OBSOLESCENCE

We have a garage full of once expensive Dell computers. Maybe 11 or 13, I dunno. I just know that I can hardly get the cars parked in there now. Another repercussion of my wife working from home. They are the remains of the clean-out of some work storage areas that her company wanted her to clear out.

They vary in age from maybe 5 to 7 years old. They work and they are worthless, victims of obsolescence.  There are some laptops in the mix also, I don't know what they paid for them, but I would guess there is well over 30 grand worth of junk out there. Well at one time worth over 30 grand, now it's a matter of clearing them off the inventory and hauling them to the recycler.

I bought my first computer from Radio Shack in the mid to late 70's, they were having a clearance sale on the TSR 80 with Level one Basic for 750 bucks. That's probably about 3 grand in today's money.

 It had about as much computing power as my wristwatch does today. It used a cassette player for storage and had a whopping 4 k of memory, but I was the first dumbass on the block that owned a computer.

 You couldn't do a lot with it, but it did teach me some Basic programming. As years went by I continued to pay about the same 750 bucks for better and better computers and inflation meant I was actually paying less and less. As I stood in the garage and tried to navigate around the silicon graveyard, I thought about that old Radio Shack TRS 80. How fascinated I was hooking it up and figuring out what I could do with it. That day, I couldn't imagine the computing power that would be stacked up on my garage floor heading for certain doom.

Electronic gadgets have become an incredible bargain over the last several decades. As a gadget becomes obsolete we replace it with faster and more powerful gadgets We are paying less and less in inflationary adjusted dollars and getting devices we could not even conceive of ten or twenty years ago, although I'm still waiting on my anti-gravity boots.

Other devices don't seem to have made the same cost to value leap though.
Appliances may look more advanced than their obsolete predecessors, but they lack the adjusted value and reliability of the outdated equipment they are replacing.
People think if they pay 2500 bucks for a refrigerator it will be the last one they will ever have to buy. Keep on thinking that way, I need the job security.
Sometimes it's better to stick with something that others consider obsolete.

Many of our nations so-called leaders believe the Constitution has become obsolete. "Dear Leader" in the Whitehouse has made that very clear in word and deed. His recent illegal carte blanche appointments to bogus power usurping agencies are glaring proof of his distain of our countries most sacred document.


The power to amend as needed was thoughtfully built into the Constitution by our Founding Fathers who had the foresight to know that we may need to tweak the constitution to deal with changes in the future. But the basic tenants such as the separation of powers were never meant to be displaced as they have been lately. Many government agencies such as the NLRB, EPA and newly created CFPB are being used by the left to sneak their socialist agenda in the back door.
Obama is stacking the NLRB with his union thugs to buy their votes again. Putting these goons in charge of the Labor Relations Board is like letting Hitler run the Jewish Defense League. Oh man, I just compared Obama's union goons to Adolph Hitler, I wonder if they will take my Monday Night Football opening song gig from me.

I hope we can regain our common sense by the next election.

If we don't get some adult supervision in the Whitehouse soon and I don't mean some wishy washy rhino republican, I mean a true conservative.
If we don't turn this thing around soon, we won't be walking through silicon graveyards full of obsolete computers.

We will need to walk though the graveyards of our fallen countrymen who gave their lives for the freedoms that all too many have taken for granted.

We will owe them all an apology and an explanation.
I’m just trying to figure out how we will explain to them that their sacrifice was for an idea that had become obsolete.



"Mr Franklin, what have you wrought?" A Republic madam, if you can keep it"