Monday March 30 2009

I would have never thought that I would wake up one morning after going to bed in a democratic republic country, and find out I now live in a dictatorship run country. That's what happened though. When a president can in essence fire a CEO of a company tell another company they must merge with a foreign company and then say "my administration will give them 60 day's of operating capital", he has declared himself dictator of America. Since when does anyone in government have the right to tell a private company how to run there business, as far as who there CEO will be and who they must merge with. Yea anti trust laws keep them from merging together some times but nothing I know of says government is allowed to tell them who to merge with. President Obama swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. Show me where in the constitution any of this is possible. He should be impeached for failing to uphold the constitution and for in essence trashing it. Many in the house and Senate should be impeached as well they all swore oaths to protect and defend the Constitution, yet many even openly trash it. Barney Frank the other day said he would not want Gay Rights legislation go before the current Supreme Court. He was afraid it would be ruled unconstitutional. He wants to wait tell a more liberal court is setting. Nancy Pelosi wants to allow illegal aliens to live her without fear of deportation. She said something to the effect that deporting them was unconstitutional. Someone please tell me how someone who is not a U.S citizen even has any rights under our Constitution. Have any of those in congress even read it? I hadn't tell about a month ago. Yea we are taught about it in school but not much. Read it and tell me how any thing they are doing or talking about doing is law full.

Someone tell me why I shouldn't go buy a bunch of monopoly games and start paying all my bills with monopoly money? Yea I know its against the law and its not real money, but how is it any different than what our government is doing right now. Hell monopoly money may be worth more. Why should I even pay any of my bills? Congress wants to void written contracts with people at companies who received bail out money. Where is that allowed unless it is by a bankruptcy judge? Someone who knows how needs to sue, impeach to something to stop this madness now. If I knew how I would I am that pissed off right now. I used to just go about my day and not worry about government, but things have gone drastically a stray. There are signs off hope Glen Beck, Fox News, Mark Levin and many others, but I am afraid all may be lost if the current administration and congress continue to act as they have.

Someone tell me I am just crazy and all will be ok. Yea like I would believe them. LOL. I plan on attending a local Tea Party on April 15th and I am drafting letters to congress and president. That and the sights that I belong too like resistance.com and others are all I know to do. Besides reading and educating my self. I encourage others to do the same get involved however you can. It may not be a true dictatorship yet but I am afraid we are not far from that or something similar or worse.

Recent visit to my employer:

Now this is likely to kind of wander a bit, just my feelings on a recent visit to work and how it ties in with current affairs in MHO.

As many of you know I have been of work since late October 2008. Well I have finally been released to return to work with light duty for about 6 weeks. I spoke with my boss two weeks ago and he said he would get back to me. Since I had not heard anything I thought I'd stop by and make sure it was ok to return under those condition. So I stop by HR no real problems there they say they need to talk with my boss which I already knew he was ok with it. Then I go by to talk with him and set up a definite start date and see what shift he wanted me on. I walk up to the break room and see nearly the entire dayshift setting in the lunch room. I think to myself now what, Layoffs again? Turns out someone either backed into or ran over a flap with the tug. At least that's the story I got so far.

Now I bring this up because only a week or two before a was injured in the accident we had a similar stand down safety meeting, (as they call it). For the most part the same things that I heard during this meeting where said during the meeting last October. Now to me the fact we constantly keep having this problems there are only a few solutions/reasons. Either all of us out on the floor are a bunch of incompetent Idiots or our supervision is not getting the message across to us. Well according to the supervisor's in the meeting our work force is one of the best in the business, so to me it must be that they are not getting the right message out. in fact one of them actually spoke to this and said they needed to do a better job.

Ok so now you're asking smartass how would you fix it? Well just listening to upper management list all this data about how many accidents we have had. how many injuries we have had and how they compare to the national average has not worked in the past. So why do they think trotting out the same stuff over and over again is going to do any good this time. If I remember right the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result". Now the fact they trout out all these facts and figures doesn't bother me so much as when they twist the truth in ways that seem to support their point. One of them said in past ten years there have been 14.000 plus deaths due to aircraft crashes. Ok that is true but I think it is misleading and misguided to leave out the part that until the recent crash near Buffalo there were no deaths in the US due to an aircraft crash in the past two years. Now to me that says that as a whole the aviation industry is improving as far as safety standards go. I heard a man on the news the other day blaming the recent crashes on the fact that air carriers contract out their maintance . And because of this the FAA can't inspect the maintance as often. Ok once again someone twisted the truth to make their point. Yes air careers do contract out maintance but repair stations are inspected regularly by the air carriers FAA reps as well as local reps, In fact they might just be inspected more often because most repair stations have more than on air carrier as a customer.

So how does all this tie into current affairs. Well if the President on members of Congress twist the truth and omit certain things out. How are we the general public to do any different. it kind of seems like now anyone can say whatever they want and as long as it is not an out and out lie it is ok. Take Obama's earmark promises. Under his administration there will be no more earmarks in the bills he signs into law. Now I guess if you add a statement and the bottom of a bill that says there are no earmarks in it then it must be so. I also must assume that if you just have your name removed as being a sponsor of an earmark but not actually remove the earmark then it not an earmark. Kind of like if a tree falls in the woods and know hears it did it really fall? I also heard a congressman come on and say there was only 10 million in earmarks in this bill far less than normal.

So back to my visit and tying all this in. If we have people who represent us, miss leading, telling half or twisted truths, how are we to ever take anything they say seriously? We are told at work to just say stop and everyone will stop what they are doing and ask what you think is unsafe. Yet many times when it is a minor thing you are laughed at. Ok that may not sound so bad if it's a minor thing, so what if no one pays any attrition to you? As long as they do when it is truly serious. Well who gets to decide when its truly serious, and if you are ignored often enough who says you don't just give up all together? Now instead of trotting out all these facts and figures which most out on the floor don't care about or may not fully understand. Why not say look you all know how to get up in the morning clean up get to work. You know what time your breaks are and when the lunch wagon gets here. You know when your check is supposed to be deposited and can figure out if you were paid correctly. Does it not make since that you should know to check your surroundings and to do your job correctly? Quit treating us like a bunch of children we don't need a bunch of facts and figures thrown at us when something goes wrong. Those who through reckless behavior screw something up need to be dealt with accordingly. Now we had a guy who thought that way but from what I heard he was let go. Why, I have not heard.

We have a majority in Washington who try and take care of those who seem to not be able to take care of them self's. They pass laws that will most likely hurt this country in the long run, while twisting the truth and facts to support their opinion. Now we once had a man in Washington who knew enough to tell America that it's up to you to make the most of yourself not the government. He made sure the government stayed out of the way. Now I hear that people who say Reagan was a great man and we should strive to achieve what he accomplished, are told that's not what this country needs. I say that's exactly what we need. The majority of us know how to get up, clean up, feed ourselves. Why is it so hard to do the rest of the stuff for ourselves?