Donations

As I have blogged about before I belong to a local charity organization, the Kiwanis Club. I have been a member for about twelve years, even president twice. It is very rewarding to see the results of some of the work that we do. We are often approached by other different charity groups for help with their work. Before we decide to donate to these groups we always do research to see just where our money is going.

As a club we run about a eleven to twelve percent administration cost for the building and other necessities associated with the organization. We take no salaries at all, not even our officers. We do this because we want to. Other organizations are not as honorable. I recently found out the American Red Cross is one of those organizations. The president and CEO of the Red Cross takes a 951,000 dollar salary. This is non-profit? The president of the United Way accepted a salary of 675,000 to run their charity organization. Another example is Unicef. The CEO of Unicef took a salary of 1.9 million dollars and a Rolls Royce for their work in this charity organization. This results in less than five cents of every dollar donated goes to the charity that people are giving to. This is terrible. As a fellow non-profit we refuse to help organizations that just pad their own pockets instead of helping their community.

Before you donate be sure to look into their record. It is all available as public record. Organizations that are truly non-profit include the Salvation Army. Their commander received only 13,000 for running this two billion dollar organization. Your local VFW, American Legion and Disabled American Veterans are also part of the honorable charity groups. In fact the commanders of these three groups take absolutely zero salaries to run these non-profits.

Choose your non-profits wisely and don’t just give your money to these groups that are just helping themselves. A true non-profit should make enough to cover their legitimate expenses and the rest goes back to the community. The community is the group that we are all trying to help. It makes me an Angry Nice Guy to think that people would take advantage of the public’s desire to help others.

　

　

　
                         
 
　

　

　

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Health Insurance, Or The Lack Of

Ok, I’m going to complain about the lack of health insurance some more, only because it affects me so much. My current employer that bought the business almost three years ago did not deem it was important for his 50+ year old family man to retain the health insurance instated by the previous owner. I hurt my back in March, which would have been avoided it I could have gone to a doctor and had my pain analyzed. Out of work for a month, on workman’s comp, went back for a month on four hour days, now I am on six hour days. Wonderful. All covered by WC which I am grateful for. I have had carpel tunnel in my left hand for over a year. I wear a brace at night and it alleviates the problem so I suck it up and keep on. Now I am getting it in my other hand. That means another brace. If I had the insurance I could go get the operation in a day and be set for the rest of my life, but no. My wife is experiencing problems with her leg now and needs to have her knee worked on, but no. She is also getting an allergic reaction to something around our property but we cannot figure it out.

All of these things and more could be taken care of with a simple health plan. Luckily we have a Healthy Kids plan for out children so they are taken care of. At what point does my health seem important to this idiot? When it affects his business I suppose.

Our best friend passed away basically because he did not have health insurance. I never thought I would have to worry about succumbing to the same fate.

　


                                                                         

　

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This Big House

I have blogged before on my Brief Gift blog about having a house built. It is a great feeling to have a house built the way that you want it. But do not go overboard. Remember that a house is only there to hold all of your stuff. Big house means lots of stuff and more to take care of. If you happen to have the means to hire people to take care of your stuff and your house, more power to you. But regular people like me do not. We have a nice house but I wonder if it is more than what we need. We spend more time trying to find things and get rid of stuff than we need to. I would rather be out camping or going to some place to sightsee than working on the house all of the time. Small and Spartan is the way to go. Not much clutter and not much to have to maintain. We have not been camping in years, mainly because we have too many things to do to maintain the house. We bought new because we thought that it would be easier or less to maintain, we were wrong. At least we went with vinyl on everything so all we have to do is wash instead of painting all of the time. The big house is nice, lots of room but that is only room for stuff. The more stuff you own the more that it owns you. I am not so vain that I need people to drive by and go Oooo and Ahhh over how nice the house is. Soon our children will be on their own and we can downsize, maybe near the water or the beach. A small house with a postage stamp size yard where we can relax and enjoy it.

We will see.





　
　

　

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Long Live the American Work Ethic

Some people these days have no consideration for the business that they work for. I work with just such people. How many times can you remind someone to cleanup after themselves? Isn’t that a part of normal everyday survival? I work in a business that depends on the equipment that we use. It is cleaning equipment like vacuums and shampooers. Three time in as many months I have come into the equipment room and found the shampoo machine still plugged in and up to full temperature. Not only is it a waste of electricity but what happens if it shorts out and starts a fire? Two weeks ago one of the two vacuum motors in this very unit did just that. Luckily we were there to shut it down. I am sure the breaker would have tripped but that seems like too much trust placed in man made items to leave it to chance. I have told the workers twice to turn off and unplug the machinery. Even the technician that works on and sells these machines says that that is a good idea. These workers do not even pick up after themselves. I have complained about that too. The owner does not seem to care, he is out taking care of his many other enterprises and does not pay attention to this little business. Countless time I have come into work and doing my job requires twice as much time because first I have to cleanup after the other people, than I have to find things that I need because they can never put them away. When I have complained directly to the owner the worker just walks off the job with complete impunity because he knows the owner will just take him back. I have been working at this location longer that some of these guys have been in the country. They have no pride in their work or their surroundings at the job. I speak to them and try to get them to do things right but I have to wear kid gloves because they will just walk off the job and leave me dry. It is a terrible way to be treated when you are just trying to do a good job in a place that you have been for years. I don’t know what has happened to the good old American work ethic but it is sure dwindling away.

