n2dep2care's Blog

Union Station wants to add a property tax levy to the ballot to keep the historic building active and in the black. In my humble opinion what they need to do is fire the management team, and then regroup. Anytime a business tries to keep themselves afloat by seemingly milking the public is doomed to fail. Charging exuberant prices to visit their exhibits is a case and cause for failure. Case in point, the $24.00 admittance fee for "Bodies Revealed" kept me from being able to go see the much touted exhibit. And I am sure I wasn’t alone in my inability, or unwillingness to pay such a high price. A few of my friends who did visit the display found it very interesting, but no where near worth the asking price. My idea: charging lower admission fees would prompt repeat business. Instead of trying to get 50 people to pay $24.00, how about having a reasonable fee charge of $12.00 and give 25 people the opportunity to possibly see the exhibit more than once. REPEAT business is the key to success, not gouging prices in a desperate attempt to keep your business in the black.

Knowing the toll that John McCain suffered for his country in his body, mind and spirit how secure and steady a "world leader" will he actually be? He was able to withstand immense torture and pain as a young officer in the war that ended many years ago, but how well has he actually recovered?

It is no small task being the President of the United States of America. The office has taken its toll on many a good man, those who served in wars and those blessedly never having been exposed to one. Bless John McCain for his undying service to this country, for his remarkable heroism, for the years of torture he endured, for being the man that he is- but at this older age, knowing what he has endured, is he really capable of withstanding the pressures of being President of the United States?