Arizona's SB 1070 new immigration law and subsequent federal lawsuit to keep it from going into effect has polarized the country and crystallized the administrations position of not securing the southern border and siding with illegal aliens over the rights of United States citizens. Lets be very clear about the president and the democratic parties position on illegal aliens invading our country, increasing crime rates, and sapping federal and state resources meant for U.S. citizens. The Obama administration is not waiting for immigration reform they are just employing a de-facto amnesty policy by “not enforcing the immigration laws currently on the books” and now have proceeded to handcuff the State of Arizona from protecting itself from the daily onslaught of thousands of illegal aliens and violent criminals through the court system. The President and his attorney general that called all Americans “cowards” for not having open, honest discussions on the race issue may have won this little legal battle but trying to proclaim racism is the monster lurking behind the curtain in the form of one certain race is only practicing and reinforcing the racism you claim others are guilty of. Most Americans are in favor of Arizona’s new immigration law and not in favor of the federal lawsuit to stop it.
Do not be fooled by the tactics of the administration and the left by calling everyone racist for not agreeing with them on basically anything anymore, as it is their only card left in the game. Their socialist agenda has alienated a majority of Americans so their main goal is to grant amnesty to 30+ million illegal aliens and in turn their votes in 2012. It will not work as the president and the democrats continue their counter productive immigration strategy and constantly fighting the “will of the people” they will lose control of the House of Representatives and the Senate this November and the country will be left with a 1st term lame duck president that has lost the support of the American people.
Jeffrey Shawn
Daily Conservative Vision
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Customer Convenience Or Is It?
There is talk in the media that environmentalism is the new religion of a large segment of America. But I believe there something else that Americans will gravitate towards as a whole people and will justify any means to that end to achieve and have been doing so knowingly or unwittingly since the dawn of the industrial revolution or as long as I can remember and continue to do so today.
When I was a youngster my pop would regularly take a ride to the local lumber yard with list in hand to pick up tools and material for what ever project he was doing at the time. I did not care or even know what the project was most of the time, only that I was going for a ride in the front seat. On the way we would occasionally stop at the local gas station and pull right up to the pumping station islands. There we were greeted by a service station attendant that would pump the gas, clean the windshield, check the oil, and tire pressure all as a courtesy. Of course I would watch all of this take place every time from the soda machine and yea pop always sprung for the change.
Arriving at the lumber yard everyone would park in the front and go to the main desk area. There one of the owners would greet all the customers, take the material list and hand it over to a yard helper. Pop would then pay the bill and move the station wagon to the loading area of the lumber yard. The yard helpers would then load your vehicle and you would be on your way.
Since there were no cell phones at the time mom would give pop a small grocery list to pick up on the way home. This was an easy chore as the grocery store always had a cash register attendant and a helper to bag your goods.
Let’s fast forward to 2009, take the same trips and notice how things have changed.
A trip to the local gas station will find “you” the customer exiting your vehicle sometimes dressed in your finest clothes in all kinds of weather day and night to pump your own gas, wash your own window, check your own oil, and tire pressure.
If you are paying with cash you have to then walk into the service station or mini mart to pay the attendant that has absolutely no knowledge about any of the services you just completed on your own vehicle. Remember to smile the next time you get gas on your hand or clothes because the previous user didn’t use the pump properly. Remember to smile the next time you get gas and get very wet because it is raining. Remember to smile the next time you get gas knowing that U.S. oil companies just reported the biggest profits ever in a one year period…40 billion dollars and that’s just 1 company and Remember to smile the next time you get gas because the reason they went to self serve is because “you” the customer wanted the “Convenience” and prices would be lower since they no longer needed to pay salaries to Service Station attendants …. Remember to smile as you watch the price of gas go up day after day after day.
“Convenience” is a beautiful thing, no?
Next we will stop at the new local lumber yards that are nothing more than giant self service box stores that cater to contractors but will provide the average homeowner bulky heavy steel carts to navigate long cluttered isles all the while loading your own material aka: sheet rock, lumber, shrubbery, or whatever is on your list.
