Antisocial behavior is defined as: "Deviating sharply from the social norm".
I have always thought of myself as a social person but am beginning to think I belong to the "antisocial network". Oh, I am somewhat shy but not really antisocial. I do feel most comfortable with close friends, but having been president of three different companies during my career I had to learn to play the social game. I have traveled around the world, socializing with customers all day along and then entertaining and attending social events in the evening. I was at the top of my game during my career...then I retired.
I have tried to keep up with this fast moving world but now I seem to be sliding toward the bottom of the social ladder; I might even be considered 'antisocial'. Here's the problem - I don't have a smart phone so I cannot keep up to date with what is going on in the world while waiting for the light to change, and can't even check my email except on the computer in my office. In fact I rarely talk on my cell phone except to see if my wife wants me to pick up groceries on the way home or if my car breaks down. I feel guilty that I have never even had a 'social' telephone conversation while driving my car. And texting...well that's another story.
To make things worse, I don't have an Ipad. So here in the country I sit at my old computer trying to keep up with what is happening in the world while deer and turkeys stare through the window wondering where I got that clunker. With WiFi everywhere I could be on-line 24 hours a day with my Ipad and not miss a thing.
But mostly I feel 'antisocial' because I only have 52 Facebook friends. I like to follow what my family is doing and am so envious of my grandchildren; some of them have 500-1000 Facebook friends. Now that's what I call 'socializing'. Where have I gone wrong?
But I'm getting old so maybe I'll just sit in the background and enjoy watching my children and grandchildren socialize on Facebook with all their friends. Although I only have 10- 20 close friends and another 30 or so good friends, I feel blessed with them.
But I'm not giving up. Watch for me on Twitter...whenever I figure out what the hell that is.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
War on all fronts
Class warfare has always been part of the Democratic playbook, better known as the 'populist' movement; protect the working man (unions), subsidize the poor (housing, welfare, food stamps, school lunches, etc.) and during the years of Democratic power, installing programs like the War on Poverty. Obama has taken this war to a new level on all fronts. After single-highhandedly increasing the national debt by more than all previous presidents combined, today he proposed HIS deficit reduction plan which includes $1.5 trillion in tax increases. This from a man who last year said; "The last thing we should do during a recession is raise taxes". Today was a "speech du jour", written by his handlers and posted on his teleprompter.
He tells us the wealthiest need to pay their 'fair share' and if not, children won't get proper health care, firemen, policemen, and teachers will lose their jobs, etc. He also told us that he will veto any bills that do not include these tax increases. These wealthiest people now pay 75% of the income taxes while almost 50% pay no tax, but I guess to Obama this is still not fair enough.
Sadly, rather than leading this country he is in full campaign mode focusing only on getting re-elected. It's not working. Even Democrats are jumping ship. Obama knows this bill will never pass, but with failures everywhere in his administration's polices they are in panic mode and this 'straw man' deficit plan named after Warren Buffett is their strategy to up the ante in the class war. I'm surprised they haven't brought up white men lynching a black man dragging him behind their car as they did with George Bush after the James Byrd incident. But mark my words; the race card is still in their bag of tricks.
But Americans are smart and they are getting involved, and the class warfare strategy is not going to work as well as it did in the past. Even the black community is starting to realize that the 'War on Poverty', welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, and the first black President has done NOTHING for them. They want jobs like every other American. The 'enemy' - the so-called rich are the job creators and people are starting to realize that socialism doesn't work and that 40 million on food stamps, 14 million unemployed, unfunded liabilities for federal and state pensions for public employees in the $ trillions - cannot work. As Margaret Thatcher once put it so aptly; "The problem with socialism is that sooner of later you run out of other people's money".
We can only get out of this economic mess by cutting the massive government spending, reducing taxes and regulations, so the job creators of this country can get to work and 'grow' us back to prosperity.
He tells us the wealthiest need to pay their 'fair share' and if not, children won't get proper health care, firemen, policemen, and teachers will lose their jobs, etc. He also told us that he will veto any bills that do not include these tax increases. These wealthiest people now pay 75% of the income taxes while almost 50% pay no tax, but I guess to Obama this is still not fair enough.
Sadly, rather than leading this country he is in full campaign mode focusing only on getting re-elected. It's not working. Even Democrats are jumping ship. Obama knows this bill will never pass, but with failures everywhere in his administration's polices they are in panic mode and this 'straw man' deficit plan named after Warren Buffett is their strategy to up the ante in the class war. I'm surprised they haven't brought up white men lynching a black man dragging him behind their car as they did with George Bush after the James Byrd incident. But mark my words; the race card is still in their bag of tricks.
But Americans are smart and they are getting involved, and the class warfare strategy is not going to work as well as it did in the past. Even the black community is starting to realize that the 'War on Poverty', welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, and the first black President has done NOTHING for them. They want jobs like every other American. The 'enemy' - the so-called rich are the job creators and people are starting to realize that socialism doesn't work and that 40 million on food stamps, 14 million unemployed, unfunded liabilities for federal and state pensions for public employees in the $ trillions - cannot work. As Margaret Thatcher once put it so aptly; "The problem with socialism is that sooner of later you run out of other people's money".
We can only get out of this economic mess by cutting the massive government spending, reducing taxes and regulations, so the job creators of this country can get to work and 'grow' us back to prosperity.
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