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Lovin' The Homestead
Yesterday was a lost day. I was so depressed after the Senate passed the new "Stimulous" package that I was in bed, in the fetal position, by 6 PM. 
I feel that the people who were elected to legislate what was in the best interest of the United States and her people, have sold us down the river.
This new stimulous package has more pork in it than a can of SPAM. There are some things in it that may create some new jobs. . . but the cost of the package, in higher taxes on small business and people who have enough money to start businesses, will kill more jobs in the long run than will be created. Obama says that this package will create or SAVE 4 million jobs. I want to know how we will know how many jobs were SAVED. How do you know if a job was going to disapear, until it does? This administration, who sold the country a campaign promise of "hope and change", in two weeks has already shown that they are more of the same. The cost of this package will cripple this country. We will be in debt for the rest of my life and possibly the lives of my children and maybe even their children. The terrifying thing is that Congress is not the only one with the power to borrow, and leave the bill to the American people. The FED can do this as well, and has been doing it at a huge rate. The problem is with the whole disfunctional government, and not just the guy at the top. None of the agencies do their job to protect us and the Congress just ignores what is best for us and the nation. It makes me livid
All the money that will be spent will not go to the people who need help. Many will still be unable to get the help that they need, while others will get fat off the government trough. Unfortunately, by wasteing these huge amounts of money, they are now consigning more people to the list of people in need. The tax debt created by such expenditures will only push people that were on the margins, just getting by without help, into poverty as the dollar sinks in value and the costs of the essentials rise.
We cannot spend our way out of this financial problem. We need to grow our economy by growing businesses. They will create new jobs here at home and products to sell around the world. Bailing out the "Big Guys" is not he way to help our economy. Many of them are outsourcing jobs and materials to other countries. Small businesses are not doing this. Unfortunately, small business (and the average American) no longer have anyone representing them in Washington.
I am afraid of what they will do next. I am trying to be as selfsufficient as I can but we are all interconnected, if only by all the taxes and fees we pay and the products and services that we must buy. I dont want to go back to a life style like that in the 1800's because our government has imploded from excess. I dont want to live in fear because there are riots and civil unrest due to the actions taken by our government. It all scares me. I never saw the potential for these things happening until yesterday. I now see the possiblity.
Thank you all for letting me vent. I cannot spent too many days in or under my bed because of this. I have to get up and start trying to protect what little I will have left!
I feel that the people who were elected to legislate what was in the best interest of the United States and her people, have sold us down the river.This new stimulous package has more pork in it than a can of SPAM. There are some things in it that may create some new jobs. . . but the cost of the package, in higher taxes on small business and people who have enough money to start businesses, will kill more jobs in the long run than will be created. Obama says that this package will create or SAVE 4 million jobs. I want to know how we will know how many jobs were SAVED. How do you know if a job was going to disapear, until it does? This administration, who sold the country a campaign promise of "hope and change", in two weeks has already shown that they are more of the same. The cost of this package will cripple this country. We will be in debt for the rest of my life and possibly the lives of my children and maybe even their children. The terrifying thing is that Congress is not the only one with the power to borrow, and leave the bill to the American people. The FED can do this as well, and has been doing it at a huge rate. The problem is with the whole disfunctional government, and not just the guy at the top. None of the agencies do their job to protect us and the Congress just ignores what is best for us and the nation. It makes me livid
All the money that will be spent will not go to the people who need help. Many will still be unable to get the help that they need, while others will get fat off the government trough. Unfortunately, by wasteing these huge amounts of money, they are now consigning more people to the list of people in need. The tax debt created by such expenditures will only push people that were on the margins, just getting by without help, into poverty as the dollar sinks in value and the costs of the essentials rise.
We cannot spend our way out of this financial problem. We need to grow our economy by growing businesses. They will create new jobs here at home and products to sell around the world. Bailing out the "Big Guys" is not he way to help our economy. Many of them are outsourcing jobs and materials to other countries. Small businesses are not doing this. Unfortunately, small business (and the average American) no longer have anyone representing them in Washington.
I am afraid of what they will do next. I am trying to be as selfsufficient as I can but we are all interconnected, if only by all the taxes and fees we pay and the products and services that we must buy. I dont want to go back to a life style like that in the 1800's because our government has imploded from excess. I dont want to live in fear because there are riots and civil unrest due to the actions taken by our government. It all scares me. I never saw the potential for these things happening until yesterday. I now see the possiblity.
Thank you all for letting me vent. I cannot spent too many days in or under my bed because of this. I have to get up and start trying to protect what little I will have left!
so I decided I wanted to figure out how to ski down over/thru the mogul section. It shouldn't have been *that* hard, right, just turn appropriately to sort of thread your way through. Except of course I kept falling splat on my bum, sometimes rather spectacularly, after just one or two 'bumps'. No matter WHAT. I kept at it for forty-five minutes. I am sure I did considerable damage to their nicely-groomed moguls (nobody chased me off, though 
), as opposed to being a regular reality (often far worse than what you;re worrying about) now and for most generations in living memory. Really, it is a big luxury to worry about losing a job, when you consider how many people have never HAD one.
