Why I think we should all be “Gibbs slapped”

 

Sometimes in life, we all need a wake-up call: a ‘Gibbs smack’ to the head, as it were. Maybe, if administered daily, weekly, monthly, half-hourly, the world (USA included in bold print at the top!) we wouldn’t be in this mess. I know that people have written, talked, tweeted about the economy ad nausem. I know that, yet I believe that if people had been smacked on the head more often, it wouldn’t have happened.

For GM’s bigwigs and designers who dreamed of, created, marketed all of those cars that are essentially the same with different names and price points SMACK! What are you thinking?? Get it down to ONE BRAND! ONE SOUND! (sorry, Drumline fans!) Insert price, team, whatever for sound. And while you are at it, cut the prices! Hey, UAW, I belong to a union too but you guys make way more than teachers, policemen, firefighters and you’ve had carte blanche in the way of benefits. If I can buy a Subaru made in the USA for half of what your product costs AND with better gas mileage and better stuff on it—what is wrong with this picture. SMACK!

Ever watched House Hunters on HGTV? I don’t know about the rest of you but have you ever wondered how two kids just out of college, with a new kid or one on the way, she is a bartender/waitress/secretary/teacher and he is a bank teller/detective/croupier/ salesman and they have been pre-approved for homes in the $300-$400K range. And they always buy at the upper end of their budget or a bit beyond it. What banker in his/her infinite wisdom approved that loan???? To me, that is just a default in the making, unless one or both of them won the lottery. SMACK! SMACK!

Maybe it is just me, but I don’t think that common sense is all that common anymore. In fact, it is pretty rare and should, perhaps be renamed. Some pundits have blamed technology, some blame family values, some think that we have become a nation bent on instant gratification. Could be all of the above. And it’s not just here in the States, our economy is not the only one in the bidet (nicer, more cultured, don’t you think?).

Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, we—the nation and the world—need you and your special method of getting people to wake up and smell the coffee.