2010-Midterm Elections Coming Early To Massachusetts

by Pietro Savo

It appears that perhaps the 2010-midterm elections coming early to the State of Massachusetts. With the passing of Ted Kennedy, filling his senatorial seat decided by a special election. As Massachusetts’ law stand today the special election will be open to all political parties. Massachusetts law requires a special election within 145-160 days after a Senate seat becomes vacant and the law prohibits the governor from making an interim appointment. This was not always the case in Massachusetts, which last changed its succession law in 2004 to require a special election. Before that change, the governor could name a successor. At the time, the Democrat Party worried that the Republican Governor Mitt Romney would be able to fill any vacancy created if Democratic Senator John Kerry became elected president, obviously changing the rules to best fit the Democrat Party’s politics of the day (Source: CNN).

Imagine what would happen if we change the rules to favor the New York Yankees before the next Boston Red Sox World Series.

Ironically, the American Revolution began at Christ Church in Boston where it was “one if by land, two if by sea,” by passionate people who believed in freedom, liberty, and developed what we call today democracy (Source: Library of Congress). Such important history beginning in Massachusetts is on the verge of historic significance once again.

The question now becomes will the Democrat Party change the rules to keep this senatorial seat or will they put their trust in our democracy and fair play?

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Read, write, and question everything!

Democracy is Not A Polite and Pretty Entity

by Pietro Savo

Many of my liberal, moderate, and conservative friends focus more on the argument than the actual importance of having the argument. Agree or not, the disagreement of different political viewpoints represents the only true important factor in the rhetoric. We must never stop debating, never stop disagreeing, and never stop questioning because that is what democracy is all about.

Democracy is not a polite and pretty entity; it can become fearful for the light-at-heart. When we stop arguing, when the rhetoric becomes one-sided, when any side is no longer willing to question, we achieve pure submission. Submission does not work in a democracy; submission is not liberty nor is it being free. The human race has not achieved the top of the food chain because we were submissive. The human race represents the uppermost part of the food chain because we are willing to risk all to get our point across. What does this all mean, there is no real democracy without passionate rhetoric!

Regardless of where your political beliefs reside, be it left, middle or right, is not the concern, what is important is questioning our government to keep them honest and true to our best wishes. When we are questioning, we’re pro-actively taking the time to understand each issue that interests us, and affects us, as long as we independently determine our own belief at the end of the day that is true democracy. Read, write, and question everything!

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Rationing Health Care Means You Have Lived Long Enough

by Pietro Savo

What happens when people from the top schools take over the government, they assume that they know what they are doing? The joke is on them or is it on us? This expensive education they received taught by people who have not worked or learned in the real world is clueless and worthless. The educational joke perhaps is on the rest of us, the working middle class folks who really suffer the consequences from their poor judgment, and “we are not laughing.”

With book-smart learning, practical learning does not exist. True intellects do not begin in the classroom; true intellects begin working in the real-world, where your decisions right or wrong affects an organization’s ability to create success. With today’s medical technology and expertise money or profits should never become placed before good medical treatment. That is exactly what rationing health care represents, deciding when the financial cutoff to treat a patient becomes reached.

With the current government’s plans formulating in Washington, I figure at 50 years old I have about ten years to live and then the government will decide that I have lived long enough. Any extra medical care I have earned in my lifetime will become forfeited in the name of fair treatment for all. Rational health care also takes the incentive away from smart people to spend ten years in college to earn a medical degree. With the prospect of making less real money, less smart people will go into medicine risking future medical advancements. How do you feel about a second-rate doctor treating you or your children? Diseases become cured by the smartest people going into the medical professions. Rationing health care is a double edge sword that will slow medical advancement and progress and kill working middle class folks.

The icing on the cake is the people in the government making rationing health care a devastating reality will not lose their quality medical care no matter what they promise you. This change will only affect us working middle class folks. The humor in this is we sent Dr. Jack Kevorkian aka “Dr Death” to jail for helping people die, and now the government is about to make legal the same practice.

The solution is to put successful people in charge of our government, here is my pick; Lee Iaccoca, Bill Gates, T. Boone Pickens, Dambisa Moyo, Steve Jobs, Ted Turner, Kathy Gallagher, Michael Dell, Meg Whitman, Donald Trump, Catherine Hughes, Jack Welch, Derschaun Sharpley, Pam Geller and Warren Buffett. What these successful people have in common is they have made good productive paying jobs for other people all their lives, and they have not focused their intellect on creating unproductive propaganda. Perhaps the solution is once again having the citizen politician as our nation’s founding fathers wanted!

