End Social Security Now ......unless

That's right. End Social Security, Retirement and Disability, NOW! That's what the Conservative spin doctors would like you to think and vote on accordingly. Pick the Republican candidate of your choice, they're all the same in thought and practice and differ only on the amount of wealth they possess, and vote them in to oust President Obama from The White House. No other reason than to remove Barack Obama. Not to make corrections. Not to help the people. Not to feed the poor. Just to get Obama out of the White House. I guess they feel a black man doesn't belong in the White House. I'm never thought that could be true but I'm seeing the opposite I'm sorry to say. Allow me to continue my thoughts.

I have a relative, she will remain nameless, who firmly believes that Social Security is a bad thing and should be removed from our society. Gone! Finito! See Ya! She and her husband live on 1 full time and 1 part time income. They have a mortgage. They pay into a 401k plan. One new car and one older car. Pay deductibles when using their health insurance. One has a progressively degenerative disease while the other has had a history of back problems. Good thing they have health insurance that they can afford.

unless .....

One income is lost.

The full time earner has a major back issue.

Degenerative disease worsens sooner than later to a disabled level.

Health insurance at full time employer rises sharply in price, or discontinued completely.

Home foreclosure.

Unemployment lasting longer than unemployment(unless unemployment has been abolished already).

Death of one spouse.

These are all but a few of the reasons why we should NOT terminate Social Security. The 1% don't need Social Security because they will never have a need for it. They can pay CASH if they have to, most if not all of the 99% cannot! I ask you why would we want to support people who would ordinarily never recognize that you ever existed when we have, and could have, health and financial support available? If we remove all restrictions on Wall Street how will that effect you? The rich will become richer and the poor will, well you know the remained of that one because you're seeing it happen right now.

So let's see where this couple could be if some of these events should happen and Social Security Retirement and Disability were gone from America.

Well, since one has a disability that has been with them for most of their life it's determined to be a Preexisting Condition and therefor NOT COVERED by insurance but they knew that because they read the full policy. Right? Medicine specific to this condition might not be covered because it's too expensive with no generic or considered experimental by law. So sad, too bad! No Soc Sec Disability either. Better hope your spouse gets a big raise real soon. Remember? You voted to eliminate it.

Income? Wow, thank the heavens you have that 401k plan but too bad the market crashed because so many people are out of work and the big employers moved out of the country because the tax incentives were too good to pass up. It really didn't matter if it crashed or not because you're still too young to withdraw 401k funds without major penalties and taxes. Sorry, you voted out public assistance as well because it was a "drain on society for people who didn't want to work". If you did happen to be old enough and there was a crash you'd still be rowing against a strong tide because there wouldn't be any buffer left for you since Soc Sec Retirement would be gone as well.

National Health, Socialized Medicine, whatever you want to call it would be a great thing for America. No, it won't make us Communists like the GOP wants you to believe. Last time I looked Britain and Canada were still democratic nations, in fact the majority of Europe has a national health program in place in one form or another. America will be better than them by letting our citizens die in the streets(yes, they do every day and you would know that if you actually cared) because no health care was available to them. Most of these people paid into Social Security most of their lives and now when they need the help the most we decide to pull the rug out from under them. Probably wouldn't matter anyhow since you need an address in order to collect what's due you but since you have no benefits you're forced to live on the streets. That must be what a viscous circle is in real life. What's more is the fact that you're part of the 99% and the 1% could care less whether you lived or died. Think on that before you waste your vote on the 1% candidates.

One last thing for you you think about and try to visualize.

Will this be the future face of America? It could be if we turn our backs on each other just to support the 1% who don't care if this is you or someone else.

Contact sensors

Thanks to Darwin Barton

Most home alarm systems have the usual door sensors where when you open any door on the perimeter of the house it will set off the alarm or at least ring with a chime sound. I highly recommend if you are looking at adding home security to your house that you take a look at the ADT home security sensors that they use for windows and other openings that are more than just doors. I personally wanted window sensors because I live in a ranch style home where all of my windows are on ground level. If someone knew I have an alarm system on my home they would assume that the doors are secure but they would also probably assume that the windows are not. This is why it is so important to make sure you secure all of the openings on your home with contact sensors. You will notice that when you open any window or door it will tell you on the control panel which window or door it is. This is what makes me feel so much safer in my home.

The New Courtship Ritual?

Something that I really got into watching on TV was the Bachelorette. This season was all about a girl named Ally. Ally had been on a previous show called the Bachelor. She was one of the finalists but ended up getting kicked off when the guy on the bachelor picked someone else to propose to. I know this is such a crazy concept to think that someone might find the person of their dreams on a television show that has candidates to be your mate picked out by probably a team of people working for the show. Anyway, Ally was picked to be the next bachelorette after everyone felt so sorry for her when she was not chosen to be the one the bachelor loved. I forget how many candidates Ally started out with, but I think it was around twenty-five. So each week she would get to eliminate one or two candidates that she did not like to narrow down her choices to hopefully one person that she would want to marry. She finally picked this guy named Roberto. And, Ally and Roberto got engaged. Now someone just told me that Ally and Roberto just broke their engagement. I think that The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are both rigged and are just a way for some people to make money. I sincerely doubt that anyone could find the person that they should marry on a television show.

