I was talking this morning with someone at my health club about Maxine Waters' statement yesterday that we would lose 170 million jobs - which is more than we actually have - and how anyone so stupid could get themselves elected to Congress. And the other one who thought that an island (Guam) might capsize if we removed a bunch of people from it.
I actually figured this out a few years back. No offense to Sales people out there - you perform a useful function - but many ended up in sales because they weren't good enough at anything else, like computers, for instance, to make a decent living at it. Politicians, regardless of any other skills they might have, are really good at one thing - selling themselves. Some of them also aren't good enough at anything else to do anything else. Keep that in mind next election, when asked to vote for someone whose vote will be affecting what YOU are good at and they are not. Like spending money wisely, for instance. Rick On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Phil Bautista <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > > Ok, so this could be modified to incorporate any number of discovery > tools, database of your choice, PC vendor you like (or dislike), etc. But > you may find it funny and can perform your own variable substitution…**** > > ** ** > > “A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous > pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of > a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, > RayBan® sunglasses and YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked the > cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your > herd, will you give me a calf?" Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a > yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, > "Sure, why not?" The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell® notebook > computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3® cell phone, and surfs to a > NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an > exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite > that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then > opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to an image > processing facility in Hamburg , Germany ... Within seconds, he receives an > email on his Palm Pilot® that the image has been processed and the data > stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL® database through an ODBC connected > Excel® spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry® and, after a few minutes, > receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report > on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet® printer, turns to the cowboy and > says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves." "That's right. Well, I > guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud. He watches the young man > select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man > stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, > if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my > calf?" The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why > not?" "You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud. "Wow! > That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?" "No > guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though > nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a > question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment > trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a > thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that > matter. This is a herd of sheep. Now give me back my dog. AND THAT FOLKS IS > WHAT THE PROBLEM IS ALL ABOUT.”**** > > ** ** > > Phil Bautista, WWRUG13 Advisory Board**** > > 512-731-0304**** > > Social - http://www.facebook.com/phil.bautista**** > > Business - http://www.linkedin.com/in/philbautista**** > > WWRUG12 - > http://www.wwrug12.com/contact_phil.html<http://www.wwrug11.com/contact_phil.html> > **** > > ** ** > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