Term limits, urgently needed today, as a means to ensure citizen politicians inspired by real-world common sense experiences can make the laws once again. Start calling your government representative; tell them what is on your mind! http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml ; Read, Write and Live Longer!







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Sarah Palin, the common folks 21st century American Knight!

Sarah Palin, the common folks 21st century American Knight!

Why do the silver spoon-fed aristocrats hate Governor Palin so much? This hatred comes from her association with the common folks. Today’s embedded long-term career politicians are no different from the noble class of the Middle Ages. Then out of the American last wild frontier comes a woman not groomed for greatness by attending the finest private schools money could buy. She is a natural people organizer, positive proof that you don’t have to buy votes to win elections. She is a person who’s family is as unpredictable as our own, and far from perfect, yet so truly loved. Her examples of genuine love for her family are an aristocrat’s worst nightmare.

Here is why the aristocrats are now worried, our economic system shaped like a pyramid, the wealthiest 10% of United States families own more than 72% of the total wealth. (Source: Race, class, and gender in the United States by Paula S. Rothenberg) This means the remaining 90% represent the second class citizens, the common folks, and the middle class. 90% of anything represents an amazing number of votes that reacts to positive emotion. Governor Palin gives people a reason for positive emotion, and she gives them a reason to believe that common folks can become great leaders in our society. She represents the truest form of the American dream, still alive today in the 21st Century.

Compounding the aristocrat’s dilemma is the aristocrats can only afford to buy off about 20% of these common folks; the remaining 80% represent a voting revolution thirsty for a new leader.

The aristocrats believe that Sarah Palin is this leader, a common folks 21st century American Knight. She may or may not be the next chosen one, what she will do is shake up the aristocrat tree, and we will all be better-off because of it!







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A Paramedic is the Original Gene Pool Lifeguard is Funny!

The life of a paramedic, rescuing kittens from trees was the olden days; today it is as if you are fishing for idiots. Living in the people jungle the time-honored saying “you can’t make this stuff up” simply happens. Just recently a 17-year-old driver who had stopped to rescue a turtle in the middle-of-the-road placed the turtle in the car. Shortly after driving off, the turtle began to crawl on the driver’s leg frightening him, and causing the driver to crash into a large maple tree. The paramedics credited with two rescues that night, the scared driver and turtle. For the record, a paramedic is the original gene pool lifeguard; the occasional practical jokes or funny experiences make their job worthwhile. Humor is nature’s sanity check and makes for our daily survival to go on and appreciate another day. Humor also helps lighten the frame of mind of scared patients who could use a little healthy distraction in their lives during potentially life-or-death situations. (Fishing for Idiots and Gene Pool Lifeguard; source a Connecticut Paramedic)

Humor is great healing medication, so tell jokes or do funny stuff fits right in whenever you can. This morning my 17 year-old son was heading to school wearing two different sneakers, I noticed and was quickly told to lighten up, and off he went. Everyone needs humor in their lives; a Stanford School of Medicine study reported the average kindergarten student laughs 300 times a day and the average adult only 17 laughs a day. Laughter said to rid us of tension, stress, anger, anxiety, grief, and depression. Laughter releases our suppressed emotion, and wearing two different sneakers in public is funny, so lighten up!







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Nothing Bewildered About Dyslexia

by Pietro Savo

Nothing bewildered about dyslexia; The National Institutes of Health have estimated that about 15% of the population is dyslexic. Dyslexia represents the manner a person’s brain becomes naturally wired. Dyslexia may affect several different people functions that lead to personal frustration. Visual dyslexia easily pictured by a number and letters reversed and the difficulty to write symbols in the correct order. Auditory dyslexia involves difficulty with sounds of letters or collections of letters as need to create a word sound; the sounds become chaotic, not heard correctly. (Source: National Institutes of Health)

There is no cure for dyslexia; however, with the correct techniques to improve skills and reverse the private frustration of dyslexia. People with dyslexia can improve self-esteem by improving their reading and writing skills. It is never too late for people with dyslexia to learn to improve their language skills. (Source: The Tennessee Center for the Study and Treatment of Dyslexia, The Dyslexia Foundation)

Dyslexia learning tools from the modern age of computer software for reducing the effects of dyslexia and free your creative mind. This article is not a product endorsement, simply a common sense approach to available software that may work for you. 1) WhiteSmoke – www.whitesmoke.com/products.html – WhiteSmoke features grammar checker, spell checker, and writing style enhancement. 2) StyleWriter – www.stylewriter-usa.com – StyleWriter features grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and proper writing style checking.
3) Microsoft Word 2007 www.microsoft.com/word/ – Word 2007 create and share professional-looking documents by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools.
4) Dragon NaturallySpeaking – www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking – Turn your voice into text three times faster than most people type.

