The Issue Is Jobs!!! Jobs!!!! Jobs!!!!

Preface / Introduction

Table of Contents
1. President Obama is a goner, unless he gets the message fast: the issue is and always has been: Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! 2. The humane society that was anything but and what YOU can do to make sure other outrages are avoided.

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President Obama is a goner, unless he gets the message fast: the issue is and always has been: Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author's program note. You know and I know (and may be even they themselves know) the folks in Washington, D.C., those congress people, and even the president of these United States, just don't get it. I mean, it just seems like common sense, logical, that a human person needs a job and the income that derives from it. So today I'm going to do these exalted poobahs a favor. I'm not going to wait a moment longer... I've got a detailed plan for what the Honorable Barack can do -- right now. And he better use it, too, before all the folks without jobs hand him his hat... and some other gent his job. It doesn't cost trillions of dollars and your right arm. By Washington standards, it's cheap... and that's probably why they'll turn up their noses at it... because this plan isn't going to swell the ranks of the bureaucracy; it is only going to help real people get work and focus the president on what's important: having a job, like he does. For the incidental music to today's article, I've selected a pip of a tune. Your mom probably sang it to you when you were a kid. Mine did... and mom (who was a bit of a ham, like all good mothers) needed no persuasion, not just to belt it out, but pretend she was a train and that I was her favorite passenger. The tune is "I've Been Working On The Railroad." You'll find it in any search engine. Go now, find and sing it at the top of your voice. Feels good, doesn't it, especially if you've got a job! It's a traditional American folk song first published in a book of glees, "Carmina Princetonia", by Princeton University in 1894. Those privileged boys knew nothing about work, of course; but they did know a good tune when they heard it...and so did the Sandhills Sixteen who first recorded it. It was released by Victor Records in 1927... and was so popular everyone and his bro' recorded it, too. It's easy to see why. It's got traditional American pep and toe tapping rhythm. It's the way a bunch of folks would sound as they let off steam (and had a cool one, or two) after work... The key was "work." And that, Mister President, is why you need to listen to this tune and its lyrics and get the message: "I've been working on the railroad All the live-long day." A pie cutter, not a pie maker. To understand Barack Obama better, you've only got to remember that he's a lawyer. And while that isn't exactly illegal, it is certainly not what we need when the issue is, as it has been throughout his presidency, jobs, pure and simple. That's because lawyers are adept at dividing wealth (always keeping a good slice of it for themselves); they are not and never have been good at creating wealth. I like to say, lawyers can cut up a pie and distribute it... but they don't know a hill of beans about making pies. And that's Barack's problem and why he's having so much trouble... and why much more trouble is heading his way unless he gets the message and starts creating some jobs. And one more thing... the problem is even worse because he's a Harvard LAW grad. Now, I've got nothing against the "Harvards" (as Lyndon Johnson used to call them); I have two Harvard degrees myself. but you've got to understand something. Harvard Law graduates (the best trained lawyers on earth) are cool, detached, analytical to a degree. They have been trained in the mastery of words... not in the necessary skills for working with, inspiring and motivating people. And if you don't see Barack Obama in these words, you need to change your bi-focals. He was trained in a way that provides no assistance whatsoever in making pies and feeding Americans who http://www.FunEasyHomeBiz.com Copyright Cindy Faidley - 2012 4 of 10