Checking out is a “project” in itself as they usually have two registers with actual store employees and 4 to 6 self serve check out area’s because “you” the customer wanted the “Convenience” of checking yourself out. I guess their right because every time I look around I see all of “your” happy faces standing in long lines at the self serve check out counter! After we check our selves out we then get to push our heavy carts into the crowded parking area and load our own vehicles.
“Convenience” is a beautiful thing, no?
The trip to the grocery store is a joke today. The only problem is that mothers across America are crying real tears over the cost of every day goods. As national chains buy up local chains the expected results are slashing personal and customer service and of course raising the costs of goods. Remember to smile the next time you are standing in those notoriously long super market check out lines because “you” the customer wanted the “Convenience” of checking yourself out.
I don’t recall at any time over the years any survey or questioner form from any store or company asking me if I wanted self service area’s to check myself out, do you?
It seems as if Corporate America has creatively led you and I to believe that they are giving you the convenience that you said you wanted by letting you perform the services and duties that they used to pay an employee to perform for “you” the paying customer….Ah “Convenience” or is it?
Jeffrey Shawn
When I was a youngster my pop would regularly take a ride to the local lumber yard with list in hand to pick up tools and material for what ever project he was doing at the time. I did not care or even know what the project was most of the time, only that I was going for a ride in the front seat. On the way we would occasionally stop at the local gas station and pull right up to the pumping station islands. There we were greeted by a service station attendant that would pump the gas, clean the windshield, check the oil, and tire pressure all as a courtesy. Of course I would watch all of this take place every time from the soda machine and yea pop always sprung for the change.
Arriving at the lumber yard everyone would park in the front and go to the main desk area. There one of the owners would greet all the customers, take the material list and hand it over to a yard helper. Pop would then pay the bill and move the station wagon to the loading area of the lumber yard. The yard helpers would then load your vehicle and you would be on your way.
Since there were no cell phones at the time mom would give pop a small grocery list to pick up on the way home. This was an easy chore as the grocery store always had a cash register attendant and a helper to bag your goods.
Let’s fast forward to 2009, take the same trips and notice how things have changed.
A trip to the local gas station will find “you” the customer exiting your vehicle sometimes dressed in your finest clothes in all kinds of weather day and night to pump your own gas, wash your own window, check your own oil, and tire pressure.
If you are paying with cash you have to then walk into the service station or mini mart to pay the attendant that has absolutely no knowledge about any of the services you just completed on your own vehicle. Remember to smile the next time you get gas on your hand or clothes because the previous user didn’t use the pump properly. Remember to smile the next time you get gas and get very wet because it is raining. Remember to smile the next time you get gas knowing that U.S. oil companies just reported the biggest profits ever in a one year period…40 billion dollars and that’s just 1 company and Remember to smile the next time you get gas because the reason they went to self serve is because “you” the customer wanted the “Convenience” and prices would be lower since they no longer needed to pay salaries to Service Station attendants …. Remember to smile as you watch the price of gas go up day after day after day.
“Convenience” is a beautiful thing, no?
Next we will stop at the new local lumber yards that are nothing more than giant self service box stores that cater to contractors but will provide the average homeowner bulky heavy steel carts to navigate long cluttered isles all the while loading your own material aka: sheet rock, lumber, shrubbery, or whatever is on your list.
Checking out is a “project” in itself as they usually have two registers with actual store employees and 4 to 6 self serve check out area’s because “you” the customer wanted the “Convenience” of checking yourself out. I guess their right because every time I look around I see all of “your” happy faces standing in long lines at the self serve check out counter! After we check our selves out we then get to push our heavy carts into the crowded parking area and load our own vehicles.
“Convenience” is a beautiful thing, no?
The trip to the grocery store is a joke today. The only problem is that mothers across America are crying real tears over the cost of every day goods. As national chains buy up local chains the expected results are slashing personal and customer service and of course raising the costs of goods. Remember to smile the next time you are standing in those notoriously long super market check out lines because “you” the customer wanted the “Convenience” of checking yourself out.
