Ramblings on current events

Having traveled around a little I have found that people are basically the same everywhere. We all want a decent home, healthy children, a job we can support our families with a few extra percs like time and money to take a little vacation every year, good schools, safe neighborhoods, a governing system we can have faith in, the freedom to practice whatever religion we choose, the means to defend ourselves if necessary (yes, I firmly believe in our 2nd amendment, the right to bear arms), healthy food, and a warm, loving community free of crime, gangs and drugs. Some people just go about getting those things in unorthodox ways. Men and women are basically the same all around the world as well. You have your bad apples, mooching men, mooching women. Hard working men and women.

The work ethic of our youth really concerns me. They are so instant gratification centered. They don't seem to want to do actual work for anything. This may be an American thing. These youth are going to be controlling my retirement funds. It scares me to death. I have the feeling we are going to hell in a hand basket and soon with countries like Greece going bankrupt. I feel we are in for a huge depression. I've got my yard ready for gardens and cut my expenses down to nothing but house payment, elec/water, and cable/internet/fone. If necessary, I can cut the internet and cable. I have hundreds of books. You know what? I don't think it would be a bad thing to do back to a simpler time.

Have a great day and remember:

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow - what a ride!"