Congress/ Take It Or Leave It Attitude

Well, we’re at a standstill now. It’s a battle of wits between the President and his Congress President Trump wants each American to have 2000 dollars to meet their needs and help stimulate the economy, while Congress thinks we Americans should settle for 600 dollars and a promise from them for more stimulus later. Are we suppose to believe them after letting them dupe us for several months with lies, saying that our stimulus package was coming. How can we trust them now. They still want to give our taxpayer money to all these programs that have nothing to do with the American people. Many think we should trust Congress, and the President should pass the bill, while others think promises are not guarantees. There have been too many lies hidden from the people. Are we still so blind not to see that Congress is not for the people, but for their own selves, writing bills that are not going to benefit our country, but others? I say no! My eyes are wide open now. Whatever happens, if they pass it and we only get 600 dollars, then it’s our own fault for not seeing what’s in front of us. We have no excuses now that it all has been revealed to the Americans what’s in this bill. We the Americans are always the last to know the real truth. The last to be thought about, or be considered when the chips are down. How many times are we going to close our eyes, and pretend all is okay, when our hearts cry for a better day, to truly experience ourselves the “American dream” that drives others to our country. These are hard times, a large stimulus is definitely needed to help us meet daily needs throughout this virus. Congress seems to have a“Take it or leave it attitude.” They think we should shut up and be happy that they are giving us $600, while they give the rest away. This is not acceptable, not for me, and I hope it’s not for you either!

Up In The Air, It’s A Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman….No, It’s Congress!

This may sound familiar. It was part of the opening for the Superman series of long ago. Superman was a mythical character that hid behind the man Clark Kent, a mild-mannered reporter who did good and helped people. His motives were always for the good of Metropolis where he lived. Our Congress has hidden their alter motives of what they were really doing by saying they were getting a stimulus package ready for the American people when in reality they were secretly fixing to give away the American people’s tax paying money to foreign countries. Millions were going to countries that don’t care for America at all. So many millions that there was nothing left for us but $600 dollars. Such a travesty. They fixed the bill with over 5 thousand pages and gave their members less than five hours to read it. They wanted them to just sign it, not read it to see what it really said or know where they really had in this bill. Well, their false Superman cape has fallen off, and we the American people know who they really are, and what they really think of us. They think we are so naive that they can push anything over, and by us, thinking that giving us scrapes will satisfy us. How sad a Congress we have, and we put them in the office to protect our welfare when in reality they are not protecting us at all, l but favoring others who will foster and benefit their seats there. So sad that lies become a part of their everyday speech. To stand in front of a television camera and openly say one thing, and mean another, and do it with a straight face. As Americans we should be upset with this Congress, they have been duping us for years and we didn’t see it until now. They want to look good in the eyes of the world, pretend to be good samaritans helping other countries when they won’t even help their own people. This just may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and opens the eyes of the American people to a sad truth. Politics is a dirty business, and we Americans need to start cleaning house!

Crumbs From The Table Of Congress!

We get Crumbs From The Table Of Congress! Well, Congress has finally passed the stimulus package bill over 5,000 pages yet only $600 has been allotted for the American people. This is a sad thing to see. They said that there was nothing left to give to the American people. Well, there was nothing left to give after they gave everything to everybody else. To the big businesses, to all kinds of different programs, and we were the last we get the scraps from the Congress table. I think it's pitiful! I was reading yesterday where is New Zealand a lady posted they got $600 a week every week until people went back to work and she wondered why America, which is a financially prosperous country cannot do that. How could they only give their pe

ople $600? Well, ma'am, I'm wondering that too. I think it's awful, that's why I think we need a new Congress we need to get rid of all of them and have a whole new Congress. I don't have faith in Congress anymore after months of false hope and so many lies to the American people. They've promised for over several months that they were going to fix the stimulus package for the American people they see people losing their homes, can’t pay their rent, and about to be thrown out of their apartments. They can't buy clothes, they can't feed their families, and school are closed because of the virus. The restaurants are closed, and then they're saying, American you can make it on $600. They have to first take care of these big big big big business that’s what’s important to them. That's what's wrong with the country we're so caught up on money, in their eyes are dollar signs, and looking good in the eyes of others who have power. They put the people last. They want to keep their position in Congress. The problem is that Congress is divided, and I don’t mean by House & Senate, but by pride. Each wanting to out show the other. Each wanting to say they are making things happen for the country. Battling like they are children in order to have their way no matter how long it takes, or how it affects the American people. And who put these people in these seats in Congress? We did. Congress is supposed to be for the people of the people, by the people. They are not for the people. They are all wanting to look good, wanting to show they have the power to govern our lives when they don’t even know how we live. Saying what’s good for us to live on and survive when they are fat and flourishing themselves, not touched by the Americans they are supposed to represent. I am very disappointed in our government I love my country but I do not love the ones that are running it. We need a definite change. Congress needs to grow up and quit acting like little children!

Merry Christmas To Everyone!

A funny little video me and hubby made to wish yo all a very Merry Christmas!!! God Bless you all!!!

