Friday, May 22, 2009

Things are getting better here so we are told

According to the media, et all our unemployment rate has gone down .2 tenths of a per cent, wow, and this is because building has been picking up! For the national numbers on this issue you can go to: http://www.bls.gov/web/lauhsthl.htm

People have gone to Washington D.C. to give testimony in senate hearings to the devastation that they have had to contend with, with having Chinese drywall installed in their mostly new, but some rebuilt hurricane damaged homes. Their homes are unlivable with destruction of pipes and electrical, and an odor that smells like rotten eggs, sulfur. Builders on the whole are not all taking responsibility or either are the drywall companies; the value of their homes has gone down from several hundreds of thousands to nothing. Physically ill affects have also been felt from breathing problems, headaches, to bloody noses and some are much worse.

Major crimes have gone down, which is the good news in our tri-county area, but in our particular area the bad news seems to be that burglaries have gone up. The sign of the times, I guess, out of desperation. Not to sound paranoid but our gates do have padlocks on them, and my front door always has the deadbolt in place, even when inside or in the backyard. Our only problem to keeping our fortress safe is that we are open to a waterfront attack being on a saltwater canal. Sadly, many homes have been compromised from that route. With the cost of everything, locking up costly things off our property and a light on our dock seems like the only deterrent we can afford; hopefully the criminals are very paranoid too.

It does seem rather hard to imagine those days, in my childhood where no one ever locked their doors. Neighbors would enter your home shouting out hellos. We welcomed the world. No fear at opening your front door ever.
Door to door salesmen were the order of the day in the 1950’s. Mailmen, milkmen left their wares within reach of your front or back door and anyone else that would possibly want or need your things, but the unspoken understanding then was that it was yours and no one would touch any of it without permission.

Has the world lost its morality?
Today on a TV show they did a segment about young girls, as young as eleven giving away sex for homework or even like prostitutes for monetary gain, and these are not sexually abused children or single parented home children most were from parents that were considered professionals, doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc., horrifying! They also stated that they considered oral sex not sex. So many today have no idea the difference of right from wrong with honesty, cheating and lying seemingly to be the way of the generation of so-called suburban families and their offspring. Maybe what’s on the news has had its affect seeing so many getting away with horrible things. I wish I knew really what’s going on?
If I only had the answers for this problem, but all I can do is hope that the parents and children will somehow solve it together.

This nosey body is done for tonight.

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and I will too!

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