These days we have been hearing from all types of people from every walk of life when it comes to an opinion on how to run the country and how they think what would work best to change things for the better, and prevent the government from intervening.
Well, hello Americans and others we all had this little thing called an election that tallied our vote’s way back in November and the man we chose for the job is doing it!
I know, I know no one thinks it is working yet, hello America; it’s only been 41
days and so give the guy a break!
This mess didn’t happen overnight and it definitely won’t get better that fast either.
We all realize how frightening this financial markets thing is as well as housing foreclosures and loss of jobs. If we haven’t been personally touched by these horrid situations then we do know people who have been and our hearts go out to them all.
Unfortunately, I have no ability to change things.
It hurts hearing every night how it all seems to get worse day by day.
These are the times that I wish I had a magic wand that worked to change it all now!
Just a couple of days ago an old neighbor, but a fairly young man, younger than our sons, who basically left his home to the bank because he couldn’t afford to sell it at a fifty percent loss of what he owed from his re-financing when the market was good, although he still owns it until the 13 th of this month he came back to pack up the last of his personal items still left inside. He had given so many things away including his wood fence to my husband who started working on the disassembling of it today. The home is only on the other side of the cleared lot that used to have a home on it before Hurricane Charley in 2004; perhaps a hundred and twenty-five feet from us, our lots are all three the same, 125’X75’ footage on the water. He had installed the fence to hide his view of the sadness of seeing the empty lot.
My hubby is taking his time, and other than some wasps in the wood and a few spiders the weather here has been co-operating by staying in the low to mid 70’s and sunny with a slight gusty wind. Fortunately, we have our boat trailer that he is using to move everything on and brought it over there by car to fill and brought it all back to work on here taking out nails. It will take many trips back and forth for days, but he is determined with purpose.
Being cautious, he also verified that it still belongs to the young man and also asked for him to sign an agreement to the gift just in case someone in authority questions his removing it.
Right now the Coast Guard is still looking for 3 of the four missing boaters off the coast of St. Pete here on our West coast of Florida, one young man, Nick Skyler, has been found with his life jacket on clinging to the 21’ boat thirty-five miles off the coast the others no where in sight, but presumably also with lifejackets. Two of the others are NFL players.
Our prayers go out to all of them and their families.
The market was the lowest it has been since 1997 down to 6763.29, -299.64.
AIG Insurance lost more than 61B in the last six months.
AIG needs the bailout or other banks worldwide will fail.
No wonder Rush Limbaugh is worried about us bailing them out and telling us to keep the government out of everything or we will become a socialistic country instead of remaining capitalistic. His personal income has been raised to 100M recently and he has seemed to forgotten that the majority of the world’s people are not millionaires like him and do need the banks NOT to Fail. Actually, all extremely wealthy people seem more concerned with their, rightfully so that their taxes will be escalating.
Too bad I say!
All during the last administration they had been getting away with murder, financially speaking that is; it is about time for them to pay their fair share.
Paul Harvey died this weekend at the age of ninety. I liked Paul Harvey and when I was a district manager I particularly enjoyed listening to him on the car radio when I drove 3K a month in this state to each of the five stores that I had to train sales people for back in the early 1990’s.
His voice was so soothing; some even felt that he sounded like God.
Whatever he had he got your attention immediately when he signed onto the airways.
He was a bit of warmth of home no matter where my job took me he was the consistency that we all look for on the road.
On that pleasant memory of a one of a kind guy’s voice I will bid you good night to all and to all count those blessings and I will too.
Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
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