Each day Bill records a MICKnugget, a one-minute take on some issue that got his attention that morning. Below are the scripts for last week’s NUGGETS.
CLICK HERE if you’d like to hear them. Here are the scripts:
05.15.23- Encouraged with BPS
In Monday’s 8am hour we talked with Brevard School Board Chairman Matt Susin.
I came away from the discussion encouraged about the possibilities for Brevard Schools.
There are good ideas in play and positive change possible.
We have seen progress since the board’s make-up changed in November. And that’s good, but positive, permanent change takes time and perseverance. We’ll see what the board can accomplish.
The new superintendent will have a role, as will parent groups like M4L which has managed to get education’s attention and launch the changes.
Matt gets that the job is educating kids and preparing them for the real world when they graduate.
My hope is the ideas in play come to fruition and enhance education and the workforce on the Space Coast.
05.16.23- Losing Trust
It was a recurring theme on Tuesday’s show: Trust.
It’s waning in many segments of our society, and with good reason.
From business to education and the justice system there are examples of lost trust all around us.
In Florida it’s the US Attorney’s handling of the Andrew Gillum case. Across the country it’s education, business entities and more. And in Washington, DC, it’s the FBI.
We are losing trust in these entities because they have failed to uphold the trust placed in them. That links back to the individuals we elect and appoint to those positions of trust.
If a person has no loyalty to anyone or anything above himself, trust in that person is misplaced. Efforts become self-centered as opposed to the common good.
It’s why we, as voters, owe it to ourselves and our neighbors to be discerning in our choices and critical of those people when they err.
For if we fail to hold them to a standard, just who will?
05.17.23- Hampering Law Enforcement
Let’s be clear, George Floyd is not a hero. Yet, the Biden administration is making him out to be and giving the deceased criminal one heck of a legacy.
How?
They are implementing new policies for federal law enforcement that will make it easier for criminals to be successful at victimizing you.
That new policy dictates that agents can not use race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion, sex related categories, disability or gender identity in either routine or spontaneous investigations, data collecting or watchlisting.
If you can’t describe anyone, just how the hell is law enforcement supposed to identify any suspect or group of criminals or terrorists?
Cops hampered in investigation, crime fighting and protecting the public and it’s easier for criminals to succeed.
Thank you, George Floyd! There is your legacy.
Makes ya proud, doesn’t it?
05.18.23- Fooling the Masses
Earlier this week we talked about trust and how we choose to give it.
Oh, everybody wants your trust and some have even come to expect it, forgetting that it is continually earned.
What’s that saying about a bunch of “atta boys” followed by one “oh-crap?”
It takes experience to earn trust and one incident to lose it.
Bud Light hasn’t figured it out and they are transparently playing to their former core customer with camo bottles to honor fallen veterans. It’s a transparent pander that isn’t working.
It's the same with Bud’s Harley Davidson partnership combining the logos for image.
It was called out immediately.
They forgot the key element in repairing broken trust. The acknowledgement. The apology. Bud’s brands came instead with an expectation.
Their customers have an expectation of their own and Anheuser-Busch is falling far short of meeting it.
05.19.23- The FBI
It’s time to revamp the FBI. It’s become the Federal Bureau of Intimidation.
Politicized & Weaponized, the FBI is not the lead law enforcement agency the nation needs it to be.
Not only is it going after its own who point out what’s gone wrong in the agency, it is after Americans who are perceived to be of the incorrect political persuasion.
The idea of law enforcement is to protect and serve, not to persecute and intimidate.
When those standing up for what’s right are beaten down, when citizens fear their government for believing and voicing concerns about how it operates, there is a major problem.
Something like this takes major corrective action and it won’t be easy.
The responsibility falls to Americans to elect people of integrity who have the courage to make the necessary changes.
Until we do, there is more for is to fear.