When Small Business Owners need to upgrade their company’s software, hard decisions need to be made. How will the upgrade affect the company? Will employees be able to work while this upgrade takes place? Last but not least, how much will the upgrade cost?

Segregation of the rich and poor

We need to re-look at the way the American Dream is changing due to the Middle class eroding, and the separation of the 1% and 99%.

Whether you agree or not there is a new outlook in life that is becoming starker. Economic realities and strife have always been around. The Greeks and Romans were doing it to their citizen’s ages ago. Remember when the French got tired of it? They started cutting off people’s heads. The upper class did not come out of that as well as they would have hoped, did they? All economic classes need to have a sense of interdependence and appreciation for the entire community they live in. The separation weakens the long term viability of a given society. In America, our government center’s on Capitalism. Capitalism is the center of our economic and social structure. The lucky can get to the top. It takes hard work, great timing, connections, intelligence, patientence, a good location, and many more attributes that may or may not help you get there.

The problem is once you get there. Are you now different from the others? Are you now outside of the general public welfare issues? What is your responsibility to your community?

These are not easy questions. I believe in the longevity of a society. This keeps life’s choices more stable and you can make better long term plans. Most people like stability as long as they have respect and representation in our democracy.

So when you take a look at one specific rule of Inclusionary Housing you have to ask yourself “How does this affect the greater good?” “What is it telling all the different groups who live in our society?” ”Are we respecting each other?” The group that got to the top, the 1%, are still a part of the general public, but now they feel above the other groups and think they need to protect their way of life. Or they may have social anxieties and feel embarrassed by the aesthetics of hair, clothing, skin color, or language. This 1% can afford to put fences between them and the rest of their societal counterparts. Making their lives feel exclusive and safe from the real world around them.

About 10 years ago I started seeing and reading articles about LED Lamps. Since I like testing out new energy products for home use on my family, I bought about a thousand dollars worth of various types of LED lamps for my home. In the end only about half of the lamps worked. In most instances the color the light gave off was wrong or, the type of light generated wasn’t good for the intended use. Unfortunately all of the dimmer type lamps broke within the first year of use. The reading lamps worked well, so we kept those and removed the general lighting LED lamps. After that, I did not see an advantage at the time to experiment further. But, it seems that time for experimentation is coming up again.

Summer 2014 is here.

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