Change for a better outcome (change our thinking)

If you're looking for humor, not today, not this article. This had to be written.

Change by, Eli Mellach 02/06/09

Not everything I report on is fun. Today it was reported that a 93 yr. old Michigan man froze to death because the power company limited his electric usage after he ran up about $1000 on his billing. This same man was a WW2 vet and left behind $600,000 to a Bay area hospital already having bequeathed it. So that brings me to the rest of this daily log. Where the hell are we that the billing is more important than the customer, the human. We are so out of line with greed and debt and what everyone feels is owed to them . We like to tell ourselves that this is corporate or government greed but that is placating and masking one fact: corporations and such are made up of people, individuals that go along with this because the buck never stops anywhere...and it should. We are lost. We do not have to be. We honor and reward our athletes and actors paying sums that educated people can only read about. Where is the incentive to work and succeed through personal merit? Why would the average well educated person even try. Invent something? Someone is going to want thousands of dollars to implement the idea;it costs about $8000. to just start the patent pending process which ironically lasts longer than the friggen patent, once received. There is no, absolutely no incentive to create or invent anything anymore with out an angle. That is why every entity big or small is looking for a way to get theirs and thus scam you and me.We seem so confused that when some thing good happens, an invention, a development, an improvement, a new thought, we can't even benefit and move forward. Let me give you an example:During 1998 while on vacation in California , I came across a brochure touting the invention of a welder that would run on an 12 ounce glass of water a day (this through electrolysis). The electrolysis would take the H2O and break it into its chemical elements of Hydrogen (2 parts) and oxygen (a cleaner burn off). This welder could weld or cut the strongestmost dense metals . Enter the government who upon finding this marvelous device decides to put a federal cease and desist order on it for ten years. Their obtuse thinking was that it would put too many gas and electric people out of business. Rather than train them in the simple process of electrolysis which, by the way, is taught in freshman science class or was that 6th grade, the government decided to- in essence, put them out of business or at least on hold and freeze.Nobody benefits from this.OK, I'm off my soap box because i want you , the reader, to get this. We have to learn to learn. We have to start working together if we want to see the development of wonderous new devices. If we want to solve the problems facing the nation and society as a whole. Or all that will be left...is a hole!Let us stop looking toward celebrities for answers.They are fictional. They are the sizzle not the steak. I think you'd do better to look toward the many garage mechanics, entrepreneurs and closet inventors (sorry i was running out of pseudonyms. I know there are hundreds of auto enthusiasts that have come up with their own electric cars. There are hundreds of regular folk that can make their own petrol and diesel. Corporations should be looking and listening to these people. Our nation could be great if we quit tripping over dollars. Trying to make every deal the big deal, every sale doesn't have to be a home run. That means you don't have faith. Bring back customer service and give up on extended warranties. Most people expect the item to work for more than a year or three.We look for our government to save us but perhaps we should be looking to ourselves. Ask not what your country can do for you... Ask your country to ask you, what do you know? One final thing, we have to work together again. We are a society too full of secrets. It seems like pulling teeth to even get one entity to work with another. Who cares whose jurisdiction,what department... catch the bad guys and everyone share the credit.That is the reward.If you want things to be different you have to do things differently. If what you do is what you always did then what you'll get is what you've always gotten. Change has to come.