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.

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April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day

While sitting in a surgical waiting room this morning I saw this video 

https://www.clickondetroit.com/live-in-the-d/champion-trick-shot-pool-player-speaks-about-world-autism-awareness-day-for-centria-autism

And, I wanted to share the Centria Web Site - 

https://centriahealthcare.com/healthcare-services/autism-services

Click link below for all my posts on Autism over the years. http://qualityg.blogspot.com/search/label/ASD%20-%20Autism%20Spectrum%20Disorders

or on the ASD Label (Left Sidebar) for more of my posts on Autism.

Lower Voting Age to 16!

Hearing Speaker Pelosi make this comment reminded me of when they lowered the drinking age in 1971. 

In 1971, Michigan lowered the drinking age to 18 years old. I was a senior in high school and like many of my friends we thought it was correct because we could drive, vote and get drafted and go to Vietnam. We figured if we could die for our country we could drink.

Late 1960s and 1970s: Drinking age lowered. During the late 1960s and 1970s, nearly all states lowered the drinking age to 18. This led to a huge increase in alcohol-related car accidents and drunk driving was deemed a public health crisis. In the mid-1970s, 60 percent of all traffic fatalities were alcohol related, according to the National Institute of Health(NIH). Over two-thirds of car accidents involving persons aged 16 to 20 were alcohol-related.

It was a terrible decision to allow drinking at 18. We no longer had to drive to Ohio for 3.2 beer. We no longer had to wait around beer stores waiting for someone buy for us while we hoped they did not run off with our money. 

During lunch hour we were allowed to leave campus and we went to the bar for lunch or bought a GIQ beer and drove around eating our sandwiches. Every Friday night after games we were in a local bar, then drove home or to a friend’s house. 

Perhaps we were old enough to fight in Vietnam but we were not mature enough to drink. The Military could handle 18-year-old drinkers but society could not. The main reason they lowered the age was to get a vote, pure and simple!

In 1984, President Reagan changed the law back to 21.

And now… it is happening again - 

"I, myself, personally -- I'm not speaking for my caucus -- I, myself, have always been for lowering the voting age to 16," Pelosi said. "I think it's really important to capture kids when they're in high school, when they're interested in all of this, when they're learning about the government, to be able to vote."  https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/03/15/nancy-pelosi-supports-lowering-voting-age-16-fox-friends-guests-debate

I’m sorry but a vote is a privilege that comes with being an adult. I do not consider high school children adults. I don’t care if they work and pay taxes at 16. 

Pelosi (and others) also want to give Illegal Aliens the right to vote. In most countries, suffrage, the right to vote, is generally limited to citizens of the country. Some countries, however, extend voting rights to resident non-citizens. Such voting rights extended to non-citizens are often restricted or limited in some ways, with the details of the restrictions or limitations varying from one country to another. I can’t vote in other countries so why should I expect others to vote in mine. Again, it’s about the vote.

One area of the brain that experiences the most rapid changes during teenage years is the prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain involved in judgment and decision making. Thus, teens are biologically more likely to have lapses in judgment. In other words, they have not lived long enough to experience life without being swayed by others or have the capacity to understand they are being used.

Electoral College – 

Pete Buttigieg and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, both of whom are running to unseat President Trump in 2020, want to see an end to the Electoral College. Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke said Tuesday he sees "a lot of wisdom" in the idea.

Sorry - I do not want New York, California, Texas or Florida picking who will be the President of the UNITED STATES. Yes, United States, not the states with the greatest number of people. You pick your own governor’s and that is fine by the popular vote. 

If you want the popular vote to rule who will be president then I want the territorial boundaries of each state redrawn so that population and where people live will be divided by 50 so that everyone as an equal chance. Sounds ridiculous, Yes, so does allowing the bigger states to rule.

Supreme Court – No comment see above

DO they not see what is going on? If you can't win by the rules, change them until you do win. 

"Fix the Damn Roads" - It's no longer Cute!

 Fix the Roads

I watched three newscast yesterday on different channels and I must have heard that "Fix the Damn Roads" phrase a dozen times. It’s no longer “Cute” Governor Whitmer. I’m really tired of hearing you say that phrase. I’m sure all the youngsters in Michigan will now start adding “Damn” to their everyday vocabulary. I suppose the increase spending in your budget for literacy will cover the costs.

The budget recommendation also provides for an expansion of the Great Start Readiness Program in the amount of $85 million, making preschool programs available to more students across the state and improving the programs in place today. The budget plan also jumpstarts early literacy initiatives with an investment of $24.5 million to triple the number of state-funded literacy coaches in schools.

I thought teachers taught literacy?

Now that she's in office, the question about whether she can “fix the damn roads,” as she boldly announced in her political ads seems to have hit a huge POTHOLE!

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's first executive budget will propose phasing in a 45-cent per-gallon fuel tax increase to "fix the damn roads."

Whitmer sidestepped a question about how to fix the roads without raising taxes but said she's open to ideas on how to improve road conditions in the state, including the possibility of a toll road — although she said out-of-state travel into Michigan is not common like other states that have toll roads.

"I never dreamed in a million years I'd be known as the fix-the-damn-roads lady," she said to laughter. "We're going to fix the damn roads, but I've got to acknowledge that it's going to take a little while."

What about the Pension Tax? 

Michigan lawmakers take first step to repeal tax on pensions.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/28/house-panel-approves-pension-tax-repeal/3014977002/

This is going to be interesting to see how she juggles all these campaign pledges.

U.S. Government Officials - Take your Ball and Go Home!

United States Government officials are disgraceful.

I’m really disappointed and tired of your antics. All you do is supply fodder for the media outlets to report juvenile behavior. Any television channel I turn to and see a panel of so called experts giving their one-sided opinions make me sick.

Where do the networks get all these so-called experts? In all honesty I try to watch but I have to turn off the station after a minute or less because it's the same hateful OPINIONATED views by the same people.  Just because someone had/has a title does not make them an expert.

You politicians just don’t get it. What you remind me of when I was growing up and there was a dispute or people did not get their way the little sissies and milquetoasts would refuse to play and go sit in a corner or go home and pout to Mommy. The “REAL” stand-up folks would play the game even if they did not like their teammates in order to win the game. You still did what was right and settled your disputes in a number of ways until you figured out the best solution for the whole. We left our differences aside for the game and went back to not liking each other after the game was over.

The situation here is the United States. You spineless punks are the players and should be on the same side. In order to win as a whole you must first have cooperation before competition. 

https://qualityg.blogspot.com/search?q=cooperation+before+competition

I understand the different philosophies about how to do the best job but you are doing nothing but tearing the country apart for your own personal vendetta.


I'm telling you I can not remember when I've been so disgusted about the people running MY Country. Why don't you all just go home and suck your thumbs. The biggest bunch of babies and brats I have ever seen. No one has the guts to stand up for the people. Oh sure, each time they speak they say they are for their constituents but they follow the part line whether it's right or wrong.
So many Hypocrites and Losers who could never make it in the real world. I was never much in favor of Term-Limits but career politicians must leave and get a real job. Unfortunately, many of them have made so much money in politics they never have to work again in the real world.

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

Do you really think the politicians care how much money people are losing because of the shutdown. They can't know what they have never experienced.