Hope that you filed your taxes or asked for an extension

Yes, we all know that today is tax day that is our pay the IRS tax day or they paid you months ago! Funny about that the ones who are getting money back usually file early and those who have to pay wait until the last minute…mmm…Get those papers filed and postmarked by midnight tonight all you procrastinators who owe us taxpayers’ money!
Remember post offices have cut back on their hours due to trying to save us all some money, irony? I think not.

And that we also all know that many are having Tea Parties today too, which is a throw back to the original one in 1773 of Boston fame and it was a systematic reaction to taxation of the tea tax without representation. Our modern day Tea Parties are for a similar reasoning many are concerned with those billion dollar bailouts that all of us or our children, and grandchildren will be having to eventually pay back. The cry is for government to stop spending now and they are as mad a hell with governments overspending and don’t want to take it anymore…the famous line from the movie, Network, circa 1976, but the ravings and revelations there of a deranged ex-TV anchor.

Well, what a dilemma who knows what should be done to stop the bleeding of the financial markets banks, housing market foreclosures, joblessness etc.? Does anyone have the right answer?
I don’t, but I’m not that smart.
So even though all this seems terrible spending money to free up money I haven’t a logical thought in my mind in how to make it all work better or differently.
I just wish that some of these people who are so miserable with what is going on would tell the government how to handle the problem since they seem to know what to do, and that would be an enormous relief to me…whew!

Hypothetically, let’s say there hadn’t been any billion dollar bailouts what would be happening right now?
The evening news is reporting that things will be getting worse before it all gets better and so does the president.
The market fluctuates daily.
Although the numbers for resale homes are improving slowly and are now at a very much discounted price from the inflated ones a few years back that created the greedy market that caused most of our problems.
Does anyone remember how we got into this mess?
I remember one thing that didn’t help anyone but the ones looking for home equity and when those appraisers came in to the homes all over the country and upped the ante so to speak saying that they were all worth twice or trice what they actually were and allowed for those loans to go through to people who eventually wouldn’t be able to pay those monthly charges; I am sure that didn’t help anyone.
Then talk about greed on Wall Street all those big companies paying out those dividends that went higher and higher and allowed you all to get those new toys that you normally wouldn’t have thought of without those allowances in your pocket, why save, spend, spend and more spend.
ARM’s, adjustable rate mortgages allowed for a low borrowing rate but in a bad market those rates had percentage points allowed to go up, usually 3 to 5 percentage points causing that borrowed money to create havoc with those monthly bills, uh oh!
Where does all the money go? We all ask that question, and I do know it notoriously…you see I quit smoking nearly three years ago and besides for health reasons I did think it would save some money, but where’s the money?
I haven’t a clue; you see other things went up absorbing my savings that is my theory!

Turmoil is not going to stop in the near future with or without the bailouts I truly believe.
Realistically, we must all stop in our tracks and change our own way we think about money and try and save and pay cash or wait until we can, you get the idea.
It’s that serenity prayer thing change the things you can and accept what we can’t, in other words the past, even the recent past.

Lastly, pirates off the African Coast why is it that all those countries paid them instead of stopping them causing this behavior to continue. We shall try to stop them and my husband suggested putting a Navy carrier permanently posted in the region for protection, why not?

All suggestions gleefully accepted or willingly discussed or heck tell the people in government who count how to change things for the better! Letters, emails, bills to be passed are all effective ways to change things. Silence or protests without answers seems to me to be like a dull mode of non production, just complaining and not going to work!

On that note I will wish you all good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

Setting an all time record...

Yes, we unfortunately did when the Market again dropped another 678+ points; the lowest in five years.

Nebraska with good faith passed the Safe Haven Law where parents can drop off children to hospitals, police stations and fire houses and such when unable to care for them. The original concept was to prevent un-wed mothers from doing horrible things as tossing of newborns in trash receptacles.
The only problem is that the cut-off age in this particular state is 18, and many parents with difficult teens, an oxymoron, have been dropping them at these facilities.
Sorry I didn’t mean to sound so cavalier; I’m a mother and I too was once a teen, and yes it is often extremely difficult getting through those years. But there are appropriate agencies when family is unable to help, and now they will be notifying the public of these resources, dialing 211 is one of these acceptable numbers for help, not just for teens but for a plethora of information. I believe the United Way runs the number in most national counties for this free access.
We are all in the same major boat. Resources should be shared and networked.

My husband brought up a concern that makes sense; what is going to happen to all the displaced people from weather disasters and foreclosures when they want to vote in this election, which could have a major affect on all of their futures, since all their addresses may have changed and or possibly what state they may be in? Will they be able to vote?
Has anyone addressed this problem? Excuse the pun.

Today we worked very hard around our home on different projects, which had me painting runs of wood 20 feet in all in two different colors.
One piece was for a broken slat in our fence that the neighbor’s lawn mower guy crashed into, and fortunately replaced when called about it. That I painted white.
The other two pieces were for trim under our sunroom windows used for a rest when installing the hurricane covers; they were painted the tan color of our home.
I did this while my husband hung gutters, which may very well be going back since they gap way to far out ¼ of an inch, and they were caulked according to the instructions, and when tested they still leaked.
Oh well, all that hard-work.
I also planted a pretty perennial called a Mexican petunia in purple that I divided into three separate plants; in three different sunny locations.
I often find more than one even in the smallest containers they’re my bonus plants!

Short one tonight... but good night to all and have a pleasant one I am very tired now, we both are. Good tired from good tanglible work.