jeremy stephens | J - thoughts from along the way

May 26, 2009

Wishing the Day Away

So I am sitting here working at a job that had been good to me over the last 2.5 years. Nonetheless, it is a job that will be over in about 3 weeks as our parent company has decided to shut down the doors. So I am working with one half of me and trying like heck to network with the other half. In doing so, I have come to the conclusion that we spend way too much time wishing our days away. Simply look at the update posts on Facebook. It seems everyone is on some sort of countdown. Some are counting down to vacation and others are simply working for the weekend. I must admit that I have done that myself, but my current situation along with the gray in my hair has slowly made me realize that every day is a blessing that is not to be taken lightly.

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March 24, 2009

Campaigns, Conferences & Late Night Television

So the President is going to be on television again tonight. He has been doing a lot of that lately, but it seems that up until now they have been designed to convince us of a need for action. I think President Obama would be well served in this instance to do away with the inspirational speeches and instead shoot the American people straight. What started as a limited (and yet substantial) intervention to save our economy, has quickly turned into a seemingly never-ending permission slip for government intervention in the private sector. We have Congress passing bills and then passing blame on those who seek to implement the points in the legislation. We have Congress seeking to break contractual agreements and saying that such action is vital for the protection of the American tax-payer. We have Congress seeking extended power to seize companies outside of the financial sector in order to protect and sustain the already fragile economy...and yet who plans to balance the power of such a body that was never intended to take such action?

I think the American People can handle the truth. We can handle the fact that we are in a depression and we can handle the fact that we are going to have to sacrifice and deal with hardships and failure in order to eventually recover. What we cannot handle is a government continuing to artificially inflate a bubble that is going to burst if not today...sometime in the future.

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March 11, 2009