I Didn't Vote For Him Either, But Give The Guy A Chance!
I am really getting tired of all the gloom and doom I am hearing every day about the economy and the Economic Stimulus Bill! Republican after republican after republican is stepping up to the microphone and telling anyone who will listen that the president's bill is a big mistake and will not be successful in turning our economy around. News story after news story after news story is relating to anyone who will listen that our recession will get worse, much worse, before it gets better. Don't these people understand that they are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Every time America hears more dire predictions, people vow to spend less money. When people spend less money, businesses suffer. When businesses suffer, they lose money. When businesses lose money, they have to take cost-saving measures. When cost-saving measures are taken, employees take pay cuts or lose their jobs. When employees have less money or no job, they will spend less, businesses will suffer, and, lo and behold, the economy will get worse!!
News agencies are supposed to report the news. The problem is, nothing seems to be considered news worthy unless it is bad. I understand that a lot of bad is happening in our economy right now, but I also know that a lot of good is happening and no one is reporting it. Or, if they do report it, it is buried so deep that it would take Vasco de Gama to find it! There is a company that is planning a new facility close to where I live that will employ 200 people. Does this good news make the front page or the first two minutes of the nightly news? Absolutely not! Both newspaper and broadcast news are much to busy reporting the company that is laying off 57 workers.
And let us not just pick on the news media. Our politicians are just as bad if not worse. It is time for the GOP to back off of all the criticism of the Obama team because they are just making everything worse. Every time they rant and rave about how the stimulus will not work and is bad for the country, they are perpetuating the self-fulfilling prophecy. I didn't vote for the man, but enough others did to elect him president. So let's just let him be the president, do what he thinks is right and find out if he is as smart as we all hope him to be. The GOP has nothing to lose! If it works and we get this country going again, everybody is better off! And isn't that really what all politicians should put first, the health of the country? (I know, a little Pollyanna-ish, but come on, we have to start putting the country and its people first sometime!) And if the stimulus fails, THEN the GOP can stand up and beat their chests and say "We told you so!" and start working toward 2012.
I call on every news outlet in the country to start leading with a success story, a good news story, a "business is still pretty good" story every single day! Start telling people about the good things that are happening, including the stimulus package, and watch the pessimism vanish and the economy turn around. People want leadership, and always concentrating on the negative is NOT leadership, it is undermining!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
The Only Real Baseball Superstar Left
Now that A-fraud has admitted using steroids, we now know that just about all of the so-called superstars of this era of baseball were juiced. Were CHEATING!! Were breaking the law!! Only one man stands out from the crowd. Only one man whose exploits made us gasp, made us cheer, gave us hope for the sorry crew we called "Our Team". Only one man who could display every talent needed to play the game at its highest level, hit for average, hit for power, steal bases, play defense and throw with power and accuracy is left for us to cheer. And that man is Ken Griffey Jr.
Forget the McGuires, the Sosas, the Bonds', the Clemens', the Palmiero's and all the rest because none of them could carry Ken Griffey Jr.'s jock!! Griff did it all and he did it all by himself. No help from steroids or human growth hormone. When he was injured he sat out and healed all by himself. Ken missed all or parts of five seasons with the Reds. His total time away from the game while injured during those five years was somewhere in the neighborhood of three and a half seasons!! Three and a half seasons!!!!! If he had been juicing like Bonds et al, there is a good chance those injuries would not have occurred. And if they had, well a few injections of good old HGH would get him back on the field in no time. But he was NOT juicing and STILL managed to reach the 600 home run level for his career.
Ken Griffey Jr. did it the right way. He didn't cheat his fans, he didn't cheat baseball and he didn't cheat himself. He played the game with a joy and a passion that is usually reserved for boys before they learn what it is like to have life kick you in the gut once or twice. He never forgot how lucky he was and he never forgot that a game is supposed to be fun. He was a joy to watch whether he was running down a fly ball and turning a double into an out or using the absolutely sweetest swing in the game to put another fastball effortlessly out of the ballpark. And while totally mesmerizing us with his "make it look easy" talent, he put up first ballot Hall of Fame numbers. The juicers? Their stats mean absolutely nothing. None of them should get anywhere near the Hall of Fame for as long as there is a Hall of Fame. And if that means years when no one gets enough votes to be inducted, then so be it. Because Ken Griffey Jr. WILL be in the Hall of Fame and to have any one on those cheaters in there with him would belittle his talent and his effort to play the game right, to play the game fairly, to play the game with integrity and honesty.
Ken Griffey Jr. is THE greatest baseball player of the era and should be recognized as such. The rest of those guys, the cheaters, can just go home and play with their syringes.
Now that A-fraud has admitted using steroids, we now know that just about all of the so-called superstars of this era of baseball were juiced. Were CHEATING!! Were breaking the law!! Only one man stands out from the crowd. Only one man whose exploits made us gasp, made us cheer, gave us hope for the sorry crew we called "Our Team". Only one man who could display every talent needed to play the game at its highest level, hit for average, hit for power, steal bases, play defense and throw with power and accuracy is left for us to cheer. And that man is Ken Griffey Jr.
Forget the McGuires, the Sosas, the Bonds', the Clemens', the Palmiero's and all the rest because none of them could carry Ken Griffey Jr.'s jock!! Griff did it all and he did it all by himself. No help from steroids or human growth hormone. When he was injured he sat out and healed all by himself. Ken missed all or parts of five seasons with the Reds. His total time away from the game while injured during those five years was somewhere in the neighborhood of three and a half seasons!! Three and a half seasons!!!!! If he had been juicing like Bonds et al, there is a good chance those injuries would not have occurred. And if they had, well a few injections of good old HGH would get him back on the field in no time. But he was NOT juicing and STILL managed to reach the 600 home run level for his career.
Ken Griffey Jr. did it the right way. He didn't cheat his fans, he didn't cheat baseball and he didn't cheat himself. He played the game with a joy and a passion that is usually reserved for boys before they learn what it is like to have life kick you in the gut once or twice. He never forgot how lucky he was and he never forgot that a game is supposed to be fun. He was a joy to watch whether he was running down a fly ball and turning a double into an out or using the absolutely sweetest swing in the game to put another fastball effortlessly out of the ballpark. And while totally mesmerizing us with his "make it look easy" talent, he put up first ballot Hall of Fame numbers. The juicers? Their stats mean absolutely nothing. None of them should get anywhere near the Hall of Fame for as long as there is a Hall of Fame. And if that means years when no one gets enough votes to be inducted, then so be it. Because Ken Griffey Jr. WILL be in the Hall of Fame and to have any one on those cheaters in there with him would belittle his talent and his effort to play the game right, to play the game fairly, to play the game with integrity and honesty.
Ken Griffey Jr. is THE greatest baseball player of the era and should be recognized as such. The rest of those guys, the cheaters, can just go home and play with their syringes.
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