Government, Law, and Society

We were arrested, arraigned, and went before a Grand Jury, all for being a small wholesaler of cut tools. We had started our business over 30 years ago, using a mimeographed sheet that we went door-to-door delivering. We worked from our garage. Business was a struggle. We moved a fair amount of things over the first year, but really had our doubts about it all. We stuck it out, though, and, after a couple of years, things really began to take off. We turned profitable after about three years, and then things took off. We grew at astounding rates. We had so much business in our 5th year that we had to move out of the garage and look for something larger. Much larger. We found a location in a warehouse area some 10 miles from where we lived. This was our business home for the next 15 years or so, until we outgrew this space too. We just kept growing. There was no secret. We just dealt personally with all our customers, and treated them like we would want ourselves treated. It worked beyond our wildest dreams. We reached 50 million in sales soon, and we even thought about going public, but decided not to go that route, as we would lose too much control, and be subject to government control.

The other day I walked up to my friend Ernie and asked him if he knew anyone with diabetes. He shook his head “no” and then I shook his hand, telling him that now he did. Yeah, it was just the best day ever. I just knew I’d trip and fall down onto some great no insurance diabetic supplies. That’s right. I’d been diagnosed with diabetes, but my parents were footing the bill for that tab. Otherwise, I have no health insurance. Why not you ask? Well, other than I live in the United States of America, which is supposed to be the greatest country in the world yet has no universal healthcare plan? The short answer is that I can’t afford it. And if you think that the company I work for will offer benefits you’re sorely mistaken. I’m a bartender, which is a so and so job. Some weeks I do better than others. There’s only so much I can do and I’m not that much of a people person to begin with. My parents want me to work construction or some kind of trade, but there was a reason I went to art school and not trade school.

We are almost a decade into the 21st century, and you would think that if you wanted to or needed to talk to anybody you could do so. Not the case. I needed to find Tara because of an order for cutting tools gone wrong. I tried to track Tara first by calling the various countries embassies that make up the countries in the Amazon, but they wouldn’t tell me anything. They couldn’t. Privacy concerns, and I was not a government official. I then tried to contact various companies that dealed in Amazon trips, but there were many of them. I needed to pull some big strings, so I thought of who I knew. I talked to Jim who talked to Tom, his brother. His brother had once worked in the State Department, in Washington DC. I talked to Tom later in the day. Tom said that since I had done so much for Jim, especially with his diabetes, that he would try to find a few things out. The next morning he called and said he knew where Tara was. Great! I wanted her phone number. Turns out, she had no number to call. She was staying with some native peoples in a small village deep in the Amazon. There was only one thing to do. I got a satellite phone and got on the next plane.

Recently many people opposed the decision from a court about increasing the number in carriage hours of trucks. The federal motor carrier had claimed to increase the working hours of trucking to boost their business but law is still taking this matter into consideration. A personal injury attorney in Florida has voided an appeal of a federal trucking company since this has already created so much mess for traffic. Traffic problems have been continuously increasing due to increased trucking in this state. The court ordered a study to be conducted last month that has revealed that the major cause of accidents in the town is due to carelessness of drivers. In the presence of rules and regulations they are unable to control the number of accidents in the city. There are many evidences found against the federal motors & trucking corporation. The matter is still in court for consideration and will be announced in the upcoming days. In the report published by attorneys of Florida it was told that every year many people die due to these accidents. Still there are no necessary steps taken to cut down the ratio of accidents in the state and reduce accidents in the city.

In the previous article, we have discussed many things about personal injury and attorney of Seattle. It is very important if you are planning to fight a case against negligence. If you want compensation and if you are physically injured by negligence by some person, you can hire a personal injury attorney in Washington. So you should keep many things before you hire personal injury attorney in Washington. Attorneys are well versed with the laws so, they can help you out with the compensation and with the damages you have gone through. It is not possible for any individual to fight his own case in the court. See that you hire a well-experienced and capable attorney, who can handle your case well. Do not think that hiring a personal injury attorney in Washington will be expensive. There are attorneys in Washington, who can fight your case at some affordable cost. But before you hire attorney for your case confirm the fees and hidden cost if any. Also ask him about the duration of case, he will take to solve. Take care that you hire an attorney as soon as possible after the incidence. In the next article of personal injury attorney in New York, many important things on injury and steps to hire attorney will be discussed in detail.

