Friday, May 13, 2011

Criticism

One thing I do know is that we live in a capitalistic society here in America, and that is what built us into the country that we once were, huh?
My point is what constitutes enough money to live on?
A hundred dollars a week, a thousand dollars a week or ten thousand or perhaps it’s a million? I know it’s according to your self imposed cost of your lifestyle.
But I truly thought America was on a tightening our belts diet of monetary responsibility?

Now go with me here…
Earlier this week while watching The View, an all women’s talk and daytime interview magazine format type show with hosts: Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sheri Shepherd and Elizabeth Hasselbeck, just in case you live under a rock and didn’t know that, which I doubt since my readership is brilliant!
Their guest was Susan Lucci the biggest star of the soap opera All My Children and the conversation went on to discussing her show’s being cancelled after forty ought years, why she herself has been on it for forty-one!
She said that she was surprised but knew from the time she had been called into the office for a three person chat that it had to be what was going on. Ms. Lucci asked her powers that are; why they were replacing the longtime much loved soap and with what other type of programming. Simply said they told her that it would be replaced by a reality show that costs forty per cent less to produce, and Susan resigned to her fate said, I guess it all boils down to the bottom line or some such thing like that, I don’t recall verbatim what she had said.
But her face said it all and so the other women went on with her to discuss her latest book, and other more positive things.
And it was rather sad to listen to another business adjusting to the bottom line over people and causing another large glut on the unemployment line…

Well, just to be more diligent in trying to get a hold on what those TV producers were and still are talking about I did a little investigating for myself and guess what I found?
Ms. Susan Lucci, Ms. Erica Slezak of One Life To Live and Mr. Anthony Geary of General Hospital fame are the three highest paid daytime TV stars with yearly salaries anywhere from seven to eleven million dollars, while not too big players on the show receive anywhere from fifteen hundred to five thousand an episode; not small potatoes by any means. Do you see where I am going here…?

How will they ever survive on unemployment insurance?
And now they are discussing reducing that to less weeks, our government in action.

I do know that agents do the haggling; I myself did a short stint as one of those, but what is the difference between making a great deal for your client and what is pricing your client into an arena that has to shut down because of hard times and that can no longer afford to pay them for that quality talent that they exude?
Yep, a double edged sword, or could this be the Golden Parachute thingy in a different form, creating havoc, it’s just a supposition on my part, but you all know me…?

Now all those daytime hour long dramas are not so cost effective I see that and I get what those TV guys were saying…well, if they saw the train derailing perhaps those stars could have jumped off sooner or said, listen guys I will be more than happy to take a pay cut to save the show! And they would end up in Pop’s Soda Bar or some such place, or is it like all our senators and congressmen who would not refuse to stop taking their COLAS and also receive the best healthcare in the nation even though they think that social security is just great without its COLAS since for the rest of us there are no cost of living increases, and that Medicare is honkey dory too but is costing too much federally so it must be tampered with to adjust so people don’t think tis a free ride! And yes unemployment is still high and people do need help, but none of them would think of sharing what they have
Oops did I say all that…YES I DID!

But don’t go by me I am only An American Minority who is disabled that has no medical and no social security and I am being ‘kept’ by my Hubby for over forty years now although I did work for a large portion of them and so I get by, but what about the others?

A lot to digest, huh?

I know you can do it, in reality we all have to.

On those provocative concepts let me be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to kindly ask you to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time be here or be square, OK?

PS Happy Friday the thirteenth, see it wasn’t that bad, or was it?

Frustration, yup...

Aggravation, irritation, disturbance, annoyance, nuisance, disappointment, dissatisfaction, blocking, foiling, hindrance, defeat, obstruction and prevention are a few of the feelings that are going through my mind right now.

How many of you are spoiled enough to think that when you want to do something regularly that there should be no blockage in continuing to do it in that tried and true manner that you had been doing it like clock-work or a finely tuned continuous positive habit?

OK, this is not one of those vices that you should not do; it is actually my writing this poppycock nightly that is in jeopardy!

Trying to access by blog entry was not possible and so Hubby suggested that I write first, as in reality I usually do anyway in my, ‘Word Program’ what will hopefully be posted later. OK, so here I am doing it…already a half an hour behind my self induced deadline!
Although, that is not entirely true since many days I have been known to post quite erratically, all at different times, (redundancy is me). Even in the mornings for that is when I first started all of this blog nearly three years ago and at one time I believe I did post after midnight due to a computer malfunction, but never my fault. And during the times that I have been ill Hubby would post something.
With him though, who’s a man of few words that is what you would get, minimalist verbiage, but I digress…

This time it is not totally in my control, I truly feel that vibe; although nothing really is, is it?
I mean to have that overwhelming feeling of power over things that ‘just happen’.
Some things in life we do, like accomplishing simple tasks or making yourself exercise whether or not you really want to do it and taking care of your home or laundry, but not so many other things… oh right now… weather comes to mind, specifically hurricanes, which as you can well imagine weighs heavily on all of us here in the southeastern portion of the US and will come up frequently in conversations here over the next few months as usual for this time of year.

With that said about weather and all the horrors of death and destruction that it has caused already this year I suppose most can well imagine why that frustration of not knowing when or where the next devastation will hit… and yes most of that is out of all our control. Tornadoes, flooding and so many deaths…so miserably sad and how powerless it makes us feel to know how to handle it.
Of course our hearts and desire to help in the aftermath is so extremely strong, you would have to be made of stone not to have your heart wrenched nightly from all the news reports…I cry inside with the reality and remembrance of our areas tormented destruction that nearly seven years later some samplings still remain to keep us sharp not to ever forget. And see all those news reports is like reliving it all over again….my heart breaks…for all of the survivors and the ones they lost.
Compassion is sympathy, empathy, concern, kindness, consideration and care, but the most important part to me is seeing your self in the other person’s position. To me that truly gets you to immersed all of your emotions from their perspective.

And so in my mind, the best way though to handle any of this is to do something, Nike it! (Just do it)
Go there and physically help or if unable to as I have said before find a legitimate organization to donate items to or preferably cash. You know why I keep saying that, cash, meaning check or credit card whichever is safest?
Because before our personal Hurricane Charley in 2004, we as you all do know, we had helped after Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and people were so generous with clothes and you-name-it but it was still raining since it is called our rainy season for a very good reason and all those donations were set in boxes for people to help themselves and they were damaged by the rainy weather and mud etc. and since there wasn’t power yet so no way to clean those enormous quantities of caring, many were thrown away not unlike what had been lost in the rubble of the initial hit of the hurricane, and so now you know why my reasoning exists. It’s not to say that you should not send diapers, canned goods, bottled water, toiletries and the like, but I think the aid agencies/organizations might be able to organize better without all items coming in from all different locations and monies would allow for that.

The above is just my opinion and if at all interested ask the powers that be in-charge of the distribution, your loved ones may know or the Red Cross.

On that noteworthy end to tonight’s ideas of concerns and frustrations aired let me be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask kindly to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

PS This was completely ready for posting by seven P.M. EST, but Blogger wasn’t…you see what I mean… frustrating?
PSS Finally Blogspot is BACK!!!!1:21P.M. on a Friday the 13th of all days!Thanks Patricia, another blogger who just informed me!

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