhor History and reality but this plan has been tried before in a way (that is the "let the peasants suffer" concept) And it has never worked out well before.
March 30, 2010
Improving Self Esteem
I recall hanging a magazine ad on my bedroom door when I was a boy. It was a PSA that said "you cannot raise yourself up by bringing another down."
The ad was aimed at preventing bullying and child abuse and at the time I felt it was an important point because it seemed that was what my father tended to do. Of course in hindsight I have to admit that had he really been abusive or violent I wouldn't have dared putting that up on my door for fear of the repercussions... but I digress.
Recent events by the American people as a whole though have me very concerned.You see I understand the desire that we all have to encourage self esteem. And while I will not argue that it would be better for kids to not become suicidal or depressed over certain issues, I think we take it too far.
I have seen and experienced the effects of depression and I was a child who could have had a little more positive encouragement. But I have found that what I really needed and indeed what most of us seem to need is to be able to accomplish things. I mean HELLO, I didn't need someone telling me "oh is that test too hard for you? well let's make it easier so you feel better about you." No what I NEEDED was to sit down and work at it until I WAS good enough to do well on the test and excel!
Well now I see both of the negatives from these two points coming togther in our society in a very dangerous way.
In short we are deliberately dragging ourselves down so that others can feel good. NOW WAIT A COTTON PICKIN MOMENT!
Like the PSA that hung on my door some 20 years ago I think we all need to be reminded that one person being dragged down, NO MATTER WHO IS DOING THE DRAGGING, does not raise up another person. In fact I think that attitude will only lead us to mediocrity and suffering.
Also I think that if we really want others to have something to feel good about, instead of dragging ourselves down it would be better to give them a helping hand UP in learning how to BE better.
Then they get better self esteem through their accomplishments and the world as a whole is improved.
All the goals that we face are answered.
Do you doubt it? How about a little test. Go out there and plant some seeds in the ground, do not water them, do not weed them, just dig a hole and shove them in... heck don't even cover them with dirt. Now be all sad and weepy that you do not have anything growing until someone hands you a flower or a piece of fruit. How does that make you feel?
Now try going out and plant a nice little garden. learn what kind of soil you have, find out what PH balance you need, water your seeds, fertilize them, make sure they have plenty of sun and keep the weeds out.
then when time for harvest or whatever comes around go out and pick yourself a nice bouquet of flowers or get some of those strawberries and make a nice dessert... NOW how do you feel?
You see the first one doesn't do anything for you. You have accomplished NOTHING and so while you have a nice pretty for the moment you don't have any long term satisfaction. the only "advantage" to the first approach is that you get to be A Lazy jerk.
The advantage to the second option though is that you have accomplished something. and while your flowers or dessert may be just as fleeting the memory is lasting and the sense of pride will be there for the rest of your life... And THAT is the best self esteem there is.
Once you have grown something from seed you know you can; and you know that if you ever want to you can do it again.
When you're lazy you never learn what it is you can or cannot do. and THAT leads to low self esteem.
We need to learn this and learn it now before it is too late.
The ad was aimed at preventing bullying and child abuse and at the time I felt it was an important point because it seemed that was what my father tended to do. Of course in hindsight I have to admit that had he really been abusive or violent I wouldn't have dared putting that up on my door for fear of the repercussions... but I digress.
Recent events by the American people as a whole though have me very concerned.You see I understand the desire that we all have to encourage self esteem. And while I will not argue that it would be better for kids to not become suicidal or depressed over certain issues, I think we take it too far.
I have seen and experienced the effects of depression and I was a child who could have had a little more positive encouragement. But I have found that what I really needed and indeed what most of us seem to need is to be able to accomplish things. I mean HELLO, I didn't need someone telling me "oh is that test too hard for you? well let's make it easier so you feel better about you." No what I NEEDED was to sit down and work at it until I WAS good enough to do well on the test and excel!
Well now I see both of the negatives from these two points coming togther in our society in a very dangerous way.
In short we are deliberately dragging ourselves down so that others can feel good. NOW WAIT A COTTON PICKIN MOMENT!
Like the PSA that hung on my door some 20 years ago I think we all need to be reminded that one person being dragged down, NO MATTER WHO IS DOING THE DRAGGING, does not raise up another person. In fact I think that attitude will only lead us to mediocrity and suffering.
Also I think that if we really want others to have something to feel good about, instead of dragging ourselves down it would be better to give them a helping hand UP in learning how to BE better.
Then they get better self esteem through their accomplishments and the world as a whole is improved.
All the goals that we face are answered.
Do you doubt it? How about a little test. Go out there and plant some seeds in the ground, do not water them, do not weed them, just dig a hole and shove them in... heck don't even cover them with dirt. Now be all sad and weepy that you do not have anything growing until someone hands you a flower or a piece of fruit. How does that make you feel?
Now try going out and plant a nice little garden. learn what kind of soil you have, find out what PH balance you need, water your seeds, fertilize them, make sure they have plenty of sun and keep the weeds out.
then when time for harvest or whatever comes around go out and pick yourself a nice bouquet of flowers or get some of those strawberries and make a nice dessert... NOW how do you feel?
