PATHETICO

PATHETICO

SHUT UP! Just Shut Up! If you can’t say anything reflecting just a slight hint of intelligence, just a faint scent of reason, just a whispered utterance that you might get it, then Shut Up! Having long ago given up the hope of finding anything even remotely resembling brilliance in the greatest majority of our elected leaders, CEO’s, etc, and the concurrent reporting of their idiocy by the equally idiotic mass media, I find myself absolutely exhausted from searching for even a pretense of mediocrity. Is there someone out there who deserves even a “D-”? Is there a news organization that can actually report substance instead of stupidity?

There has long been an absolute understanding, not a perception, mind you, but a firm acceptance by what is commonly known as the “field force” of the organization, whether it be a corporation, the military, or the government, that “headquarters people” are generally idiots. Furthermore, even if by some weird, perverse, aberrational violation of the “Peter Principle,” someone is put in charge that actually does “get it,” at a minimum, that person still can never understand what is really going on in the “field.” Therefore, even if that person is not an idiot, he or she never really understands the “real world facts” of the actual situation from a “boots on the ground” perspective.

To support my premise, I have listed just a miniscule sample of recent idiocy in a copyrighted “Duh Report.” This report is a small list of some “non-leaders and those situations being addressed by other “non-leaders” whom and which are too stupid for words to describe.

“The Duh Report”

1. The federal and local governments’ handling of ILLEGAL immigration. What part of “illegal” is not understood by governments and “illegals”? Don’t come here. Ship them back. Problem solved.
2. Profiling Hispanics in the enforcement of immigration laws. As one person wrote, “If you want to pick peaches you don’t go to an apple tree.” Pick peaches on the peach tree. Problem solved.
3. General Motors can operate with a union when the competition cannot. Regardless of the moral and emotional issues related to the existence of a union, a company cannot be competitive, and therefore viable, unless its costs are in line with all other companies it competes against. Break the union. Problem solved.
4. The term General Motors executive. Here is an oxymoron. Horrendous numbers of “non-executives” are responsible for their outrageous failure to address massive operational problems, epidemic un-satisfactory executive performance, refusal to build high quality, saleable automobiles and trucks, and blatant arrogance and stupidity. Fire them all and put in new blood. Problem solved.
5. The “Volt,” General Motors’ “green car” at $40,000, is not saleable to the mass market. Who can afford a $40,000 car? The Volt won’t save General Motors and the “non-executives” of this non-competetive behemoth have bet the company on this disaster on wheels. Make an affordable “green car”. Problem solved.
6. The United Nations is in-effective. This especially pathetic organization has repeatedly failed to effectively address mass starvation, genocide, regional wars, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism. The most powerful countries must re-structure that organization and add some teeth. Problem solved.
7. Bernie Madoff and the rest of the Wall Street CEO criminals should be lynched. The punishment is not for the money they stole but for the thousands of lives they have ruined with their greed. Even more importantly, they should be lynched for “financial terrorism.” Under George Bush’s non-leadership (a blank stare on stupid face with an arrogant smirk), the thieves of Wall Street have accomplished every terrorist’s dream. They have tremendously weakened the country which will encourage every un-washed, un-educated, Third World dictator to challenge the United States. (North Korea’s missle launch, Iran’s nuclear policy). Take all their money and lynch them. The Chinese would and do execute business criminals. (At least vindication is achieved for the victims, which are all of us.) Problem solved (as well as it can be).
8. Failure of the United Nations, the squabbling Europeans, the covert Russians, the militarily, politically, and industrially aggressive Chinese, to address nuclear proliferation. At what point will Israel pre-emptively strike Iran and what will be the consequences? At what point will the United States be forced to strike North Korea and what will be the consequences? At what point will China attack Taiwan and how will the United States respond? The most powerful countries (above) must establish nuclear proliferation as the number one priority. It’s only a matter of time and the clock is ticking fast. Problem solved.
9. The Stock Market is incompatible with 401ks. There is no effective retirement vehicle in existence on a mass scale. Black Swan’s alone make this premise a no-brainer. Establish Social Security with higher pay-ins and later pay-outs as the national retirement security vehicle. Problem solved.
10. Prescription for Republicans: 1. Shut Up! 2. Shut Up!! 3. Shut Up!!!. Then, en masse, go to the Himalayas. See a guru. Do penance for the next hundred years for the sins of your non-leader George Bush. The party of “NO.” Shut Up! Problem solved.
11. Governors who turn down the federal stimulus to pay un-employment benefits and to support education. They play politics while their citizens suffer because they have no jobs. Education stimulus funds are refused which then helps to ensure that the next generation is ignorant and just as un-employable. Re-call these governors and then kick their asses. Problem solved.
12. The treatment of women and the notion that women are not equal to men in many Third World Countries. Women and men are equal. Get over it. Problem solved.
13. CNN and Fox News is another oxymoron. What do female “newscasters” with their bare legs exclaiming their only bona fides (Who knows for what?) and their lip gloss imprints on the camera lens (and thus across my television screen) have to do with “news”? These women “newscasters” and their equally clueless male counterparts have absolutely no credibility. Turn off the television and watch the grass grow. Problem solved.
14. “The Field force” is all knowing and all wise. Put them in charge. All problems solved.

Copyright
James Wharton