The Issue Is Jobs!!! Jobs!!!! Jobs!!!! need them. I'm here to help. I am always glad to pull a Harvard Law grad out of the drink... It helps humble that insufferable breed. Here's my suggestion designed to save the president's bacon and, while we're at it, put millions of Americans to work, which is where they ought and want to be. Here's where a knowledge of business, marketing, and the Internet come in handy. First, let's make sure we're focused on the right enemy and get Obama focused, too. He missed the boat (as every political junkie knows) by concentrating first on health care, gays in the military, etc. These were important, of course, but never as important (or as marketable) as JOBS. And here the Honorable Barack unquestionably muffed it. It's what put him in the soup and soured America. Real people never forgot that which Obama gave no indication of ever knowing; namely that having a job (with that all-important predictable income) is the key to the good life and the mental serenity that everyone needs. It's that "pie maker" thing I mentioned above. Declare war on the real enemy -- unemployment. Obama is the Commander-in-Chief of all the president's horses and all the president's men. He needs to act like it and select the right enemy: unemployment. This means setting the goal and going about the business of achieving it. Start by turning the Roosevelt Room into what it used to be: a military command center. Tell the nation that a 24 hour-a-day strategic center will work from there... and that it will help folks around the nation CREATE jobs... and recognize those who do. Make it clear that you, the president, will appear in this war center daily; also, that you will address the nation for 5 minutes or so. Monday through Saturday. Set up the necessary video facilities in the White House. Then get a website where the jobs being created are listed along with the folks responsible for thus helping achieve victory in the war for employment. Make it clear to your fellow Citizens just what you are doing and that you are calling upon them to help add new workers to their enterprises and organizations. Each day cite progress, outline problems, say what you're doing to solve them and make progress. Show the American people what YOU are doing... and then make it clear what they need to do. Americans like this kind of common sense approach. They can understand it, unlike mere statistics as reported by government agencies and run in newspapers. Your job is to keep it clear and simple so that even teen-agers understand. "Hi, fellow Americans, here's what we achieved together today." You pioneered in using the Internet to raise money and identify supporters. Now use it to motivate and recognize job creators of any kind for everything they do. Be enthusiastic! Always mention the names of these heroes in the war for job creation and growth. Make your website interactive like my Live Business Center. Have employers leave their job creation info... and have a staffer get back to them at once for all the details. Make sure you phone some of them... and always, always, always thank the people -- by name -- for what they do towards creating the jobs Americans need. And, remember, every job created has a tremendous ripple effect, the new job holder, his family, the children, the merchants where they shop, you get the picture. Turn it into a Big Deal.... because it is. One more thing: by doing this and embracing the American people and their needs and concerns, you'll not only save your soul; you'll probably save your presidency, too. And if you follow these http://www.FunEasyHomeBiz.com Copyright Cindy Faidley - 2012 5 of 10

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The humane society that was anything but and what YOU can do to make sure other outrages are avoided.
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author's program note. Ever see the Disney film "Old Yeller"? If you're of Baby Boomer vintage you surely did. The story began with Fred Gipson's 1956 novel (which later won the prestigious Newbery Prize). It features the adventures of what we in Illinois called a "mutt", no lineage, no pedigree, just a big ol' dawg that boys like my brother and me loved on sight, made our constant pal and companion, and remembered with abiding affection long after he had died and got buried in the back yard... in fact right up to this very moment. Walt Disney heard about the book and with record speed turned it into the popular 1957 film. And we loved that film, almost as much as we loved that dog of dogs. That's why I've selected the theme music from "Old Yeller", not because it's the catchiest movie score ever written. It isn't. But because it captures the essence of the enduring love not just with dogs... but with all kinds of other animals, too. Go now to any search engine and find that bouncy "Old Yeller" theme. Then read this article about the dogs... and cats, too... who haven't found a home like yours... who are lonely, frightened and mad with anxiety as they play out the last days of their short lives... and which you can so easily help... Outrage at the Arizona Humane Society... how could this happen? Daniel Dockery is the kind of man you'd never invite to your home for some coffee and a square meal. You see, this 49-year-old guy's a recovering heroin addict, which means people usually avoid him and make his already difficult life even more difficult... and lonely. Still Daniel had a friend, a friend who loved him in the way cats do, for felines dish out affection in a formula all their own.... then one day jump up on the bed and purr in your ear... letting you know you're their dish of cream.... and, oh, yes they're hungry, too. Yeah, cats know how to play it... and Daniel and Scruffy got along just fine. But felines are curious about the world... and that curiosity can lead to bumps, bruises, and screams for help when they get themselves way too far up in a tree. Scruffy, despite that name, had all the spirit of his breed... and so one day he had a run-in with a barbed-wire fence... and lost. Scruffy wasn't at death's door or anything like, but he did need some attention and help from a good, kind soul; the kind of person we all need when we have our own version of that rendezvous with the fence. And so Daniel took Scruffy over to the Arizona Humane Society in Phoenix. They looked at Scruffy all right.. for a minute, or two. Then pronounced judgement: Scruffy's scratches could be dealt with... for $400. Now you may imagine that Daniel didn't have $400 or anywhere near it. But the mother who loved him (despite everything her son had done) did... and she offered to pay the bill with her credit card. That misnamed "humane" society said it wouldn't take the card over the phone... neither would it wait for Daniel's Mom to wire the funds, which she was willing to do. You see, she knew just how important this 9-month-old cat had become... and she wanted a happy ending. But the "humane" society nixed this, too. No, they wouldn't take the card over the phone. No, they wouldn't wait a few hours for a wire to arrive. http://www.FunEasyHomeBiz.com Copyright Cindy Faidley - 2012 7 of 10

