From the Weekend

 I sat and watched bits and pieces of the Sunday political chatter shows.  Generally, the number one topic....how Biden trillion-dollar plan will go.

The chief thing you get....even from Democrats...it's only a handful who feel hyped-up and energized.  A fair number of Democrats are marginally happy over the plan, and you can detect the thrill fact is way below Biden's expectation.

At some point, Rep Ro Khanna (Democrat from some district in California) made some weird comment that really stuck to me.  It was a four line commentary, but in the middle of it....the words: "If you don't have a dignified job.....".  

For a good 30 minutes that comment stuck in my head.  I spent a fair amount of time in the military, and moving a good bit (10 times). For some reason, I never had this process of thinking over 'dignified' work.  Even when I went to the Pentagon for 3.5 years, I didn't process over the idea of 'dignified' work.

I think in Khanna's mind....working at McDonalds or some 7-11....challenges the idea of dignified work.  Although it's hard to place the reality of dignified work.  

Even if you got consumed with this dignified business....would it make you happier if you were doing undignified for $16 an hour?  

I worked in the Air Force with a Lt who got out after four years, and was going back to Florida.....to be a boat salesman.  I questioned his wisdom....four years of college, and four years of service....to be only a boat sales guy?  His logic was that it wasn't a 9 to 5 job....he came to work daily in ultra-casual wear...and he only had to put people in the frame of mind that $70k (1990s) wasn't a big deal for a boat.  

If you quizzed most people over their work?  I would suggest that 95-percent would never utter the phrase of dignified in their response. 

So back to the trillion-dollar spending deal....I don't think it'll pass as it is today.  Maybe Biden whittles off half the amount, or just calls it the $999-billion plan in the end, it happens.  As for the amount going to something that isn't wasteful?  You have to figure a dollar out of every four....is just being thrown into a pit with no value in return.