Too big to fail ittus
First it was the banks that were too big to fail and now it is the oil companies. Too big to fail in m mind just means that someone paid in too many political contributions to let them go down or someone works too well with the government to fail. Any government supported enterprise is bound to be bad for business.
I do business with Chase and Bank of America. I find that they are lousy companies. They are too big to fail by government standards, which means by anyone else’s standards they should fail. They all perceived loopholes in regulations and exploited them to miserable ends. They took advantage of our gullibility. They sold what they knew were bad products to people who were told they too could live the American dream of owning their own home.
I also do a lot of business with large companies like Trane and Honeywell. These companies are disasters when it comes to customer service. They don’t care and when it comes right down to it they don’t know the answer, but they will never tell you anything. They just keep you on the line forever, waiting and hoping. They give you the wrong part number and then blame you for ordering it. They will not accept returns. Not knowing the answer is not a solution so they just stop answering.
This not knowing part is rampant in the world today. I am an engineer and I fight it all the time at work and everywhere in life today. No one seems to pay any attention to details in their work anymore. They are too busy on Face book and Twittering away their time to actually get it right.
BP, Exxon, Chevron, Conoco and the like are all pushing the limit, trying to extend the life of oil boom on earth. They are all too big to fail, but constantly ignore all safety devices and forge on with their oil profiteering. BP deserves to fail for ignoring 3 safety device tests that all would have proved the same thing. The safety devices did not work so they knew they were in trouble and forged ahead anyway. This is just a copy of 3 Mile Island, where we got scared and left the industry hanging out. We still don’t know where to put nuclear waste because no one wants it in their backyard. Now, other potential disasters are coming to light from companies who should have known better than to push oil drilling into the seabed without a long term plan of what to do at the end of the project.
The government is just as bad, not wanting to open up pristine lands in Alaska, or other places that have proven reserves. They are afraid of what might happen if the companies are allowed to proceed and not do what is right to put the land back the way it was. They are right. Have you ever tried to replace moss, or permafrost 3’ deep? It is a tough proposition. Permafrost is one of these slow growth things like coral and very important to the ecosystem.
Natural gas has to be fracked out of the earth and runs out quickly; then the well has to be fracked again and again to be able to produce at a rate that would pay off. This uses a lot of water typically to get it going again and water is also a dying resource. It is a vicious cycle that takes a lot of resources to replace oil and a source of energy.
Coal is just too much sulfur to deal with. The amount of filtering and scrubbing it takes is phenomenal. Have you ever heard about the awful amounts of water an average power plant takes to make electricity. It is ghastly.
I can tell you that solar and wind energy are not ready to take over; just as nuclear failed to plan ahead far enough to stay alive. Wind energy has the problem of over speed shut down. The weather just won’t cooperate, it seems. Solar Energy has the problem of batteries not being good enough to handle the back up. Both have the transmission problem to deal with, as no one really wants to look at the turbines or the panels. Nuclear energy has a couple of failings like what to do with the waste when no one wants to store it because the half life of Plutonium is 24,000 years. It has the same failing as with deep oil drilling equipment; the safety devices can get you if you don’t pay attention to the process. Slack off one time and you’re history. Companies are too interested in their bottom line to care and people do get careless, if pushed beyond their natural limits by stress applied by management.
I don’t know which I hate more a company being bailed out that has no business being in business because they clearly don’t pay attention to their business, or the government that pretends to be everything to everyone when all it really does is increase the debt it owes to the people with every giveaway program. A government that goes to war just to be at war because it can’t make money any other way; as it doesn’t know how to make money, only spend it. . A government that has so many illegal programs going on that it can’t reveal them even to Presidents. A government that uses Nazi department like the CIA & NSA to spy on its citizens to keep them in line. A government that fakes 911 to impose Homeland Security upon its people and uses HAARP to keep them dumb enough to believe the government is the one all, do all, end game in their lives. A government that is good at seeding the clouds above the people’s heads with toxic chemicals. A government that appeases its people by giving everyone health insurance to for an alarming price that will never be paid by anyone ever is just too good to be true, and it’s true. A government that charges Microsoft with Antitrust only to get a couple of lines of code in their operating system so it can spy on the people when ever it wants. A government that both runs drugs to pay for the CIA/NSA mad schemes off budget and then runs the war on drugs to appease its people, while collecting all the drugs it receives and selling them elsewhere. A government that finds a neutral country and then sets up howitzers in it to bomb the neighboring bad guys, only to pay the neutral country back with building a school where there are no teachers to teach. A government that kills its own people just to keep secrets is definitely bad enough to win my game of distrust. I guess the government wins my distrust hands down because there are so many bad guys in government and just a few in these too big to fail companies.
