Tired of Bail Outs
I don’t usually like to get political or even serious in this blog, but I just received a news flash that the Federal Government (Read me and you) is going to give $25 Billion (that’s 25 thousand, million) to the auto companies. That’s our money, mine and yours. Personally that will cost me over $400!!!! It costs our league roughly $25,000 for the players alone, assume each has a mom and a dad and that means that the parents and kids of our league just paid $75,000 to bail out an industry that is completely responsible for their own demise!
Do you know what our tiny league of 300 players could do with $75,000!!!!! We could put lights on the field that doesn’t have them and host state tournaments that would bring INCOME into our league, our city, out county, and our state, because nobody visits the greater Orlando area without dropping a couple grand!
This is insane! As many of you know, I have been rich, I have been poor, and I have been in between. I will be that way all my life, it is the nature of my character. I have presided over failed businesses and successful ventures, that’s life. This shtick about the economy will collapse w/o the auto industry is total crap.
The fact is, they spend to much to produce a car, their benefits and pension plans are ridiculous, and they pay their workers too much. Did you know that I heard on the TV the other morning that it has $2,000 in costs in a car vs. their competitors because they have so much overhead! And we, the ones struggling and wondering if we can even afford to buy our kids Christmas presents are going to just give them $25,000,000,000!!!!! Insanity.
Want to bet me who has contributed most to all the campaigns of those in Washington?
Yeah, yeah, fill me up w/ BS about how we can’t exist w/o them.
Isn’t that what they said about Eastern Airlines?
Isn’t that what they said about General Electric?
Let me ask you something, has your life changed drastically since we stopped manufacturing television sets in the United States? My answer is YES! I can afford a BIGGER BETTER SET!
I don’t have the facts in front of me but I would hazard a very confident educated guess that a lot more money is spent on electronics than cars and they are ALL made outside of the United States. I would also bet that the electronics industry makes a TON more money now than they did when the product was manufactured here! Why? Because we ship the low pay jobs overseas, and we use the cheap products to turn ridiculous profits on things like service and programming!
Oh, that means the lower income worker has no jobs. What? You think that there are no construction or cleaning, or local assemble, or custom cabinet, or electrical jobs created though the service industry? How far do you have to drive to get to an AT&T or Sprint store? You think those buildings simply rose from the ground through divine intervention? It seems like it because we are SO DAMN GOOD AT BUILDING THEM! Why? Because we pay per job so people want to finish them fast! Not per hour so people want to move slower!
Obviously, I am very passionate about this. Maybe the auto dealers need to go bankrupt. Get rid of all their obligations, move down here to FL where labor is cheap, and compete like the rest of us have to do. Or maybe we can pass the BAIL EVERY BAD BUSINESSMAN ON THE PLANET OUT BILL and have a fund for everyone that fails in business. Hell, I will be the first in line!
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Time flies, but does it?
Every day it seems that life goes by faster and faster, but does it really? How often do you take the time to just sit back and reflect on everything that has taken place over the last year? The last 5 years? The last 10 years? It is amazing how much occurs in those short time spans.
Look back over any period of your life a year or more and it is amazing what you have accomplished. We need to remember this, especially in down times like this. Ten years in my life are pretty major. Ten years ago it was 1998. I was five years into my voice/data company and on the verge of huge success!
The .com revolution was about to begin and we were positions perfectly to capitalize on it. It was a wave that we surfed for about 4 years. Those were some good times! I am still paying the tax man to this day because of the boon we had then!
We had a thriving business, a boat, a condo on the lake, a condo in Myrtle Beach, brand new cars, and 50 employees. It truly was a license to print money. But just as fast as the good times came, they came crashing down as well. I was fortunate enough to be based just outside of Washington, DC and the growth there was exponential. But so was the demise.
During the boon times, we would get calls every day begging us to send fiber technicians out at $125/hour. There were not enough workers to meet the demands. People were building and building and we were installing miles and miles of cable and the electronics to support them. Again, it was out of control. All good things must come to an end.
First it was MCI going bankrupt, they set up there headquarters right in our backyard, they were a huge source of business for everyone in the area, then AOL left town. It was not pretty. The subsequent effect caused many businesses to go bankrupt and we were shorted over $200K in receivables. Could we have survived? Probably, but we would have had to completely reinvent the company, there was no longer much need for wiring, everything was going wireless and we were in no position to compete w/ those companies.
I tell this story not to depress you during the times we find ourselves in, nor to pity myself, but to show you how much can change in that short time. Ten years ago I was on the verge of huge success, why can’t I be now? Why can’t you be now? Look back at your life ten years ago, hell, I only had 3 kids and two babies then! Now I have 3 kids playing ball and another that will start next fall!
Now do this, it is truly a great exercise, look back 10 years, see yourself, where you were, what you were wearing, who your friends were, where you were hanging out, what city you lived it, who your girlfriend or wife was, what job did you have? Then take all that change that has happened in the last ten years and project it forward! Do the same exercise.
-See yourself
-Where do you want to be?
-Were will you be hanging out?
-What city will you live in?
-Who will be your girlfriend/wife?
-What job will you have?
-What career path will you take?
The only thing I know for sure is, wherever life takes you, you control that path. You make those decisions. As Yogi says, “When you come to a fork in the road take it”. One of my favorite sayings back in the good old days of my company was, “the only bad decision is no decision”. Failure to act results in no results. Even if we make bad decisions, we still learn from them and that is a positive. If baseball and softball teach of nothing at all, it is that we need not dwell on our failures, but learn from them and make our successes that much better. For a failure only means we are one step closer to success.
Where will you be in 10 years?
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Do You Like Horse Racing?
I spend a large part of my life in the suburbs of Washington, DC. There was a cool horse racing track just across the Potomac in MD that made for a fun evening with friends and occasionally we would visit. Additionally, there was a track in Delaware at the beach in Ocean City, that was a fun place to visit as well. We would take our young son and let him bet a dollar on a horse and he thought it was one of the most exciting things ever!
Say what you will about horse racing and gambling, but for those who enjoy it as a recreational activity it can be very fun. They are debating whether to put a quarterhorse track in my town right now and it will be interesting to follow that story. In fact, they are going to build an entire town center around the track and make it a very attractive place. I wonder if my community will allow it?
Anyway, all this horse talk and internet searching led me to Horse Racing at Kempton Park, London’s premier racing venue. If the venue is anything like the site it is an amazing place. They have live racing, hospitality, special events, sponsorships, conference facilities, and meeting rooms. It looks like a really cool place to visit for horse racing in London.
If you are ever in London, I recommend a trip there, I might have to visit myself one day!
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The Final Season, Not Really Very Good
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The Final Season
Just watched The Final Season 
Roanne
I also have to worship him a bit, because when he was doing teen movies back in the day when I was way way younger, he had a last scene where he woke up w/ a nekkit woman. That was Roanne, a girl that used to date Brian from Child’s play and hang out in the Baltimore/Washington club scene that we were so intricately involved in. Obviously, we were all jealous of him at that time!
Boring
Anyway, sorry about that, I know this is a family forum. The move dragged on way to much, didn’t really ever get going and the climax of winning the final championship wasn’t really even enough to keep my attention. This is a great story about a small high school in Iowa that had only 100+ students, yet won 20 straight state championships! How did they do it? Fundamentals according to the coach in the movie.
A story so great could have been told so much better. This is no Bull Durham , that’s for sure!
Anyway, if you have nothing else to do, give it a look, otherwise, skip it!
Anyone else see this movie? Let me know what you thought.
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