The Night Watchman.......an analogy of the modern time.

   I am still at camp and I was able to access their Wireless and post something.  This was sent to me a while back and this is on my "Rainyday" folder that I keep on my computer to post when I have little time to rant about the illegal crap the obungler regime is doing or something else that pisses me off.  Sometimes I will post something that I was researching like the recent YB-40 article.   I bounce around where ever I go...like

    
    

Or crash and burn...the agony of defeat.(This is the ABC sports ad from the late 70's

   The Pics are compliments of "Google"

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.

 

 

Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night."

So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

 

Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?"

 

So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.

 

Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?"

 

 

So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One was to do the studies and one was to write the reports.

 

Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?"

 

So they created two positions: a time keeper and a payroll officer then hired two people.

 

Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?"

 

So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

 

Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $918,000 over budget, we must cut back."

 

So they laid-off the night watchman.

 

NOW slowly, let it sink in.

 

Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter. Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter administration?

 

Bueller...?

 

Bueller?

 

No?

 

Didn't think so!

 

Bottom line is, we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency, the reason for which very few people who read this can remember!

 

Ready??

 

It was very simple... and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted on 8/04/1977, TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.

 

Hey, pretty efficient, huh???

 

AND NOW IT'S 2015 -- 38 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS "NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!

 

(THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?")
38 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports. Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports.

 

Ah, yes -- good old Federal bureaucracy.

 

NOW, WE HAVE TURNED OVER THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?

Honor.....Leadership....

My apologies for not posting much since my "Bill the Cat" post a couple of days ago.   I have had a rough couple of days at work, I am working an airplane that is unfamiliar to me (Boeing 737-800) series aircraft.  I am familiar with Airbus A319/320 series of airplanes and Boeing 757's...not the same airplane as the '37.  Sure they are Boeing and certain things Boeing does as institutional memory, but the '37 is set up differently and the system interact differently.  We also have uncertainty with the new managers in place, there was a shakeup of managers a few months ago and we have one now, he came from outside my company, from a unionized airline and they do things differently.  I am wondering if the just culture that my employer has is being supplanted by a punitive culture....I will have to wait and see, but I digress.
    

  I had this in a folder in my laptop, I tend to keep a lot of pictures and other things to add to the words of my blog.  I ran across this and I had a germ of an idea for a blog post. 
     To me honor is a difficult word to describe, basically it is holding yourself to a higher standard and keeping your word to whomever you deal with.  Even if you don't like somebody you still treat them respectfully.  it is what separates you from them.   Honor is to uphold your personal standard of integrity, and moral beliefs.  Honor is to do what is right despite the cost.   I want it said on my grave stone...here lies "MrG"...he was a S.O.B...but he was an honorable S.O.B.  A better epitaph a man can't ask for. 
     I promise to post more and I have boy scout stuff this weekend, I will load the scheduler in case I miss a day.

Vacation!!

Well we are at an undisclosed location, where the image of a rodent is prevalent in the landscape.   We are staying at the resort that involves a mammalian life-form that is half man and half fish.
    We left early this morning and caught a flight.   While I was on the flight, I continued reading this book I picked up.

A good book by the way.  

If you havn't bought this book, you need to, it is actually better than the first one and the first one was very good.  

As we flew the Boeing 757-300 over the southern United States, I looked out the window and saw this view:

       The lady next to me was amazed by the view and she commented that "we are blessed" to see such a view.  I tend to agree, this view that we see now is almost "old hat", but to the travelers back in the 30 and 40's I am sure were amazed by the view.  Then there was the advent of the Jet Age and this airplane ushered in the era.  We look at this view and don't think anything of it.  A little over 100 years ago man was bound to the Earth with the exception of the crazy people that rode hot air  balloons. 

 This is the famous "Dash 80" the prototype 707 that changed the face of aviation like no aircraft has.

We went there a couple of years ago to check out the Smithsonian Museum, it is so worth the price of admission and it is 15 minutes away from Dulles.  If you are an aviation nut, this place is nirvana.

I will post or load the scheduler every day for the next week so something will be posted on my blog.  I will dredge up some pics that I first used when I first started blogging.   Blame Old NFO and Murphy for starting my blogging.  I was a reader long before I started blogging.  It is their fault...I blame them or y'all can for foisting me on the blogging world.