Bullshit Instead of Benevolence

  Yep, let's just call it what it is - bullshit.  I honestly did look for words as descriptive of the measure that was passed yesterday.  I sought to be more polite and tactful, but there is nothing else as well suited as pure and unadulterated bullshit - and with the blessings of those who claim to represent, we the people.  Seems to me that those who passed this should have as their motto "screw the people".

   The replacement of the ACA that was passed by the House yesterday, the AHCA or Trumpcare, is a mockery to we citizens and would better be termed, Chumpcare.  It is abhorent and the antithesis of the Judeo-Christian ethics we as a nation have espoused and touted for decades. While admittedly, the Affordable Care Act was in serious need of tweaking - as are about 90% any federal departments, organizations, or programs.  However, this doesn't mean you completely annihilate it and put an exceedingly poor substitute in it's place.  That's like taking away a child's nutritious dinner and giving him a 25 cent gumball instead. And yes, I know that insurers were pulling out and raising premiums, deductibles, and copays. But the insurance industry doesn't need any excuse to do that - they will anyway and any time it suits them.  That the ACA was in place and it was President Obama's 'baby', simply gave them the proverbial fall guy and those who were against him for all their own reasons, simply used that as fodder to further their own intents.

  In examining what was narrowly passed yesterday, the first thing that comes to my mind in this area of exploration is pre-existing conditions; maybe because it has become the headline for so many articles and news reports.  But there is a reason for that - it is of grave importance; grave is the definitive term.  Moreover, the laundry list of what comes under pre-existing conditions doesn't need a replay here, you can find it anywhere on the net, newspapers, or talk radio. The purpose of this post is not to rehash each and everyone, but the colloquial understanding of what is taking place, or trying to anyway. Genocide. Slow, to some, speedy to others, the genocide nonetheless.  An obliteration of the individuals, families, or groups deemed 'less' or 'sickly'.  It was touted in Eugenics, put in place in the first half of 20th century Germany, and is making a resurgence again in this current metamorphosis.  But don't be fooled, this is exactly what it is.. and they get to keep their hands clean and not held responsible.  Fasten your seatbelts officials, it's going to be a very bumpy ride.

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Standing Out and Fitting In

 There is a very fine line for individuals who either seek to get ahead in their current position or get to their foot in the door and restart what may have been temporarily tabled or lost amidst a sea of layoff, plant closures, and position consolidation or elimination. Speaking from the experience of both, most currently the latter, maneuvering this fine line is an arduous task for both employees and employers. Employers who stand ready to embrace those who stand out but quite often end up hiring those who will readily and easily fit in. 

  We have become a world of automation in selecting candidates for filling positions. We have employed the use of systems which look for key words and do not have a thesaurus built into the elimination program; at what cost is this?  While, the bottom line may look a bit better as labor hours are not spent combing through resumes or applications for a select few, companies may be missing out on those very people who do stand out.  Yet, it is not just automation and programming for resume parsing that are to blame, it is also the constraints often put upon the intermediaries. There it is again, that invisible line. It exists, not just for the seekers of career progression and attainment, but their cheerleaders also.

  Aside, from the obvious of not seeing the forest for the trees, I wish to put forth the hypothesis that acquiring and retaining quality employees has a conundrum that has two key components. On one side there are diminished educational standards required of secondary and post-secondary graduates that have crept into and are within all phases of the workforce and are often seen in candidates and employees alike. So much so in fact, that those who convey a more erudite style of communication are sometimes viewed with castigation, to the point of elimination - citing aloofness and not fitting in on their record or in their reasoning.   The other side, this other component, are those who are outside the box of conventional mindsets for growth within their careers let alone as potential employees. Those outside the box may be a bit older than the interviewer or beyond the average age of their employees. Perhaps their skills are a bit obsolete, or perhaps the personality or physical appearance is not quite what a employer has pictured for a given position. Sadly, there are also those who simply do not wish to be beleaguered by a potential state of discomfort i.e. moving someone onward and upward from a position done relatively well only to have to bring in someone completely new and re-employing the circular thinking; will the new person fit in, stand out, etc. The juxtaposition is almost mindboggling and creates in real time the dichotomous idiom for both employer and employee of being between a rock and a hard-place.

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