If we all just did the right thing
My viewpoint has been a bit harsh on here at times. Although I write daily in other places, it seems to be that I only post here when something gets me really riled up and that's not good. I need to change that behavior. I just wish people would just do the right thing, instead of just doing things for themselves or some group mentality.
If banks and bankers did the right thing, they could have made money and not driven the economy into the ground.
If developers did the right thing, they wouldn't be unemployed right now wishing they hadn't taken that extravagant trip a few years ago. Slow and steady.
If politicians on whichever side you want to look at, did the right thing, we'd all be better off.
If spammers didn't go so heavily in one direction all at once, it may last longer and make more money in the end.
If things had been built with energy efficiency in mind over the years and using smart design, we'd all be better off today and things would still sell.
Labels: general, politics
Twittering we will go
Finally playing around with Twitter a bit.
I think it's great for friends and family. It's great for a known person who can have followers to push a book, a blog post or some kind of promotional blurb. Not sure otherwise. It can get pretty noisy and spam filled in no time.
I still don't see how they will make money of it as it is now. But perhaps something will change. This really seems like it needs to be part of a bigger company, like Google or Facebook.
Labels: marketing
Peanut Stewart Parnell is a Nut
Peanut Corp. of America owner Stewart Parnell is one of those strange cases that probably deserves worse than the death penalty to set an example. This guy has murdered at least 8 people, caused at least 600 serious illnesses and millions of dollars of costs to other companies in pulling products, sales and reputations. There isn't enough money around this guy to pay back the damages he knowingly caused. His actions put him up there with the worst mass murderers in history. He could have easily killed hundreds of people instead of losing a few sales.
This is just another example of the greed at all costs that comes from the Bush administration and recent Republican viewpoints. They encourage behavior that leads people to die and kill others. Whether knowingly like this guy did or driving people to kill themselves and possibly their families while the executives get high pay offs and extravagant trips. They don't care how many people die, starve, lose jobs or have miserable lives as long as they can make a dollar off it.
Labels: bad business, news
Republicans Still Lost
Most of government is lost these days but the Republicans are especially silly these days. Michael Steele, the new resident Republican in the Moron Chair keeps saying that government has never created a single job. Uh, aren't all federal, state and local positions jobs? We're paying for them. If they're not jobs, why are we paying them? He should give back his past salaries if he never had a job in government all those years. He says spending project jobs like construction jobs eventually end. Don't all construction jobs end and then something else comes up? No construction job is permit.
Steele just said that Bush inherited a great recession from Clinton. I don't really recall it that way. Another Republican said that Bush inherited the effects of 9/11. There is some revisionist history. I thought that W was President at that time. Maybe he was just playing the role, not actually doing the job. I could go with that. He spent more than a third of his eight years on vacation so I guess he wasn't really President.
So the Republicans are still lost. They want high salaries for banks defrauding America but they don't want unemployment benefits for normal people. They want tax cuts for the rich and no new jobs for the average person. They just don't have a clue. People like Andy Card come out talking about a dress code in the oval office when there are photos of every president in the last 40 years not wearing a jacket the same way. Who cares?
Democrats are following the trail into the woods by adding stupid things to a bill. The first large President Obama bill should have been pure construction projects, energy, education and job creation. No crap at all. They could add more stuff later and do other less attention grabbing bills. This was a Pelosi disaster.
Labels: bad business, politics
