Some people have written to me with many comments. Some were things I could write about, things that others recall and thought they should be added to my blog, others wanted to hear my views on a score of different subjects. I intended this blog to be about me, a nobody, growing up and comparing life then, with life now............having said that....... I find myself reminiscing about days gone by, comparing what I read in newspapers or hear on TV. Before, I attempt any of these subjects, I once again want to remind you, that I take no specific position on any subject. These are totally my views, my comments as the way I see it going down, so don't even think about writing back with your derogatory comments. They don't interest me as far as this blog is concerned. If you wish to have a serious dialog, there are other ways of doing it.
NOW !!!! Has anyone given any real thought to how our country is being run??? I think not. Lets make an honest attempt to try and understand why we are in the deep doo doo hole we are in and what got us here. I've looked back to when I was a young guy and gave thought to the way my parents did things compared to now-a-days. There was several drastic differences.
When my dad said BUDGET.....he meant BUDGET!!! The first group I will talk about is CONGRESS. We seem to blame all bad things on the President, let's be honest, He/She has nothing to do with the budget except presenting one to........ WHO? ......CONGRESS. but being the CEO of this giant corporation we know as the USA, he (up to now) gets tagged. It's Congress we should concentrate on. Lets start out with the budget. Once again, the President presents it, but it's congress that approves it. I blame it on the math they use. Back in my days in school, basic math was very simple..........1 +1= 2, 2+2=4 divided by 2=2 multiplied by 2 =4. Very simple you can add, divide (split) multiplied (quick addition) and subtract (take away). This, my friends, is all that is needed to make a budget.
A few weeks ago, I was visiting my grand kids, now 13 yrs old. I found them hard at work doing their math problems. Midway through a problem, one of them got up, goes up stairs and takes a shower. When he comes down, I asked him why he had to take a shower at that moment. His simply answer, because I was sweating so much. "Why were you sweating" "because I got this math problem and it's very hard" " Want me to try and help you with it" "Yes, grandpa" he replied. Problem is a train is going from south to north traveling 60 mph. At a certain point a train travelling from north to south traveling 60 mph ........how fast were they going when they met? Sounds like the question was going to be , what's the engineers name??. Anyway, why all the calculating? Well grandpa, this is the NEW MATH, my teacher tells me that to start I have to draw a tangent from one train in comparison to the other train, at which point I have to calculate the square root of the length of the trains and find the PI, then fine the acute angle and split it in half to form two equal angles, I don't understand why I have to draw a tangent...........WHAAAAT?????????? WHY CAN'T YOU JUST SAY each independent train was going 60mph when they past each other? or an overall speed of both train 120 mph. You may ask now, what's this got to due with the budget of the country?......... IT'S THE NEW MATH!!!!!! ............Lets go back to old math and we will then be able to balance the budget..........This was the point,..... I had to leave and take a shower.
A few weeks ago, I was visiting my grand kids, now 13 yrs old. I found them hard at work doing their math problems. Midway through a problem, one of them got up, goes up stairs and takes a shower. When he comes down, I asked him why he had to take a shower at that moment. His simply answer, because I was sweating so much. "Why were you sweating" "because I got this math problem and it's very hard" " Want me to try and help you with it" "Yes, grandpa" he replied. Problem is a train is going from south to north traveling 60 mph. At a certain point a train travelling from north to south traveling 60 mph ........how fast were they going when they met? Sounds like the question was going to be , what's the engineers name??. Anyway, why all the calculating? Well grandpa, this is the NEW MATH, my teacher tells me that to start I have to draw a tangent from one train in comparison to the other train, at which point I have to calculate the square root of the length of the trains and find the PI, then fine the acute angle and split it in half to form two equal angles, I don't understand why I have to draw a tangent...........WHAAAAT?????????? WHY CAN'T YOU JUST SAY each independent train was going 60mph when they past each other? or an overall speed of both train 120 mph. You may ask now, what's this got to due with the budget of the country?......... IT'S THE NEW MATH!!!!!! ............Lets go back to old math and we will then be able to balance the budget..........This was the point,..... I had to leave and take a shower.
EXAMPLE
When my father came home from work on Friday night, he had $36.00 after taxes to spend. He would take out of a steel box containing 10 envelopes, each marked with a word.
EXAMPLE
mortgage/rent, food, clothes, gas and electric, gas for car, vacation , medical, insurances, savings and incidentals. Into each of these envelopes he would put that amount of money that he allotted for each item. ALWAYS REMEMBERING NOT TO EXCEED $36.00. Simply because you cannot spend something YOU DON'T HAVE!!!!!!
RESULT
If, If, and only IF you did not spend the allotted amount for a specific item, you could reduce that amount in the envelope by that much............for those of you that can't figure that out and for ALL OUR CONGRESS PEOPLE. If you budget $3.00 per week for Auto gas and you only SPENT $2.00 one week, you would have a SURPLUS of $1.00 in that envelope meaning you could replace $2.00 in the envelope the next week which brought you back to a balanced budget and place $1.00 extra into the incidental envelope and can be spent on INCIDENTALS. THIS IS CALLED A BALANCED BUDGET. YOU SPEND AT THE SAME RATE AS YOU EARN!!!!!!!!!! NOW!! If you spent $4.00 on gas that week and had to borrow $1.00 from someone, this is referred to an UNBALANCED BUDGET until that $1.00 was paid back to that person....YOU HAVE SPENT MORE THAN YOU HAVE EARNED...... Now, WHERE and HOW do you get that $1.00 from. You could go and look for empty cans and sell them for $1.00 or you could go and borrow another $1.00 from someone else to pay back the first person or you could look in your incidental envelope for the $1 or STOP BUYING THINGS. If you do nothing THIS, my friends is called stupidity. The best way to do this is to sell something and get back into a balanced budget. If you continue to borrow more and more ..............YOUR SCREWED!!!!!!!! You are going to find this similar to the budget of the USA.
WE, the people of the United States of American, united as one people promise to give the government of said nation each week and from each paycheck monies to be known as taxes. This is the ONLY MONEY THE USA HAS AS INCOME, The USA does not produce, any other income (perhaps we should, but this would be unfair competition according to a few) based fair and square on the concept of THE MORE YOU MAKE, THE MORE YOU PAY TAX ON. REGARDLESS OF WHAT ANYBODY WHATS. If you want it then you buy it and if you want other people to use it, charge them a fee and pay tax on that fee. Don't expect the government to buy you all these things that they can not afford just to give WE THE PEOPLE and unbalanced budget. (to be continued in PART 2)
Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Oh, great!! The guy who made $50 billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.3 trillion disappear!