I don’t recall at any time over the years any survey or questioner form from any store or company asking me if I wanted self service area’s to check myself out, do you?
It seems as if Corporate America has creatively led you and I to believe that they are giving you the convenience that you said you wanted by letting you perform the services and duties that they used to pay an employee to perform for “you” the paying customer….Ah “Convenience” or is it?
Jeffrey Shawn
Racism Past Column Example of Todays Democratic Playbook...
Bonnie Erbe recently had a piece in The Times Herald (May18, 2008) based on an article in The Washington Post of the current state of the Democratic Presidential Primaries and the voting tendencies of some older, white, less educated, working class voters particularly in “Factory Towns” being racist for not voting for Barack Obama and that only the younger, better educated “white” urban voters had the higher consciousness to see past the “Black” in the candidate.
The Washington Post is a Liberal Media Mouthpiece trying to divert from the fact that Obama is not receiving votes because he is black but because he is to
liberal, period.
Ms.Erbe knows this because although she noted that Obama receives an overwhelming majority of the black vote, she did not call their voting tendencies racist nor did she mentioned anything about their education level or working class status.
This is the nonsense that has been ingrained into our students within the walls of liberal colleges and promoted incessantly in the general media that only “whites” have and had the capacity to practice racism in America.
Racism is learned in the home from the parents, molded and entrenched in the streets.
Racism is everywhere all around the world in our faces everyday.
Trying to proclaim racism is the monster lurking behind the curtain in the form of one certain race is only practicing and reinforcing the racism you claim others are guilty of.
20 of the past 28 years have been won by the right of center candidate because when all the campaigning is done Americans vote on economic issues and want to keep as much money in their pocket and not have it dispersed by a party trying to expand on a base of voters only concerned about the benefits received not through their own hard work but the hard work of others in the name of fairness, equality and justice.
Jeffrey Shawn
The Washington Post is a Liberal Media Mouthpiece trying to divert from the fact that Obama is not receiving votes because he is black but because he is to
liberal, period.
Ms.Erbe knows this because although she noted that Obama receives an overwhelming majority of the black vote, she did not call their voting tendencies racist nor did she mentioned anything about their education level or working class status.
This is the nonsense that has been ingrained into our students within the walls of liberal colleges and promoted incessantly in the general media that only “whites” have and had the capacity to practice racism in America.
Racism is learned in the home from the parents, molded and entrenched in the streets.
Racism is everywhere all around the world in our faces everyday.
Trying to proclaim racism is the monster lurking behind the curtain in the form of one certain race is only practicing and reinforcing the racism you claim others are guilty of.
20 of the past 28 years have been won by the right of center candidate because when all the campaigning is done Americans vote on economic issues and want to keep as much money in their pocket and not have it dispersed by a party trying to expand on a base of voters only concerned about the benefits received not through their own hard work but the hard work of others in the name of fairness, equality and justice.
Jeffrey Shawn
Buyers Remorse Setting In Quickly
The Obama presidential apprenticeship melodrama mega media training wheels tour is pedaling American guilt and weakness over seas and unconstitutional bank grabs at home. This is an appeasement mentality administration on the world stage and an aggressive affirmative action administration on U.S. economic and social policies. Our enemies sense a weak, inexperienced, indecisive, reactionary, ill prepared, non-confrontational man-child sitting in the Oval Office and have concluded it is now time to not only test American will and strength but to attack it head on. North Korea testing a long range nuclear capable missile with Iran’s help that could reach Japan and United States homeland. Iran’s stepped up global war against America, Israel and every country with democratic ideals and recently the arresting of American journalist Roxana Saberi for espionage and being sentenced to 8 years in prison. China calling for a
one-world currency to replace the U.S. Dollar and Obama's pathetic tax cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner actually stating that he “was open to the idea”. Russia shutting off gas flow to Europe to let the world know they too control a majority of the worlds oil supplies. Somalia teenage militant pirates attacking a U.S. Tanker and holding Captain Richard Phillips hostage for 4 days…. 4 days! and the Taliban on the march to take over Pakistan.
