Temporary Employment:When Great Jobs Come To An End

One of the things that I've done for most of my life is to seek work through temporary employment agencies. I do this because this type of work gives me the benefit of choosing the type of work that I will be doing, along with the added benefit of learning new skills.
Since Christmas week I've been working for a company called Axiom Worldwide, which is based here in Tampa, Florida. The company builds state of the art machines which help to repair injuries to the spine without having to undergo surgery.
If you think that the medical field is not recession-proof, think again as this company has been scaling back in size and employees in order to stay in business.
That's where I came in, along with one other co-worker from my office. Our job was to help this company move their equipment from a 15,000 square feet warehouse into a smaller,5,000 square feet area. This was no easy task, to say the least.
Much of this equipment had to be broken down, crated and/or pelleted, and then moved.
Anyway, this was to have been a 3 day assignment but it turned into a 4 week one instead, Thank God!
I would like to thank ALL of the employees along with the owner of the company for being so cool with us. This job was better than working for family and it has been one of the best experiences that I have ever had working with total strangers. I have never witnessed such a friendly atmosphere on a continual basis at any past employment.
Axiom Worldwide has had its share of problems, and will have some for a little while longer, but I do think that the outfit will be just fine.
I will tell you about the other problems in a later post,but, right now this is just about showing my appreciation to a great group of people.
Thank You so much for this experience Axiom!!

George Bush Senior's Deal With The Devil

This article comes by way of Dailykos (dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/16/825780/-A-deal-with-the-devil:-George-Bush-the-Elder">.

A deal with the devil: George Bush the Elder
by Al Fondy Sat Jan 16, 2010
The concept of a deal with the devil arises in literature from the story of Dr Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe. This story in itself is intended as a commentary on modern life, "modern" being the Commerical Revolution of the 17th Century. The reason for the appeal is that to some extent, every successful person can look to certain unsavory decisions that allowed his own rise to power and fame--it is part of the human condition. But because of his highly public position, George H.W. Bush is especially noteworthy for his bad decisions that gave all the fame and power that this world can provide, yet ruined the "House of Bush" forever.
Earnest Hemingway said, "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong in the broken places." It is so true of George Bush the Elder. We first saw Bush as a young Congressman running for the US Senate in Texas. He lost to Lloyd Benson. He undoubtedly learned of some skullduggery in his next three jobs as Ambassador to China, Republican National Committee Chair, and CIA Director, but to all outward appearances, he tried to maintain his honesty. As a young thinker he was a strong supporter of ZPG, the rational movement to try to solve the world's population problems--and attendant troubles--through birth control.
The Faust theme was first noticed in 1980. Having previously referred to Ronald Reagan's tax plan as "Voodoo" economics, he gave up his intellectual honesty and started supporting the Voodoo. He renounced Zero Population Growth, and later appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court on the hope of getting additional votes from anti-abortion supporters. His treasonous activity in undercutting the Carter administration with the Iranian Mullahs during the election did much to cause the electorate to support the Republicans. After the election, the payoff was lots of arms and munitions to Iran.
Knowing of his own guilt, in 1988 he decided the only way to win was to hire Roger Ailes to do the dirtiest campaign yet seen in American politics. All of this apparent "dealing with the devil," however, seemed to pay off with earthly success.
In his later years, he deliberately kept his mouth shut about the known inadequacies of his son, and through fund raising prowess, foisted him onto the Republican Party and then onto the country. Thus, the Faustian bargain first made in the 1980s involved continual decisions leading to further decline and fall, not only of the house of Bush, but also the country.