I often wonder how many mothers told their children the same stories, fables, and nursery rhymes that my mother told me. “Chicken Little” and “The Little Boy That Cried Wolf” resonate from the shadows of long ago, inside my head.
Someone should tell those stories to Barack Obama and his band of merry men. Rahm Emanuel’s “Never let a crisis go to waste” and Joe Biden’s prognostication that this young president would be faced with a crisis within the first six months after becoming president; and that his response would first appear to be wrong… keep slapping me in the face. From H1N1 to TARP, from bailout after bailout to the gulf oil spill, from the Arab Spring to the ever popular class warfare politics of fear, president Obama has played Chicken Little and that little boy that cried wolf.
Now we are to believe the world will plunge into catastrophic “crisis” if the national debt ceiling is not raised by August 2nd. Why? Why is the media so invested in this president and his policies? Why is this administration “Fundamentally changing America?” Why are so many accepting that it is inevitable, just because people like George Soros says so? Why are so many lying down in front of the steam roller of European style Socialism and central planning?
Scaring seniors has again been pulled out of the democrat’s playbook and dusted off. After all, it has been a very useful trick play in the past. Why not try it on a new generation? The Sesame Street generation is now old enough to vote and their indoctrination is paying dividends to the current political class. They haven’t seen this before. They have been shielded from this type of history by teacher and parent alike, perhaps with good intentions, but to the detriment of their frame of reference. Quite honestly, “Hope and Change” is warm and fuzzy. Who doesn’t like warm and fuzzy? Why look at something ugly, when there’s a plethora of distractions to entertain with whistles and buzzwords and pretty colors that just make you feel happy… and sedate… and… sleepy…
I’ll tell you why. Because when you've witnessed or been taught history’s reason to create scary stories, fables, and nursery rhymes, you are not as easily distracted. When your spidy senses start tingling and the little hairs on the back of your neck stand up, you resist the desire to go back to sleep and wait for the good ending to the dream you were having.
I keep saying it. I will keep saying it. WAKE UP, AMERICA!!! Talk to your kids and grandkids. Make them aware of what you know. Other influences are activating them, whether you like it or not.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
The BBA Proposal is a Sales Job
It seems like eons ago, that I was in sales. As most people, I sought and consumed every bit of information on how to sell from the experts of selling. What one sells is really of no consequence. It’s the process… the steps of selling… that are highlighted in any sales program, course, or procedure that are intended to be learned, habituated, and practiced by the successful salesperson. I had a mentor and teacher that had sold everything from vacuum cleaners and aluminum siding to real estate and life insurance. He was a marvel to watch. He practiced and taught me the ten step sales process. Within those ten steps, (you can find variations of the ten step sales process anywhere), there were embedded processes that the salesperson used to achieve that step.
I said all that to say that more and more I recognize that whole sales process every day. But it is not from people trying to sell me widgets or wonders of life products. We are being constantly sold by our political leaders. They seem to see the voters that have placed their hope and trust in them and their representation, as merely marks, mooches, and deals to close. Don’t you often feel it too? When you listen to a news conference, listen for any the ten steps and you’ll hear them. One in particular that is very popular with politicians is called the “alternate of choice” question that is designed to lead the prospective buyer where the seller wishes. “Do you support my plan, or the status quo?, comes to mind as an example, while the obvious and appropriate solutions are intentionally omitted from discussion altogether.
Another of these alternate of choice mazes we are being led into right now is the “Cut, Cap, and Balance” proposal being enshrined as viable. This is a very dangerous plan being set in motion. Not unlike the seemingly ever hovering sword of Damocles that is a Con-Con, (Constitutional Convention), which somehow will not be vanquished by fact and sound reason, the proposed BBA, (balanced budget amendment), threatens to steal liberty under the guise of responsible legislation. This is total and unmitigating fallacy. To change our Constitution in order to advance some political expediency should be held as treasonous. We must stand against this effort, whenever it rears its ugly little head.
I’ll bet the ranch that every siding salesman that hears our president or many in our federal government speaking about their “plans” for our nation feels like they are sitting through a vinyl siding demo and close. When you realize someone is trying to sell you something and especially something you don’t want to buy, you become more and more guarded. Well folks, most of us feel so pressured with the “hard sell” by our political leaders that we all seem to acquiesce, agree, or resist.
I fall pretty firmly into the latter of the three categories more often than makes me comfortable. Nobody wants to feel all “bristles and barbs” all the time, and that is just another part of the psychology used. If one maintains a guarded posture, they are deemed conspiracy theorists or extremists.
We must not be restrained or coerced from resistance of bad ideology. We must stand together against the out-of-control expansion of government that is both unsustainable and survives at the expense and loss of liberty. Please, stand against bad “solutions” that are presented as the only alternative idea to other bad ideas. We are better than this. Our nation and its future is too important to not stand and engage, together.
Please read Publius Huldah’s blog posting on the dangers inherent in the proposed BBA. http://publiushuldah.wordpress.com.
I said all that to say that more and more I recognize that whole sales process every day. But it is not from people trying to sell me widgets or wonders of life products. We are being constantly sold by our political leaders. They seem to see the voters that have placed their hope and trust in them and their representation, as merely marks, mooches, and deals to close. Don’t you often feel it too? When you listen to a news conference, listen for any the ten steps and you’ll hear them. One in particular that is very popular with politicians is called the “alternate of choice” question that is designed to lead the prospective buyer where the seller wishes. “Do you support my plan, or the status quo?, comes to mind as an example, while the obvious and appropriate solutions are intentionally omitted from discussion altogether.
Another of these alternate of choice mazes we are being led into right now is the “Cut, Cap, and Balance” proposal being enshrined as viable. This is a very dangerous plan being set in motion. Not unlike the seemingly ever hovering sword of Damocles that is a Con-Con, (Constitutional Convention), which somehow will not be vanquished by fact and sound reason, the proposed BBA, (balanced budget amendment), threatens to steal liberty under the guise of responsible legislation. This is total and unmitigating fallacy. To change our Constitution in order to advance some political expediency should be held as treasonous. We must stand against this effort, whenever it rears its ugly little head.
I’ll bet the ranch that every siding salesman that hears our president or many in our federal government speaking about their “plans” for our nation feels like they are sitting through a vinyl siding demo and close. When you realize someone is trying to sell you something and especially something you don’t want to buy, you become more and more guarded. Well folks, most of us feel so pressured with the “hard sell” by our political leaders that we all seem to acquiesce, agree, or resist.
I fall pretty firmly into the latter of the three categories more often than makes me comfortable. Nobody wants to feel all “bristles and barbs” all the time, and that is just another part of the psychology used. If one maintains a guarded posture, they are deemed conspiracy theorists or extremists.
We must not be restrained or coerced from resistance of bad ideology. We must stand together against the out-of-control expansion of government that is both unsustainable and survives at the expense and loss of liberty. Please, stand against bad “solutions” that are presented as the only alternative idea to other bad ideas. We are better than this. Our nation and its future is too important to not stand and engage, together.
Please read Publius Huldah’s blog posting on the dangers inherent in the proposed BBA. http://publiushuldah.wordpress.com.
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