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Jolie Victoria Turpeinen (Miller-Julian)
Hi Everyone!
It is nice to see that some are utilizing the Message Forum.
First, David LeClaire, Thank-you so much for sharing your poems, and writings. Believe it or not, I have stacks of writings myself. It is amazing what a pen, pad of paper, and a few scribbles will do to the over-all human health; for me anyway! :-) Saved me thousands of dollars in mental health bills LOL (wink, wink & j/k). No, seriously I love to write, and I can appreciate your poetry to its fullest.
Politics.. OMG! We are all affected by the stupidity of the bailout, and we won't see a fast recovery either.
I personally endured the pain of the mortgage market drop. My husband and I were building a house, and our builder skipped the country with our monies. We then had to physically finish ourselves... After all the blood, sweat, and tears (not to mention money) were put into our home; a couple hours prior to the closing on our house we found out that our house payment was doubling due to the mortgage market failing! It was devastating to say the least, especially since we weighed our options on buying vs. building, budgeted, and did things "smart" for well over a year; yet we paid the ultimate price for bad decisions of the financial institutions that gave out loans to those who could not afford them!
I agree that we need to rely on natural resources; but we are not educated in these areas.
In advance, I apologize to anyone I offend with my writings. I want our Message Forum to be a place where it is safe to spew our beliefs freely, and still remain friendly in all other conversations.
I could, go on & on pertaining to our country, government, the elections. But, I think it is safe to say after most recent "bail-out" events; all of us are pretty much on the same page. But, feel free to fill in where I leave off.... Ha ha ha
The subject being Natural Resources Frank - I whole heartedly agree to start looking on our own turf (American Soil) for survival means. BUT, we have "tree huggers" to name one group that are in the way of making it possible. And to those of you whom are still dreaming in study hall - Our government supports these types of groups.
I think we've all taken our Freedom for granted. We've used our freedoms, which in turn has turned us lazy. We tend to sit and listen to debates, and candidacy talk and believe it, rather than take the time to do research ourselves. We vote, then question why did we vote this way in the first place; because we just took the candidates words as golden and believed in them... If we used the technology that we have to research the facts spewed by politicians; you'd find they've stretched the truth. In fact, we aren't educated on what is real, we are told lies, by all candidates. My scenerio is this - WE as Americans tend to believe what we've been told, or what we hear, similiar to a "small town" rumor mill. We need to get off our lazy butts, research on our own, and stand up for what we believe, what is in our gut, rather than what our government spews.
We all run scared, and are freaked out about the elections, and I feel it isn't going to get any better. Bad outlook? NO. Just the way it is. We need to stand on our own two feet, speak up for what is right, research prior to voting, and grab your ankles and kiss your ass goodbye - because our Government, has got us here, and most certainly won't be in a big rush to get us out of the trouble we are in now anytime soon.
It is time for everyone to start researching candidates prior to voting. I will not vote for Obama, and I invite everyone to research him throughly; I was shocked to learn many of his beliefs, and his track record. McCain? - He is no winner either, but of the two? Hey Frank Carr, are you up for the job? LOL
Just spewing myself everyone. If I had more time, I would bore ya all more with my thoughts..... Have a great day everyone... And may GOD save us all.
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