I am a third generation Entrepreneur, Rotarian, Waterfed proponent and manufacturer, resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA... I am a husband, father, brother, son, neighbor, Realtor® and Property Manager who resides in the Indian Creek Hills subdivision of our community. We are part of the Cedar Rapids community: Live, Work, Learn and Play. We are interested in networking, friendship, business, service and sport. Welcome to my blog and personal journal ...

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Time to get one back to School ...

The Cedar Rapids Community Schools begin on August 25, 2009, but one in our family is headed back to top rated undergraduate Board of Regents university in the State of Iowa. She will enjoy her junior year in her first car she has purchased, which she completed yesterday. It's always interesting to go through the process of watching your child purchase their first automobile.

It was an interesting quest to find the right car right in the middle of 'Cash for Clunkers' which is ending Monday or sooner in some areas. It lead to some interesting conversations with people associated in the resale of used cars in the area, from owners, salespeople and mechanics. The program is a 'clunker' would likely some it up.

“We’ve actually suspended the program as of today." They quit for two
reasons, first they don’t have much inventory, and can’t order it soon enough.
And second, because so far, Ney claims the government hasn’t held up its part of
the deal. “We have not been paid yet, and from talking to a lot of our local
dealers, and dealers in the state of Iowa, there hasn’t been much paying.”
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Mike Ney, Sales Manager at Community Motors
When governments follow criminally stupid policies, criminals can end up improving overall welfare. This may well be the case with Germany's reprehensible cash-for-clunkers program. ...

Our children return to college, high school and middle school, respectively next week. But, there is no question that we live in highly unusual times in the United States right now. We noticed this interesting article yesterday.

RealClearPolitics - I Am Finally Scared of a White House Administration -www.realclearpolitics.com
I was not intimidated during J. Edgar Hoover's FBI hunt for reporters like me who criticized him. I railed against the Bush-Cheney war on the Bill of Rights without blinking. But now I am finally scared of a White House administration. ...

Our experience of the UK's health care system, from our association with customers and vendors to our local manufacturing business have us concerned. A past Rotary International meeting before the election of Barack Obama discussed local health care in Cedar Rapids and the State of Iowa. The conclusion of the Rotary meeting was that the State of Iowa was number two in quality health care in the United States and that if you put up our state to states found the European Union, that our health care in Iowa is stronger and better than the United Kingdom's (ie: #14 to #19, on the example presented).

We don't want to see the State of Iowa's health care slide down in quality and access, like how programs taken on by the Federal Government, in many ways, have hurt the State of Iowa's primary and secondary education, which a generation ago, were the nation's best. Some of the comments reflected by University of Iowa provost Dr. Wallace Loh come to mind, as well. Dr. Loh was an excellent speaker at a recent Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids meeting.
We are looking forward to a night with Dr. Marianette
Miller-Meeks
at Bever Park on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 6:30 PM. Facebook
link
- Robin Tucker
Wishing all a great day and weekend!

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