Summer Sales

I am a man of strong, biased opinions. That much should be clear from my past posts. Now- I am going to say some offensive things in this post. Get ready to have your eyebrows raised, or stop reading right now. The choice is yours.

Summer sales is a scam.

Yes, I said it, loud and clear. Why? Because it's not fair to any one who partakes in it on an ordinary level, especially honest people. I have had a large number of friends do it. Those who were honest, and I mean completely and totally honest, make almost no money. Customers are fooled into believing that the salesman isn't really a sales man. The companies lies to their employees telling them they can make 20k in a summer. I had a friend who went out for a month. He was honest. He made about $2000 (maybe less).

I have had my experiences, with these companies. I would say that the worst is probably APX. I almost got talked into working for them this past summer. I worked a couple of pre-season sales with my manager and his assistant. I watched them and had them attempt to teach me deceitful practices that made me uncomfortable, and I knew that if I gave into presenting myself in such a manner, I would not be qualified to hold a temple recommend for temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They would justify it and call it "good business." I can hardly agree, since several states, including New York, Minnesota, and others have banned these companies from going door-to-door to sell their products.

I have had several close friends tell me that their companies, Pinnacle, Terminix, Orkin, etc. have encouraged similar practices. I would encourage anyone who is with these companies to take a good look at them. If you feel like you can work for them honestly, and make a lot of money, then go for it. But I know it would not have been wise for me.

Quote of the Week

“If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid.

That’s ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the h*** do I have to be paranoid about?”

-Clint Smith

Quote of the Week

"The vaunted Obama economic stimulus, at $862 billion, has failed. The "progressives" want

to double down, and were they to have their way, would have pushed for a bigger stimulus still. But the American people are in open rebellion against an economic strategy of public debt, higher taxes and unending deficits. We're not all Keynesians, it turns out. The panic that propelled Mr. Obama to the presidency has waned. There is deep concern, to be sure. But the Obama strategy has lost the consent of the governed."

-Fouad Ajami,

Opinion writer for the Wall Street Journal, "The Obsolescence of Barack Obama"

August 11, 2010. Read the full article here.

Spending and Taxing

This morning, my dad and I were listening to Glenn Beck together on the way to a doctor's appointment. This is a regular occurrence, and the conversation turned from current events, to the root thereof: the liberal agenda of heavy taxation of all people, not just the rich, as they would have you believe. It reminded me of the old addage, that the power to tax is the power to destroy.

I then observed to my dad that we are, quite literally, taxed about 50% of all our earnings. When I worked for Publix Supermarkets, a for-profit corporation, social security, federal income taxes, and such, took $5000 of my $10,000 income. I would get approximately $600 back from my tax return.

I work for a non-profit school right now, so I don't have to deal with that because my income is below the taxable bracket. But I have become more and more sour about this as time has progressed. The Book of Mormon talks about a people who had the same problem, as their own government taxed them one fifth of all they owned, and the difficulty that this caused. At the same point in time, there was another people who, through their wickedness, had come to be in bondage to their enemies, who taxed them one half of all their labors and possessions. It makes it very clear that this is not okay in the eyes of the Lord, but that through obedience to His laws, and much prayer and supplication to Him, we can get through this, as we make the effort to overcome and work our way out of such dire circumstances.

The TEA Party has caught my attention. In case you didn't know, the name is an acronym that stands for "Taxed Enough Already".

88 Days

"We have 88 days. In less than two years, we have gone from a demoralized super-minority party to a legion of effective shock troops who are on the offense and making Democrats sweat.”

–Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele today at a RNC meeting in Kansas City, Mo.

nut jobs

"I'd rather be a Right-winged nut job than a no-nuts, no-job liberal."

-Random offensive right-winged t-shirt website

How We Think

SO ... I was flipping through the channels this evening with my dad, and we came to the O'Riley Factor on FoxNews (it's no secret I love that channel). It was right at the end of the show, where Bill was showing some clips from other shows, and he showed a clip from Dave Letterman's Late Show (and this is where it gets interesting).

Dave said, in regards to O'Riley "...i think he knows what he's doing... he's found a place to make a living. He's be a weatherman if the money was right, or maybe do sports if the money was right. He's just doing this 'cuz that's where the money is. I don't think you can be as smart as he is and actually believe what he believes."

This seems to be the pervading liberal media attitude. Through conversations I've recently had with liberal friends of mine, and observing comments like this, I think that liberals don't really understand what exactly it means to be conservative.

Would you like to know? Send me a message; I'll be happy to explain it.