28Jul11

A man hurried into a quick lunch restaurant and said: “Give me a ham sandwich.”
“Yes, sir,” said the waiter, reaching for the sandwich: “will you eat it or take it with you?”
“Both,” was the unexpected but obvoious reply.

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1907, Scout movement founded by Robert Baden Powell

1914, The Austria-Serbia war starts World War I

1933, All non-German books are burned in Germany.

1984, Opening of the XXIII Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

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Yesterday was another hot day with the temperature above 100 degrees. I don’t remember how many days but its been 23 or 24 consecutive above 100 degree days in a row. The drought is killing all the cattlemen because they are selling off their stock because the price of hay has gotten to where they cant afford to keep them. I don’t know how the flood of extra beef is going to affect the supermarket if at all.
I spent a couple of hours watching Congress on our satellite television debate about the debt ceiling bill with no results. You would think they would do something about that thing because of all the effects it’s going to do to the economy!!
Abraham Lincoln said “The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all in their separate and individual capacities.”

In my observations of Congress this is what they do. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens-and then everybody disagrees.
I believe that practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
I know that a lot of people are depending on their social security checks to survive~but then the military is not going to get paid if they don’t get this debt ceiling bill through the house and senate. Can you believe that all the government functions will be affected in one way or another. All the payments going to the states that the senators in congress have passed will be stopped. Health program payments to the states and the road construction funding that the states get amidst all the other programs that are in the works for them.
But to listen to all the stuff that they are saying they are more concerned with CUT CAP AND BALANCE which affects the credit rating of the nation.
If they really wanted to do something about the nation they would do something about all the billions of dollars that the multi-national companies in this country are shipping out of the country to cheap labor of their factories in foreign countries a simple solution like putting a high tax on them for doing so.
Why don’t they nationalize all the foreign companies in this country doing business to keep all their profits in the states instead of letting all these monies go overseas to their parent companies.
You know the answer to that as well as I do ~~Congress is not going to upset this apple cart because of all the special interest groups that they cater to because of their campaign contributions from all these groups so that they can stay in office.
So there you have it all the jobs are going overseas because congress made it profitable for multi-national companies to go overseas because of the tax incentive for them to do so. Foreign companies come in and manufacture here because they make more money here than they do by manufacturing at home and shipping their product over and thereby avoiding the excise tax of importing their goods into this country.
And I wonder why is it that there are no term limits on these congressmen like there are on the presidents of the United States. Some of these senators stay in office for decades not bringing any new ideas on how to improve this country. Their sole object is to create funding for their home states. This is a big flaw in the system as far as I am concerned. Everybody that pays taxes in this country goes into a big pot and these senators figure ways of getting their states to get as much of this money as they can to go their state. Of course you have guessed it as many of us have that the most persuasive conversation are going to reap the biggest profit for their states no matter how much money from their state goes into the pot.
Of course I have written more than I have intended to for the blog for today. So maybe tomorrow a different subject.

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Here is another story about Abraham Lincoln past President of the United States

A member of the church, being at a Presidential reception,
closed some remarks with the pious hope that the Lord would
be "on our side."
"I am not at all concerned about that," commented President
Lincoln, "for we know that the Lord is always on the side of
the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I
and this nation should be on the Lord's side."