Post Office Clerk Healthcare

It was a hot summer afternoon about four when I stopped by the post office to pick up my accumulated mail. I had a ‘Hold’ on it while I was gone to visit my kids in Florida.
When I got to the post office there were five people in line waiting and one clerk handling the counter by herself. The line was moving, but there is always the inevitable problem that is going to back up a line – and it happened.
And it happened at a bad time.
More people started to wander in to do their business with the post office before the end of their work days. The line soon backed up out the door and more people were pouring in. As with most crowds, those who got there later started to grumble. “Where are the other people?” “Where’s the supervisor?” “What’s taking so long?” “Is that the best she can do?”
I could hear the comments at the front of the line, so I knew the clerk could hear them, too.
And that’s when ‘the bad clerk’ came out – that was the clerk with attitude. She was the same person who was there before, but she was different. I could see her visibly shift gears and go into slow motion. Everything she did was suddenly slow and deliberate. Then catastrophe hit… at least as far as those in line were concerned. The phone rang!! And that was the end of it. The line went out the front door and into the heat of the late afternoon as our only clerk sauntered over and answered the phone. The call only lasted a couple minutes, but that was enough to start the anger in line.
As I was standing there watching this all unfold it occurred to me we were looking at a civil servant being put under pressure and the resulting slowdown and attitude that accompanied it.
And right then I could see the future of our HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.
This is what we have to look forward to when we need service and help under the new system we are about to have imposed on us. Get ready to wait. There’s going to be a lot of it. We’ve been warned by people in other countries of the waits and the lack of care and the denials of care if our life value doesn’t match up to their cost return charts – but the best examples of what we can expect lies in institutions we already have in place like the Post Office clerks. It’s NOT going to be pretty.

Brown vs Woods

Jim Brown is going to tell Tiger Woods to give back more the black community? Are you kidding me? Really?
Tiger Woods is a role model of ALL kids of ALL levels of society. He leads the kind of life Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to when he spoke of people being judged on the content of their character instead of the color of their skin. Tiger Woods has accomplished that very thing. He has become the greatest at what he does and he lives in that world where people are NOT judged by the color of their skin. For many of us out here, we tend to forget about the color of Tiger’s skin until someone like Jim Brown comes along and throws it in our faces. We admire Tiger for his skill, for his determination, for his character and his ability to inspire us to be better people. Those are the qualities ALL children should look up to – and the fact that he’s a great example of what any American can become if they work at it.
On the other hand, we have Jim Brown who came up in a different era. I can understand the bitterness he carries that has bent him into the man he is today. He was one of the leaders of his day breaking through barriers others shirked. He came up against some of the nastiest supremacist that era had to offer, so I can see why he’s mostly turned into the very thing he fought so hard against.
I, too, remember those days. I was around, too. They were hard times, there’s no denying THAT. Nor should we. Our history is something we should review regularly and learn from repeatedly. Many – particularly our politicians and media people – tend to forget or embellish the past. There was more than enough hatred to go around in those days. But I also remember it was not JUST black men and women on those marches. It was not just black politicians getting laws changed and establishing the Civil Rights Act that has allowed us to move forward. ALL Americans had a stake in getting past those times. ALL Americans have a stake in never allowing us to slide backward into those times again.
Tiger Woods is showing us ALL that we are ALL Americans with a future TOGETHER. He’s NOT dragging us back over historical dark days repeatedly and sticking our noses into the excrement of those days like the hate merchants like Jim Brown and his fellow race wallowers. In their estimation there have been no changes in the attitudes of Americans while Tiger Woods is all about living as evidence to the contrary.

Trial and Failure - Obama

America is being tested.
And we’re failing miserably.
How is it the world recognizes what we as American citizens don’t – or can’t? Have we dumbed-down our people so far they really have NO clue what is going on?
The leaders of the world realize that every time we get a person lacking a backbone in the White House it’s time to take us on. North Korea, Iran, China, Russia and a seemingly never ending list of “bad guys” decide that’s the time to push hard against the United States. THEY recognize the weakness in leaders like Carter, Clinton and Obama, why don’t WE???
Now we have people dying in the streets of Tehran to try to gain their freedom while our leaders here are busy taking ours away. We have North Korea loading nukes to aim at Hawaii or Japan. We have our leaders rushing off to China to convince THEM our leaders know what they’re doing enough for China to keep buying our debt. We have terrorists laughing their asses off at us as we turn their people loose in resorts while THEY plot new ways to defeat our defenses and attack our people again.
Yet, we – America – find it appropriate to apologize to the world for out past sins while we throw in with the weaklings of the planet to become a lost voice in the cacophony of whiners.
What we lack today is leadership. The White House has chosen to fall back on watching poll numbers rather than stepping up and showing leadership. Let’s face it; the White House is more concerned about their agenda than they are about leading anything. The longer they can keep the American people asleep and in love with Obama the longer they can slip their agenda past us. At the same time, they are allowing those who want to do us harm to slip deeper and deeper into a high level of confidence that they can take us.
And sooner or later they WILL test us.
The only question that remains is: Will our response be one of resolve or will it be Carteresque? It’s not looking good at the moment.

Obama - The Speech That Failed

As the press was busy trying their best to make the speech in Cairo into the President Reagan “Tear Down This Wall, Mr. Gorbachev,” speech they were actually showing their total failure to grasp world events and their interrelated impacts.
In order for that speech to have been the same kind of speech as the President Reagan speech President Obama would have had to have been standing in Cairo and asked the Muslim world to work with the West to eradicate militant Muslims. He would have had to have been bold enough to stand there and call militant Islam what it is – terrorism – and called on Muslims around the world to set themselves free by throwing the militants out. Renouncing militant tactics and working for a unified peace – THAT would have been the same as the Reagan speech. Instead, we got a milk-toast apology tour speech again. The speech Obama made would have been the equivalent of Reagan going to Berlin and telling the world how wonderful the Russians were and all the great things they’ve given to the world over the centuries and calling on the West to capitulate.
They weren’t even CLOSE!!!
And for Obama later to compare himself to FDR is ludicrous. I KNOW Obama thinks that FDR did wonderful things with his entitlement programs from the Great Depression, but there is a fundamental difference between FDR and Obama. FDR knew evil when he saw it and he confronted it with a two-front war. Obama sees evil, blames the U.S. for its existence, apologizes for our imagined role in it and calls on those who are willing to stand up to evil to capitulate.
FDR must be turning over in his grave!!