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National Debt

I heard something I suspected was going on in the government yesterday on Point of View and it disturbed me and I have been thinking about it. Here's what I found out: The government spends $10 billion each day ($4 billion of which is borrowed every day ). That means the government adds billions to the national debt each day. Obama's plan plans to cut/save $2 billion per year . Beiner's plan would cut/save $7 billion per year. Unfortunately, he didn't mention his source, but I'm not the least bit surprised at those staggering figures. Both of those figures the tabled plans propose saving are less than what they're spending per day (one is less than what we're adding to the national debt each day) and yet President Obama is saying that he'll veto anything that comes across his desk (anything but his own rotten plan, of course). And his own plan would force us into a deeper, darker recession than what we're already in and make jobs even ha

Am I looking for a “Perfect Horse”?

“He who wait for perfect horse have mighty long walk” - Cameron I thought for sure I’d abandoned even the idea of finding anyone, let alone a perfect someone to share my life with, but when I read that line, I laughed and identified. I’ve been reading a book that challenges me not to mope about being single, but to embrace this period of my life in such a way as to make it interesting enough to look forward to. In reading some of the passages, I’ve realized that I’ve put my life on hold and that I’ve not tried to figure out who I am, what I like and such. Generally speaking, I don’t like to focus on those kinds of things just because it seems selfish of me, but there isn’t anyone else in my life that will be hurt if I focus on figuring those things out. And there may never be someone and in more ways than one, I’m starting to get used to that idea. I mean, if I were married, the hair in the drain wouldn’t be just mine, and I’d have to worry about whether or not he’d be ok with each