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The Righteous Spirit of the Notorious The Righteous Spirit of the Notorious R.B.G (Ruth Bader Ginsberg-United States Supreme Court Justice) Urgently Summons the Inter-World Mystic Spirit of P.M.G (Praying Mantis Girl) to Immediately Overturn Encino Motorcars LLC v. Hector Navarro, et al. Decided April 7, 2018. On September 18, 2020 United States Associate Justice for the United States Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, passed away with family at her side. R.B.G. proved to be a tireless advocate of women’s rights, equal protection, civil liberties, gender equality and the protection of the workers’ rights to fair labor practices and protections. Justice Ginsberg’s dissent in the Encino Motorcars revealed her understanding of the inequities of the current labor forces’ compensation formulas, but was not able to articulate specifically and relevantly the duties, obligations and responsibilities of the Automotive Dealership Service Advisors’ Skilled Labor Classification. The service advisor at a franchised automotive dealership has exactly the same function as your head nurse in your local hospital emergency room. The head nurses, with so much necessary familiarity with medical procedures and standards, support, assist and monitor the doctors and the viability of the numerous departments and variable subunits. The skilled, trained and devoted nurse professionals are also the front line defenders of the patients’ rights to knowledgeable, capable, accurate and effective medical care. So often it is the nurses that detect, reveal and expose the wrongful, negligent or inadequate care persons receive. Nurses are not doctors, because they have not desired, received or completed the additional training necessary and required to be qualified as the doctor. The doctor, hopefully looking after your best interests, is the person in charge and responsible for your care. When you are in the hospital, does the doctor control your treatment and care based upon your best interests, or does the doctor have to deny, delay or avoid certain treatments based upon the administrations’ directives, often absent of medical knowledge? The nurse and doctor relationship is present in two distinct and separate settings and environments. The first environment is the hospital. This facility is crucial for a community because a central location for emergency services and care is necessary for our continued health and survival efforts. The hospital is also required as a location for so many of our health services, with scheduled surgeries and other efforts to maintain our health standards and lifestyles. Medical services often require ever changing expensive equipment, treatments, training and continued monitoring and adjustments in treatment and rehabilitation. Regional hospitals often service a multitude of communities to mitigate costs and streamline efficiencies in daily operations and accessibility. The second environment consists of all of the medical centers, laboratories, and medical practices and services performed outside the hospital settings. A skilled and registered nurse is a special asset to the community because often the nurse is the first point of contact when a medical situation occurs. The nurses support the doctors and the patients simultaneously. Frequently the nurses have 80% of the patients’ contact, with the doctors having approximately 20%. The doctors require the nurses’ assistance to continuously monitor the patients’ care and interests. Our care requires the efforts of both parties working in unison for the same desired effect. In America there presently is a demand and a belief that health care is somehow a “Human Right” that the government is obligated to provide and must provide. This belief is unequivocally and absolutely inaccurate and untrue based upon reality. Government cannot provide anything. Governments can regulate and promote all sorts of things. Health care requires people to invest the time, effort, focus and cost to study, work and develop these medical skills sets. Wishing and demanding medical services requires someone qualified to perform these tasks. Who and where are these people supposed to come from to perform these skills? Are you willing, capable and able to commit to the rigorous requirements to acquire these skill sets, just to have someone else demand you help them. The patient has the right to your services, does not feel obligated to compensate you for your services, wants another entity, whether insurance or the community, to pay you? Skills need people, absolutely and positively. All the nice technology and data is so impressive and inspiring to look at, but it is without ANY VALUE if the person inspecting it is not familiar with some necessarily basic principal that was learned through hands on personal experience. Way too many persons come bearing written and digitalized certifications that look nice on paper. When time comes for them to perform, they can’t. This jeopardizes the task, safety, additional parts and supply costs, pressures on co-workers working with incompetent and negative teammates. The automotive industry has always used the vehicle sales numbers as a key contributing factor to establish a country’s GDP as related to economic health, stability and promise. How many units sold and at what price and most importantly, when. When a product is produced, ready to sell, and finally sold, there is closure and finality. All parties to the transaction can then be paid out and focus on the next deal. As times change and manufacturers and dealers looked for other income streams, the business records revealed what everyone in the industry is aware. The business is the service department. And the continued influx of monies for today for the sale of service (labor) needs of the future. What has happened is the automotive repair mechanics have left the industry and are not being replaced. The dealerships and manufacturers have refused to pay prevailing wages and have colluded to suppress wages and any forms of organized objections. The service advisors are the gatekeepers, guardians and whistleblowers by necessity. Growing up my parents advised us that if we were to exchange our labor for an hourly rate, we must make sure that our skill sets have some form of certification. This is absolutely necessary to prevent future labor market collapses because specialists and certified employees cannot be replaced just because of nepotisms, immigrant or special friend or subsequent owners. I Am Still Here (This poem is a common refrain shared when mourning a Death) Death has taken me from this world, and though we are apart, I am still near. All that we meant to each other remains true, in trust and faith, have no fear. Keep me always close to your heart! For I leave with you what no one can steal, a treasure chest of precious, happy memories: the tender, love-filled moments we shared, as well as the challenging times that brought us closer together. When you are in need, speak to me, call my name. I will come to you with wisdom and light, to fill your soul with peace, and to guide you in the pathways that lead to life forever with our Loving God, World and Earth. I also offer you this sacred promise: when I am home in God’s, the World’s and Earth’s embrace, whenever you call on me, I will still be present to you, for neither death nor grave can break the bonds of Love that we on earth once knew. Point of Origin All human life is first identified as where the individual was born. Birthplace, where, when and to whom. At this very first moment in time, we are equal in that we are alive. I am currently writing this at 1:45am on Tuesday, November 10, 2020, which is the 245th anniversary of the United States Marine Corp, formed by our Continental Congress in 1775. Our 2020 United States Presidential Election was one week ago, and now it appears as though Joe Biden and Pamela Harris will be the President and Vice Presidential choice for America. My country, America, is just 244 years old, is presently the superpower of the world, with only 4% of the world’s population. America has been honored with great wealth and prosperity for so many for such a short episode in the period of civilization that I find it completely mind boggling. Our Constitution is only 4 pages long, and yet it is the blueprint for the first time in history a nation has had the nerve and audacity to believe the people, ordinary citizenry, are willing, capable and able to self-rule themselves within the global world of unlimited variations of beliefs, actions and values. The reason we have been able to stand so tall in the World is because we are a Nation of immigrants. And almost all are motivated by the desire, hope and participation for the OPPORTUNITY to build and create our own legacies for ourselves, families and global neighbors. And to many, this is only possible when the world accepts that there must be some form of Deity that controls and dictates our fate. It must be God’s will, and therefore this occurrence, whatever it is, good or bad, must be a part of the Gods’ plan. But if so, which God? Are there more than one? How do we know this, or that? Trust your instincts? Read a lot? Watch a lot? Pray a lot? But if someone does not believe in a God, or your God, or their God, does their opinion matter? Could they be denied life for not agreeing with you? Or with me? I have been very fortunate to have been born to the parents I had. Both are dead and gone now, and I continue to strive daily to give my best to contribute to my country, and the World, that peace, sustainability and prosperity is at hand across the globe.
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