Comments on: Give Us ONE Good Reason http://tfninsider.org/2011/03/30/give-us-one-good-reason/ The Official Blog of TFN and the TFN Education Fund Sat, 18 May 2013 02:46:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Charles http://tfninsider.org/2011/03/30/give-us-one-good-reason/#comment-10606 Charles Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:16:42 +0000 http://tfninsider.org/?p=10691#comment-10606 Well, as my Uncle Malcolm used to say, “Even executives have a boss they have to report to.” He worked as a manager for many years. The problem with the Texas SBOE is that they have no boss—no truly responsible person they have to report to and justify their actions. Doc Bill is right about that. I feel sure that Gail Lowe would say, “The public is our boss—we report to them.” However, that is really not true. It’s like Hershey’s chocolate saying, “We report to our customers.” No company reports to its customers—and while many would deny it—most of them do not even care about their customers unless it is hurting their bottom lines.

For example, we stayed at a very well known chain motel recently. I looked up the customer satisfaction reports for the one particular motel we stayed in, and it was obvious from numerous reports that the franchise owner had a regular pattern of cheating customers. Did the chain do anything about it? Not that I could tell!!! The chief complaint was that the hotel chain not only cheated its customers, it absolutely refused to even respond to customer complaints and pleas for a little justice. This is the way the Texas SBOE is operating. It is a chicken coop with no wire fence. The guy that changes the straw and shovels the manure is a fox. Two wolves guard the front door to the coop. Every once in a while a chicken disappears mysteriously, and the wolves tell the remaining chickens that Salvadore Allende must have spirited her away in the night.

]]> By: Doc Bill http://tfninsider.org/2011/03/30/give-us-one-good-reason/#comment-10605 Doc Bill Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:29:25 +0000 http://tfninsider.org/?p=10691#comment-10605 Yep, authoritarians talk up big the Constitution but to paraphrase Leona Helmsley, “the Constitution is for the little people.”

Wouldn’t it be great to go through life without any checks and balances, sort of like the SBOE? Wow, I could alienate customers and still get paid and maybe a commission! I wouldn’t have to pay taxes and I could park in handicapped slots. I would be, like, peel me a grape all day long.

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