Good evening, my friends,
Yes, it was a beautiful day here today - lots of sun - I took my usual sweatshirt off and put on a nice tee-shirt. Felt fine. There is still a cool wind, but perhaps Spring can’t be too far behind - let’s hope not!
It was interesting to watch some of the hyped up meeting between BO, his buddies in the Dems, and the Repubs - which didn’t accomplish much. I’ve held better meetings and we accomplished more in a Cub Scout meeting for an hour on Tuesday evening.
When will our elected officials stop calling themselves “Republican Congressmen” or Democrat Congressmen” (or women). They are all AMERICAN Congresspersons, placed there in DC to represent AMERICANS, not big business, banks, automakers, Freddie and Fannie etc.; - it’s us, you idiots, the AMERICAN public that you are supposed to serve! Wake up and see the handwriting on the wall. Become AMERICANS again and make your mark as an AMERICAN instead of trying to accumulate all the political power and lobbyist’s money that you can.
Remember, WE PUT YOU THERE, and, WE CAN TAKE YOU OUT IN A HEARTBEAT in November of 2010.
I was doing a little math in my head, so I thought I’d pause for a minute and see if my answers were right by putting my thoughts down on paper. Let’s see: There are supposedly thirty million people without health insurance. What would happen if we gave each of them $10,000.00 in tax credits per year toward their health care.
Is my math right – wouldn’t that cost a whole thirty billion dollars? (That’s a long ways from a trillion dollars, isn’t it?)
If they didn’t use any of it, that would give them $10,000.00 extra each year to go toward purchasing health insurance.
Then, let’s say, just for the heck of it, that half of them actually used $5,000.00 or more to pay doctors or get prescriptions each year. That still leaves them $5,000.00 extra each year. After ten years, this would add up to fifty thousand - a nice nest egg toward any real illness or operation they might need later.
And, with that kind of money, I know they’d be able to get health insurance.
Oh, yes, I know, you’re going to say, “what about those who really get sick?” Well, $10,000.00 would go a long ways toward paying their share of their medical bills; and the government could pick up the remainder through the current Medicare programs. How many of these thirty million uninsured will have serious illnesses in the next ten years? Has anyone figured that one out?
Why should we completely destroy the current system - one that more than 85 percent of Americans are happy with, to take care of the other 15 percent? Why not fulfill their needs and leave the rest of us alone? Think about that one, AMERICAN Congressman & Women!
But, that’s enough reasonable and common sense thoughts for tonight. No one in DC is listening in either party - they’re all too busy thinking about gathering a large war chest of money so they can get re-elected in November and ride the gravy train - fully covered for their health insurance - is it just me, or don’t you see something fundamentally wrong there?
On to other thoughts of the day:
Carol and I drove over to the land of the country’s second worst drivers, (Corpus Christi, TX), today, and took our lives in my hands. It seemed every kook in the city was in front of me at one time or another. There are a lot of defective turn signals on the cars in CC - they don’t seem to work when the driver decides to change lanes. Solid white lines don’t mean a thing and “Yield” isn’t in their vocabulary.
But, we were successful and found Cantwell Mattresses fairly easily, where we bought a new Queen sized mattress set for the guest bedroom. Although we both have had operations to supposedly stop our snoring, we both continue, so it’s either get a new mattress and sleep in separate rooms or not get much sleep. Since I’m a borderline insomniac, I value my sleep, so, a new mattress will be delivered next Friday.
Other than that, and getting our taxes in to the CPA, and getting Carol a trim of her hair, it was another exciting day in Rockport. We fed the many gulls that love our popcorn and actually sat outside in the sun for a lovely change.
I submitted a picture of the American Cemetery outside of Palermo, Sicily, in a photo contest with Princess Cruise Lines, in the hopes of winning a free cruise. It’s a beautiful photo of the neatly laid-out crosses that seem to stretch into infinity, all lined up in neat rows, no matter which way you look. Off in the distance, some of the rows seem to form a ‘V’ for Victory. The sight brought tears to our eyes as we thought of those brave souls who were willing to give their lives for our way of freedom.
Then there are our Congressmen and Congresswomen - a very sad reflection on those values these wonderful men and women who now rest beneath the sod of a foreign land held so dear to their hearts that they’d die to protect them.
Let’s hope our leaders wake up soon and honor their memory by working for AMERICANS.
Enough said,
Until next time,
Vaya con Dias, my friends,
Karl
