Thursday, October 15, 2009

I take it all back! Well, most of it.

What I am talking about is my cooing and crooning about the stock market doing so well, last night; its not that it didn’t do well as you must know by now, it did, and has maintained that level again tonight. The thing I want to take back is my semi-excitement over it.
People all over the country, about ten percent of our population, are losing their jobs daily and even stooping to negotiate working for less money to save what minimal positions that they do have available!

It’s too obscene the total idea that the rich are getting richer, which does come to mind, and how a truer statement has never been made, oh phooey! And so I apologize for making such a big deal of something so traumatic to so many!

New topic: FAT CHILDREN, it appears to be rampant. A baby of only two months old weighing in at nineteen pounds, a three year old at ninety pounds, and last but not least a thirteen year old at four hundred pounds! Shocking, what’s up with that? I must admit when interviewed it does seem like that two out of three cases the mother’s were also obese, but the infant’s Mom appears to be slender in the news story, but the father is not shown; so who knows?
I do know that obesity is at an all time high nationally, nearly up to 60%, unfortunately, myself included; true horrors. We all have to find out why, most would suggest ingesting too many calories, and not moving enough, but I truly believe it is more complicated than that. We will see, it could be glandular, food additives have been investigated, and more are all real possibilities.

Moving on… today was not that busy, but I did notice the news keeps saying that we senior types on SSI will be receiving a little ‘checky’ for being told we are no longer getting the COLA, cost of living allowance increase, which has been around 3%, but as high as 5.8%, for this year or even in the coming years, and so they are talking about giving us a check for $250 bucks, and that is less than half of what the normal increase would have been! Not bad, but still not great with everything going up, such as utilities and other major bills waiting right behind to follow suit. But who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth, and to be honest they are just talking about it now anyway, once in the hand then I will believe it! Something to think about…

Good night to all and to all take care, be safe, and count those blessings, and in my ultimate wisdom I will think about stopping the search…whatever… you never know.

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