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The Gore Bush election really hit me. We aren’t being listened to.
Let’s get rid of the electoral college.
Let’s get more of the people heard — I think the internet is the way of the future. Even if everyone doesn’t get involved, the ones that do will be heard.
I ran into this image 
on the site http://thepeoplegroupllc.com/tag/executive-suite/
Seeing the sinking ship (us, the workers) while the executive and his money float away disturbs me. I m struggling to get a job and keep my house. My house that is all I want –not fancy clothing, not dinners out, not being able to go to a movie, just feeding my cats and keeping my house. I am willing to work any hours and as many hours a week I can. Soon, next week maybe, I am going to apply for anything minimum wage jobs — this will only extend my unemployment compensation because I can make more on unemployment than minimum wage. Maybe I won’t work at minimum wage and just live off the dole.
Back to executive compensation. I could live, well off, on a fourth of one percent of one of these executive’s compensation. Maybe I should see if one would adopt me as their charity cause.
And the media.
I don’t get it.
Why is there is a problem with Obama putting a cap on executive’s compensation?
What is the worry of executives leaving their jobs for other jobs? Are these people not expendable? Even the President is expendable. We replace the president every 4-8 years.
There are millions of people unemployed and would be happy to take the lower executive compensation package even, most likely, one sixteenth of these packages. And I am sure even some candidates are equally qualified for the positions.
We, including you the media, need to quit thinking that these people are magicians, the only ones who can do these job, and they are not expendable.
As a shareholder in the bailed out companies, I strongly vote to put caps on executive compensation, including the getting shares of the company, they should buy them like everyone else. And if they don’t buy shares, are they confident of in their commitment to their company.
My opinion about caps on executive compensation is that they should be limited to a percentage of the companies’ lowest wage earner. Such as 300% of the minimum wage worker on the production floor. This would have the effect of more executive consideration to the common worker and wish to raise their compensation so they can get a raise.
Why are we taking it — and how can we change. I feel so helpless.
Or rather the spending of time not spending. I sit at my house trying not to spend money. As with everyone, money is tight. So, I watch TV –oh no that costs money. I downgraded my cable TV so I only get the basics now soap operas, news, the latest sitcom no SciFi or BBC. Well, I can still surf the web but that is so…. slow. Internet access also was downgraded to save money. So, a book it is. But even with all of my light bulbs changed to energy efficient fluorescent bulbs -this costs. I can walk (even with the gas prices going down driving is to expensive (oh, my god, southern california without a car!) to the café and do my web surfing, get warm (I keep the heat off at home), and drink tea (it is one of the cheapest liquids they serve).
If you sit in a coffee house and watch people you see people not shopping on black friday. Shopping on the day after Thanksgiving is very black, squeezed in crowds looking for an item that neither you nor the giftee needs. Consumption builds our economy and expresses caring for others. But is it not richer to put an object in place of our emotions. Would not creativity be better? But we have no time to create. The days occuppied with working and the evening used to recover from the fluorescent lights that we sit under all day. What is the difference between compact fluorescent lights we use at our home to save energy and the fluorescents used in the office? The ones at home don’t seem to have that light jitter that makes all stressed and nervous at work, how is that?
So, it never rains in southern california – really!
Except on the day before Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day. The rain came down and cleaned the air. The plants sipped, my rain barrels (trash cans) filled with rain water and the world of dust is brush cleaned.
My rain cans are now prepared for the days of normal non-rain. Here in southern california water is a precious element. Energy saving is something everyone should do but here conserving water is more important. We, none of us, live like we are in a desert. We are in a desert yet we want to deny it. Again why?
So, a new website, a new blog, a new life. Many changes have happened in the last year. After a year of dealing with two types of cancer and the lost of my job; I wonder if life of going to a coffee shop everyday and working software tutorials isn’t really my dream. I love learning and splitting my learning time between Adobe Photoshop, the full Creative Suite, web technology, and political affairs seem very natural. The coffee house people are more and more becoming my friends between nodding friends to ones who go out of are way for each other. The rumbling of conversations all day and the silence of home and kitties in the evening seem to provide me the balance that feeds me.
But then, the bills come in and I know that it is time to go to work. I enjoy working; I get to use the skills I am studying. Is there work out there for me? I do not sit and act passive. Networking, applying for jobs and visiting many businesses seems to keep me out there and seeing many people I have previously worked with. But jobs are slim, the economy caught me; my cancer has made it hard to bounce back from it. Now fit and happy my bank account diminishes –will I be able to keep my house?
Rani, one of my three kitties