Bob's quotes and commentaries ?

There have always been some things I just wanted to write down, so that's what this page is for, infamous quotes and hopefully "famous quotes" (Not likely), and some follow up commentary.  

Television Viewing and Book Reading

Television Viewing supplants the art of Book Reading
Book Reading supplants the art of Story Telling
Story Telling supplants the art of Pantomime
Pantomime supplants the art of Wrestling

The Internet will supplant the art of Television Viewing

Each a form of communication and entertainment.  And actually each new form probably makes the previous more rare and enjoyable.  So go out and have a wrestle tonight!  (Well I never liked wrestling that much, man was that communicating; sorry Mr. Whistler)

Commentary:

Think about it, Book Reading supplants the art of Story Telling; sheds a new light on Book Reading, just another form of entertainment, like Television, enjoying someone else's composition, while being a couch potato (or is that potatoe!).

Of course reference material is not just entertainment, but again the whole purpose of story telling was to pass on useful information to the next generation in an appealing and hopefully entertaining way.  Books have supplanted this art, and perhaps quelled a lot of family comradery.  (TV's just as bad in this domain).

Research & Development is not overhead!

Research and Development simply makes serial number 1!  Manufacturing makes the rest, 2-XXXXX.  Using this thought process, research and development is manufacturing, and therefore is not overhead!

R & D, Manufacturing, and Sales make products which make money, everything else is overhead.  Only departments directly related to the product are not overhead.  I do lump purchasing, logistics, etc, into manufacturing.

Corporate officers, CEO's, and boards are overhead, they don't make products!  Time to cut costs share holders!  Let's start making some products America!

The reason for Social Security

Why does Social Security exist?  Because the Stock Market failed!  Now we want to rely on the Stock Market to bail out Social Security?  I don't think so.

I need to learn how to invest in Soup Kitchens, and Flop Houses, that's where my future financial security resides.  Who's going to take care of the millions of people whose investments fail, who are scammed out of their money, that's why our For Fathers invented the Social Security, public insurance, program so that we would not have to take in thousands of strangers into Soup Kitchens, and Flop Houses.  So if Private Accounts succeed, these will be the enterprises to put your money into, Soup Kitchens and Flop Houses!

Nationalize insurance, not health and medical care

The one thing America has successfully nationalized is Social Security.  What is Social Security?  An insurance program!  Why nationalize health care when the primary problem is out of control insurance companies.  Profits are enormous and coverage and payouts are steadily declining.  Executive of many insurance companies are lining their pockets with gold!

As a country we know how to handle insurance, assuming we can keep our own elected officials from borrowing from the coffers!  Social security is well funded and it is NOT an entitlement program!  Only government officials who want to steal these funds refer to this program as an entitlement; its PREPAID INCOME INSURANCE.  Additional funding was added to support the "baby boomers", but our elected officials have borrowed and squandered much of those funds.

So if we just nationalized the insurance industry, or at least highly regulated them, all people would have insurance coverage.

The government is constantly insuring people anyway with "disaster relief" funds.  This is unacknowledged insurance!

Hospitals are truly the ones insuring the most needy in our society.  They are legally mandated to help low income individuals and families.  They finance this by overcharging everybody else.  This is simply a disguised, bamboozled, insurance system!  Again the insurance industry itself if failing to provide the needed services, just lining their pockets instead!  

So again lets nationalize the insurance industry, and simply regulate health care a little more carefully!

Hopefully more in the future

But that's one!

Thanks for visiting
Bob