Congress/ "It's Business Just Business"

Congress / “It’s Business Just Business!” iI's going to be a very poor Christmas for many families in the USA, with no gifts, or very few gifts. Many families will be going to the Salvation Army to give their children gifts the only way they can afford to do. Families can't be together for the holidays because of the Coronavirus, Congress will not suffer at all during the Christmas season. They will have a wonderful holiday. They will have plenty of food, without going to a food pantry to get their fixings for Christmas dinner. They don’t have to worry about standing in food stamp lines or running out of the necessities needed to survive during these troubled times, and no funds to buy them. They are not watching the news hoping for that stimulus check they were promised several months ago. They have their jobs (Which by the way, we pay for) Yes, for them it is “A Wonderful Life” They can go home to their families have big meals, and feel safe, tucked away from the world’s troubles, while the American people suffer and cry with their jobs taken away because they can’t work or where they work is closed because of the virus. They really have no idea how the American people feel because it’s not affecting them personally. Politics is their baby. Getting what they want and leaving the American people out in the cold with promises never being fulfilled. For months now we have been hearing this phrase “The stimulus checks are coming, the stimulus checks are coming ” Now that boat has sailed, it’s lost at sea, and like the Titanic, it has sunk. Congress is the Scrooge we see, able to alleviate the world of its ills, but too stingy to do it. Congress like Scrooge says’s “It’s business, just business.!”

Freedom Of Speech has Changed!

Freedom Of Speech Has Changed! In the USA, we are blessed with the freedom to speak our minds and our thoughts. In many countries, speech is limited and is overseen by the government. Many countries do not have the Liberties of our freedom of the press. When our forefathers wrote the Bill Of Rights, they wanted the people to be able to know what their rights were. The rights all were entitled to. This gave power to the people to change governments and other things in our country that were displeasing to them and needed to be changed. Freedom of speech brought truth and power to our world, by the people voicing their opinions. It seems to me that today freedom of speech means something totally different. It’s no longer based on the issues that are facing our country, but more on the background of people who are running for offices in our Government. Lately, all I hear on television, radio, podcast, are defamatory comments about the person. Comments that are so bad that it makes a person not want to select that candidate, which is the true intention of those who are speaking these comments. We to become judges of that person when we truly know nothing about them, except what we have been told. We hear about all the things they say their families have done, their waste of finances, their children. nothing is off-limits. I think we need to stop and think about what freedom of speech was made for, and why it was put in the “Bill of Rights. It wasn’t to tear down a person’s background, family, or self-image, but to foster change in our country to make it a better place to live. Tearing down a person’s image can only foster hate, chaos, and confusion, as we have seen too much of that lately. Let’s value our freedom of speech, but never to the point of defaming others in the eyes of a watching world. We wouldn’t like it either if those things were said about us, and others didn’t really know who we really were, but judged us by the words of others. We need to stick to the issues we’re fighting for, watch our language, and leave their families out of it!

The Old man/ All Lives Are Precious!

When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian country town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, They found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital. One nurse took her copy to Melbourne. The old man's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas editions of magazines around the country and appearing in mags for Mental Health. A slide presentation has also been made based on his simple, but eloquent, poem. And this old man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this 'anonymous' poem winging across the Internet. Cranky Old Man What do you see nurses? . . .. . .What do you see? What are you thinking .. . when you're looking at me? A cranky old man, . . . . . .not very wise, Uncertain of habit .. . . . . . . .. with faraway eyes? Who dribbles his food .. . ... . . and makes no reply. When you say in a loud voice . .'I do wish you'd try!' Who seems not to notice . . .the things that you do. And forever is losing . . . . . .. . . A sock or shoe? Who, resisting or not . . . ... lets you do as you will, With bathing and feeding . . . .The long day to fill? Is that what you're thinking?. .Is that what you see? Then open your eyes, nurse .you're not looking at me. I'll tell you who I am . . . . .. As I sit here so still, As I do at your bidding, .. . . . as I eat at your will. I'm a small child of Ten . .with a father and mother, Brothers and sisters .. . . .. . who love one another A young boy of Sixteen . . . .. with wings on his feet Dreaming that soon now . . .. . . a lover he'll meet. A groom soon at Twenty . . . ..my heart gives a leap. Remembering, the vows .. .. .that I promised to keep. At Twenty-Five, now . . . . .I have young of my own. Who need me to guide . . . And a secure happy home. A man of Thirty . .. . . . . My young now grown fast, Bound to each other . . .. With ties that should last. At Forty, my young sons .. .have grown and are gone, But my woman is beside me . . to see I don't mourn. At Fifty, once more, .. ...Babies play 'round my knee, Again, we know children . . . . My loved one and me. Dark days are upon me . . . . My wife is now dead. I look at the future ... . . . . I shudder with dread. For my young are all rearing .. . . young of their own. And I think of the years . . . And the love that I've known. I'm now an old man . . . . . . .. and nature is cruel. It's jest to make old age . . . . . . . look like a fool. The body, it crumbles .. .. . grace and vigor, depart. There is now a stone . . . where I once had a heart. But inside this old carcass . A young man still dwells, And now and again . . . . . my battered heart swells I remember the joys . . . . .. . I remember the pain. And I'm loving and living . . . . . . . life over again. I think of the years, all too few . . .. gone too fast. And accept the stark fact . . . that nothing can last. So open your eyes, people .. . . . .. . . open and see. Not a cranky old man . Look closer . . . . see .. .. . .. .... . ME!! Remember this poem when you next meet an older person who you might brush aside without looking at the young soul within. We will all, one day, be there, too! PLEASE SHARE THIS POEM (originally by Phyllis McCormack; adapted by Dave Griffith) The best and most beautiful things of this world can't be seen or touched. They must be felt by the heart!