You see the first one doesn't do anything for you. You have accomplished NOTHING and so while you have a nice pretty for the moment you don't have any long term satisfaction. the only "advantage" to the first approach is that you get to be A Lazy jerk.
The advantage to the second option though is that you have accomplished something. and while your flowers or dessert may be just as fleeting the memory is lasting and the sense of pride will be there for the rest of your life... And THAT is the best self esteem there is.
Once you have grown something from seed you know you can; and you know that if you ever want to you can do it again.
When you're lazy you never learn what it is you can or cannot do. and THAT leads to low self esteem.
We need to learn this and learn it now before it is too late.
February 26, 2010
Too Much Harry Potter?
Last night as I started thinking (having followed some of the news about the health care "summit") I realized what I think is the problem here.
See the Democrats who are pushing this Health care are obviously disconnected from reality, and I blame that on Harry Potter.
As I was watching a democrat senator talking about the health care plan as proposed he said, "Polls show that the American people are strongly in favor of this bill." with the implication that the Republicans were being silly to oppose it.
What polls?????????
He made that statement on a t.v. news network which is obviously smitten by the President and yet when the news people went to look at the polls they showed that the American people are strongly OPPOSED to this bill.
Worse the poll they looked at is one which is known to regularly try to conduct polls to favor the liberal agenda. and yet, there it was. the people polled disliked the health care plan by a margin in this Dem friendly poll of 1.5 to 1 against the proposed plan.
The news anchor started to comment (trying to support the senator's position)and had to literally CHOKE down the support when the poll numbers flashed on the screen. She started saying "yes you can..." [see the proof?] then she rapidly changed topic. (this was NOT a small media this was one of the "big" news services on cable.)
Then in the actual meeting the only thing that happened was the president repeated, like a mantra, the same thing he was saying all the time before.
Reminiscent of the time in The Harry Potter Movie when the young Hermione trying to "help" Ron said "it's wingardium leviOHsah not wingardium leviohSAH."
Now Obama is apparently trying the same thing "hmm maybe if I say the health care PLAN is a good thing that will reduce debt, instead of the health care plan is a good thing that will reduce DEBT."
Then Pelosi speaks. " [Not only] will this reduce the national debt, but it will create 4 million new jobs 40,000 of them immediately."
Wait WHAT?????
With all due respect... How do you figure?
Last time I looked when you hire more people it costs MORE MONEY; In order to lower debt you have to PAY LESS... you CANNOT have it both ways.
If it did work that way then ALL these businesses are really screwing up! if they want to make their budget/s then they better go out and start hiring all the people they can... after all that is apparently how to reduce costs... just ask Pelosi!
I guess she is working on the idea that she can wave a little stick, say the right words and bam everything is repaired... hmm yeah that works, after all Harry Potter's glasses receive such a treatment in two different books/movies so clearly that works.
Really, I feel bad for these poor deluded fools. they couldn't cope with reality and they have fallen into a false belief. I hope they will get the help they need. but until then I wonder who will bring us the help WE need.?
Please Lord save us from such as these.
See the Democrats who are pushing this Health care are obviously disconnected from reality, and I blame that on Harry Potter.
As I was watching a democrat senator talking about the health care plan as proposed he said, "Polls show that the American people are strongly in favor of this bill." with the implication that the Republicans were being silly to oppose it.
What polls?????????
He made that statement on a t.v. news network which is obviously smitten by the President and yet when the news people went to look at the polls they showed that the American people are strongly OPPOSED to this bill.
Worse the poll they looked at is one which is known to regularly try to conduct polls to favor the liberal agenda. and yet, there it was. the people polled disliked the health care plan by a margin in this Dem friendly poll of 1.5 to 1 against the proposed plan.
The news anchor started to comment (trying to support the senator's position)and had to literally CHOKE down the support when the poll numbers flashed on the screen. She started saying "yes you can..." [see the proof?] then she rapidly changed topic. (this was NOT a small media this was one of the "big" news services on cable.)
Then in the actual meeting the only thing that happened was the president repeated, like a mantra, the same thing he was saying all the time before.
Reminiscent of the time in The Harry Potter Movie when the young Hermione trying to "help" Ron said "it's wingardium leviOHsah not wingardium leviohSAH."
Now Obama is apparently trying the same thing "hmm maybe if I say the health care PLAN is a good thing that will reduce debt, instead of the health care plan is a good thing that will reduce DEBT."
Then Pelosi speaks. " [Not only] will this reduce the national debt, but it will create 4 million new jobs 40,000 of them immediately."
Wait WHAT?????
With all due respect... How do you figure?
Last time I looked when you hire more people it costs MORE MONEY; In order to lower debt you have to PAY LESS... you CANNOT have it both ways.
If it did work that way then ALL these businesses are really screwing up! if they want to make their budget/s then they better go out and start hiring all the people they can... after all that is apparently how to reduce costs... just ask Pelosi!
I guess she is working on the idea that she can wave a little stick, say the right words and bam everything is repaired... hmm yeah that works, after all Harry Potter's glasses receive such a treatment in two different books/movies so clearly that works.
Really, I feel bad for these poor deluded fools. they couldn't cope with reality and they have fallen into a false belief. I hope they will get the help they need. but until then I wonder who will bring us the help WE need.?
Please Lord save us from such as these.
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