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About the "Abundance of Scarcity" Statement

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This was my husband's answer to the question, "When is it appropriate to compete?" from a recent Seven Habits of Highly Effective People class.

When is it appropriate? ALWAYS! That's what our civilization is built on--only the strong survive and thrive, and looking out at our nation's streets, Obama is backing the losers (those who can't compete) at our expense.

What's worse: when Hubby read his statement aloud, the instructor didn't understand it. Hubby had to read it several times, then someone else finally translated it so the instructor understood it.

Competition is required whenever there is an abundance of scarcity, and the consequence of not competing is extinction.

What's there to NOT understand? If I was there, I'd have asked the instructor when it was appropriate NOT to compete.

We're becoming a nation of Participation Trophy winners (just what this class is teaching people--the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and sense of self and selfishness is BAD). Indoctrination at the highest levels, with emphasis on empathy and feelings. If we didn't learn how to compete, we wouldn't be here today, and wouldn't have been here yesterday, either. We wouldn't have been here after the continents broke apart.

Highly effective? I'd say not. I'd call it a racket that combines psycho-babble with stationery and fancy, under-sized binder sales. It might be effective if someone was in sales. Speaking of effective, this little exercise took 28 civil service workers away from their desks for 24 total work hours (3 work days), costing the taxpayers about $18,000. Did we get our money's worth? Individual therapy sessions would have been cheaper.

Cowbells...we need more cowbells! :) It seems Stephen Covey certainly tapped into the ABUNDANCE of the government.

My two cents on scarcity.