Are you in fear of Czars?

You do realize that roughly only 50% of Americans voted for and approve of this President. Does the 50% that approve ever think about the 50% that don't approve and why they might not approve? These are your friends, neighbors, relatives, they sit in the pew next to you at church, are you totally correct in your thinking or just too blind to the fact that the anointed one might not be the person you thought he was? Have you never found yourself questioning some of the things he's doing and the real changes he wants to make to OUR country? Have you watched any of the before and after video's of his promise speeches or counted how many promises he's already broken? Has it ever occurred to you that when you type his name spell check does not recognize it and wants you to change or correct it? Have you really looked at some of Obama's Czars? Do you have concerns when it comes to the people our President surrounds himself with?

I just deleted eight paragraphs with a bit about 6 Czars and two advisers, these paragraphs went into some detail of each and their beliefs. I figured you'd probably start reading but quit part way through so why bother. If you want to get scared a bit and worry for our country, just check the following folks out and look into their beliefs. You'll find some of the most radical, racist, communist/socialist people you'd ever want to put a finger on. Just do yourself a favor and look up what you can find on these Czars for yourself, Energy Czar Carol Browner, Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd, Science Czar John Holdren, Regulatory Czar Cass Susstein, Communications Czar Anita Dunn, Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and last but not least Chief of Staff Rahm (Rahmbo) Emanuel, and Ex-Green Czar but still hanging around Van Jones. We have a diverse mixture of Socialist, Communist, Mao worshipping, abortion advocating strong arm individuals, look for yourself please.

Retirement...........

We all hope to retire someday, most of us strive to retire at as early an age as possible to live out and fulfil our dreams. For the average middle class wage earner this is becoming increasingly harder to do, to retire at an age where your young enough to still do those things you've dreamed of. I worked for right at 50 years, yes actually was drawing a wage even though it wasn't taxable at the time it was still a wage. I sold garden seeds, flower seeds and all occasion cards door to door at the age of 12 and 13 years old. Living in Iowa then I also mowed lawns and shoveled snow for income, you see growing up in Iowa gave us willing to do so year round work. My folks couldn't afford to buy me the type of jeans I wanted to wear or some of the other things so I earned to buy those things myself. I had a paper route in Sacramento, California and had a supervisor that believed in teaching young men business and how to run one properly. A paper route in Sacramento at the time and under the tutelage of Mr. Vigor was not just throwing a newspaper on someones porch and collecting a few bucks weekly. This was run like a business, learning to use a checking account, incentives for new subscribers and collections made on time and all this with no complaints from customers, I'll never forget Mr. Vigor and all he taught me about business. Anyway to get back on the subject, no matter what you've done for work or how much you earned you most likely still never put enough away for your retirement. You get to a point were you think your close, you think you have it all figured out and any number of things can derail your plans. Like the mess we've been going through as a country the past couple of years, this damaged ecomomy has thrown alot of folks including me and my wife into a tailspin. The future was looking bright, we had what we wanted and could see bright skies off in the distance and then we had the rug pulled out from underneath us! We will figure out a way to survive, we will figure out a way to retire together and still have some fun, and we will do this because we want it. Let me just say, if your still young enough and retirement is still a few years off what ever you do don't forget your retirement account. No matter what your investing into your retirement now is probably not going to be enough, so make it more even if it hurts a bit becasue you'll be glad you did. I hope no one younger that I has to go through with their retirement funds what we've had to endure the past couple of years, but don't let that detour you from building that nest egg because it will be worth it.

social security today.......

Just heard our President has decided to for go the annual cost of living increase for social security recipients and instead give us another "stimulus" check for $250 in 2010. He feels with the economy being negative we won't need it in 2010 but that the meager stimulus check should help get our economy going again! Let's see do I make a credit card payment with my big check or take the kids out for dinner or invest in the dollar (OMG don't do that) or a tank of gas for the RV and say F___ it all and hit the road. Mr. President why don't you keep the $250 to help pay for this monstrosity you call a health care reform bill, I'd rather chip in now than strap my grandchildren with your bullshit full of half truths. Take our $250 behind closed doors with those other crooks and figure out how you can bankrupt our country. By the way no matter what you call it, increases here and increases there to all these medical suppliers, insures, hospitals etc. the bottom line is it's going to be a TAX on middle income folks. Hide it anyway you'd like but in the end those you promised not to screw, your going to screw royally!

