- There is increasing chatter about those who toil away
each day for ruthless big box stores. Companies laughingly call these people
"sales associates." Associates of what? They have no real say
in anything that goes on in the store. More like associate slaves. These
same people are often called the working poor or walking wounded.
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- Employees earn wages that fall far below the poverty
level, and are deprived of health care insurance by sky-high premiums they
cannot possibly afford and pay their bills at the same time. Yet these
big corporations proudly brag they reap billions of dollars in profit each
year. How do their CEOs sleep at night doing this? Quite well, because
to put it bluntly they are ruthless bastards and were hired because they
are.
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- I knew the former president of Eastman Kodak, the late
Kay Whitmore. Kay was not ruthless and had risen through the ranks at the
company up the corporate ladder. At the time he was Kodak's president the
company employed more than 50,000 people. When the board decided to downsize
during his tenure there they demanded he lay off 8,000 employees, which
he refused to do.
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- Instead of the huge layoff, Kay suggested better ways
to accomplish the same cost savings. But the board would have no part of
it and Kay was shown the door. Kay was a kind, God-fearing caring man who
refused to ruin the lives of 8,000 employee and stood his ground as all
Americans should.
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- Was I born with a silver spoon in my mouth? Not at all.
My wife and I have been down to the very bottom where the only direction
left was up to tie our shoelaces. We're neither ashamed nor proud of it.
It was just one of life's lessons forced upon us by some unscrupulous businessmen.
Did we sit around and do nothing, whining about our lot in life and wallow
in it? No.
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- An old expression says, "When life gives you lemons
you make lemonade." And this is what we did. A stubborn determination
to use my abilities kept me going upward from that point on over the years.
I knew what the alternative future was for me and my family, and there
was no way I would allow that to happen.
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- But why are adults of all ages becoming brain dead?
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- In the movie "Animal House" Dean Wormer dresses
down several Delta alumni in his office about their grades. To one young
man he proclaims, "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life,
son." Yet playing endless violent video games, driving stupid, doing
crazy stunts on skate boards, mouthing off to peers and sleazing around
has become the order of the day. Are these signs of intelligence or rebellion?
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- One man was busy meddling with his cell phone while walking
down a street in NYC. He fell into an open manhole and dropped about ten
feet straight down. Was it left open? No, workers had just pulled the cover
off moments ago and had briefly turned their back to set up the safety
railing. But apparently they weren't fast enough.
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- Last month I watched the emergency room treatment of
a lady who slipped and fell on an icy driveway and broke her arm. She sustained
a distal radius fracture at the wrist. This is the end of the smaller of
two arm bones between the elbow and the wrist.
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- What was the treatment for her broken bones? The doctor
used a very large syringe with a heavy needle to inject an anesthetic into
the wrist BONES withdrawing the needle then re-injecting at about
8 different angles into 8 different places.
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- Next, the middle two fingers are inserted into two wire
mesh tubes similar to Chinese finger puzzles which were attached to an
overhead frame to fixate them. Then a TEN POUND WEIGHT was hung
from the elbow using a cloth band. The ten pounds ground the bones together.
And that's wasn't the worst of it.
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- The painful anesthetic injections did NOT completely
work and she was screaming in pain for hours. Because of medications she
was already on, they could not give her more anesthetic. X-rays were taken
and a cast put on. Before the cast set her wrist was forced to bend 30
degrees to force the bones together.
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- Then another X-ray was taken to confirm the bones were
set correctly all the while the anesthetic was not working and she
was in total agony. And now 3.5 weeks later, she is still in pain with
two more weeks to go. Then painful physical therapy will follow after the
cast is removed for a few more weeks. And even after all that, she was
told there may be some "residual disability from the break."
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- Why did I say all this? Because foolish physical acts
of today's teenagers and adults can put them through agony like this or
even worse. For some reason, idiots believe they are indestructible and
doctors can fix anything.
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- Some twenty years ago, the price of lawnmowers went up
$100 almost overnight. Why? A new law was created mandating every power
mower must have a safety clutch that stops the blade in three seconds.
This was because every so often an idiot somewhere would reach under the
deck with the engine running to clear some debris and instantly lose
their fingers or even a hand. Now the general public will pay forever for
the stupidity of these few idiots.
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- There will never be a way to protect idiots from themselves.
Recently in a restaurant a young man a few tables away was loudly boasting
to his friends "When I went over the fence, my feet caught the top
of it and it bounced me back." I told my wife there's another genius
at work. Then he whines, "Then the hospital was trying to give me
more pain."
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- Apparently it was OK for this clown to give himself pain,
but not tolerate pain from a nurse or doctor who treats his injuries? So
what's wrong with that picture? Remember the broken arm story? That's the
fun people like him are headed for sooner or later.
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- Base jumpers who illegally climb buildings or live radio
towers with 50,000 watts of power on them often get hurt or killed. Documentaries
about this interview these young men (?) in hospital beds, often in traction.
And they brag, "When I get better I'll be base jumping again. I can't
wait."
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- I say, DON'T give these boys treatment. Make it
illegal to give medical treatment to those doing stupid things like this.