The Issue Is Jobs!!! Jobs!!!! Jobs!!!! The staff's solution to the problem was simple.... Daniel would have to sign papers giving up Scruffy, who would then get the treatment he needed... and be given to someone else. And so to save the cat he loved as his only real friend, Daniel agreed to give him up... and then walked out, and sobbed. This wasn't how this was supposed to work out. But worse, far worse, was just a few hours away... ... Scruffy, just 9 months old, remember, full of life, graced with a man who truly'cared for him... was put under the hostile glare of bright lights and looked for the last time into a human face... as the person, who was supposed to help... killed him, by euthanasia. And so within just a minute or two, the folks who were supposed to save that cat... perverted their mission and made a good man down on his luck more miserable than he had ever been. And Scruffy lay dead, dead at the hands of the people whose business was salvation and, above all, kindness and empathy. Outrage! Donations slashed! Threats of every kind! When the good people of Phoenix and Arizona generally heard this story, they reacted with time-honored American generosity... and with a vehement, muscular outrage that we save for occasions when the innocent, down trodden and vulnerable are intentionally hurt. We act as good as we are... we rise above our detachment and skepticism to do what's necessary to make our high principles a reality. In short we get off our backsides and make our feelings, and what's in our hearts, known. And that's precisely what Phoenix folks did, starting in early December after the Arizona Republic ran the story. They let the "Humane" Society have it with both barrels, right between the eyes. People called and cancelled their donations; they sent in a passel of death threats and they cursed the very name of the boneheads who needlessly killed a good animal and made his friend Daniel's life even more difficult. And so what could have been dealt with promptly, easily and, yes, cheerfully has become a brouhaha outraging the world and every person who has ever loved an animal. But this isn't how I intend to end this article, no way. I want each of you, every single one, to do one thing and do it now. Write a check for a few bucks and mail it to your local humane society or animal rescue league. Sure bucks are in short supply right now, what with the extra holiday expenses and the lingering effect of the Great Recession. But that's when these good Samaritans need you the most. You see, animals, lots of animals, get turned into the streets by their owners when these owners fall upon the kind of hard times any economic down-turn delivers. As a result animal shelters around the nation are coping with a flood tide of animals, all needing a home and usually some medical care, too. These animals need you... they need you to drop by and take one into your good home and heart. They need you to give a little, just a little, because together that will deliver so much. I'm sending my own check... in memory of my "Old Yeller"... because I couldn't sleep tonight if I didn't... with the knowledge that as a result some boy or girl will find their own "Old Yeller" in a shelter, helped and comforted by some of the good people who dish out kindness every day, not death. Such people need all the help they can get with all the dogs, cats, birds and horses they've got... until that magic moment when that animal and their rescuer connect. Your contribution means these animals get the time and attention they need until you arrive! As for the Arizona Humane Society, why they hired Stacy Pearson, public relations professional, to help deal with the colossal damage the agency and its thoughtless personnel created for themselves. They set up an account funded by donations to be used in emergencies and for those without funds, http://www.FunEasyHomeBiz.com Copyright Cindy Faidley - 2012 8 of 10

The Issue Is Jobs!!! Jobs!!!! Jobs!!!! people like Daniel Dockery. And they decided, after all, to accept credit card payments by phone. And so in the usual fashion, some good has come out of so much, so thoughtless bad. Thus the outrage to Scruffy the cat helps the very people who killed him. They got the second chance they denied Scruffy... and we must take our good news these often dismal days when and where we can find it. ### What do you thing? We invite your comments below.

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About the Author Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Jeffrey Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. Republished with author's permission by Cindy Faidley http://FunEasyHomeBiz.com.

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