Seeking and Questioning

There are so many voices in the news shouting such dreadful news these days that all I can do is ask questions.

For Instance: Is the politics of today making it so that we can conduct business in an honorable way for the mutual benefit of each other? Are we, as business people better off today?"

And I’m not just talking about the large corporations, I’m really interested in knowing if the little Mom and Pop stores, the businesses that may become our future, but right now are run by you, my neighbor. Are you flourishing? If so at what cost? Are you able to stay in business in an honorable way?

It’s kind of freaky to drive around town and see all of the empty store fronts and the signs for long time stores that are going out of business. Why is that?

When I was a kid the SAT score, the Scholastic Aptitude Test was everything. We knew who we were and what that meant for our lives. I confess I didn’t test as the sharpest tool in the shed. But I was in the shed.

There are a group of people sharper than me and a whole lot of people who aren’t. I’m not talking about bad; we have to get rid of this kind of person...Just a whole lot of people that didn’t get tools (minds) as sharp as someone else’s.

But, that was o.k. because we were all in this shed (the world) together. And we didn’t all need a college education to stock shelves and make sandwiches. But, we did need people to go to college and think and write as much as we needed people to make our sandwiches, and change our tires and stock the merchandise on the shelves.

Does this mean that there is anyone who has a life with less value? That somehow there are good hard working people who deserved to be subjected to failure, substandard food and clothing, and no health care just so someone else could have these things?

I’m getting older, and the older I get the more I don’t like the fact that my grandchildren are being born into debt. I don’t like to see good business people struggle and go out of business, while I’m being told it was their fault. Frankly, I don’t think it is. I think that their bottom line has become so thin that they don’t have the opportunity to apply good business practices or even offer health care for their employees? I mean really, if a person can’t afford health care how does fining them for not having health insurance make an sense?

Well, the only thing I can do is ask is questions. And that is what I am doing today. Write to me. Tell me: Is your life better today than it was 2 years ago? 3 years ago? 4 years ago? Do you have your dream life? Do you believe that you can have your dream life or is it a myth?

I can’t build a shed but I can ask questions.