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The Mayor, The Flu, The President
by Ken Mahal, NSC President
Originally published on November
12, 2009 - reprinted with permission
MAYOR OSCAR GOODMAN HIS LAST TIME AS MAYOR OF LAS VEGAS.
If my memory serves me right we have had his honor Mayor Oscar Goodman at our meeting once every
year since he was elected mayor. If you would ask me what I thought of him as mayor of the City of Las
Vegas I would say I would rank him the highest of any mayor since we arrived here in 1984. He certainly
has put Las Vegas on the map in the USA and the world for sure with his energy to make the city known
and even liked. I don’t need to say more. We love you Mayor and will hate to see you go and to Carson
City for sure. There must be something you can do here. Let me think on it.
Mayor how about a contract as director of Marketing and Promotions to bring business into Las Vegas
with a salary of a Zillion bucks a year and based on what those big Wall Street Guys have been doing.
Oh I guess not if it would end up as bad as things are now.
THE H1N1 FLUE SHOT TO GET IT OR NOT TO GET IT & a few other ideas.
What can one say about another flue shot? We already have the regular flue shot and right now our
doctor is recommending we get the H1N1 shots but we have a difference of opinion in our house with
one of us for it and the other one not being for it. I suspect there are many households that will be going
through the same thoughts. Our doctor has said to Agnes that she will get the shot so I suspect that will
be the deciding factor in our household. One can ask how many shots and pills should I take? Remember
only back to the days of our parents how few things that they took for themselves and or had us take.
The argument will be, look at how much more we know today than back then and I guess that would
end the argument. We buy a number of the health books as well as go to the computer and look up stuff
on: www.WebMD.com This is the best web page I have found that has anything you want from
symptoms to every kind of illness as well as the medicines we take and where to find the doctors to do
what we need. We have also found that there are very inexpensive soft cover books in the $15.00 range
like “Prescriptions for Nutritional Healings” and the complete “Guide to Prescriptions & Nonprescription
Drugs” and Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments. This wouldn’t be meant to take your doctors living
away from them but it might give you a sensible platform to visit with the doctor.
DOES OUR PRESIDENT NEED TO BE DOING P.R. ALL OF THE TIME?
I am referring to the night time saluting at Dover Air Force Base in the dark of morning Thursday the
28th of October with the return of our dead heroes early that morning. No problem with that at all but
why was it necessary to make the public relations spin of it so that the world would know about it. That
makes it cheap when it is handled that way by a President. It would have been a very nice news maker if
it had slipped into the news without pictures and done with a few words. He doesn’t operate that way
does he? In my years I have never seen a president who needed their face in the media almost every
day.
I thought he went to Harvard or some other fancy eastern school but they must not have had the good
relations part it when he was there. My point is that too much of any thing gets to be very tiring as any
good marketer would teach you.
AS THE WORLD TURNS, WHAT HAPPENS TO US?
I hope we do not get our necks into any more trouble than we have now because I would be frightened
out of my britches with the leadership we have in Washington now. How do I know, well I spent a good
deal of time with the Washington headaches most of my 25 years at our old firm. It was very interesting
to say the least because we came off of WWII and everything was going gang busters with no brakes. I
convinced our people to open an office in D.C. and there is still one in D.C. plus even more offices. The
politics of doing business with the federal government is a full time job to learn the ins and outs of such
places which are endless in size. Right now there is really only Obama, Reid and Pelosi and I say only but
it should be all capital letters if you are intending to do any business there. It doesn’t make any difference
whether it is doing politics or knocking on doors to get a job to spend government money on
anything you can think of. Right now because of us old timers it is Medicare and Medicaid that we are
interested in. As I write this Madam Pelosi has raised her fist (why not her Hand?) in what she thinks is a
victory. Give me a break with 1,990 pages and some 400,000 plus or minus a few words that will never
be a victory. What she needed is no more than 100 pages in a manner that you and I could understand
in very simple straight forward English as we speak and write it in the good ole U.S.A. (that is in the long
past I think of). Why oh Why cant we keep it simple stupid? What she holds her fist up for is not even
half the battle because we now need to hear from Gods man, our Senator Harry Reid of Nevada and
what he wants his pals to come up with. There was a time when one could pretty well predict how
things would go when that point was reached but not in today’s politics. Maybe we can listen to him
during the holiday’s break, that won’t work will it because it needs to be done no later than November
so I don’t think anyone but Harry can tell where things are going to end up at. It might be so bad that
not even he will be able to pull the rabbit out of the hat so who can tell us and I guess that gets to the
man himself President Obama. That will be a no win situation if it gets to us having to depend on him to
come up with the answers we need for our health care redo. That is where the buck stops as Harry used
to say and unfortunately our Pres. has little or no experience in real life let
alone high politics dealing
with people’s health. What this comes down to is that our Pres. is so young and inexperienced that who
can tell where he rolls the dice. And the trouble with his lack of experience and what we have also to
deal with is a very bright well educated person who doesn’t know that he doesn’t know everything. That
really makes a headache for us ole timers. I do not believe there is anything more troublesome and
emotional than dealing with health issues and who knows anything about it is we older folks because we
live it but who is going to listen to us? When the Democrats had real power was when Tip O’Neil of
Massachusetts was Speaker of the House you could get things done because he could tell presidents
what to do. Right now there doesn’t seem to be anyone who can tell anyone anything and have them
says OK lets go with it and get the job done. Oh by the way in those near 2,000 pages there is a section
for end of life discussion. What are they intending, waiting until we suffer with Alzheimer’s and ask us
what we want done at the end of life? Folks it is really hard to do, talk about our life ending experience
and how to deal with it in an intelligent manner. May God be with us and help guide our President, our
Senator and House Speaker; they are going to need far more wisdom than we have seen to date.
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