Go Part I

"Go"

Through the dustbowl
Through the debt
Grandma was a suffragette
Blacklisted for her publication
Blacklisted for my generation
Go go go
Amy Ray – Performed by the Indigo Girls

Hard times usually are a precursor to change good or bad. After WWI, the suffragettes gained the right to vote through a constitutional amendment. It was a culmination of many years effort.

The first in any endeavor always paves the way for others to follow. In spite of the depression and the decimation of the farm lands through drought, suffragettes sacrificed for future generations.

Change of any type is not easy. Those at the forefront of the change become targets for those resisting change.

Remember that when you start a change – You just became a target – Toughen up and Go Go Go!

Employment Day :-(

Employment Day :-(

The “good”news, the unemployment rate dropped from 9.2 % to 9.1 % and 117, 000 new jobs were added.

WHOOPEE DO!

June added 46,000 (revised) and May added 53,000 (revised). On a base of 131,190,000, only 117,000 additional jobs makes these changes not statistically non-significant but trivial as well.

Hardly any change in weekly hours worked, overtime hours and a small increase in average hourly earnings.

Except for a little blip in 2010, it looks like it will take forever to replace the lost jobs not to mention creating new jobs for the incoming labor force. Remember the armed forces and prison population aren't counted anywhere. And discouraged workers are left out of the base total as well. 

More on discouragement in later posts

Let the Good Times Roll – Won't happen for awhile.

 

College Graduation Rates

Deal announces plan to attack low collegegraduation rates

And we just thought the Atlanta Public Schools test cheating scandal was pretty flagrant. Wait until those “ethical “academics (think NCAA rules violations) begin playing THEIR games.

Let's look and see how many of these “students” should have been in college to start with.

Some of the real problems begin much earlier. The technical college I taught at had 80% of the incoming students requiring at least one remedial course. And many of these students had high school diplomas with the academic credential.

Give it five years and the BA/BS degree from most schools will be valued as highly as high school diplomas.

Sublimated

Sublimated

a. To modify the natural expression of (a primitive, instinctual impulse) in a socially acceptable manner.

b. To divert the energy associated with (an unacceptable impulse or drive) into a personally and socially acceptable activity.

The days of sublimation may be over.

It's time to toss the chips in the air and call them where they fall. Unfortunately, most of them will be cow chips.

Let me know when I should change the rating of the blog to adult content – not fit for the minds of young children. They might find out there REALLY is a monster under the bed.