Posted on 03/25/2013 10:40:23 AM PDT by Twotone
It was in rancid pudding at a fast food restaurant that Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) saw the end result of big government. “Because my wife Sharon was with me, I thought it would look good if I chose to go to the salad bar instead of buying a hamburg,” he said in a speech at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference. “I was very uninspired at my prospects for an appetizing lunch when to my great surprise and delight, at the very end of the salad bar I found chocolate pudding.”
Lee, 41, went on in his speech to say that he sampled the pudding only to find that it had spoiled. He alerted one of the restaurant’s staff members who simply rolled her eyes, said she wasn’t “on salad” and walked away.
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"He called this “civil society,” which sounds strikingly similar to the collective approach to problem-solving President Barack Obama often calls for. Asked how “civil society” is different, Lee said his is a call for the collective approach in reducing the size of government. “We are all ‘on salad’ in the sense that all of us need to be calling on government to restrain itself,” he said."
He should have been able to define this a bit better. How about, "In a free country, citizens should do what they can do, rather than leave it for gov't to handle. That is the collectivist approach."
At any event I stay far away from the wheatgrass, sprouts, and tofu (well I do love tofu in Asian dishes). Let’s tax vegggies and vegans on the grounds that they are detrimental to America’s meat producers.
So he didn’t talk to the manager? Apathy indeed.
While using this story to propose a “Collectivist Approach” is NOT my cup of tea, it DOES illustrate the pathetic state to which most of our society has degenerated. Whether it is in Retail, Hospitality, Medical, Finance or Government, it is almost impossible these days to find anyone willing to take responsibility for anything. It reminds me of the early scene in “Atlas Shrugged”, when Dagney encounters a stuck signal light that holds up the entire train. Although the engineer KNOWS the light is broken, he will not take responsibility for running the train when the light is red. All through the book, these incidents occur, illustrating a profoundly prophetic view of the present day.
I see a somewhat different story here.
I noticed a grocery store where every bagger and back room stock person seemed to be at least mildly retarded, in a real way. So I mentioned to a salaried cashier that the grocery seems to prefer hiring the handicapped.
“No kidding!”, they said. “And every other grocery in the city would be happy to hire them.”
He continued, “Someone like them are rare among employees. They are *always* on time to work, *always* happy to work, more than willing to do any chore they are asked to do, and they generally lack most of the personal problems that other hires have. They don’t steal, gossip, fight, slack off, anything.”
Finally he said that one of the really frustrating things is that they will hire someone, and they never show up to work. We never hear from them again after they accept a job offer.
The last “normal” hire they had, when he took a break, went out in front of the grocery and started smoking a joint. He didn’t seem to comprehend that marijuana is illegal, and was puzzled when the manager fired him.
Caring enough to be excellent in your job and community. That is how you move up in your career and how a community is kept alive and well.
Being a doer and fixer in your life, rather than an avoider and whiner.
Graditude for what you have and the pursuit of your own success in life rather than settling into the deadend poverty mentality of resentment and envy in life.
In many, many cases, the mentally handicapped have been raised by very loving parents who taught them the value of honest work and integrity, how to play nicely with others and be polite to everyone, especially those in authority.
They end up being wonderful people to be around. And, as you mentioned, in many cases make far better employees than most “normal” people.
Vegetables are what food eats.
Mrs. Liberty was at Home Depot getting some garden stuff last weekend, and needed help loading her car. It took a half-hour to find someone, so she told the Manager they should hire sufficient staff (there were something like two orange vests running around that day). The Manager said, “Uh uh. I have openings but I can’t fill them. Every applicant who made it through the interviews flunked the drug screen.”
Even if one is a druggie there is no excuse for flunking a drug screen. If one wants the job badly enough, one quits for the month or two before getting the job. Geesh. Why go in and pee in the cup if you know it’s just going to blow the job offer?
You are right, of course.
But. The incentives of ‘moving up’ is not there. The Power That Be actively encourage the opposite, totally relying on gubmint.
Thus we end up with our current sorry societal state.
Even if one is a druggie there is no excuse for flunking a drug screen. If one wants the job badly enough, one quits for the month or two before getting the job. Geesh. Why go in and pee in the cup if you know it’s just going to blow the job offer?
Good question. Here's another: Unless they're going to be, say, operating a fork lift, why have them pee in a cup?
Some years back I took a beer money job as a night stocker at Wal-Mart. Our crew was always understaffed by a third or so, yet WM kept pushing to get all the work done. We kept griping about the shortage and one night, the supervisor, in exasperation, told us they just had 30 applicants, 25 of whom failed the drug test, and of the five, three showed up - and were gone in a few days. No work ethic at all.
WM had self-testing drug kits for sale and the maintenance guys said they were always finding empty boxes in the bathrooms - mens and womens. We figured the potential emps were checking themselves out before applying.
So they can post a sign on the door proclaiming a "Drug-Free Workplace" is why. I am not kidding. It's a fad. But they usually only test for cause and new hires.
I have a buddy who drives a trash truck for Waste Management. It’s a good paying (Teamsters) gig for a guy who isn’t afraid to work hard.
He says they are always short staffed because of the drug test requirements for a Commercial Drivers License.
In that case, WM is better off for it, because those employees would have been thieves, being they already shoplifted the kits.
A business seeking my patronage would do better to post an "A**hole-Free Workplace" sign.
My son was jsut told by the voc placement office that he will have his choice of jobs because he is drug free and has a work ethic. Good jobs with big equipment. He starts interviewing next month
idiocracy.
hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’s humanoid species which sent off all the low end people and middle managers only to die for an unsanitary telphone.
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