http://www.lifetrekcoaching.com/provisions/20090920.htm
Provision #635: Broaden Your Focus
by Bob Tschannen-Moran
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One of the many tools for playing the Inner Game that Tim has popularized in his books is the STOP tool. STOP stands for:
* Step back
* Think
* Organize your thoughts
* Proceed
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Cute!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://tslrf.blogspot.com/2009/09/motivation-and-greed-rant-2.html
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Motivation and Greed, Classism and Perks- Rant #2
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The concept that you should be able to keep 100% of your income is a fine one. It would not work because at the end of the day we need some level of government (how much can be debated hotly) and that costs money.
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I was with you up to that point.
I’m not so sure that is self-evident.
True, with only a few exceptions, we’ve always had “government”. We’ve also had social diseases too. That doesn’t mean we NECESSARILY have to have them.
Government IMHO is the meme that kills. It gets out of control so EASILY and QUICKLY. Maybe we could do without it.
Maybe, just maybe, we could buy insurance. And, insurance companies would buy protection for us.
Government is the only entity that can force us to buy products and services that we don’t want, can’t use, and at a price we can’t afford.
SOOooo, maybe we can do without it.
It’s interesting that someone will spend millions to get a job that pays thousands. That’s the tip off that there is something very wrong with the whole proposition of government.
imho.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/09/public-knows-better-than-pols.html
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We should be talking about a single-payer system, which would remove profit from the system (health care companies boost profits by denying care) and place all of us on an equal plane.
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Sorry to tell you but then you will have a very expensive gooferment bureaucracy denying care.
Look at the VA (e.g., “My doc is trying to kill me”). Look at the Indian Health System (e.g., “Don’t get sick after June”). Look at Medicare (e.g., “If medicare denies your claim [for a Jazzy], we give it to you for free!”).
And, when the gooferment bureaucrat decides that you can’t get your hair plug replacement therapy, or that needed “experimental” procedure, to whom are you going to appeal? Your local newspaperman who urged this on you? Your Congressperson?
No! The gooferment is exceeding its role. Want single payer? Move to any of the lovely jurisdictions that have it: Canada, England, Sweden.
And, when you get really sick, come on back.
Progressives always want to give gooferment control. We need to stop this march to socialism before it kills us.
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UPDATE: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-government-would-really-like-for-you-to-have-a-wheelchair
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UPDATE: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2011-07-12-wheelchair-medicare-fraud_n.htm
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Posted by reinkefj
Breezy and cool.
Mostly cloudy.
Only the “winterers” are here.
Gusts move the blinds when they come thru the jalousies.
Soon it will be all over for the seasons.
Four sets of contractors coming today to measure the kitchen. It’s vintage 1930 and needs to jump up to date. Well, as far as it can jump on an old retired / unemployed guy’s meager allotments.
Last night when I couldn’t sleep, I was working on my opus. A stray young kitten wandered by and peered in the door. I was smart. Didn’t feed it or even acknowledge it. It moved on. After all you know what happens when you feed stray cats? You make more stray cats. Still, a pet would be nice. Yeah, I know “with my second wife”. To which I respond: “One Dog. One Wife. One … …”
Maybe the sun will come out today?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzO_Ki9dF9tOlEmbHGiBPp0hgzzAD9AU95JG0
Mass. GOP seeks to block Kennedy interim successor
(AP) – 3 hours ago
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BOSTON — The Massachusetts Republican Party is seeking to block the interim appointment of Paul Kirk to the Senate seat that was held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
The GOP has filed an injunction in Suffolk Superior Court that will be heard Friday morning.
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Now I realize that I have my law degree from the Judge Judy school of law,
BUT, (there is always a big butt),
(1) Shouldn’t this be unconstitutional on its face. The state legislators should just write the law that MA Senators have to be picked by the head of the Democratic Party!
(2) Shouldn’t this trigger one of those “This is so outrageous that it offends the sensibilities of the Court. Rule it unconstitutional Ex Post Facto. Et cum spiritu tuo two two oh. Or what ever Latin mumbo jumbo you want to use.
Huh?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/smith-g.f5.1.1.html
How Much Money Do We Need?
by George F. Smith
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There will always be people who wish to live at the expense of others. Government does this through taxes and inflation – which is here used as an increase in the money supply – and in modern times, inflation, because it is generally misunderstood by the public, is a politically safer method of confiscation than taxes.
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Fiat paper money regimes are not designed to promote a healthy economy. They are designed as a means of wealth distribution for the benefit of a few.
That probably doesn’t include you, and it definitely doesn’t include me.
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It sure isn’t me!
Here in two paragraphs the author explains the problem with gooferment paper money.
I’m not sure how this all unwinds. We can see in history that: in France, the aristocrats lost their heads; in Germany, Hitler came to power; and in Zimbabwe, the people starve despite the fact that when it was Rhodesia it was Africa’s breadbasket.
As an “old guy”, I may not be here for the final act of this morality play. I think it’s going to make the Great Depression look like fun. All empires pass. And, the passing isn’t pretty for those in the empire.
Argh!
How do we fix it?
Civic virtue. Honest money. No more Ponzi schemes like Social Security. End welfare. End the Psuedo Drug War. Bring the troops home.
Will it happen?
I pray it will.
