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365 Days Later…
… Politicians are still politicians (surprise, surprise) and I’m completely disenfranchised about our country’s leaders and the system they’re beholden to.
365 days ago I told the world I’d voted for Barack Obama. I even found a group of like minded people and we all got together election night. We were more hopeful for our country than I remember feeling in a long time. I’ve been reflecting on that and the previous year over the last few days. Here’s what I’ve come up with.
The whole deal reminds me athletics and high school. Picture the quarterback(s) of your high school football team. They were it. Even if the team sucked, even if we lost every game, they still owned the place. They were
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Election 2008
I voted this morning. (for Barack Obama, and here are some of my reasons.)
I didn’t vote in 2000 or 2004. I’d become pretty disenfranchised with the whole process and our political climate. But you know what? If I’m not going to vote in this country, I should just be a man and go live somewhere else (or start revolution 2.0 or something).
So go vote. I’m having an election party tonight to follow the results. Here’s a couple of widgets to follow them yourself.
United States:
Utah:
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2008 Presidential Election
This week, I’ve spent a chunk of time watching the Democratic National Convention.
I struggle with politics. Sometimes I feel like the entire system is broken. I didn’t vote in the last election since I was feeling this way. I have to say I consider myself an apathetic independent. But this much I know: the past 8 years with Bush and Cheney running this country will go down as the greatest squandering and misdirection of any period of time in our history. To put it bluntly, we’ve gone from the greatest country in the world (some might argue in the history of mankind) to a country through its government that steps on the rights of it’s citizens, engages in wars it shouldn’t,
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I.O.U.S.A.
I’m in Washington, D.C. at the eTail east conference.
While here, I came across a one night only event put on by Fathom Events called I.O.U.S.A. Live. They’re showing this documentary, along with a LIVE discussions with some heavy hitters and pretty damn smart dudes one night only–Aug 21–in movie theaters across the country. If you care about our country, find a showtime and go.
More info:
Fathom and Roadside Attractions present I.O.U.S.A.: Live with Warren Buffett, Pete Peterson & Dave Walker in an exclusive one night event in select movie theatres nationwide on Thursday, August 21st. This event will include the critically-acclaimed documentary, I.O.U.S.A., and a LIVE discussion about America’s economic crisis and what we can do to change course.
This one night event
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Health Care
So on August 1, Doba is switching from Blue Cross (who we’ve been with since starting the company in 2002) to IHC. Blue Cross wanted to raise our plan costs up 17%. It’s been about that much each year since we started. By switching to IHC, we get some better covereage in Utah County with hospitals for the majority of our employees, and we only increase our rates from last year 7%.
Do you know of any other part of business where your costs can consistently go up by double-digit rates year over year? It’s actually pretty crazy.
Fresh off of our insurance meeting with IHC and our broker this past Tuesday I came across this article today: U.S. still flunks health
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Something wrong here?
Am I the only one that is sitting here wondering if our elected officials don’t have larger problems to worry about?
Clemens, McNamee get grilled by Congress
Sen. Specter to expand ‘Spygate’ investigation
You’ve got to be kidding me. Steroids in baseball and spying on plays called in the NFL need politicians to worry about? More important than wars and possible bankruptcy of the country and immigration and about 10,000 other issues?
Sorry for the crassness , but good holy flying f***, you have got to be kidding me.
I’m at a complete loss. I literally cannot comprehend this. I’m one of the smartest guys I know, and I’m sitting here at the end of this week looking at my monitor typing this post,
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Why oh why isn’t this the only issue being talked about?
I listen to this guy and I just get pissed off. Why isn’t this THE ONLY thing the current candidates are talking about? Why doesn’t Congress address this issue until there is a clear solution in place? Every American needs to listen to David Walker and realized our sense of entitlement is way off base, we need to realign our expectations of what our government can and should provide for us, and then we should all march on Washington until our dillweed Politicians pull their heads out and figure something out.
I sort of like his idea of putting them all in jail.
Thanks to Josh for pointing this out.
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