February 28, 2013

• Thanks For The Visits/ Senior Job Seekers

  I do not believe that I have ever written a weblog which has had immediate and world wide visitors so rapidly as the article which I wrote about America’s Senior Citizens and the pathetic job market for them.  I need terribly to edit the entire article, but I did write it with my heart in my hand, for I have seen a 75  year old start to clean motel rooms to try to take care of her children and grandchildren.  A very bright man back East who I met through Xanga has had horrible experiences going from place to place job seeking, and when the jobs were filled, a younger and less qualified person would be chosen over a man 50 to 60.  A brother who was a fine machinist worked at Walmart to make ends meet until his retirement money met what was a reasonably good standard of life when his wife decided to take a boyfriend after 40 years of marriage, and he was being nice — giving her his house which he shared with her, not realizing that she would marry within a few weeks after the divorce was finalized.  Otherwise he was in a fifty/fifty state, and that is more and more becoming the standard of divorce in the United States.

  A recent movie about seniors who immigrated to India may have predicted a trend before its time — Title not specifically remembered, but; Who could forget the place, “The Marigold Hotel,” for those would hold great potentials for elder Americans.  The problem would be unscrupulous individuals taking dollars and providing no service, and it is a great problem for America that our systems cannot tolerate the flora and fauna, the bacteria, and the viruses found in other locals such as India.

  With no disrespect, let us used India for example, for you can have trained doctors from our best schools, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, for instance, but if you do not have a staff who is meticulously clean, using standard hand washing techniques, and the American training where care settings know individual Universal precautions such as handwashing before you touch anyone, then care settings cannot work.  We are an overly antibiotic use country, so Americans can become deathly ill from any lack of general precautions, and if such care facilities could operate it third world countries — It could be a win win situation.  Medical equipment has to be thrown away which is personal to the patient from any kind of tubing, masks, syringes, and if a cities water supply is dangerous for drinking to its own population, then it is a certainty that it is probably not a good idea to be using it even for bathing.

  Yes, we Americans are hung up on the clean thing, the deodorant, no bugs, or varmits running around.  Vermin is not acceptable, nor is the use of cancer causing poisons to kill such things.  I looked at that movie, and I thanked God that I would never have to make so a choice with several children and a planned future, but thousands and thousands of Americans would welcome such an opportunity under the right situation.  The finest diagnostic equipment in the world which is affordable in some third world hospitals is useless if a person with unclean hands comes in and starts and IV, and — Again, this happened to a friend traveling in a third world nation, and the next morning the red streaks of severe infection were running up his arm, so now not only did he have atrial fibrilation; he also had a nosocomal infection that was even more dangerous at that point that the A-fib which was becoming controlled.

  If I could send a message to third world countries, then Americans first, fear crime.  After crime would become the fear of becoming ill, so instead of adopting the ways of our West which is so offensive, the eforts to accumulate wealth, then I would hope that third world countries would show that they are taking care of women and children.  Dumping poisons and trash in to rivers and streams and misusing water, the source of life is going to keep nations third world; so perhaps we should be spreading with hope the news that nations may thrive far better by adapting serious world clean up issues, and that means to not just physically clean dirt and trash as well as polution from cities and water ways; It means to show that you can care and clean up your own back log of the poor –  And that begins with one building, getting the population interested , and one by one, by one, the word and pride begins to spread.

  Why are Americans so hung up on the problems with dirt, garbage, and the washing of their bodies and clothes?  For us, horrible smells add up to horribly dangerous areas for people to travel.  It takes great leaders, and I know there are great leaders all over the world who can help their people to understand change, the sharing of dollars, and of personal goods begins with the great leaders who note that something as simple as teaching their nation how to control vermin, how to cleanse bodies and clothing, and how to rehab their decaying buildings, but above all to clean up waste, sewage disposal, and the bodies of water which are the staff of all life will help to stamp out elder American’s fears of foreign neighbors.

  Great and reasonable leaders are aware that soap, water, clean air, and helping citizens to understand that the discipline of the use of antibacterial products will not only benefit their people for whom they are the torch bearers, but it begins to open more doors for equality of  how and where money may be more widely distributed just by the use of basic inexpensive materials like soap and water.  Yes, I see it as a perfectly logical advent for elder persons with little family to be able to see options around the world, and care begins at the most basic of human needs.  Hear me please, Great Leaders,  and may we see ourself as one earth, the dreamed of global community of mankind.

  I beg this of the nations of the world, for your children have great value as citizens in a universe where overall birth rates keep falling in developed nations.  I plant this seed in my heart, and I beg that it will flower across the globe.

  Blessings to those who see God work through all nations, to feed the children, to open gates to all nations, and to begin the cleansing of our 3rd world brothers and sisters.  What good have our wars done?  Our first war must be to end poverty at the level where children and women are made slaves, for some few of us as Americans knew similar poverty, but our pride was to make clean the worst that we had.

  Blessings, Barbara Everett Heintz, Author of, “Pinkhoneysuckle,” on Amazon, Kindle, and Create Space — A story of America where farmers lived subsistence lives, but even had these lives taken in mid century.  Come to our hidden towns along The Appalachian Trail.  I invite you to read my book, for I believe it helps to know there has been greed in America well in to the 20th century; And our war on drugs has been fruitless compared to the dollars wasted on law enforcement instead of following the example of Denmark where addicts may contribute as workers on methadone programs.

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