How Much Initiative Does It Take?

Remember when you first sat down at the computer and went online? Were you forced to do it - or did you want to do it? Did you figure it out on your own - or did you need the government to hold your hand?

Seems that our government - at the direction of the President feels that people aren't smart enough or motivated enpough on their own to learn the ropes on the internet so that have spent our tax money to help people that probably don't even want to be helped.

Granted there are some people who don't have the internet on the home computer, but they likley have access at the library, a local school, or on their smartphone. Again, it's not that people are going without that really want to have access and can't.

At any rate, the US Commerce Department spent our tax dollars to launch a website called www.digitalliteracy.gov (which should have skipped the double consonant) to offer tutorials and help people acclimate to the internet. How do they find the site if they don't know how to use the internet?

BTW, over $billion in stimulus money has been spent to help develop high-speed internet service in areas without it. Isn't that a private enterprise issue?

We certainly can question the government's motives for wanting to have the whole country connected to high-speed internet. As good as that might sound, there are reasons - freedom of choice for one - why some people don't use the internet. Now they might have to anyway.

 

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24 comments • Steve Hoffacker - Sales Trainer/Coach, Sales Books Author, Photographer • May 23 2011 10:12PM

The Importance Of Choices

We are a people who enjoy choices - where to live, what line of work to pursue, how long to stay in that position, what kind of car to drive, what to eat, who to have as friends, where to go on vacation. Everything in America is based on choices.

We obey laws because we choose to do so - understanding the consequences of not doing so or wanting to avoid potential harm to ourselves or others.

Some choices are more important than others. What color shirt  to put on, which shoes to wear ,or what accessories to put with an outfit might be more important to some people than others or seem fairly minor compared to other decisions.

What to have for breakfast or whether to skip it, how many cups of coffee to have in the morning, whether we want to try to stretch a nearly empty gas tank until after our appointment, what movies to watch, or books to read, which customers to call on, where to look for new leads - these are all choices.

When it's time to look for a new home, what to look for in it, when to buy a new or newer car, whether to buy or lease that new car, what schools to send the kids to - again, these are choices.

Choices have always been important - from the minor, incidental choices to the major, life-changing ones and all those in-between. As Americans, we are guaranteed the right to make such choices.

Now, we come to the present, and are faced with a changing landscape of Cap and Trade, unelected and unaccountable Presidential csars, Consumer Protection Financing Agency, universal health care, government motors, federally owned or bailed out lenders, and even more. All of these are laden with implications for our choices. Our freedoms are being eroded.

Personally, I don't need the government telling me whether I can sell my home as it is or if I have to improve it first, when I can apply for a mortgage for a new home, who can have the mortgage business, what the rates are going to be, what new cars must look like or perform like, and on and on.

It's time we exercise one very important choice that we still have left - while we still have it - and vote the rascals out of office who would take our rights away and that we oppose any and all proposed or pending legislation by calling our Members of Congress and participating in any grass roots efforts that we have access to.

If we don't choose to preserve the free enterprise America that we have always known and enjoyed, the number of choices that we have available in the future are going to be restricted.

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13 comments • Steve Hoffacker - Sales Trainer/Coach, Sales Books Author, Photographer • July 15 2009 09:40PM