That will put a stop to it, and also help keep the cost of medical insurance
down.
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- It's scary as hell that our world is slowly being placed
into the hands of a generation of children that can't even pass a math
test without a calculator in hand. Who will program the software in the
next generation of computers and calculators?
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- When you look at the quality of education (or lack thereof)
of children pushed out the doors of high schools today and handed a diploma
it's downright embarrassing. Many of these children won't have a prayer
of ever getting into college without taking makeup classes. Academics I
know just shake their heads when I talk about it to them. They know the
score and are frustrated.
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- If you are a parent, don't smugly think that your son
or daughter is doing OK in school simply because they haven't run amuck
of school rules. Or feel happy that their grades look OK. Grades never
tell the entire story.
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- If that's your educational standard you better review
it again.
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- If all you want for your son or daughter's future is
to work in the armed forces, a job at a gas station or a big box store
then just sit and do nothing and you'll get your wish. And the day will
come when they will hate you for doing nothing when you could have helped
them. Sooner or later you can absolutely be certain you WILL regret doing
nothing for the rest of your life. Unless of course, you're already brain
dead.
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- One parent, just one, can make a huge difference in any
community. There are always other parents out there who secretly want to
improve things but they are looking for someone else to lead them. JUST BE
A LEADER, not a follower. If you don't think you're a leader, you're wrong.
This ability is in everyone and all it needs is to be cultivated. A farmer
plants his crops and he cultivates the soil to help plants grow. Developing
leadership skills are no different.
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- If you think the No Child Left Behind Act is a good thing,
think again. Part of it essentially prohibits schools from keeping children
back a grade that really NEED to be kept back. Sometimes that's a necessary
thing to help a child to save their grades and education record. Sometimes
it wakes them up. I've heard teenagers and parents actually tell me they
were glad they were kept back a grade because it actually helped them.
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- The UN deviously stated in their documents, "The
family unit is an enemy to society." I submit it is the UN who is
the enemy of society. Brain-dead citizens not raised in a normal family
environment are much easy to control.
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- Consider what happened in the now defunct USSR.
One of the biggest past-times in those days was drinking. And I don't mean
beer, but the hard stuff like Vodka. Real liver-killer drinks.
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- An engineer I spoke to back in the early nineties only
a few years after the USSR fell apart had come to the USA from Moscow.
He explained how life was in Russia exactly this way:
- "You go to liquor store and stand in line. Always
long lines go way down the block. You talk to the man in front and behind
you, and all of you go in together to buy one bottle. After you buy the
bottle, everyone goes around behind the store. Each man pulls out a glass
out of his coat and everyone drinks until the bottle is empty. Then you
go your separate ways."
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- Soviet government thought it was great as it helped sustain
a chemically induced brain-dead attitude so no one really cared about revolting.
Eventually the country finally collapsed under its own weight.
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- We can't give all the credit to Reagan with his speech
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Like Gorbachev obeyed Reagan
like a good boy? No when the wall came down it helped to get the
problem people out of the country. The brain dead stayed behind. Now Russia is
slowly returning back to the days of the Soviet Union after capitalism
has been a disaster. There is a lesson to be learned here for America,
too.
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- Even without hard liquor consumption on the scale of
the old USSR, a downhill slide is EXACTLY what's happening to America right
now. Citizens are the lifeblood of every country. Without them government
is nothing more than a collection of office buildings holding empty promises.
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- Active citizens who actually care about America will
stand up for what's right in their communities and schools. Real citizens
do *not* sit around and whine how bad things are, claiming nothing can
be done or uttering pointless phrases like "You can't fight city hall"
or "Don't rock the boat." Instead they get out and change things
for the better.
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- It's now or never.
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- We are almost out of time before America suddenly
comes falling down around our ears. If everyone worked at stopping this
madness and started returning to precious moral values that built America,
the downward slide will be stopped and reversed. It will take nothing less
than the concerted effort of everyone.
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- Is there a real life example showing citizens can change
things for the better? Yes there is! Recent news has stated the EU is in
danger of falling apart. This proves the globalists that work hard to destroy
a good life for everyone are not as powerful or all-knowing as they think
they are. Citizens in small countries like Greece have stood
up for their civil and economic rights, defying the all-powerful EU police
state. Clearly their efforts provide the rest of the world inspiration.
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- I say to parents, forget the video games. Disconnect
them and put them in the trash. Don't even sell them that just causes
some other child or adult to become brain dead. Accept the fact you screwed
up when you bought them and just walk away from it. If you have games on
the family computer, eradicate them all.
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- Start TALKING to your children and spouses. Get involved
in their academic work and achievements in school. Children need their
parents now more than ever before in the history of mankind.
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- Brain dead children and adults who constantly text with
cell phones and PDAs and don't talk to each other face to face will
be the end of America. Stop mouth breathing and start thinking. Why
let this happen? When you see a sore that won't heal do you not consult
a doctor to be sure it isn't cancer? But a cell phone or PDA that consumes
all your waking time is a convenience you claim is something you cannot
live without. I don't own either one and live just fine.
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- Somewhere a manhole cover is missing, just waiting...
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- Ted Twietmeyer
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