qualityg says ...: April 2019

Monday, April 22, 2019

Earth Day 4/22/19

I always liked this poem by Walt Whitman -
Appropriate for Earth Day

Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers or families, re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.... ~ Walt Whitman ~ (from the Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855)

Enjoy

Earth Day Video and plant a tree! qg

4/22/17

Here are some cool songs related to Earth Day -http://ultimateclassicrock.com/earth-day-songs/

4/22/12

Six years ago I planted a Washington Hawthorn Sampling I ordered from the Arbor Day Foundation. It looked something (smaller) like this when I pulled it out of a regular size mailing envelop:

Last year I took a picture and I'm proud to show it has grown wonderfully!!

Happy Birthday Dano!

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Reduce National Debt - Look at College Endowments!

Reduce National Debt - Stop giving Federal and State Dollars to schools that have over 1 Billion Dollars in Endowments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment

Why do Schools with Endowments of over a Billion Dollars still get Federal and State Tax Dollars. On top of that they keep increasing tuition each year. Take Yale as an example. It has one of the biggest endowments and it gets the most in federal dollars.

https://www.helptostudy.com/top-endowment-colleges-and-universities/

This is ridiculous and in a time of Income Inequality why are we not using those Federal and State Dollars to help reduce the National and State Debts that are in crisis mode.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html

Over 100 Universities have over a Billion Dollars in Endowments. I'm not against Endowments, but you don't need additional funding to keep raising tuition and increasing student debt.

Please remember, lowering taxes does not cause the national debt to increase. It is Government Spending that causes the National Debt to increase!

Saturday, April 06, 2019

The Border WALL requires Systems Thinking

When it comes to securing the border we should be looking at it from a systemic point of view. It has inputs and outputs and all sorts of checkpoints along the way.

Each part of the system must be measured for efficiency and effectiveness at critical points.

It is in the best interest of all countries (Parts) involved to have an equal say to come up with the best solution for all (Whole).

Trying to solve the problem between the Mexican and the United States Border will not solve the problem. Think of the Border Wall System like an assembly line. For years the auto companies put all their efforts at the end of the line after the car was built (Illegal Alien in United States). Futile effort that costs billions of dollars in wasted quality.

For every Illegal Alien that enters Mexico from one of the Central American Countries a penalty (Fine, Tariff, Aide, etc...) should be applied until they stop.