Matt & Family heading home!

Well it's been right at 3 months since Matt was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and as most of you know he's been staying with us since leaving the hospital on July 7th, 2009. Well after his last doctor visit (with his cardiologist) the doctor said he'd improved enough to go back to his house and that was great news. We didn't get a new EF (ejection factor) number but the news was still good, according to the doctor as long as Matt feels good and is not getting sick his heart is healing. The meds he's taking are strengthening the heart muscle and his diet and exercise is helping those meds get the job done. We really got used to Matt, Dayani and Dalila living with us, for the most part it has been one big happy family since Lisa and Jack are here also. But as much as we hated to see them go, we're also very happy for Matt and his steady recovery and know this too can only help as long as he tows the line with diet and exercise.

There can be a strain on any relationship when families of adults try and live together under one roof and we had a few days ourselves, but all in all it was a good experience and very rewarding at the same time. The biggest strain might have been on Bev and myself, as soon as we can see clear to hit the road I think we might just do that. Don't get me wrong, there's not anything we wouldn't do for the kids or haven't already done but we could use a little time to ourselves now that Matt is improving so. Matt calls tomorrow to set up his appointment with the University Medical Center in Tucson, initial testing and who know what else to get approve for a transplant if and when that time ever does arrive. As long as he keeps improving this will be just a back-up in case things don't get better, but the way he's going right now we're hoping never to have to utilize their services..................cross your fingers and prayer with us!

The past couple of weeks I kind of just stayed out of every ones way and spent a lot of time in the RV. Bev and I slept there each night but I spent a little extra time out there just to make things better for Matt and Dayani in the house, and I think it helped leaving them help handle their meals etc. It seemed there were times I tried to over due things and it just wasn't worth getting Matt upset and I think it worked out well. With Matt working for Beverly, we'll still see him in the office a few days a week and the rest of the time he'll be working from home. We're all going to miss Dalila very much.............what a little doll!

Yep it's still morning, me and Jack had eggs and bacon and taters for breakfast and now I'm going to try and catch up on bills for the end of the month. At present I'm hoping Bev continues to be a little bit busy, but I also would like to hit the road for a couple of weeks. Bev can work from the coach on the road but actually needs Matt in the office to take care of some things and make sure folks know the office is still staffed. With his doctor's OK to go back to work full-time and hopefully Bev can keep him busy, maybe we can see clear to some sort of road trip in the near....near future! Wish me luck!

I'm hoping for a change in the weather after this weekend, we should be heading into the greatest time of year and the greatest weather you could ask for................ya whoooo!

Had a good visit with Matt's cardiologist yesterday, we didn't get a new and updated EF number (to our disappointment) but the doctor says normally that's done every 3 to 4 months on weeks. Sounds like he'd prefer to see and bigger jump in the number by waiting rather than small increase and be somewhat disappointed at the time. Basically he said Matt looks good, things sound good and Matt feels good and that's the main concern. As long as he feels good things inside are healing according to the doctor, we don't want Matt to start feeling sick or the like. He recommend going back to work full time and doing more walking and making the walk as brisk as possible. All in all in was good news because Matt sure looks 100% better and feels the same and right now that's important.

Matt and his family will be moving back home most likely this weekend or next week, we'll miss having them but then too I'm sure they'll be glad to get back into their own digs. Maybe Beverly and I or just I can get away for a week or so in the near future, get this RV on the road before winter hits the Midwest and east.

The economy

I just sent some pictures and a couple of links to a good friend of mine showing and talking about the new "City Center" in Las Vegas. While in Las Vegas as a quest of the MGM group I stayed at the Luxor and Mandalay Bay and while in my suite I watched a video on the new City Center project. This is an amazing project and should be another beautiful addition to Las Vegas and the strip and all wealthy visitors. The MGM group with what sounds like a bit of help from our friends in Dubai are building a spectacular community right in and on the middle of the strip. Now these condos and shops will be a bit out of my price range even for a few days of shopping and dinning but I will take a tour of what we can visit when it's done just to see how the other half lives so to speak! Looking at this massive expansion going on just shows me that our economy isn't in as bad a shape as we think maybe and if your not strapped to a mortgage that's killing you and working your probably not in too bad a shape.

We fix things and our economy fixes things on it's own if just left alone to do so.........I see bright spots all over our country and that's good!