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  • Vice President Pence, a nice “Christian” person, lies to reporters

    After lying to reporters, Pence’s handlers quickly ended the gaggle.

  • Thank You Trump for Destroying Free Trade and Send US Farmers Into Bankruptcy

    Although China is again buying some soybeans, it will take many years to regain solid relations while China continues to buy from Brazil and other countries. 1 2

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  • Bad Bosses Cause a Huge Drain on the American Economy – Ross Reck

    When employees feel abused, mistreated or unappreciated by their boss, they either look for a job somewhere else or they retaliate by cutting back on their productivity. Researchers have estimated that the cost of employee turnover alone in America to be $1.7 trillion annually. Then, if you factor in the other things employees are motivated to do when they feel their boss is not treating them right such as taking more sick days, missing work more often, stealing from the company, doing as little work as possible and a poorer quality of work, convincing other employees not to work as hard and refusing to share their ideas on how to improve products and services, we’re probably looking at a four to five trillion dollar price tag for this Bad Boss behavior. This is huge especially give that the size of the entire American economy is only $14 trillion. Just think of the shot in the arm it would be to our economy if American business could recover a sizable chunk of this amount.

  • The World At Our Fingertips – Art Fettig

    Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo

    November 30, 2009

    In This Issue

    • The World At Our Fingertips
    • Say Something Good
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    • Points To Ponder
    • A Little Humor
    • Quote of the Week
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    The World At Our Fingertips

    I wish I could just send out a memo on the Internet and declare peace for all as a special Christmas blessing.

    The other day I heard from a friend in Australia who reads this newsletter.  It brought home to me the fact that with the Internet, the whole world is right there at our fingertips. I had an e-mail with photo attachments from a friend in China just two weeks ago. Until I went to the Far East to fight a war at the age of twenty-one, the farthest I had ever been from our home in Detroit was to a beach near Toronto, Ontario.That experience sure broadened my horizons and when I began traveling to Europe with airline passes I felt that I surged light years ahead in my outlook.  You’d think that with our modern means of communication we might do a better job of getting along with one another.  The war goes on and I haven’t even a clue how we might declare peace and bring the troops home.  The one major thing that was not achieved on my wish list again this year was world peace. I just don’t understand why we can find peace for everyone in this world but l’ll sure pray for it on a continuing basis.  I wish I could just send out a memo on the Internet and declare peace for all as a special Christmas blessing. 

    Say Something Good

    Children’s sermons.When I was a kid we never had children’s sermons in church. The only sermons we got as kids was “Keep quiet and stop wiggling.”  Perhaps that is why I accept  the challenge to deliver a children’s sermon a few times each year.  I work harder on those little sermons than anything else I do. I have always felt this need to speak to everyone in a room so that they get a personal message.  In business situations I wanted to reach the workers and also management and somehow get them closer to one another. I guess that I still feel that way in church and I want my message to be received by the children but I guess that subconsciously, I am trying to deliver a message to the entire congregation.  Last Sunday I talked about my list of ten reasons that I was thankful.  It went OK but now as I look back at it I realize that there was a third audience I was trying to reach and that was myself.  I too needed reminding what a wonderful life I live here in America with so many freedoms to enjoy.  May God bless America and keep our troops from harm.

    Points To Ponder

    Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. John Henry Jowett

    A Little Humor 

    I don’t mind working. I just have this inordinate fear of getting tired.

    Quote of the Week

    The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity. Russell Simmons

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  • Impeach the President

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