Today, Janelle was explaining all the different ways I could get a handle on my financial situation, to put it simply, to get a handle on my debt. I had no idea there were so many different ways I could go that I never heard of. There is this thing called IVA, individual voluntary arrangement. You can come up with some sort of payment plan to pay off your debt within five years. There is something like a mediator (even though that’s not what the persons title actually is) and you would send them the payment and they would disburse the money to the people you owe money to. This way you avoid bankruptcy and all the consequences of it and this payment plan does not show on your credit report. I like this idea because the person negotiates with the credit people to either lower your payments or remove them altogether. This is also supposed to be better for your credit score. People say filing will hurt your credit and possibly give you a poor credit score. I’m thinking, if it gets to the point where you would have to file, isn’t your credit already messed up and your score already low?

It was a victory! It’s all finally over. My family and I are just grateful that we picked the personal injury attorney that we did and that everything went so well. We knew we had a strong case from the very beginning but there’s always that little moment where you wonder if it’s going to work out. I’m glad those people were held accountable for what they did. After causing the accident they tried to drive off even though my mom was seriously injured. We all felt pretty helpless until the ambulance arrived. Luckily some police had been hiding out and happened to catch the whole thing. That’s why those drivers didn’t get away. The police had initially been there to look for people who were going over the speed limit. Not only were these drivers speeding but they were caught in the act of trying to hit-and-run. My mom will be finishing the last of her physical therapy appointments by the end of the month. I took on the responsibility of driving her wherever she needs to go until she is well enough to get behind the wheel of a car again. The doctors said the fact that she came out of it alive was a miracle!

Tara thought that we had the most experienced personal injury attorney in Florida for the case, and after briefing him about my injuries and sending over her medical records and having an agreement he calls me at work and says that she will have to refer the case to another lawyer. He has a conflict of interest. It seems that his wife, an accountant, has had the wife of the man who caused her injury as a client for years. It’s just too small world here in this area it seems. I asked him if he could recommend at least two lawyers, and he said that he would have no trouble doing that. And he left it at that. I couldn’t believe it. I could understand the conflict of interest, so it was nice to be able to get a few more names? It didn’t seem all that strange. Well, we found out how strange it really was, when we tried to get other lawyers he referred in the area to take a look a the case. They never returned Tara’s phone calls for an appointment, and those that did, could only see her in a few months. I’d never heard of such a thing. Tara and I really didn’t want to get into having to sue our neighbors, but their insurance company wouldn’t cover her treatments, and Tara’s insurance was exhausted. This meant we were down to our 401k.

I just came back from an interesting class. The topic of discussion was about the importance of security on campus. The teacher wanted to start a dialogue with all of us because of the recent security breaches. Apparently someone tried to break into a few of the classrooms after hours but they weren’t successful. The alarms sounded before they could run off with anything. They’ve taken a few people in for questioning. The school is talking about installing more security devices and hiring more law enforcement officers until the situation calms down a bit. One of the rooms was the music room! I mean, I go to that classroom just about every other day. We have lots of expensive equipment in there. There’s a $10,000 concert grand harp that the school just acquired. It would be such a huge loss if something happened to that. We worked hard doing all those fundraisers just to get that. There’s also the baby grand piano and some synthesizers and expensive drum kits. Really, there’s an entire orchestra in there so I’m not surprised they would try to target that room first. I think all of us are just going to do whatever we can to keep our eyes open. We got really lucky that the security at this school is one of the best!

I sat through a lecture today about the importance of diabetes monitoring. I think I’m relieved to discover I actually find all of this stuff interesting otherwise I would start to question whether I’m on the right career path or not. I’m really glad I’m not my friend right now. She’s not sure whether she wants to be a doctor or not. Her parents have the money and so they decided that she should be earning a medical degree but I really feel a person needs to follow their own natural interests and make their own decision about what they would like to do. She hasn’t told anyone in her family because she’s afraid of how they’ll react but she’s actually told me that she wants to be a vagabond. She was entirely serious. I suggested that there is a way she could satisfy both goals and also keep her parents happy if she wasn’t able to get out of medical school. She could be a traveling doctor! I also joked that we could be a team. I could be the doctor and handle all the visits and sit in on all the lectures and she could just do the traveling part!