Another sweltering Saturday

Bit hard to go out and about in Dallas nowadays, still hotter than heck,,,,but if you can stand the heat there are many great things to do.Thought I would mention one,   not the best place in the heat, but just east of Dallas there is a spot called the Harbor in Rockwell. It is on a man made lake so it has a nice vacation feel to it. Mostly restaurants, but nice walking area, for people on the lake they can dock boats, has some entertainment bars, hard pressed to be real busy since the heat dominates, but in the late evening now or spring or fall it can be a nice place to hang out. Nothing super fancy, but great place to spend an evening.

We are getting close to being down to one child. We leave soon to take another child to college.Been a bit tough lately since the economy over the last few years zapped our savings. So right now not the best time to be taking a trip to drop off a child for college.Very excited though,great opportunity for the child.Over half paid for by scholarships, financial aid, but still a bunch coming from the parents we don't have. We are still debating whether we drive or fly, flying is easier and we are gone less time,but added expense. Either way though pretty big hit to the budget that we really cannot afford. Some benefits to driving, we run across family on the way we haven't seen in awhile, but it is a long drive.In other times we would be super excited about the trip. Got the older kids in town to help watch the house and the youngest so we only have to worry about the trip itself. There are times when having a large family, married children, etc can be a blessing, well it has always been a blessing, but for times like this, an added benefit. Gonna cook some brisket for the big family meal before the child leaves. Anyway these thoughts have been dominating the brain for the last few weeks.

Originally I was going to discuss some thoughts that came up when reading about the disaster that is Parkland Hospital.This is our county hospital and it is in the news big time lately, and not for the best of reasons. Instead I decided to keep it light tonight since everyone needs a bit of good times nowadays. Some of it's problems really irk me not because of the problems themselves, but how they reflect about our situation in society as a whole. The problems are bad and yes they bother me also, but it seems to reflect bigger problems, but all in all if we address them we come out ahead in the big picture.
So a couple of quick hits,
If people cannot do their job, their are millions of people out there who might be able to do it better, even though you don't want people to lose their job now, if they aren't performing well there are many who would like the opportunity to try and do better. It is sad to see so many examples of piss poor performance when executives in charge have the ability to get new blood. For myself I have been to some interviews where I am thinking I could be doing a much better job than the person interviewing me, but for some reason no one in charge wants to step up and hold people accountable for their performance. And the point about the people in charge is important since this seems to be a problem too,,,,,see the Parkland example.

And another topic to discuss is medicare and medicaid. There is some much talk about cutting budgets etc, but lets first work on better accountability to how the money is spent.  I have read so many examples of money being spent by medicare and medicaid that was fraud. Again see the Parkland example, you seem to read about this kind of stuff all the time. We need to take care of people's health so better management is the first key to savings that is so desperately needed in our federal budget.  It is easy to cut, but we are talking about people's lives.  Much more to discuss here, but this evening didn't want to go overboard.

Pray for rain.

And again think about the concept of progressive conservatism. Actually this isn't a new idea if you know your American history. What is it for the 21st century?