'Tis finished...

I am finally finished on my MBA journey. What a great feeling it is to have this part of my education finished. I owe everything to my wife, who has supported me and sacrificed her personal wants and needs for my professional development. So, now what? This life's journey continues and I must, with my wife, of course develop new goals and targets for the future. A question I have for some of my family: When you have achieved a great milestone in your life, how did you transition to the next and develop a plan for the future?

BCS vs Playoff

If schools have so much trouble making money by going to BCS bowl, why would they even participate? Hmmmmm!!!!

Corporate vs. Government Organizational Behavior

Since I have started my MBA interesting topics have come up for me. As most of you know, I work for the Federal Govt. as a DoD employee. My question: Since DoD is not "profit" oriented, what kind of organizational change would affect its ability to become more efficient? One theory I have, is that the only change that could assist in capturing efficiencies that private sector companies enjoy, would be to minimize the effects of political change. How is the million dollar question.

The Monstrosity That Is.........

Anyone notice how big the centralized government of this country is getting? The U.S. Govt. has never been bigger from the perspective of per capita GDP than at any other time in its history. How in the heck did it get this way? My opinion: Apathetic citizens who are too comfortable to notice the problem. Your thoughts please....

Health Care Reform

Regardless of how you feel about the current health care reform legislation, how do you feel about one party having control of all three branches of government?

Right now, Mr. Obama has a monopoly on the legislative process, the executive as well as the judicial. How long do you think the electorate will allow this to go on? If it is one thing we have seen in the past, one party control of our government is not good for the economy. Healthcare reform is one of those that would not be good for the economy or the general health of our population. When most anything is socialized that has been a part of the "free market" system, we generally see a decline in the ability of the system to sustain at its current level, e.g. decline in quality of the product and quality of the training for people in that industry. If this gets ramrodded through, what would your predictions be?

STATISTICAL IRONY

We are constantly bombarded by "statistics" from politicians. How many of you out there take what politicians share with us as truthful? Before answering please consider first the possible motive (s) for them sharing the statistics in the first place. My question comes from the declaration of President Obama that the stimulus package is working. I am sure he used statistics to justify such a declaration. So what are the motives one has when throwing statistics around?

Economic Stimulus Package???

I have really struggled with what to write about this. The last week has shown really how out of touch our elected officials are with reality, Democrat or Republican. I am beginning to believe that these people never had a basic micro or macro class. When are they going to realize that the package they are proposing will only send us deeper into recession and possibly into the Massive Depression. I am not fool enough to believe that government can solve this problem, however based on public reaction to the proposal, it seems the IMFs statistical quantification of our literacy rate is a bit out of wack. All I can say, I hope people have been storing something for a rainy day. Oh, that's right, our country is in a state of dissaving, so we are basically screwed, collectively.

On a lighter note, everyone I come in contact with lately seems to have personal saving on their minds. If this is the case then I can feel safe that at least a third of the country is at least thinking about it.

One question: What would your economic stimulus plan look like?