Do not allow Dyslexia to slow you down, when we surf the web across our planet, we must always remember the power of words, the power of vision, and the power of you! Now go make a difference, and don’t let anyone talk you out of it!

By AMERICAN WRITER

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For Confiscatory Socialization To Work It Has To Have A Bogeyman

by Pietro Savo

Father’s Day started with many colorful cards from my six children, and a relaxed morning quietly reading old issues of the Wall Street Journal neatly stacked up on my office floor. The Wall Street Journal is a good publication for understanding the unfiltered reality, no matter how old the newspaper is, for that reason they don’t enter the recycling bin until thoroughly scanned over. Small-business employment accounts for about 80% of the jobs in the United States, and what has created such a death grip on our economy is the weakness in small-business employment. (Source: Wall Street Journal, Apr 3, 2009)

Small-businesses searching for hope often turn to the Small Business Administration (SBA) website, and there you will find talk of Economic Stimulus Package and the bottom-line small business tax cuts. (Source: U.S. Small Business Administration Website) Here is the problem, if you don’t have any work what good is tax cuts? Small-business job productivity trickles down from large corporations, and today labeled the most productive citizens and strategically called the rich. The rich in a confiscatory socialization mind-set represents the bogeyman. Here is the problem those of us in the middle and lower class will be the ones who suffer from a reduction in jobs caused by higher taxes on large corporations. Resulting in higher prices for almost all durable goods and for anything produced and less money to invest in the trickled down effect for small business job creation. (Source: Wall Street Journal, Apr 4, 2009)

For confiscatory socialization to work it has to have a bogeyman, and when that bogeyman becomes totally consumed. Perhaps the next bogeyman is the middle or lower class? Not to worry we will be suffering from the confiscatory socialization strategy long before that happens, perhaps we already are?

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Credit Card Industry Friend or Foe, You Decide!

by Pietro Savo

Credit card industry and drug dealers have a great deal in common, the business models are similar. Strategically targeting young people in college, credit card industry throws many risky credit card applications into student’s mailboxes. Think about this, how can a student afford any credit at all, and turn down what appears as free money? The enticement, the hook is easy, young inexperienced and unprepared to combat predatory lenders. 76 percent of undergraduates have credit cards, and the average undergrad has $2,200 in credit card debt. Having no means to pay off what you borrow begins a lifetime of indentured servitude. Never-ending, simply paying the minimum payment, pure interest, a predatory lenders delight. Real moneymakers for the credit card industry, they make back their money many-times over. The average outstanding credit card debt for households was $10,679 at the end of 2008. (Source: Nilson Report, April 2009)

The credit card industry in the United States with annual earnings in the $30 billion range is the most profitable industry. This industry started to become profitable as a result of deregulation, then the Supreme Court decision in the Smiley v. Citibank case lifted fees on what credit card banks could charge, and fees went from a modest $5 to $10 to today’s $29 to $39 fee for paying late or simply going over your credit limit. Credit card banks also use specific marketing tactics to increase their profits. The first is zero percent introductory interest rate offers, when this period ends the interest rate increases to 17 or 19% overnight. The second tactic used is to require a minimum monthly payment of only 2% to encourage cardholders to endlessly carry a balance so they can rake in more interest profit. (Source: Wall Street Journal, Apr 13, 2009)

There are those who can pay-off their cards every month. However, the credit card industry is banking on you not doing so. The credit card industry today a guaranteed moneymaking business model, they are banking on most of the credit cardholders not paying off their balance every month. Interest rates from 5% to 29%, anyone’s guess, the credit card industry forced organized crime’s moneylenders out of business; it is difficult to compete in a market legitimized by the government. That explains why credit card company profits are so high and their executives receive some of the largest salaries and bonuses in the corporate world. (Source: Wall Street Journal, Apr 13, 2009)

So what is the pay-off for credit card consumers, no pay-off exist; the only guarantee is a lifetime of paying back on a never-ending credit card balance? Since the United States Senate and United States Congress let this happen. Simply follow the lobbyists and the large sums of political donations directly to Washington politicians, the solution then becomes obvious, we need term limits for anyone in political office!