A company cannot affect your life the way the government can unless it is too big to fail. Then what you will see is a government enforced monopoly powered by a few large companies that are you only option to buy from. What about Wal-Mart? They seem to be doing a good job until you really look. Then you find things like extreme employee mental abuse going on. Wal-Mart reduced prices in America back to before the 1970’s in some cases, but at what cost. No other company in history has grown as large as Wal-Mart, or affected the way we shop. This company started the Chinese evolution into so called capitalism and away from the strict communistic way of doing things. It proved that Americans were overpaid by at least 5 times what the market was willing to pay for producing goods. It made the global revolution in production as it pushed for lower prices with no apparent compromise in quality, even though its food quality is questionable due to no FDA oversight in China. Japan was famous before for not paying any attention to intellectual property, but China took that to a whole new level of ignorance.
But again, it was the government that undermined the American worker by selling more and more of the US debt to China emphasizing that we are a debtor nation, tried and true. Politicians like Clinton then came and sold US companies like Hp & IBM to China and let Mr. Ho off Scott free, effectively giving all our defense ideas to China for a year of Balanced Budget and an election landslide.
Now that we are relegated to a lowly second place in financial affairs, with China essentially owning us lock, stock, and barrel; what is our next move? The stimulus funds have run out and the workers that were employed for those tasks are not being taken up by industries that have just moved everything increasingly offshore like GE and Trane.
Everyone blames Clinton, Bushes, and Obama for it all. They had a large part, to be sure, but the American public has sooner or later got to wake up to the fact that the gravy train is running out of gas, literally. How much of a credit trip can be bought, forever, without a wake up call? Can we consume ourselves to death? It appears so. We gripe about everyone else, but he Buck stops here. America has to clean up its own act or die an ugly death.
Americans apparently don’t want the “bad” part of the Mexican invasion, but we do love the good part of it. How come we can’t clean our own streets and pick up our own garbage or fruit? We apparently don’t like manual labor anymore, but we can’t stand those who do either. WE have come full circle, finding out what it means to embrace let the government do it conveniently equates to letting someone else do it. This has its problems when we don’t have the money to pay the piper. Letting someone else do it eventually lets them take over that and other industries and ravages our basic skill base of competency. We then become too lazy to do any physical labor at all. BY saying let the government do it enough, we give our core skills by letting someone else do the hard stuff so much that when it comes to designing a new widget, we give that up too. This creates less demand for engineers who design and solve the problems of society. When we as a public, see the 911 tragedy and do not even question the government that set it up because we believe the government can do no wrong and it will protect us. HAARP won that battle of wits by dimming our wits so much that we could care less. HAARP has lost the war of ideas for America by dumbing us down so far that we expect the government to support us. America is now embracing the new socialism by not fighting for its own Capitalistic beginnings. Americans have no one to blame, but themselves in this battle of wits. We became too lazy to care and just gave up our power. Hard times are upon us for doing exactly that. The way out of this is a long, hard road of wake up calls. Self responsibility equals self esteem and those who forgot that fact will pay the price of low self esteem and a powerless existence.
I do business with Chase and Bank of America. I find that they are lousy companies. They are too big to fail by government standards, which means by anyone else’s standards they should fail. They all perceived loopholes in regulations and exploited them to miserable ends. They took advantage of our gullibility. They sold what they knew were bad products to people who were told they too could live the American dream of owning their own home.
I also do a lot of business with large companies like Trane and Honeywell. These companies are disasters when it comes to customer service. They don’t care and when it comes right down to it they don’t know the answer, but they will never tell you anything. They just keep you on the line forever, waiting and hoping. They give you the wrong part number and then blame you for ordering it. They will not accept returns. Not knowing the answer is not a solution so they just stop answering.
This not knowing part is rampant in the world today. I am an engineer and I fight it all the time at work and everywhere in life today. No one seems to pay any attention to details in their work anymore. They are too busy on Face book and Twittering away their time to actually get it right.
BP, Exxon, Chevron, Conoco and the like are all pushing the limit, trying to extend the life of oil boom on earth. They are all too big to fail, but constantly ignore all safety devices and forge on with their oil profiteering. BP deserves to fail for ignoring 3 safety device tests that all would have proved the same thing. The safety devices did not work so they knew they were in trouble and forged ahead anyway. This is just a copy of 3 Mile Island, where we got scared and left the industry hanging out. We still don’t know where to put nuclear waste because no one wants it in their backyard. Now, other potential disasters are coming to light from companies who should have known better than to push oil drilling into the seabed without a long term plan of what to do at the end of the project.
The government is just as bad, not wanting to open up pristine lands in Alaska, or other places that have proven reserves. They are afraid of what might happen if the companies are allowed to proceed and not do what is right to put the land back the way it was. They are right. Have you ever tried to replace moss, or permafrost 3’ deep? It is a tough proposition. Permafrost is one of these slow growth things like coral and very important to the ecosystem.
Natural gas has to be fracked out of the earth and runs out quickly; then the well has to be fracked again and again to be able to produce at a rate that would pay off. This uses a lot of water typically to get it going again and water is also a dying resource. It is a vicious cycle that takes a lot of resources to replace oil and a source of energy.
Coal is just too much sulfur to deal with. The amount of filtering and scrubbing it takes is phenomenal. Have you ever heard about the awful amounts of water an average power plant takes to make electricity. It is ghastly.
