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Jun 30

Quick thought on Government Healthcare

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“While it is a good thing for everyone to have health insurance, is it really a right that government must affirm?

If we mandate all should have access to ‘health care’ should we not also mandate people do only healthy things? Smoking, drinking, drugs, obesity, promiscuous sex, skydiving and driving in automobiles are all very risky activities.

Mandating a minimum level of government health care will certainly give rise to ever increasing standards of care desired by the public. Would it not be better to allow them to choose for themselves? If they choose no plan, they accept the consequences of that choice. After all, we’re all going to die sometime, right?”

David P.

I read this posted by David P. on John Stossel’s blog. His blog is mandatory reading for anyone interested in politics. You know him from his many specials and 20/20 on ABC. He is a libertarian just like myself. This comment was in response to Stossel’s post about Senator DeMint’s Healthcare bill. And yes David P.’s comments match my own feelings about this concept of Government run healthcare. I think this idea is completely asinine.

JW

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Apr 28

Honesty in Business

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So my post today is about “Honesty in Business”. We teach our children to be truthful. I would like to give you a quick example of a scenario I had in the workplace. This is my one and only recollection in 13 years as a working professional where being honest resulted in a positive experience, despite consistently taking responsibility in any situation where I may have made mistakes or errors while my coworkers remained silent.

I once worked for a gentleman named Phil McGraw, which most of you may know simply as Dr. Phil. I was working on the road in Boston setting up a computer system for a trial that was to begin the following day, and in the process of setting up this system, I failed to check one of its components the night before. As a result, the next morning this particular component did not work properly. When asked what was wrong, I owned up and took responsibility for not checking it the day prior, even though I could have lied and claimed there were no previous issues. I admitted my oversight, which I find to be a rare trait in today’s business world. My immediate supervisor was notorious for covering his ass in similar situations. He would have just lied.

Now the reason I remember this scenario so well, despite it happening over 10 years ago, is because later I learned that Phil respected me for telling him the truth and admitting my mistake. Maybe it’s because he wasn’t used to hearing someone accepting the blame or just because he is a smart man. I don’t know which or care to know why. This is just my nature and it is the only example I have of not “getting in trouble” if you will.

So why was there only one good result in 13 years? It is because we go to work and lie to our supervisors on a regular basis so we don’t get in trouble, and this is expected? But yet these same people will go home from work and teach their 7 seven year old son or 10 year old daughter about right and wrong and about being honest. We punish our children for lying to us, and then we lie in the business world.

Am I the only one that sees the problem with this?

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