Nobody needs a 35,000 plus square foot house like Judge
Judy. No one needs a garage full of cars like Jay Leno.
You can only live in one room at a time and drive one car
at a time. I am not advocating penury or not enjoying the
money that you have. I am just saying that I could never
see that kind of life style as being anything but egomaniacal.

The situation that we are in at this particular time in
history if fraught with danger, both financial and physical.
America is on the brink of disaster. Too many wars and too
much money goes to the Pentagon. People act as if the good
life will go on forever. The wealthy get the tax breaks
and are breaking the backs of the middle class who are
supporting the entitlements that we need for the poor. I
have been through a depression where a new hair ribbon for
your little girl was a luxury. I did not have a dress from
a store until I was sixteen. Loving hands at home altered
old clothing or selected print chicken feed sacks for dresses and home made sheets. I didn't have health care
until I was sixty because the school system I worked for
didn't provide it.

The Republicans would have you believe that people don't
need help. That you can pull your own self up by your
boot straps. Some of us can but we are not all created
equal. Some of us have good minds and strong bodies while
others are sick and less intelligent and incapable of making
good decisions. Education won't solve the problem when
one is incapable of learning. These people don't read
contracts because they can't read. They want what everyone
else has and drug dealing is a way to get it. They take
drugs and drink because it alters reality and makes it
easier to survive on the surface.

President Obama is a brilliant man but he is frustrated at
every turn. What is worse is that he remembers what it is
like to fight for every bit of good fortune that comes your
way and what it is like to rely on food stamps. It leaves
a bitter taste in the mouth.

We have to fix our country. Life isn't fair and it never
will be but things can be evened out. Outsourcing should
be punished with a huge tax. We should buy American product
made in America. Huge bloated corporations should not have
loop holes that protect them from paying taxes. This has
all been said before and said on this blog spot. But these
are the things that keep me from sleeping well.

Meanwhile there is always Peggy. My favorite commercial
that always makes me laugh.