bubbah's Blog

Get the "Going Out of Business" signs ready.

Put them up right on the bridge, or that sloppy looking tower with the broken sign.

 When our city leaders are busy making plans to save the city without upsetting each other, you can bet they are scared of each belligerent statement made in retaliation that each may utters.  By contrast, what the people say is a much cheaper currency. We are the Great OZ, on the wrong side of the curtain of "comfort of the privileged" and we have been ignored.

 The reason: We elected them and then ran away when their first "dark move" appeared. Making deals with criminal elements.

Typical, we have a daylight or sunshine law and we the people don't make sure it is enforced. This is a common practice in businesses that bear the moniker of "going out of". ALL businesses that de-evolve into this direction, and there are thousands every year, go out of business.

 It's called,  "Evolving a Business Around the Comfort of the Staff".

 I can make it sound nice, eh?

 "A business that cares for the employees more than the customers."

OOOOH, don't you just want to work at that place?

 It would be FANTASTIC! 

Until the owner runs out of money. Then you'll be looking for a new job.

 BUT WAIT! 

There is a secondary strategy I've noticed going down that could possibly save the world!

Here it is:

 Steal money from the biz and sneak stuff out the door. It could work, right? 

Until the place goes out of business and you can't get anymore or you get caught.

Then you're broke again.

WAIT! 

There is another strategy!

 The owner could mortgage everything he has to try and keep you employed, his house, his kid's education, whatever worth is left in the business, getting him or her so deep in debt that they will never climb out. So now, evolving the business around comfort is destroying the economy, because of the bad debt when the loan is un-payable. Banks can lend on 90 x assets! That should just about cover the bad debt!

 But now your money is worthless. Gas, milk, staples will get expensive. Big companies will go out of business causing more people with more problems.

 MORE BROKE PEOPLE.

WAIT! There is another strategy!!

 You could deal drugs. 

 Yep, when legal ways of getting paid don't work, do what the greedy do, deal drugs.

Drugs, even the illegal drugs, are controlled by law enforcement, every big-time drug dealer knows this. So if you deal them, you will be required to supply "patsies" for drug busts once in a while. A patsy is someone you think is your friend, but, your going to set him or her up to get busted with a generous amount of illegal drugs to make law enforcement look effective. If you aren't "big-time", you are probably going to be a patsy one day. Your bills will be big to get out of jail, unless you get a public defender, then you will be in jail till your money runs out.

 Broke again.

So, now you're broke again, your country's monetary system is worthless, you've been busted, so, forget working, you have no insurance, your utilities are going, now you can't afford to eat or travel.

Let's go back!

THERE IS NO "THING TO DO" THAT WILL SAVE MEMPHIS.

 It's already too late for that, but, don't feel bad, it always was.

 Memphis is suffering from a chronic lack of integrity that could be fatal if it isn't willing to develop some very soon.

 From the people to the leadership, there is no unifying future, no common goal, nothing to draw Memphis together to save it and NO INTEGRITY.

 Without it nothing works.

 We have a common past, a shared past, but, that is not the future.

 It doesn't look as if Memphis is even looking for one. It looks like it is preparing to be buried. It looks like Memphis is constantly looking for the next "fix it"  that won't work like a crackhead looks for the next dose.

 Rather than create a future that wasn't going to happen without being created, Memphis de-evolved into "blame-storming", rather than plan ahead for future developments that could be seen, Memphis made a lot of city jobs and made them cushy, Rather than serve the purpose Memphis sneaked things out of the store, Rather than hold people accountable Memphis mortgaged it's future through MCS, Rather than straighten those things out Memphis made deals with criminals.

 Rather than own up to all this, Memphis leadership feigns being flabbergasted in and at the media at why people are disappointed and begins round 1 of blame-storming for who and why.

 The valley of the kings in Egypt is filled with people who gawk and wonder at the empty pyramids there and they say, "what kind of idiocy could have had all this and now it is a dusty lump?"

Here's the kicker: Looking for how and why it broke will not fix it, looking for way to cut costs and make the people pay for their voiced disappointment will not fix anything or make it work. No amount of finger pointing or cost cutting will make it work. To look for something that works, first you have to admit that it isn't working now. We have numbers on paper that spell it all out yet we won't admit the truth for fear of a belligerent lawsuit.

 Things that work require an investment, in a common future, that draws all people involved at all levels to willingly perform what is called for to make it work. Once that is done, you will not need cost cutting because things hat work produce results and one of the results that will be produced here is the absence of waste. Budgets will be reduced voluntarily and specifically as required. 

ANYBODY WHO CAN GET IT BACK ON TRACK AND MAKE IT WORK CAN BE FORGIVEN.

 If we continue this path of stupidity we are on we might as well get the signs ready, heck we're almost there!