Getting to the POINT and balance pleasantries to Facts?
Michael Schmidt
Volunteer Community Speaker - Social Justice, Senior & HealthCare for ALL Issues!
Recently I engaged in a bit of debate over a positing of a theorized who was going to be against who in the 2016 election.
Those of you who have read my pieces no doubt detect my nature of a quiet, back breaking desire to please everyone type of country boy. If I could post my voice, you would even think I was a southern boy, except really I am a West Virginia born and raised native.
However, thanks to feed back from MANY of you and I thank you for it!!! I am doing my best to sharpen the pencil and get quicker to the point. It certainly goes against my writing style, but I hear what people say when they have so much to read and struggle to keep up, just like my old CEO update, who I can remember explaining to me, it was to be on one sheet of paper in bullet points and no more than one line per bullet. He needed to know the What, When and Where and the bottom line. On Target, Financially and Time and if not what was being done to correct the situation.
So let me get to the point about this post, Getting to the POINT! If I had my way, I would never discuss politics on Linked In, but the FACT is, the out come of Elections has consequences. More jobs or less jobs. Impacts to those in Political Jobs where they serve at the "Will and Pleasure" aka non Civil Service posts.
Here is the point:
- The Election is a good year out!
- No Primaries have been held, so we have NO decision by the PEOPLE on who will run against the other.
- POLLS - if I had my way, they would be BANNED! When you hear a Poll on your favorite source of Corporate controlled NEWS, ask yourself, did they call me? Anyone I know? Chances are, if you look on the net, you can find a Poll to support what ever your argument might be. What I have to say here is to the DEVIL with Polls. Ignore them.
- VOTE - Today, we have the technology to end this going to a "Polling Place", but all the "Conspiracy Theories" keep us in the dark. One reason is depending on the Party and their accomplishments, they wants some segments to vote and others to not vote. What do I have to say as someone who volunteers and works with Vets? GET YOUR BUTT TO THE POLLS AND VOTE! The ground seeps BLOOD so that you have the right to vote.
- Be informed, I hear what people say they are on over load, work, kids, work life balance issues. Financial, Health, Surviving has begun to just consume our mind. More and More people I speak with tell me they can't see past tomorrow. Thats why I recommend you ask the "Major" Candidates that have the ability to make a difference in a HUGE way, for a list of their Positions on Social and Economic issues. They have them. You just have to use your judgement and decide who do you believe and which is to your benefit.
- 2016, is a VERY different election. It is the FIRST election in the History of the United States that the "White Vote" no longer has the power to predict the outcome. United Minorities have the power to bring about "PROGRESSIVE" also called Common Sense moves to propel us and our country forward. Politics and Common Sense are two ships who never passed in the night. After all, what is the PARTY goal really about any election? So simple, its hard for most to see it, one thing: POWER!
Finally in closing, I want every American to know its NORMAL, NATURAL to get MAD, Frustrated, Cry, Yell, Express your views. Civility, the ability to just agree to disagree has been so lost. WHO CAN CHANGE THIS? Me and YOU!
It is a simple fact, its so much easier to just be NEGATIVE, although, I can't even think that way. Again, the answer to this problem is so simple, in a world of COMPLICATIONS, we can't see it. Its staring at us. Get the heck away from those people. They are NEVER happy. We all have them around us. My most aggravating saying I heard over and over all my life: "Well its always been this way before, why change now". The fix for this is to say, because LIFE IS EVER CHANGING and as Technology and Automation evolve, so will our lives and work life. Automation is to eliminate human beings from being on the payroll.
What is the right way to look at Change? How can I get involved, share my knowledge and most of all work to make it's impact to ME and my peers as POSITIVE as possible. Because like it or not, Change is here to stay and has been since the beginning of Human Kind!