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Granted, he was trained that way (and in many cases to accommodate the “needs” of the aforementioned elitist), but I feel that the corporation that trained him to do so feels as well that I would be oh-so-tickled to have someone complete a laughably token display of effort in order to remove the extremely strenuous burden of putting a few vegetables and a box of cereal in a bag.

Of course, the cost to employ this employee is built into the goods I buy.  Thus I am further nickel and dimed for basic goods because a grocery store cannot compete on anything other than customer service.  After all, the product is identical across the board.

I bring my own bags, as any remotely self-aware and competent person who rejects the ideal of mundane and silly “conveniences” would do.  Sometimes I forget.  Now, I can assure you that it requires very little effort to actually carry a block of cheese, a gallon of milk and a bell pepper, but you wouldn’t believe the incredulity of the bag boy who was refused his sacred right to double bag each of my small items individually for the sake of “service.”  But, I patiently reassure him that, yes “I will be OK” and there will be plenty of other people to serve.  It is, of course, not his fault that his first job has indoctrinated him with company jargon and a union “work ethic.”   This is all soundly reinforced by the subsequent ridicule of his offerings by stressed working moms, cruelly persnickety spinsters (think nurse ratchet) and overly sour octogenarians.

Of course, I wouldn’t recommend doing a large run with nothing more than your pockets, but, a few odds and ends on the way home from work are easily carried.  I know, it seems rather cruel that I might impose on myself the most menial of physical labor.  Alas, those altoids would probably be much better suited hanging roughly one foot from my hip, swinging so freely as they make the venture from the grocery store to my car, to my car and into my pocket and from there, well, the rest is too distressing to imagine.

Trader Joes, now you hook it up with the do-it-yourself and get the F out kind of “service” that I want.  If only you carried enchilada sauce…

Cheap Tomatoes

THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON’T CARE.

This English teacher has phrased it the best I’ve seen yet:

Tomatoes and Cheap Labor

CHEAP TOMATOES?

This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent

From a California school teacher – - -

“As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:

I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.

Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I’m not talking a glass of milk and roll — but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (

OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK )

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America . (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them “Putas” whores and throwing things that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements ?

To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.

Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I’ll pay more for tomatoes.

We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won’t have the guts to enforce it . Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?

It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate , and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about ” political Correctness” that we don’t have the will to do anything about it.

If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know.

CHEAP LABOR? Isn’t that what the whole immigration issue is about?

Business doesn’t want to pay a decent wage.

Consumers don’t want expensive produce.

Government will tell you Americans don’t want the jobs.

But the bottom line is cheap labor.. The phrase “cheap labor” is a myth , a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as “cheap labor.”

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an “earned income credit” of up to $3,200 free.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.

He qualifies for food stamps.

He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.

His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.

He requires bilingual teachers and books.

He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.

If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled , they qualify for SSI. Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare . All of this is at (our) taxpayer’s expense .

He doesn’t worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.

Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.

He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.

Working Americans are lucky to have $5..00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his.

The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.

Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT!

Wake up people!

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO EITHER PARTY. ‘AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON’T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!’

THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON’T CARE.

Why is it when I press 1 for English
I still can’t understand what the person on the
other end is saying??????

“What do we want? Abortion rights! When do we want them? When our political leader gets into office, and then hopefully we can get something done in four or maybe eight years from now!”

We have two parties in America, the democrats and republicans.  Yes, there are others, but when was the last time they won?  Face it…two party system.  They even have their own mascots, colors, slogans and territories/fanbase.  I’m sorry, were we talking about society or football?

In consideration of voting for president, we vote for the man (as of yet), what he “stands for”, his color, his creed, his national origin, his religion, the company he keeps and on and on.  Amusingly, if we chose our employees like that, we would go to jail.  If you watch religulous, you will find testament of people saying, “I don’t know much about politics, but I’m voting for George W. Bush because of his faith!”  In the recent election, we heard over and over, “it’s time for a black man to be president!”  Well, maybe it is (and the results indicate it was) but is that really how we are making our decisions here?

Now, of course, you may be clear to say that Bush was going to be tough on crime, give small businesses a break, ensure that the American lifestyle was preserved and (as the sole platform for his second term) be tough on terror and you may be quick to say that Obama was going to help those without health care, get us out of the middle east, save the environment and stabilize the economy.  But what is all of that?  Those are ideas, notions, pleasantries…those aren’t goals.  There is no measureable criteria assigned to those concepts.  There is virtually no way to gauge the success of most of those criteria (save for whether or not we are actually physically present in the Middle East) without an exceptional amount of assumptions, debate and political maneuvering to assure that the end results parallel the intended goal; not to mention whether or not the “success” is attributable to the actions of the president and not other organizations, individuals, nations, events, circumstance, the weather or random chance.

Here’s a bold fresh new idea, just a thought…since we are playing in that territory, as to how we might get something done that is to the overall benefit of this country.