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The news media’s responsibility to society is to report the news, not create it! The day I met the President of the United States!

by Pietro Savo

The day I met the President of the United States, it was truly a celebration event, he spoke for an hour, no teleprompter, no prepared notes, and what he said that day naturally connected with everyone at the Armory in Manchester New Hampshire. The president was so near, I could look into his eyes, what I saw was the awesome responsibility of the office; can you imagine having the responsibility for an entire nation.

That day he created a genuine kinship with everyone there, everyone listening and everyone seeing a genuine leader. The same President of the United States, the same man the news media brought to trial, judged, and finally convicted. We often forget the media’s responsibility to society is to report the news, not create it. When the power of the media abuses our nation’s reality for political reason, the entire nation suffers and pays the price. When the news media became the supermarket tabloid, their credibility, became lost forever.

That day when the President of The United States’ approached me, he asked me how he was doing. So impressed by his question, all I could say was “fantastic Mr. President!” Can you imagine a son of an Italian immigrant meeting the President of the United States, with my cell phone in hand; I dialed my Mom and shared the moment with her. On October 5^th, 2002, the President of the United States autographed my Presidential Event entry ticket. Today this autograph is still one of my most cherished possessions.

Two Types of Intellectuals In Our World

by Pietro Savo

Two types of intellectuals in our world, the first being a person who makes productive non government good paying jobs for others, and the second type, a person who is only concerned with preserving their own employment. The first type represents the entrepreneur, the shakers, and movers, with an indisputable focus for making jobs; and the natural by-product becomes making money. The trouble with the second type is they do not leave the world better than they find it; this has largely a negative effect on society. The second types are easy to spot, they are always the first to criticize others or brag their self-proclaimed intellect in public.

Here is the big problem; perhaps over a time span of 40 years, the first type of intellectual outnumbered the second type by 10 to 1. Today the second type of intellectual out numbers the first type by 3 to 1. What becomes significantly interesting, the second type of intellectuals reading this statement will now have a greater concern for validity of the ratios or measures outlined, then the historical reality of this written paragraph.

What does this mean, it took over 40 years of selfish intellectual learning to advance the economic chaos we are experiencing today, and it will take many years to reverse the effects. Reasoning behind this lag in reversal is the second type of intellectual is slow to build up interest, or become motivated, because in their eyes, it’s someone else’s problem.

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” Albert Einstein

The Video Game Culture Problem

by Pietro Savo

The video game culture problem, life does not have a reset or do over button. What has emerged from our society is a video game generation who has lost sight of real people limitations. In the gaming world when you die, your energy runs out, you lose and hit reset! Here is the problem, unfortunately, life does not have a reset button, and the results you acquire are permanent. Knowing the difference between reality and make-believe becomes impossible when you play endless video games. In truth, we have a generation in our society living with two realities, the first being an endless reset button with no risk to failure, and the second reality is fragile life itself. The behavioral concern occurs when mixing up the two. For example, someone driving a car and has an accident, that happens; or with the video gamer, the wrong reality kicks in causes an accident, today the mindset is no big deal, just hit the reset button.

Those of you who have children glued to the video game screen understand the reason for this blog. Having two conflicting behaviors creates a developmental clash in our society and people get hurt. This developmental behavior conflict stays with the person for their entire life. To reset is habit forming and easy, the video game culture has become generational, and virtually impossible to reverse. The old adage that too much of anything, even something fun, can actually be harmful, fits well with the video game culture.

Homeland Security Problem is the “Tip of The Iceberg!”

by Pietro Savo

The poorly informed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized to veterans after a report issued by her department said troops returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at risk for recruitment by right-wing extremists. A leader’s role in a democratic society is to have enough experience to avoid insulting the men and women serving in the Armed Forces that keep them safe. Our Constitutional Fathers were patriots who believed in the freedoms that today are at risk because government officials act without thinking. Ultimately, we believe and hope the Obama administration finally becoming staffed with smart people; however, the evidence is contrary. Now the question that comes to mind, where was the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) while this government wrongly insulted and accused our veterans?

What happen to due process for our Armed Forces, what happened to due-process according to the ‘law of the land’ and whose duties it to protect the Armed Forces’ civil liberties? Napolitano’s apology was not the solution; she was simply re-acting to the symptom, getting to the root cause to Napolitano’s department’s error, the only way to ensure it never happens again.

Our founding fathers, as a deterrent against fancy governmental double speak, created the Constitution. Due process for all citizens is the law. When supposedly smart people from the Obama administration insult our nation’s finest citizens, this problem is simply the Tip of The Iceberg. Again another reason why government must be for the people and not just for more government, ACLU asleep on watch once again, clearly time to cut the ACLU’s funding!

