In Richard Nelson Bolles best selling book What Color Is Your Parachute?, the author lays out several tips and strategies for those seeking jobs in order to help them through what could easily be considered one of the most stressful times of their life and for this he is to be commended.
That said, it seems that in our current culture, everyone is out to get that golden parachute that ensures them they will be set no matter what. The problem is, through the re-distribution of wealth from the poor to the already wealthy, we are seeing a mass of inept members of the good ol' boys club get there golden parachute and leave the company and its shareholders and employees in ruins.
We don't seem to want to take personal responsibility for our actions in this country anymore and everyone of us is to blame for allowing that to happen. Why aren't we keeping our leaders responsible for their actions?
Over the past eight years, the administration has been absent, letting the corporations run rough-shod over the citizens and Constitution of our once great Nation. We don't have a Government of the people right now, we have a Government of the corporation.
Like my fellow blog contributor, I am hopeful that Obama can deliver on the change and hope he so often talks about, and we should give him that opportunity. His inspiring message of change and his life's example of where living with hope can take you, were one of the reasons I voted for him. Let's also let him know we are ready for that change by stepping up to the plate to be the country we once were - willing to answer the call for sacrifice to help our fellow man or woman.
Are we willing to sacrifice our television, our toys, and our free time to engage in working hard toward solutions for the economy, alternative energy, infrastructure, and environment? Are we ready to rekindle our sense of responsibility for our own actions? If not, who else can we blame but ourselves?
Let's each ask ourselves, "What can I do today to contribute to my cause?," whatever your personal cause may be. Maybe the answer won't come immediately, but if you keep asking and keep searching, I promise a solution or idea will present itself.
There are huge issues out there that need to be fixed. We must work together to find solutions.
What's your idea?
2 comments:
I beg to differ in the strongest possible way with your scapegoating corporations.
Large organizations -- corporations, unions, armies, departments, bureaus, universities, advocacy groups, etc -- all serve to perpetuate themselves while pursuing or appearing to pursue some other goal.
Corporations are the least dangerous of these large organizations because they are the easiest to kill. When they fail to earn a profit, they die.
Furthermore, corporations are the most useful of these organizations because they are the legal framework in which wealth creation takes place.
The Post's general tone that there is something newly wrong with the people of our country strikes me as short sided. I doubt that the distribution of selflessness and selfishness presently diverges much from historical norms.
IMHO we are dealing with the same old human beings in an environment that has changed. Now our voices and our personal influences are hugely amplified. Perhaps our moral framework needs to adjust, but I doubt we will get people to change fundamentally.
Dear Harv,
They won't die if they are broke and their cronie friends keep using our tax money to bail them out.
The part that is 'too big' to allow them to fail, is the kickbacks to our legislators.
My point wasn't that corporations as entities are bad, it was that they have too much influence over the executive and legislative branches o our government.
And, if our voices are so amplified, why did Congress approve a $700 billion TARP that is obviously unpopular with the public? A majority are against it yet it passed easily. Seems fishy to me.
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