Episode-14- TSP Rewind – Understanding the Problems vs the Symptoms

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rewind Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.

Today’s episode was originally, Episode-938- Understanding the Problems vs the Symptoms and originally aired on July 10th 2012. The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

Yesterday I included a response to a claim by a listener that Walmart was “destroying America”. In doing so I didn’t claim Walmart was a fine company or that they should be supported.

I simply pointed out that all the big businesses that compete with them did the same types of things. That a boycott of Walmart would accomplish little and we could actually use large companies like Walmart more effectively to get rid of specific products like “pink slime”.

Now This is a Problem

Well, you guys say I have it wrong, really? What do I have wrong? My view is this is a deeper problem where a specific grudge and anger blind people to the truth. Walmart isn’t the problem, it is but a symptom of the actual problem.

Going to war with Walmart in the current system is like giving a headache patient an aspirin and thinking it will fix the problem. It might feel better but the problem remains.

This isn’t just a corporate issue, it is a government one and a monetary one, in fact that is the entire point.

When there is an illness if you are a good doctor the symptoms are used only to diagnose the illness and you correct the imbalance in the system that is the root cause.

The reality is if you only treat the symptom, the illness gets worse. You can cut out a tumor yet a cancer patient will often still die.

Join Me Today As I Discuss…

What is a boycott and why they don’t work on large companies
Why 20,000 backyard chickens is better then 45,000 people avoiding Walmart
One time just so you get it, I DON’T THINK WALMART IS GOOD
Why I always say Monsanto, Conagra and Bayer not just Monsanto
Finding the real problem
- Step one – follow the money
- Step two – see step one
- Step three – understand individual behavior
- Step four – understand the total system not one component
- Step five – see step one
What does work
- Focus on the positives
- Build and value community
- Reduce and eliminate debt
- Do business with the best company available
- Accept that the debt based system is going to fail

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There are many reasons for this but chief among them is the two income family.

When “mom went to work” she and dad largely had to outsource care of the kids. Kids grew up thinking this was normal so they outsource care of their parents. Additionally, we now have more two income families then ever.

So moving Grandma or Grandpa in may seem to make sense. But generally this doesn’t happen until one of the pair dies. Many times by then the kids are gone so the grand parent doesn’t have a roll to fill “child care”, so they don’t “want to be a burden” so they go it alone.

By the time Grandma/pa needs to go to their kids home, they need a LOT OF CARE, often to the level of changing diapers, etc. Even if the kids are willing they can’t do it. Mom and Dad despite having adult kids both still work 8 hours a day or more. Grandpa/ma needs 24 hour care.

Even if they are okay 90% of the time on their own the 10% can be scary like a person with dementia trying to boil eggs or running down the street in a rage saying that a neighbor is pedophile because he had a dream and can’t discern the difference any longer.

So what can the family do? Leaving their elder parent alone 10 hours a day allowing for commute is a danger to the parent and others. For instance the above are two things I personally experienced.

My son also has a friend who was in the hospital for almost three months. How? An elderly man escaped his home about 2am in his car. He drove with no lights on at all on the wrong side of a highway and struck my son’s friend head on, of course this happened to fast for the young man to avoid it.

So we have 50 somethings today who will still be working 30 years of more, they are tired, beaten down and they have a 80-90 year old parent in need of deep care. Even if they pay a care giver for the time they are at work, coming home after a day like that to a parent slowing dying and delusional is draining beyond words. And it will cost almost as much as full time care.

I don’t think this is all part of the plan, the pricks that run our nation are pricks but they are not that big of a prick, this is just the results of generational removal of a mother from the household and the rise of “single moms” and treating them as heroes, etc.

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Episode-14- TSP Rewind – Understanding the Problems vs the Symptoms — 2 Comments

Evelyn on November 4, 2016 at 12:40 am said:

At about 21:00 you are talking about the system separating humans. Do you think that is “part” of why Putting old folks into nursing homes has become such a common thing to advocate?

It feels like they stop servicing the needs of a generation after age sixty and start herding them toward isolation with strangers. Families are counseled to “put Mom or Dad in a home” where they can be taken care of and you can be free of the burden to work and raise your family. The sad thing is that people really do it, and seemingly with very little prodding from their “well meaning” doctors or the media, or whom ever the messenger is.
- Modern Survival on November 4, 2016 at 10:44 am said:
  
  There are many reasons for this but chief among them is the two income family.
  
  When “mom went to work” she and dad largely had to outsource care of the kids. Kids grew up thinking this was normal so they outsource care of their parents. Additionally, we now have more two income families then ever.
  
  So moving Grandma or Grandpa in may seem to make sense. But generally this doesn’t happen until one of the pair dies. Many times by then the kids are gone so the grand parent doesn’t have a roll to fill “child care”, so they don’t “want to be a burden” so they go it alone.
  
  By the time Grandma/pa needs to go to their kids home, they need a LOT OF CARE, often to the level of changing diapers, etc. Even if the kids are willing they can’t do it. Mom and Dad despite having adult kids both still work 8 hours a day or more. Grandpa/ma needs 24 hour care.
  
  Even if they are okay 90% of the time on their own the 10% can be scary like a person with dementia trying to boil eggs or running down the street in a rage saying that a neighbor is pedophile because he had a dream and can’t discern the difference any longer.
  
  So what can the family do? Leaving their elder parent alone 10 hours a day allowing for commute is a danger to the parent and others. For instance the above are two things I personally experienced.
  
  My son also has a friend who was in the hospital for almost three months. How? An elderly man escaped his home about 2am in his car. He drove with no lights on at all on the wrong side of a highway and struck my son’s friend head on, of course this happened to fast for the young man to avoid it.
  
  So we have 50 somethings today who will still be working 30 years of more, they are tired, beaten down and they have a 80-90 year old parent in need of deep care. Even if they pay a care giver for the time they are at work, coming home after a day like that to a parent slowing dying and delusional is draining beyond words. And it will cost almost as much as full time care.
  
  I don’t think this is all part of the plan, the pricks that run our nation are pricks but they are not that big of a prick, this is just the results of generational removal of a mother from the household and the rise of “single moms” and treating them as heroes, etc.