This brings me to the reason why I am so pissed off.  I believe that everyone has the right to work, and everyone has the right to have a piece of the “American Dream”, I commend people who have struggled to come to this country and work and learn a new language while they continue to better themselves.  I DO NOT however, like that fact that when you call for customer service in the United States you are patched through to some other country and talking to people who do not speak English, but seem to be getting all of the jobs that people actually living in America should get.  So why is our country going to shit?  It’s because everyone but Americans are living the American Dream.  Right now we are all worried about the economy and where we are going to get jobs.  We can all read from a manual that tells us what to do.  Why are we shipping all of our call center jobs out of the country, because it’s cheaper?  This is the problem.  We are not going to be able to afford to live in this country anymore because there are no jobs here to help us live.  We need to keep jobs in America and stop sending them overseas to pay those people 2 dollars a day to do what we should be getting more for.  Funny how it’s cheaper for the companies to send all the jobs overseas and yet our rates continue to rise.  Who’s getting hosed here except us all the way around.

This just reminded me of a commercial that I saw the other day; it was a jimmy john’s sub commercial.  Mind you, I love jimmy johns subs, and that’s why I paid attention to the commercial.  But this commercial may sum it all up in a nutshell for the American people.  In this commercial, which was all in a foreign language, which I think was Japanese, there were Japanese men sitting in a board room discussing a “plan” that one of the workers were proposing.  Not one word in the commercial was in English, but you got the just of the commercial just by the way things were going.  In this commercial the “head” of the board was not a happy camper and not really liking the ideas being proposed.  So the man that was proposing the new plan orders subs for everyone from Jimmy John’s which were the only words in English.  The subs came and all the men were happy.  This part wasn’t the saddest part of the commercial.  In the end the commercial actually said “Jimmy Johns’” and something to the affect of them being America’s best subs, or something along those lines.  So, we have America’s best subs in commercials about another country and two words in the whole commercial were in English, huh, what does that say about our businesses in America?  This is not the way to make sure America survives, and I am sick and tired of it.  There are things that can be done, the question is are any of the companies gonna have the balls to do the right thing??? How about hire American, we could start there.

Should there be some moral code that these companies follow? Of course! We are spending our money making them rich. Did you know that the average 5 mega pixel digital camera is equivalent to your old 35mm camera? Meaning if you are  printing 4×6 snapshots you only need a 5 not a 12 mega pixel. For example, my camera is a Kodak, 5mp and I can print clear 20×30 inch prints, that’s bigger than the average poster. If you had that information you would have the option of buying a $70 camera versus a $400 camera.

America seems to have this obsession with new gadgets that these companies feed into like leaches. The government has joined the bandwagon with the conversion to DTV in 2009. I was extremely upset when this hit the news, why should the consumers have to spend more money for something that is being forced on us. The good part of the conversion is that it will free up needed frequencies for emergency services, and the government is giving out vouchers for converter boxes. The bad part is, consumers are very ill informed, the “leftover frequencies” will be auctioned off, you can only “apply” for 2 vouchers per household. If you have a TV that receives cable/satellite you will probably be just fine, although it may give those providers and excuse to raise your bill. If you have a TV that uses an antenna or is an old analog TV you will need the box. The voucher will cover $40 of the $50 price of the converter box. We have four old analog TV’s, meaning it is going to cost us $120 to watch cable on those TV’s.

Another question I have is why do Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony release new video game consoles every two years? Maybe it is so parents will have to buy them for their kids because all of them except for the Sony PS2 do not release new games for the older systems. I know the graphics and the technology is amazing in these new systems, but why does our society, especially our younger members keep feeding into this so furiously.

If all these companies banded together to come up with life saving technologies imagine what they could accomplish. Maybe a cure for cancer, or a way to stop polluting our environment. The world can make a super computer the size of a dime, but they can’t figure out how to run a feasible automobile without gasoline.

Short Cartoon – I’m sure we have all felt like this at one point in time.