Obama’s response so far is to bow to Arab dirt ball oil sheiks, embrace tyrants like Cuba’s Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who called President Bush “the Devil” an America “the most murderous imperial empire in the history of the world”, meekly reacting to the North Korea missile launch and taking credit for sitting on his hands while the Commanding Officer at the scene of the ‘Pirate hostage stand off” finally gave the order to take out the pirates out due to Obama’s in-action.
In a short 100 days Obama has proven that as President he is not capable of appreciating and defending the incredible positive effect our country has had on the development of the modern world. If Obama cannot even defend America’s reputation how can we expect him to protect our nation?
one-world currency to replace the U.S. Dollar and Obama's pathetic tax cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner actually stating that he “was open to the idea”. Russia shutting off gas flow to Europe to let the world know they too control a majority of the worlds oil supplies. Somalia teenage militant pirates attacking a U.S. Tanker and holding Captain Richard Phillips hostage for 4 days…. 4 days! and the Taliban on the march to take over Pakistan.
Obama’s response so far is to bow to Arab dirt ball oil sheiks, embrace tyrants like Cuba’s Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who called President Bush “the Devil” an America “the most murderous imperial empire in the history of the world”, meekly reacting to the North Korea missile launch and taking credit for sitting on his hands while the Commanding Officer at the scene of the ‘Pirate hostage stand off” finally gave the order to take out the pirates out due to Obama’s in-action.
In a short 100 days Obama has proven that as President he is not capable of appreciating and defending the incredible positive effect our country has had on the development of the modern world. If Obama cannot even defend America’s reputation how can we expect him to protect our nation?
To The Members Of The Senate And Congress:
To the members of the Senate and Congress:
I ask you what has happened to the basic concept of teaching and practicing
“Common Sense” in America for Americans. Every day I witness acts of unparralled stupidity and self preservation by the elected members from both parties who I am sure in their own minds are above average on a sliding scale of half brains.
To all three branches of Government, the Business and Acadamia fields, etc:
I would like to send a message in the language of English to governments of all levels, to all businesses large and small, to the world of Academia and anyone else that is or might be inclined to:
Please stop trying to force the Spanish language down our throats.
Its shameless pandering and offensive to the rest of the Immigrants that have come to America legally learned the English language and assimilated into the American fabric.
Also…most of us have a hard enough time communicating with each other in our native tongue! (See first article)
To you the reader:
If there is one thing you could change what would it be?
Me. I would change the fact that everything changes all the time.
I need a little “Time stand still time”.
With all the recent problems and (Deaths) related to products imported from China
I have pledged not to purchase anything “Made in China”
Can anyone tell me where I can shop now? Do I need a passport?
Jeffrey Shawn
I ask you what has happened to the basic concept of teaching and practicing
“Common Sense” in America for Americans. Every day I witness acts of unparralled stupidity and self preservation by the elected members from both parties who I am sure in their own minds are above average on a sliding scale of half brains.
To all three branches of Government, the Business and Acadamia fields, etc:
I would like to send a message in the language of English to governments of all levels, to all businesses large and small, to the world of Academia and anyone else that is or might be inclined to:
Please stop trying to force the Spanish language down our throats.
Its shameless pandering and offensive to the rest of the Immigrants that have come to America legally learned the English language and assimilated into the American fabric.
Also…most of us have a hard enough time communicating with each other in our native tongue! (See first article)
To you the reader:
If there is one thing you could change what would it be?
Me. I would change the fact that everything changes all the time.
I need a little “Time stand still time”.
With all the recent problems and (Deaths) related to products imported from China
I have pledged not to purchase anything “Made in China”
Can anyone tell me where I can shop now? Do I need a passport?
Jeffrey Shawn
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