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Posted by reinkefj
(No background music) School kids taught to praise Obama
This is an absolute travesty. We need to end “public education”. All they are doing is ensuring that the next generation of “voters” will be too indoctrinated to be free! Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
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The consumer is king? No, he’s not. What’s my choice for electricity and gas? PSE&G or PSE&G? Or I have to move to another state. In many cases, one or two companies have a monopoly of a certain type of business or there is often price fixing and collusion between corporations. That is certainly true of the private for profit health insurance industry.
What the hell is some poor working stiff in West Virginia supposed to do against giant coal mining corporations that are polluting the water, soil and air of their neighborhoods? Oh yeah, they have the option to move from their homes where they may have roots going back generations. We have no choice about how the energy is transmitted to our abodes. The only way to deal with these great polluters is through the power of the government or the legislature. We need a trust busting Theodore Roosevelt and an army of Upton Sinclairs to take on all these giant corporations which are raping the environment and our wallets. Corporate America has too much power, they are unelected but they control the media and have undue influence over Congress and our legislatures, (local, state and federal).
We need strong unions to give workers a voice and to level the playing field.
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Blogger reinkefj said…
>The consumer is king? No, he’s not. What’s my choice for electricity and gas? PSE&G or PSE&G?
OK, let’s take PSEG. Who gave them a monopoly? The Gooferment. So aim your ire at the “state”! That’s why you don’t have a choice.
Even when given a monopoly, that still doesn’t completely insulate the monopoly service provider. Comcast was the monopoly. Then, came DirectTv. Then, Dish. Then, Verizon FIOS.
>In many cases, one or two companies have a monopoly of a certain type of business or
> there is often price fixing and collusion between corporations.
There is NO monopoly without GOOFERMENT. Competition disolves “natural monopolies” in a few years. Everyone always cites the Rockyfeller oil monopoly which lasted (I think) THREE years before competitors came in and took percentages.
>That is certainly true of the private for profit health insurance industry.
There is NO such industry. The Federal and State Gooferments regulate EVERYTHING about healthcare. AND, those companies LOVE it. It prevents competition. “Regulatory capture”, restriction on suuply, mandated coverages just make it expensive.
>What the hell is some poor working stiff in West Virginia supposed to do against giant coal
>mining corporations that are polluting the water, soil and air of their neighborhoods?
Where’s the Federal and State EPA that are supposed to be preventing that?!? In fact, the gooferment is the biggest polluter. (Check some of the DOD and DOE sites.)
If you had a fair judicial system, then they’d have a recourse. Read Healing Our World by Dr. Mary Ruwart. http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap14.html
>Corporate America has too much power, they are unelected but they control the media
> and have undue influence over Congress and our legislatures, (local, state and federal).
It’s called Facism. Where the State and Business become “bedfellows”.
>We need strong unions to give workers a voice and to level the playing field.
Yeah, right. Like the UAW, Teachers Union, or SCIU are weak. Please, don’t make me laugh. They are AS corrupt as the politicians.
So who’s going to save you now?
The answer is we have to rescue ourselves. It’s our thinking that needs to change. We have to demand freedom and liberty. We can start by voting out EVERY incumbent. Call it voter imposed term limits. Demand TRUE deregulation. No licenses, no permits, no gooferment oversight. Liberty will protect us.
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Posted by reinkefj
Should You Hurry to Buy Life Insurance?
Hough: Policy prices are rising. Here’s what you need to know.
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Avoid it <<insurance>>, unless both of the following statements apply:
1. Your death would put someone you care about in a financial bind.
2. You’re not rich enough to set money aside for that person now.
Note that caring about someone isn’t enough of a reason, because insurance is a money-losing proposition, making it a poor gift versus simply saving. The purpose of insurance is to turn the unknowable (the probability of financial disaster brought on by your death) into the known (the cost of premiums today). Buy only enough so that your loved ones don’t suffer financially, not enough to make them feel like they’ve hit the lottery. They’ll feel like lottery winners anyhow after seeing your savings and brokerage accounts stuffed with all the money you saved on insurance. Buy only cheap term insurance, not expensive whole life or anything else that builds investment value, because you can build investment value in your brokerage account with more control and lower fees.
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I remember the old life insurance salesman’s canard: “A man who dies, leaving his family with no life insurance, doesn’t die; he absconds!”
I think this author nails it.
Worth a quick read.
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Posted by reinkefj
On Sep 17, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Khürt Williams wrote:
Why does the author think that “civilization” needs to be maintained and which civilization was her referring too? The contraceptives for Africa is not to stop people having babies but to stop the spread of AIDS and although I don’t agree with Pelosi’s politics, it does make sense that we do not want poor women having too many kids which then puts a burden on government (the people). Perhaps we need to start legally euthanizing the elderly instead of abortions.
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I’d like the gooferment to stop messing around with human beings. We need all the people we can create. Don’t kid yourself about the “purpose” of contraceptives. And, imho Africa’s problem is corrupt gooferments aided and abet by OUR corrupt gooferment. Imagine what would happen if the world said to the ruling elite of a poor African country, “No, you can leave your squalid little part of the Earth until you clean it up. You most certainly can not bank your stolen treasure here. You can’t enjoy our society while you are robbing and killing your own countrymen.” Argh, like that’s ever going to happen. Ever wonder why the world’s leaders eschew assassination? Not for the benefit of their citizens! Euthanasia, genetic selection, sterilization, and abortion is the complete undervaluing a human life. It’s the path TO the death camps. “Too many kids” from “poor women” is code for we have a gooferment that is out of control. Again, imho.
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