So Many Options

The Author of this post is Herman Barry

There are so many direct TV deals out there this time of year I hardly know which one to pick. The kids have been on me forever to get more TV channels but to be honest I’m a little worried that if I do they’re never going to give me the time of day! It seems like technology has really taken over our lives in a way I wasn’t expecting it to – I think once they both hit high school was when it became a real problem. My daughter is always, ALWAYS texting and my son’s all about his video games…I wouldn’t mind any of this too much if they had actual human interactions every once and a while but it seems like most of what they do these days is in front of a computer screen. I love my kids to death but I don’t want to doom them by not making sure they get plenty of social skills before they go off to college. I know this is normal but I can’t take it!

Planning For Retirement Early

My wife and I are trying to decide what will be best for us as we go into our retirement years. We're seeing a big push against nationalized medicine in the United States and we both realize that if we should happen to have an unforeseen major illness in the household it could financially cripple us and put us back to work when we should be looking at enjoying our later years. This is still quite a ways off. We did decide to do one thing though that may or may not benefit us but there is a trade off to get it. We're contemplating retiring to Canada where health care is appreciated for its population and is very well respected for its quality. Since it will be cold no matter where in Canada we go, in the winter that is, we decided to vacation there first. What area of Canada are we going? We came up with three areas to try, the Lake Louise area in Alberta, Calgary the home of the famous Stampede, and Newfoundland where my mothers side of the family came from.

We originally purchased a home in Central Florida with the expectation that we'd retire into our existing home, hopefully paid off by the time we retired. However, with the ever increasing costs for prescriptions, hospitals, doctors, and or other services we're realizing that this country, the country we were born in, could care less about it's citizens and would rather help companies realize greater profit from the citizens it serves rather than take care of them. Canada for some reason is quite a bit more affordable to be cared for in. Former President Bush Jr even tried to keep Canadian medicines from being purchased by Americans because it is so much cheaper to buy there than here, where it's made.

I think spending some quality time in different areas of Canada will satisfy our questions and help us make up our minds. When and if the housing market returns to a profitable level we may sell up and move north, where it's citizens are respected and treated with care and cared for in an affordable way.

GOP Candidates Reveal Plans Too Early!

The GOP, or Grand Old Politicians, have revealed their intents to America finally, care of Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry! This will be a short article as it doesn't need any further comment. The comments of these politicos speak for the party.

Rick Perry in his Alzheimer's speech expressed a need to dissolve the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce, to name two of the three. I'm excluding the Energy Dept. as it isn't relevant to this information.

Okay, monitoring of education and the work force will be gone!

Newt Gingrich just recently stated the need to eliminate the minimum age a person can collect Social Security, reducing the minimum wage, and even going on to agree with historian David Barton who claims that Jesus opposes the minimum wage. WHAT? Jesus said that? When was this? How much did Barton have to drink when he wrote this? This is one of the reason why we have a separation of church and state! We need to maintain this separation firmly!! I digress.

One last GOP decision. Get rid of all the Mexicans in America. Put up a double fence and run electricity through it to keep them out!

How will the GOP tacticians explain to the farmers in the southern states that their crops will have to die on the trees and vines because Americans are too good to pick your produce. It's too hard and it's too hot and their backs hurt. The Mexican immigrants were able to do the work and were happy to get the work so now explain to the farmers why they can't have the needed labor to supply the tables of America with their wares. The GOP 'decision makers' are sitting on their fat arses because they've shot themselves in both feet at once. There I go and digress again.

Okay, here's how I see it. I may be wrong but I don't think I could be off by much here.

We chase away the needed labor for the American farms so they can't bring needed goods to market.

We require our elder citizens to continue to work later in life after they've put in more work that most will ever do in their lives.

We lower the minimum wage so multiple jobs will be required, where there are none right now(Jobs Bill people).

We eliminate the oversight of educational requirements in American so we can be the stupidest labor based 1st world country in the world creating a poor/wealthy standard. Keep people poor and ignorant and you control the nation!

I saw Rick Santorum on television today addressing Gay marriage. Who really cares about Gay marriage right now? People need work to support their families and he thinks Gay marriage is a hot topic!

When is the GOP going to work with the President on a jobs bill. They complain and vote it down but offer nothing useful in return. Why are they re-elected?

They're re-elected because the schools don't teach our children HOW and WHY to vote. They don't teach them impartially how to select a candidate to represent them. Social Studies? They teach our children squat, never have-never will be useful.

That's another reason to keep America stupid. When we need required education the most they want to remove the safety's and destroy what control we do have.

The Republican Party that I belonged to in the 70's and early 80's is dead. It doesn't exist anymore or else I wouldn't be an Independent. It's an abomination and a disgrace what's happened to it.

I hope America is content top have India and China pass us. In education I think they already have. Don't complain when you talk to Microsoft and get someone in India answering. Microsoft knows why and it's not just because it's cheaper.

This Looks So Good I'm Going to Make It Myself.

Simple and delicious roasted lamb shanks.



Nov. 2011
Okay. I made the lamb shanks and they were decent. I don't think I'll make them again though and here's why. When the collagen cooks down it becomes almost jelly-like and is desired by many for it's flavor. I for one don't care for it. The taste was alright but I just didn't like the tactile sliminess of the meat. It was slippery and felt greasy in my mouth. You be the judge but I've already convicted this dish to a recipe coffin.