I can tell you that solar and wind energy are not ready to take over; just as nuclear failed to plan ahead far enough to stay alive. Wind energy has the problem of over speed shut down. The weather just won’t cooperate, it seems. Solar Energy has the problem of batteries not being good enough to handle the back up. Both have the transmission problem to deal with, as no one really wants to look at the turbines or the panels. Nuclear energy has a couple of failings like what to do with the waste when no one wants to store it because the half life of Plutonium is 24,000 years. It has the same failing as with deep oil drilling equipment; the safety devices can get you if you don’t pay attention to the process. Slack off one time and you’re history. Companies are too interested in their bottom line to care and people do get careless, if pushed beyond their natural limits by stress applied by management.
I don’t know which I hate more a company being bailed out that has no business being in business because they clearly don’t pay attention to their business, or the government that pretends to be everything to everyone when all it really does is increase the debt it owes to the people with every giveaway program. A government that goes to war just to be at war because it can’t make money any other way; as it doesn’t know how to make money, only spend it. . A government that has so many illegal programs going on that it can’t reveal them even to Presidents. A government that uses Nazi department like the CIA & NSA to spy on its citizens to keep them in line. A government that fakes 911 to impose Homeland Security upon its people and uses HAARP to keep them dumb enough to believe the government is the one all, do all, end game in their lives. A government that is good at seeding the clouds above the people’s heads with toxic chemicals. A government that appeases its people by giving everyone health insurance to for an alarming price that will never be paid by anyone ever is just too good to be true, and it’s true. A government that charges Microsoft with Antitrust only to get a couple of lines of code in their operating system so it can spy on the people when ever it wants. A government that both runs drugs to pay for the CIA/NSA mad schemes off budget and then runs the war on drugs to appease its people, while collecting all the drugs it receives and selling them elsewhere. A government that finds a neutral country and then sets up howitzers in it to bomb the neighboring bad guys, only to pay the neutral country back with building a school where there are no teachers to teach. A government that kills its own people just to keep secrets is definitely bad enough to win my game of distrust. I guess the government wins my distrust hands down because there are so many bad guys in government and just a few in these too big to fail companies.
A company cannot affect your life the way the government can unless it is too big to fail. Then what you will see is a government enforced monopoly powered by a few large companies that are you only option to buy from. What about Wal-Mart? They seem to be doing a good job until you really look. Then you find things like extreme employee mental abuse going on. Wal-Mart reduced prices in America back to before the 1970’s in some cases, but at what cost. No other company in history has grown as large as Wal-Mart, or affected the way we shop. This company started the Chinese evolution into so called capitalism and away from the strict communistic way of doing things. It proved that Americans were overpaid by at least 5 times what the market was willing to pay for producing goods. It made the global revolution in production as it pushed for lower prices with no apparent compromise in quality, even though its food quality is questionable due to no FDA oversight in China. Japan was famous before for not paying any attention to intellectual property, but China took that to a whole new level of ignorance.
But again, it was the government that undermined the American worker by selling more and more of the US debt to China emphasizing that we are a debtor nation, tried and true. Politicians like Clinton then came and sold US companies like Hp & IBM to China and let Mr. Ho off Scott free, effectively giving all our defense ideas to China for a year of Balanced Budget and an election landslide.
Now that we are relegated to a lowly second place in financial affairs, with China essentially owning us lock, stock, and barrel; what is our next move? The stimulus funds have run out and the workers that were employed for those tasks are not being taken up by industries that have just moved everything increasingly offshore like GE and Trane.
Everyone blames Clinton, Bushes, and Obama for it all. They had a large part, to be sure, but the American public has sooner or later got to wake up to the fact that the gravy train is running out of gas, literally. How much of a credit trip can be bought, forever, without a wake up call? Can we consume ourselves to death? It appears so. We gripe about everyone else, but he Buck stops here. America has to clean up its own act or die an ugly death.
Americans apparently don’t want the “bad” part of the Mexican invasion, but we do love the good part of it. How come we can’t clean our own streets and pick up our own garbage or fruit? We apparently don’t like manual labor anymore, but we can’t stand those who do either. WE have come full circle, finding out what it means to embrace let the government do it conveniently equates to letting someone else do it. This has its problems when we don’t have the money to pay the piper. Letting someone else do it eventually lets them take over that and other industries and ravages our basic skill base of competency. We then become too lazy to do any physical labor at all. BY saying let the government do it enough, we give our core skills by letting someone else do the hard stuff so much that when it comes to designing a new widget, we give that up too. This creates less demand for engineers who design and solve the problems of society. When we as a public, see the 911 tragedy and do not even question the government that set it up because we believe the government can do no wrong and it will protect us. HAARP won that battle of wits by dimming our wits so much that we could care less. HAARP has lost the war of ideas for America by dumbing us down so far that we expect the government to support us. America is now embracing the new socialism by not fighting for its own Capitalistic beginnings. Americans have no one to blame, but themselves in this battle of wits. We became too lazy to care and just gave up our power. Hard times are upon us for doing exactly that. The way out of this is a long, hard road of wake up calls. Self responsibility equals self esteem and those who forgot that fact will pay the price of low self esteem and a powerless existence.
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