Addendum e-mail- Portsmouth-Columbus Breakfast

Hi Sam,

Thanks for the invite to breakfast. Yea, it is a shame, but I am in the mountains of northern Italy having a peaceful and quiet time. Hope to hear from you upon my return.

Dick Hansgen
________________________________
From: Sam Kegley [skegley@columbus.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:20 AM
To: Dave Miller
Cc: Speck6085@aol.com; Frank Hunter; Hansgen, Richard; Jack Arthurs; Dr. Chet Corbitt; Blaine Bierley; Dave Miller; Nelson Barker
Subject: Quality at the Breakfast

Dave,

You should have advised me that you could not make the breakfast yesterday morning. Blaine Bierley and Dick Klitch did and I stopped in to say hello before going on over to Ohio State to watrch my granddaughter's softball tournament game.

Blaine tells me that that Dick Hansgen has remarried his wife and is in Europe on a honeymoon. Most had other commitments. Paul Bierley has been in failing health. Nelson Barker sent his sorrow about missing it later yesterday.

Sam

Portsmouth-Columbus Breakfast

This is interesting, Fred. Many of us passed the Studebaker Dealership walking west on Ninth Street to PHS. The last I knew it was the Goodwill store. My Uncle Ollie and Aunt Mabel Barney lived across the street (Don's and his sisters' Wilma, Dot, and Ruth's parents). The Barneys were also cousins to Bert and Jack Barney.

By praying, we can obtain a better future by obtaining change from this dreadful change we are suffering through right now.

Keep the faith!

Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Ramsey
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: Tucker


Hello Sam...........Thanks again for all the interesting mail you send out...........my mother worked for the local Studebaker dealer for thirty some years, she was their bookeeper until they closed.......I remember very well when the news of the Tucker broke that there was sheer panic among that brand that perhaps they would take over all their business...the movie about that man and his car was very informative also...especially when reading the credits at the end of the movie....my son lived in York, Pa., and while vivsiting him a few short years ago I reminded my family of the Tucker that was on display at the museum nearby and that I would like to see it, so we went to see the Mighty Tucker and was very impressive to me since I grew up with Studebaker in my blood as I worked there in later years also and Jane has a nephew by marriage who happens to be a Studebaker..........thanks again for bringing to mind some fond memories of the past.......which looks much better than the future....Fred
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Kegley"
Subject: Fw: Tucker

Customer Service by Telephone loses money for companies

Customers want four things when buying goods: 1) Price, 2)Delivery, 3) Quality, and 4) Service. You go into a shopping mall and pick the goods at the price you find and you have delivery instantly. Quality you expect for the price you pay. If any problem arises, you expect quick solutions and correcting of the suppliers' fault(s). A recourse many of us take when presented with poor or untimely customer service is to select a different supplier. That is a costly error by the original supplier. They have lost a customer, many times, forever.

I have been privileged, mostly in experiences of years past, to know many telephone operators-receptionists who just performed excellently for their employers and brought on and nourished the customer base. Betty Wolfe and her cohorts at Abex Denison, Norma Copen at GoodYear Atomic, two operator receptionists at American Health Networks, and an endless array of outstanding people doing exceptional work.

Todays telephone systems rate an overall grade of D- in my estimation. Companies save a few shekels by not having operators, but cost themselves many more dollars in lost business by the poor service offered, particularly by telephone.

Robert Townsend said it best in "Up the Organization":

P 183

Telephone Operators

If I ever design a head office, executive row will look like the cubicles of a Trapist monastery, and the telephone-switchboard area will look like a Turkish Harem. Money spent on offices for the management is largely wasted. If they are any good it will be apparent to anyone after a few minutes, no matter how plain or fancy their office is.

On the other hand, how would you like to try doing the telephone operator's job for a day? Remember, you're the company's first contact with the outside world--you've got to be alert and bright and helpful and quick. You've got to know where everybody is all the time. I'd spend money to make the switchboard girls comfortable. The best operators in the area would be lined up for the job.

"Up the Organization" 1970

I have personally wasted many hours trying to obtain customer service by telephone. If you finally make it through the maze, you often find the wrong person, or even become disconnected to begin the long and tortuous wait once or twice, or more, again.

Yes, this is a Rant! Unlikely to reach the persons who hire the operators or pay attention to their customer service by telephone.

Thanks John Robert Looney!

Subject: How to fix it

This is from an article in the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper on Sunday.

The Business Section asked readers for ideas on "How Would You Fix the Economy?"

I think this guy nailed it!


Dear Mr. President:

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 'S economy.

Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.

You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force.

Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings -

Unemployment fixed.


2) They MUST buy a new American CAR. Forty million cars ordered-

Auto Industry fixed.


3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -

Housing Crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that!


If more money is needed, have all members of Congress and their constituents pay their taxes...


If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.


If not, please disregard.

The way, the truth, and the life: (John 14:6) ><> (8-}

The Cultural Center of our Universe-by Frank Hunter

Frank,

You have to be Portsmouth's Magnifico Illustrious Imaginator for all time,
If not just the twenty-First century.

Keep 'em comin'!

There ought to be post cards we can buy.

Sam


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Terry Krause- Mud Pies and Dandelions

MUD PIES AND DANDELIONS



When I look at a patch of dandelions, I see a bunch of weeds that are going to take over my yard. My kids see flowers for mom and blowing white fluff you can wish on.



When I look at an old drunk and he smiles at me, I see a smelly, dirty person who probably wants money and I look away. My kids see someone smiling at them and they smile back.



When I feel wind on my face, I brace myself against it. I feel it messing up my hair and pulling me back when I walk. My kids close their eyes, spread their arms and fly with it, until they fall to the ground laughing.



When I pray, I say thee and thou and grant me this, give me that. My kids say , " Hi God ! Thanks for my toys and my friends. Please keep the bad dreams away tonight, Sorry, I don't want to go to Heaven yet. I would miss my mommy and daddy".



When I see a mud puddle I step around it. I see muddy shoes and dirty carpets. My kids sit in it. They see dams to build, rivers to cross and worms to play with.



I wonder if we are given kids to teach or to learn from .

No wonder God loves the little children !!



"Enjoy and little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things........"



I WISH YOU MUD PUDDLES AND DANDELIONS !!!

Politicians- Selfishness above service to country

Thanks to my good Portsmouth OH friend, Ronnie Walters!



Subject: 545 vs 300,000,000
To:



You may have read this before but it is a good reminder that we, the people,
have let things get out of hand.







*545 vs 300,000,000*
*EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS
SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR
CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.**
**
Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.*
*
545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then
campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are
against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and
high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on
appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme
Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are
directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic
problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem
was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its
Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered,
but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason..
They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a
congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking** **thing. I don't
care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician
has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises,
it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what
they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless
of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive
amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker,
who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. The
president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to
accept it.**
**
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole
responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and
approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House?
Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow
House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the
president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.**
**
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace
545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and
irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not
traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain
truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it
must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.**
**
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red .

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan
not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire
and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they
can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from
whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into
the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the
economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what
they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are
their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... Is up to
you.*




*This might be funny if it weren't so darned true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me
to my doom...'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.*
*Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge T ax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Ser vice FeeTax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge=2 0Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
*
*STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?* *N**ot one of these taxes existed
100 years ago, and our nation was the most** **prosperous in the world. We
had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world,
and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.*
*What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'
And I still have to 'press 1' for English!?

I hope this goes around THE USA at least 100 times!!! YOU can help it get
there!!!
GO AHEAD - - - BE AN AMERICAN!!!*