What if, IF, WHAT IF…we voted purely on issues and merely had a figure head with no actual power?  Obama would be perfect for this job…in touch with the people, well spoken, educated, refined.  But, I guess, on that note, so would W. He was a good ol’ boy, ready to sit down and chat, have a drink, shoot some guns, tell some jokes.  Well, I guess, so was Clinton, he was a soft spoken southerner with a drawl that could melt the ladies.  He was also sharp as a tack and a good conversationalist.  Regan was a MOVIE STAR!  Well, sort of.  He was a man’s man, kept in great shape and didn’t take crap from nobody!  Carter, he was a commoner – not a political elite.  A good old fashioned farmer type…just like you and me!  I guess…well, we have been electing figure heads, people that we LIKE, and the debatable secondary is whether or not they are fit to wield power; I won’t bury myself by commenting on their politics.

What if people ran for “health care chair” or “war watcher” and we then summed up all of their specific ideas, policies, where the money would come from and how their success would be measured.  Then, they and their team would be in charge of solving the problem…to the satisfaction of the majority that voted for them.  They would gather more votes based on the express detail, problem solving, cost effectiveness and feasibility of their idea and lose votes if they expressed generalities, strayed from the issue, started slinging mud and so on.  Instead of trying to please all people all of the time by covering the top 20 American issues, they could afford to keep their more controversial views in the closet and just do what they do best…war, health care, education, whatever.

When contractors bid for jobs (anything from construction to test development) the client decision is almost solely based on satisfying client needs (the people) with the best price in mind (all the people’s money).  If a team was elected to education chair and, after 5 years, failed to improve our enrollment into four year universities (or whatever criteria they may have offered) they would be unlikely to get another job ever again.  On the contrary, we have lifelong politicians that are so far removed from the public eye that their performance, promises, progress and goals are NEVER evaluated.  As such, they can continue to holler empty words and get a paycheck.

Consider this:  The news would actually have something important to report.  “The welfare chair has dictated that they will clean up welfare by 2012, imposing XY and Z limits on XY and Z and getting people employed.”  At the commencement of 2011, you would be damn well aware of how that was coming along.  Instead, we rely on ONE MAN to tackle all of the problems and issues that we care about.  Yes, the President appoints educated and qualified individuals to tackle the problems of energy, war and healthcare, but they are all competing interests.  The media, the people, the president himself only has so much attention to give.  For every meeting with the welfare committee, that’s time not spent tackling environmental issues.

We can boil it all down any way we want, but the reality remains:

We elect men based on their personality and secondarily on their vague promises

We cannot hold them accountable for action, because their promises are vague

Nothing gets done (see the above two reasons) and when “stuff gets done” it’s usually because of high approval which leads to low barriers rather than solid planning and financials (i.e. invading Iraq)

The people tend to blame it on the other side which leads to our current times within an incredibly toxic political atmosphere

As such, people vote exceedingly based on party politics so as not to let the “enemy” be in charge

Is this not a broken system? What if we were able to forge a system that allowed some semblance of clarity and democracy so that political officials could be held accountable and, perhaps prior to that, be given some leverage with which to actually do their jobs.  “Bang, Mr. Jones and his team have been voted to tackle California’s welfare system. Bam, Mrs. Smith and her associates have been selected to tackle fisheries in Florida” and so on.  You could have individual groups placing bids for these jobs, for which they would receive a fair salary, commiserate with their skills and experience, propose a budget for resolving the problem and then, based on their proposal approved by some form of public vote, be empowered to make a change.

I can already envision a super team sweeping the country, solving all of the problems because of their shrewd skills, fiscal responsibility and relentless dedication to clear objectives.

I mean, let’s face it, among the reasonable people within this country (party lines aside) we all want the same things: safe streets, low teenage pregnancy, low gang violence, access to resources, better education, access to cheap energy, reliable food sources and clean air and water.  Let’s take abortion for example.  We get all hot and bothered over our positions “we want abortion rights…my body my choice!” and “We want to preserve the sanctity of life…no murdering innocent children!”  The question no one asks is, “under what conditions can we prevent unwanted pregnancy?”  That way we don’t HAVE to terminate pregnancies and, at the same time, we don’t have to TERMINATE PREGNANCIES…wait, did I just say the same thing.  Surprise!  The end goals can be the same.  Let California try teaching sex education and birth control and Alabama can try preaching abstinence.  The proof is the in the pudding…teen pregnancy rate? Check.  Dollars committed to social services for young mothers? Check.

My idea is far from perfect, but I hope, that at the very least, it inspires some thought as to what we are doing and how it came to be this way.  Certainly we can better identify the interests of the country, formulate a plan to address, resolve, mitigate or improve the condition of those interests than by electing a single man every four years based on the failings of the previous president to address every want, need and concern of 380 million people.