In my opinion, joining the PERA Board is like being assimilated by the Borg collective. Looks good on your resume but you'll rubber stamp whatever PERA management meekly accepts from the state legislature. It doesn't take a seat on the Board to determine what color the silly PERA performance stoplight is. It will always be red until 2048 until PERA management decides to break up with its longtime girlfriend the state legislature find additional funding mechanisms to augment a losing defined benefit cause. What do you think?
I'm not too hep on Star Trek, but I think I take your meaning. I also am with you on the fact that change would be at best a lengthy and complicated process. I guess I would say that you eat a whale one bite at a time and this is the first bite.
FYI. The Borg are a nasty race of robotic-like humanoids that cruise the universe looking for power, indoctrination, conquest and basically trouble (Liberals?). Borg attack any space fairing nations that they encounter, and after conquering the victims they absorb any superior technology and knowledge thought to be useful to the Borg cause. The victims are "assimilated" into the Borg collective with the result of losing any former identity of their past race. This includes freedom of thought. Victims become new Borg and join in the quest for additional power, technology and conquest. How is assimilation of the PERA Board into the thought process of PERA management similar to the Borg? Think about it.
As far your whale analogy goes, the PERA Board has consumed several whales bite-by-bite over the years and seem to have acquired a taste for eating whale, thus resulting in little meaningful improvement in PERA management decisions.
Anyway, Grady Hillhouse and his Practical Engineering Utube channel should be in every junior high Physical and Earth Science curriculum. We would not have any shortage of students specializing in the scientific career choice. He makes difficult scientific concepts easy to visualize and comprehend. Thanks.
...the state legislature, and find additional funding... Sorry about that!
In my opinion, joining the PERA Board is like being assimilated by the Borg collective. Looks good on your resume but you'll rubber stamp whatever PERA management meekly accepts from the state legislature. It doesn't take a seat on the Board to determine what color the silly PERA performance stoplight is. It will always be red until 2048 until PERA management decides to break up with its longtime girlfriend the state legislature find additional funding mechanisms to augment a losing defined benefit cause. What do you think?
I'm not too hep on Star Trek, but I think I take your meaning. I also am with you on the fact that change would be at best a lengthy and complicated process. I guess I would say that you eat a whale one bite at a time and this is the first bite.
FYI. The Borg are a nasty race of robotic-like humanoids that cruise the universe looking for power, indoctrination, conquest and basically trouble (Liberals?). Borg attack any space fairing nations that they encounter, and after conquering the victims they absorb any superior technology and knowledge thought to be useful to the Borg cause. The victims are "assimilated" into the Borg collective with the result of losing any former identity of their past race. This includes freedom of thought. Victims become new Borg and join in the quest for additional power, technology and conquest. How is assimilation of the PERA Board into the thought process of PERA management similar to the Borg? Think about it.
As far your whale analogy goes, the PERA Board has consumed several whales bite-by-bite over the years and seem to have acquired a taste for eating whale, thus resulting in little meaningful improvement in PERA management decisions.
Anyway, Grady Hillhouse and his Practical Engineering Utube channel should be in every junior high Physical and Earth Science curriculum. We would not have any shortage of students specializing in the scientific career choice. He makes difficult scientific concepts easy to visualize and comprehend. Thanks.
I'm glad you liked it. I have enjoyed watching his videos!