Northwest to Delta Airlines Not Feeling the Love!

by Pietro Savo

In 2008 I flew over 35 round-trips; most of these flights were on Northwest Airlines. Traveling for a living characterizes anything but fun. Airport life is demanding, unpredictable, frustrating and simply stressful. Add the prospect for gambling for lost luggage; and now the recent headlines for the airborne flu threat and having to breathe with the high likelihood of swine flu filled air all about you. Think about this for a minute, breathing in the airtight metal tube filled with only 50% recirculated outside air. This means, the other 50% is germ filled spit, and now have a terrific flight. I wonder how soon before they start selling fresh air? I spend so much time breathing this air that I must have one hell of an immune system, well battle tested antibodies to combat all viruses known to man plus more; let’s hope so anyway.

The daily reminder that air travel is thousands of times safer than driving your car, having a window to roll down to let some fresh in will make that believable for me. Can it get worse, perhaps, yes? Recent Northwest Airlines buy out by Delta has made it even more difficult to feel the love. The transition has been slow; honestly, the superb customer service by Northwest has not transferred to Delta. Delta seems colder, less focused on customer’s satisfaction; a seasoned traveler can quickly sense the difference. Perhaps that is why Northwest is gone, and it may be time to shop around and find the next Northwest Airlines to patronize.

Our President’s Ideas Fuels Remorse and Blame

by Pietro Savo

The world’s president is upon us, it’s not uncommon for a parent to discipline their own children with greater passion, and it is natural for a parent to find greater fault with their own child as well. That explains why the president apologizes for our short comings, daily. Our president’s words create a siege of negative perceptions damaging to America. America is a nation made up of people from all over the world creating a natural integration bringing about wisdom, knowledge and experiences second to none. When our leaders elect to place America in the position of blame, it is bad for the American culture.

When world events become critical, and our world requires our help, Americans stand tall and make the supreme sacrifices without hesitation! Our president’s attempt at changing the world’s perception of America has instead negatively affected the moral popularity and the spirit of enthusiasm of the American people. Our president has diminished our resolve, that special internal sacred fire that fuels Americans to relentlessly stand up, and support the needs of the world’s people.

The fathers of our Constitution recognized what makes our nation strong is having no obligation to agree with the world, in the same way we have the right to agree, or disagree with our own government. Our forefathers understood the strength of this nation is its people having a choice to choose! Today if you disagree with our government you become labeled a “diverse threat,” and our president’s ideas fuels remorse and blame!

We Become the Ducks at the Shooting Gallery

By Pietro Savo

The 9/11 and Guantanamo Terror Trials on hold and the future closing of Guantanamo, our society has managed to minimize the death toll from 9/11. Whenever you read the newspapers, magazines, and combine this with the TV news reporting, what they have done is minimize the dead; here is an example, with a statement such as this, “about 3000 people died on 9/11.” As if about 3000 people dead was not enough, when those planes hit the World Trade Center Towers the structural integrity of each tower was so great that those towers did not collapse immediately. Because the World Trade Towers remained intact for more than an hour, allowing tens of thousands of people to escape. The death toll could have been about 50,000 dead people.

The terrorist enemy combatants imprisoned at Guantanamo had a goal of 50,000 dead people at the World Trade Center Towers, 23,000 dead people from the Pentagon, and about 3,000 dead people was not their ultimate plan. The terrorist enemy combatants have vowed to die to kill us, killing us in their hearts is their entry into Heaven, a passionate resolve we do not have. When we close Guantanamo, we become the ducks at the shooting gallery, these terrorist enemy combatants will soon be free to kill again, welcome to a brave new world!

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AMERICAN WRITER

My personal philosophy is simple.

Always be a positive influence in every person you meet!

Business Relationships

• Business success begins with relationships.

• Business relationships are always in some form of transformations.

• Transforming from business to friendship.

• Business relationships may come and go.

• However, friendships are forever.

• So make a friend and watch your successes grow!

Holistic approach to grow & change a business culture has four distinctive inter-active components.

1) Standard Hours vs. Resource Hours (Staffing) "employee utilization efficiency must be calculated daily/hourly as change occurs"

2) Purchasing Education (Buying Smart), "buying more for less is always possible if we are aggressive, relentless, and never satisfied"

3) Quoting Education (Sales Leadership) "this drives the company, we must be relentless in adjusting to our market or markets"

4) Internal Business Cost (Cost Reduction Leadership) "never satisfied with reducing cost"

We often take internal business costs for granted, reducing and creating efficiency with a holistic approach leads the battle for total business health.

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Driving people towards perfection is an imperfect world is what we do!