Theodore's World

This has nothing to do with Health care this is all about control nothing but control. The Government will, the Government is creating, the Government shall, ...Taking away our rights but now they are going for the whole enchilada.

Contrast this man's experience with the one I saw of the 400 pound Obama supporter-protester outside the Rep National Convention last year whining, "I'm so tired of waking up and not knowing what I'm going to feed my kids!"

They are so busted. I feel encouraged though, first time in awhile.

Thanks for posting this!

Mark, they sure are, they want it all.

Eden, I agree, we get stronger as they get
more and more power hungry.

I saw the link you sent me thank you, I
posted this from work and did not know
you had sent it to me in an email.
Thank you so much Eden.

It's all about control, Mark is dead on. Back in '76 I hired on with ARCO, a free agent on my own merits as an outsider from Westinghouse. I came from a union environment into a staunch anti union environment. The field managers at that time were one, an old timer from the Texas-Oklahoma oil fields, the other a retired Air Force officer, both were different in their management style and both had the same attitude. We were hired to do the job, if we couldn't handle it then they'd find someone else that could. I was cut loose to do my thing under a second liner, an A-hole ARCO lifer from California, he was a micro manager and didn't have a clue what my job was, only that I annoyed him by going around his BS and getting it done. After starting up 6 drill sites I got crosswise of him because that Airforce officer manager caught me and one contractor doing a drill site startup by ourselves without any other ARCO help, he ripped some ARCO ass and being in the middle of the fight I was banished to the gas plant, I took to it like white on rice and for the most part that butthead was on the fringes of my existence. Naturally with him and his kind in charge there were labor problems, they hired independent workers then tried to babyset them. Meantime the two original managers moved on to another project and were replaced by corporate bean counters. There was talk of organizing the oilfield and heads rolled, they kept rolling for the 20 winters I spent in the Arctic, about every 18 months we had new bosses rank and file. They'd call for an information meeting to address grievances on both sides but when it came to asking our side, the first questions asked were met with intimidation tactics as if we were their mortal enemy, the union worker. All communications were one sided with their dictating and we listening, I watched the relationships deteriorate, self motivation was gone, it devolved to where I did the minimum before I drug up, by then ARCO was in the last throws of going under, they'd downsized to the point that an outside contractor processed my severance package. I'm witnessing today on the national scale what I witnessed everyday for 20 years at ARCO, belligerent management ignoring the hand that feeds them. I went looking for that original second liner one day, security ask me what I wanted him for, I told them I was going to see if the large intestine was indeed 32 feet long. A week later we had a confrontation where he asked me if I was threatening him, no I promise it is not a threat. Only a promise and mentioned the fact that we lived in the same city and I had off time at the same time he did, and if he ever screwed with me again I'd level his home with him in it. That was the end of any small talk with that ratbastard.

I watched the youtube's of McCaskill's townhall's in SE Missouri today. She seemed much more subdued and concilliatory than usual. I didn't see any heated exchanges. Wish I could have gone there today. It would be nice to get in a question. Maybe I could have turned her into a Republican!

Jack, you're so right. I look forward to the day I can leave this a**hole filled s***hole and never look back. A year ago when oil was $120 per barrel, I don't know of anyone (contractors) getting a raise. Over the past 2 months, we've all either had pay cuts or reduced hours or both. With the down economy, they know other opportunities have dried up. Glad i still live in the same old shack and didn't move up to the bigger mortgage. Some of these guys are hurting financially.

Jack, wow thank you so much for sharing
about what happened. You are right and
handled that so perfect too.

Jim, thanks for the update on her
latest townhall meeting. Good she
better be listening she sure didn't
before.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Sounds familiar....