　

　

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Psycho Lady

I feel so bad for people that have an ailment that does not allow them to mentally function well in society. I also do not see why these same people should not try to maintain this ailment the way they are supposed to. That may sound apathetic but it is a situation that I was very familiar with.

We used to have a neighbor that had a mental disorder. She appeared wonderfully nice and we befriended her after she moved into our neighborhood, right next to our house. Things went great for about three months, she seemed to be easily upset but we did not think anything of it. You take people with a grain of salt and accept who they are. She was easy to upset so we tried not to. This was not possible. She started ranting about neighbors doing work in their yards and kids playing in the cul-de-sac. She would even get upset if I talked to one of these kids. Soon she started calling the police. She called the police when someone used a snow blower early in the morning so he could get to work. She called the police a total of 13 times on me over a two year period. I finally went to our police department to ask them if I was getting a record due to this psycho lady. He knew immediately who I was referring to and told me not to worry. They only show up at her house because they have to. After that they just disregard the call. I found out that she has called the police on the residents of all twelve houses on our street, even our local pastor. She was also banned from the supermarket up the street and from Girl Scout meetings. This woman was known all over the town for losing it for no reason. Come to find out she was supposed to be taking medication daily for her illness but sometimes she just chose not to. She then took it out on everyone that lived on our street or anyone she came in contact with. Very sad.

She has since moved to another state and divorced her husband. Unfortunately it seems that her daughter has the same ailment. It was told to me that when her daughter was asked about her dad she said that he was dead. We saw him not too long ago.

I have met other people with this same problem and they take their medication daily. They are perfectly normal and I work with them in our local community service organization. It can be done and you don’t have to cause chaos in the lives of the people around you.

　

　

I don't need medixcation! I don't! I don't! I don't!

　

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She's Baaaaack!

She is still our there! This psycho lady that ran me off of the road last year is still at it. Last year I was riding my bicycle to work and was about to pass a Dunkin Donuts. As I approached the turn a lady in a white car came up along side of me. She looked at me. I was going straight and she was turning right into the entrance of the shop. She just turned! She forced me off of the road and onto the sidewalk! I could not believe it. When I saw that she was going to the drive through, I followed and drove up along side of her. I let her know loudly that she just ran me off the road. I surprised her so much that she dropped the phone she was texting with. She said that she thought I had plenty of room. I told her that thinking was not her strong suit. A favorite line from the Lost In Space movie. She was completely nonplussed and was more intent on the coffee she was waiting for. I finally told her to put down the phone and drive like an adult.

A year later I am driving in the same area but going in the other direction. I was in my company truck, an F-350 that is quite high. It gives me a great vantage point to see what is going on. As I waited for my light to change I noticed that the light to turn left was green. The car to my left was just sitting there and not moving. I looked up and the light was still green. Turning to see what was going on I realized that I had seen this car before but I could not place it. I could not place it that is until I noticed that this person was texting that was why she did not notice that the light was green. I then realized that this is the same idiot that ran me off of the road. She was still doing it except this time there was no one to run off of the road. She sat there texting at the wheel and did not look up until the light had turned yellow, at which point she stomped on the gas and ran through the red light. I seriously believe that she is going to keep texting and driving until she kills someone. Angry Nice Guy would really like to get in her face again but I would probably be the one that gets arrested. Maybe when something terrible happens she will learn.

that's me on the bicyhcle, top right!

　

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I Swear

Is it just me or is it annoying to be around somebody that has a constant torrent of expletives coming from their mouth? I don’t mean that occasional slip or the perfunctory swear when we are really upset. I mean the person that uses profanity for every single adjective and adverb that is in a sentence. Even some nouns personal pronouns. I have let some slip once in a while. Sometimes you can’t help it but when you encounter somebody that does it so much it is hard to understand the conversation isn’t that a little much? Are these words used because of this persons limited vocabulary and intellect? I am not a snob but it just seems annoying when every modifier a person uses starts with the letter f and rhymes with truck. Especially around children, there is no excuse for that. If you don’t have anything intelligent or constructive to say then be quiet. I believe I have said that before in another blog. I could elaborate on this but that probably would not be constructive. A Nice Guy would stop here.

　

　

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