I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Shirley:  I saw that Cavuto show last night.  We usually watch him regularly.  What you posted has been discussed at other times and is the reason for my concern for our country.  BTW, did you hear Cavuto ask Trump if he (Trump) would run for President and Trump said he would tell Cavuto on his show in June of this year.  It seems the Donald is as concerned about what is happening as you and I.  I would love to hear more about Trump's platform and what he would do about unemployment, social security, etc. etc.   

Geez .. Blue .. I am so impatient. I wanted it all fixed today, even though I knew it could take some time.  Glad you're feeling better from the nausea.

hugs,

Bren

That's kinda cool that you can turn it off and on.  Sorry you feel a bit crappy though.  Soon they'll get the levels perfect, customized Blue level -- I love that it can be so precise -- amazing stuff.  Hope you hit the sweet spot soon.

Blue, here's to 'textbook'. YAY!!

Shirley:  I saw that Cavuto show last night.  We usually watch him regularly.  What you posted has been discussed at other times and is the reason for my concern for our country. 

I know you don't like Beck, but he's had shows on about just how bad it may get.  People laugh at him.  I laugh at them.

As for The Donald, he's really POed with the price of oil and what OPEC is doing.  Didn't he say other countries are laughing at us?  Something like that? 

I do know that he's tired of crappy stuff from China.  If he can find American made he buys it.  I know he talked about buying some furniture from N. C.  He talked about the crappy windows from China.

It's really too bad that our manufacturing has been shipped elsewhere.  And with Ilinois raising their taxes, I wonder what businesses will be leaving their state.  Caterpiller is there, I believe.

I just informed my DD that she and her DH will be paing 2% more in State Income Tax.  She is not one bit happy about that.  I believe someone made a comment somewhere that it wasn't that much money.  Well, to my DD it is.  If you make a good salary...it's thousands.  And they're into saving their money.  I believe I'm getting her to understand that government does not spend our money wisely.  They moved there recently and she said she didn't cause this mess....LOL  And forget about the four year temporary tax...yeah, right!

Blue, thinking of you and lighting a candle for continued textbook results.

BTW, do any of you know how much as been stolen (borrowed) from the SS fund.  I heard $2.5 trillion.  Now that's just wonderful.  The younger people will be paying for the older people to keep their SS coming in.  And when the younger people (my girls) get to be my age they won't have SS. 

shirley, it's what I've always feared.  At the rate we're going, my kids will be doing nothing else except working to pay for others and going without themselves.

Same thing in Canada, re retirement funds.  Not the theft but retiring boomers, fewer employees contributing to the pool, there's not going to be much left. Few companies have pensions any more -- mostly the various levels of gov't, hospitals, firefighters, teachers come to mind as those that still have pensions.  Several of the high tech companies have been compensating for no longer providing pension with matching stock, not so great since those stocks went down the tubes...  I used to cash out as soon as the stock was purchased/deposited for me. 

At least so far my fed and provincial disability payments are adequate -- not rolling in dough, but I get by. 

I just got back after being away a couple of days & just wanted to weigh in on the "freer speech" that the US has over Canada.  This was in our local paper.

http://www.timescolonist.com/investigates+UVic+professor/4096048/story.html

The part of the article that I found interesting, I have highlighted below:

Kyle Loven, chief division counsel for the FBI in Minneapolis, said he cannot comment on the case.

But he said the FBI becomes involved if there are indications that a speech advocates violence.

"In the U.S., 99.9 per cent of the time, people are free to express themselves in any way that's appropriate," he said.

"The caveat is when there's a speech inciting violence or inciting others to be violent.

"There's no constitutional protection for a speech of that nature.

"When there's a speech which is in the arena of violent rhetoric, the FBI will at least review that speech to make sure no state or federal laws have been violated."

Speaking of SS - yesterday I received a forwarded email about the Senate voting to give illegal immigrants SS benefits. This same email has been going around for 3 or 4 years. There's a petition you're supposed to sigh which will be sent to the President, urging him to veto the bill. Frankly, I was really disappointed in the friend who sent me the email. How could she fall for this? The Senate has passed a bill like this and we heard nothing about it??? LOL