Greed and Incompetence

I work for a company that has just been sold. For the last 5 years my previous company has been so mismanaged as to cause them to go into bankruptcy. What is the first thing this company does? They give retention bonuses to the very people who got us into this mess. After 18 months we come out of bankruptcy. All during that time they cut employees too well below efficient operating standards. They instituted a well publicized program worth around 40 million dollars. Within 6 months they had another program that almost contradicted everything the previous program did. Neither program was worth a damn. Now we are sold, and the clowns that claimed to be management will make another bundle of money.

The problem is that the management people of today, I guess I will go farther The Chamber of Commerce, most of the GOP look at the working people of today as a resource to be used up and discarded. They look at businesses as something to squeeze every penny out of and them throw away, or in our case sell

Religious Intolerance

This is from last week, but I just got around to it today. The newly elected governor of Alabama was quoted as saying "So anyone here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother, and you're not my sister,and I want to be your brother,"

Is this uncommon rhetoric? I don't think so, but from a elected official it is. These loonies never see that they are the cause of more heartache and suffering than anyone else. Look back in history and you will see a lot of death has been caused because one group or another doesn't conform to someone else's idea of what is right. Today we have the radical Muslim who hate the Christians, or the Christians who hate the Jews. Or like the governor of Alabama who has to denegrate other people, it goes on and on.

I see it as one group or another who has to validate their ideas because it makes them feel superior to the rest of us.

Vince Flynn's Pursuit of Honor is a book about a CIA agent battling terrorists.

The story is fine. My problem with the book is the simplistic, or should I say childish view of right and wrong. Mitch Rapp the hero actually thinks he might have to kill a friend and colleague who is showing a conscience. Mitch's rationalization is that he is right and everyone else is wrong and what ever he does is OK. He shows no respect for anyone or anything.

This is not an America I want.

Green Bay Packers

I watched the Packers play the Falcons the other night. Wow! is all I can say. If they can play like that against Chicago they are Super Bowl bound.

INSANITY

The recent events in Tucson AZ. highlight a couple of problems. First, and for most the needless killing of people for reasons that most people can't fathom. The problem is the mentally ill do not process information the same way most of us do. I know that the hate mongers are defending their speech. Just because there is "Freedom of Speech" doesn't mean you have to use it. They do not seem to understand that the mentally ill actually believe those kind of things. Can we as a society stop all these mass killings? I don't think so, but why rile up people who are easily susceptible to these kind of rants. I know the more inflammatory pundits are not going to stop, but maybe the regular people will tone it down.