That being said, you hit the nail on the head — students have some very specific needs driven by changes in the world. There are parts of Sierra College that are incredibly innovative and work their tails off to harness those changes for good; there are some other parts that say “it shouldn't be that way” and resist change for as long as possible.

“rip off the band-aid and deal with the outcome” — great way of saying it.

And count me as one of your biggest fans with all of the incredible stuff you do at Sierra.

Me personally, I like to rip the band-aid off and deal with the outcome… I really think adopting technology (not 90's technology — but, the modern stuff) would be greatly beneficial for the students and the district as a whole. There is certainly much that can be done.

I think it is becoming clear to the broad middle of this country that President Obama's initiatives always emanate from a place of big, large, centralized government with big, new, large amounts of spending. As a result, he's losing independents in droves. Read the David Brooks column in the NYT this morning for a good picture of what's happening there.

As it is has become the new normal to not spend unless a surplus already is in our hands, my business has really taken a huge hit to clientele. I have found myself back in school, taking photography classes and learning new techniques and strategies. Trying to re-connect to the photography community, and rethinking my entire approach to the industry has become much more than a pastime.

I think we are in for a second wave of this “recession” before it is all over, but even if we are not, it does look like we are locked into this flight pattern for a while to come. Maybe not quite 5 years, but a 2-3 year plan is on my drawing board.

In countries that support capitalism the economies will rebound and grow from the falling point — it is a self-correction that has been evident with our country since we were colonies as well as England and other countries before us (earliest examples are found in “Wealth of Nations”, Adam Smith)…

In countries were social reform, socialism, facism, and just about any governement “-ism” is in place, the rebound is almost non-existent unless you look at decades – and even then the economy does not rebound to the magnitude that it could have under capitalism… Cuba, France, Venezula are some quick examples of nationalized systems that have not been able to recover from any one or more recessions that have hit their own system…

Given this administrations “community organization agenda” we can safely assume they are looking to bring our nation into a form of economy that is not capitalism… Immelt has decided to stand behind the Obama administration's community efforts and GE will gain accordingly… this will prove overtime to be shortlived and over the long haul to be determental to GE… Immelt has not had a very good record with GE and the dividends have the proof…

In our current circumstances, we have three options available to overcome all this:
– the elections of 8 Nov 2010 where 33% of the Senate and 50% of the House is up for re-election…
– seek impeachment possibilities if the 2010 elections are favorable for such (impeachment highly unlikely unless this country faces on unrecoverable financial failure that threatens our very existence)…
– the elections of 12 Nov 2012 where the Presidency, another 33% of the Senate and the other 50% of the House is up for re-election…

Whom we elect will determine how much we want a recovery…

Either way we are here for the long haul given the debt weight we have been strapped with — even GE is affected by all this and have placed all the eggs in one basket called Obama…