All I heard was, "we are going to the have the meeting in Sheraton Hotel". Where that was, I had no idea. The driver of this fancy bus drove us to almost the entrance of the ultra modern hotel, Sheraton.
Upon walking into the building, one could tell it's a popular hospitality facility. As I turn to my right, I saw people trooping in and out with luggage's at hand, and one of those groups that actually caught my attention was these three young ladies, with their uniform depicting flight attendants and probably from the Middle East. Their caps had Arabic words on and I could easily determine the particular airlines they might be working for and thus, Emirates.One thing about those young women was that, they were all the same height, luggage and everything the same as if somebody’s triplets.
In no time, they disappeared into one of the elevators and we kept heading to our conference area. It was really nice and cool inside there, not to mean freezing, but the scenery in the hotel was nothing but glamorous. The carpet I was walking on was somewhat designed to perfectly match the ceiling of the edifice and then, it was so smooth, and all I felt was that, I was springing up and down as if there were strings beneath the carpet as I walked to my destination, and finally we were there.
Registration to the conference was in progress, I was handed a piece of paper, and I wrote my name and appended my executive signature on it.
We were also quiet late, even though we set off early from home. And hence a handful of us didn’t even get to take breakfast and I was one of them. But mine was normal a routine because, I seems to be having some eating problems lately, lack of appetite for breakfast until probably 11-12pm.
Even those of us who planned eating something there as breakfast before the meeting commences, were being left out. There was simply no reservation for late comers, remember lateness has no place in America, and probably in heaven.
At 10:30am, all delegates and members of the said meeting were seated and the agendum of the day was announced, the speaker began by acknowledging members who came from Long Island but late and didn’t get breakfast, and he said because of that, lunch was going to be early and that was at 12pm. I had no problem. But this whole thing of food is just to draw your attention to how important it is to eat.
Eateries are the sole cause of mankind’s struggle on daily basis in America, typical American is a good friend of food and no wonder most of their health problems are food related. Its in America you find people weighing 500-650lbs. Some people even believe if they should have something on their table everyday without a dime in their pocket, they will appreciate it so much. I think I have to cite with them, we need food in order to live.
What was discussed?
The whole issue of the meeting wasn’t something new, and nothing that members and delegates were being called to come and contribute to decision making.
Everything was done already with letters forwarded out to all members. But the way I listened to folks expressed themselves was simply beyond mouth description. I have never heard people talk like that in my life before. Why do we elect leaders if I may ask? The answer is simple; we elect leaders to be our mouthpiece, talk for us those who are “crowdphobic” and cannot talk for ourselves.
Some people got up to ask question, and ended up blasting the high table officials with very indecent words and insults. The whole thing was an eye saw. We are no more in the very free world where everything is received for nothing. We can all witness the hell that is right here with us, earth. The broken world, economy is struggle to stand independent, joblessness on record high, social security in live support, yet people refused to use their heads to think and be considerate.
To have something in small amount, but last long, to me is it better than have it in its abundance and at the end of the day, you lacks nothing and resort to complete deprivation.
To slash the long story off, and complains short, some people sat on their decision table and made a forecast to a benefit package and realize that, if nothing was done about what is happening today, something serious will bring to the people troubles and unpleasant live to bear. And the problem of the foreseen problem was easily identified. It’s always good to know the cause of a problem and the next step being to cure it. And the cause of the present problem was identified as an abuse to the package to members by their spouses.
And the decision was that, in order to maintain what everybody loved and cherish forever, they will be a little contributions to the package in a form of co-payments after every visit to a doctor or physician. This to every clear conscience person with little or no deliberations knows it’s still good and cheaper for the benefit of all. Yet! Members and some folks were on the verge to walking with the heads in Sheraton.
Why this decision was made and what people refused to remember was that, the national debt of US is now estimated 14 trillion, and when I did the math, it was pretty clear at least every single American citizen was in debt of $43,700.00. We need to be at least responsible to ourselves sometimes.
And I also think the problem is that, people often express their feelings of “I don’t carism”. Which is very deadly and dangerous to the common good of the people.
I even heard some people asking whether this decision could be repealed and some asking everywhere where the key decision maker was hiding. Could it be that, they were looking to get home beaten or what? absolutely not I guess, you chose me to make decision, and I have given you yet one of the best decisions and nothing else. Personally, I also believe that, wasn’t the best, and I did understood the problems of many. Some said they haven’t had a raise in pay for over three years, with the same pay and escalating food prices and other consumer products on daily basis.
But the question is who is responsible for that? Nothing is free today. Not even those who are on welfare. Some people on welfare suffer more than every imagination. This is when there are given some help to life with 1001 prohibitions. When officers are out to inspect recipient’s home, he/she will work hard to hide everything possessed including clothes, else they will lose their package of welfare.
Too much noise and insults more often aren’t the solution, but then again, some noise and criticisms does makes a difference. Just like the other day, the mayor was being criticized after the first snow storm for failure to keep thing in order. And the next, he worked hard and relentlessly to improve it. We all need to manage the little resources at hand and hope for the best in the future. Things will always get back to normal when we are fine with economic growth and prosperity. When difficult times like this comes, we don’t always need to be shifting blames on people we trust to represent us.
I am not supporting anybody but my stand is clear from here that, nothing is free again. If not, why does NY State deficit now peaked 11 billion dollars? It should have been canceled for free.
It is time, so stop being cheap for it’s a sin to always sit and expect everything for free.
Ronnie
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