Administration Is Seeking $700 Billion for Wall Street Bailout - NYTimes.com: "A fourth, smaller group of lawmakers was highly critical and in some cases adamantly opposed to the plan. That group included including Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, and Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont.
“The free market for all intents and purposes is dead in America,” Mr. Bunning declared on Friday. “The action proposed today by the Treasury Department will take away the free market and institute socialism in America. The American taxpayer has been misled throughout this economic crisis. The government on all fronts has failed the American people miserably.”"
So it seems to me that any "conservative" who was concerned about Obama's leftist socialist agenda should now be unopposed as we are already there. When does the government take over other failing institutions, like GM? This move makes the democrats look like right-wingers.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Hospitals, Airports, and Mr. Spock
While I wouldn't call it the highlight of my day, getting dad back and from the hospital was essentially what I did today to be productive.
While there, I noticed something odd. Hospitals and airports have something very important in common. In both cases, the system is setup up for the purpose of efficiently getting a large number of people (passengers or patients) organized to be serviced (Doctor or Pilot/Crew).
In both cases, as the client, your free will and decision making is marginalized so that the system can run more smooth. The end result is frustration on the part of individuals.
You have to show up very early for your flight and for the hospital. A 2.5 hour airtime flight from Newark to Miami really ends up taking 5 hours when you add the time to get to the airport, park the car, get through security, and then wait to take-off. When you get there, add time waiting for luggage. At the hospital, you have to get there early so that the nurses/staff can get you prepared and lined-up to see the doctor.
In both places, time feels like it has slowed to a crawl. Why? Because you are completely at the mercy of the system.
Not that anything can be done about this. At the end of the day, as Spock said, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or in this case the one".
While there, I noticed something odd. Hospitals and airports have something very important in common. In both cases, the system is setup up for the purpose of efficiently getting a large number of people (passengers or patients) organized to be serviced (Doctor or Pilot/Crew).
In both cases, as the client, your free will and decision making is marginalized so that the system can run more smooth. The end result is frustration on the part of individuals.
You have to show up very early for your flight and for the hospital. A 2.5 hour airtime flight from Newark to Miami really ends up taking 5 hours when you add the time to get to the airport, park the car, get through security, and then wait to take-off. When you get there, add time waiting for luggage. At the hospital, you have to get there early so that the nurses/staff can get you prepared and lined-up to see the doctor.
In both places, time feels like it has slowed to a crawl. Why? Because you are completely at the mercy of the system.
Not that anything can be done about this. At the end of the day, as Spock said, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or in this case the one".
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