The "Do Nothing Politics"

I can't tell you how tired I am of politics in general. This is the bottom line...the congress has a job. we are paying them. they make more that we do, they get more perks than we do. they will get more SS than we do. where else would an employee make more than an employer? only in the USA and we are putting up with it. I want them all fired, I want the the way they get paid to mirror how a working "person" gets paid. you don't work, you don't get paid. You have a dead line and go on vacation, you don't get paid. you get a fair pension, Social Security, no personal car, no body guards...no perks...you are only allowed to be elected twice. I want new people in the congress. I want what is going on now to stop--I want congress to put their big boy pants on and act like adults that give a damn about us as a people. I want them to stop with the labels...period!! I want them, when they campaign to just tell me what you are "really" going to do. I don't want to hear what you think of an opponent. We don't need another reality show. Now, the present Congress, while you still have your "job", get your head out of your asses and get busy...no more name calling, no more bullying not more B. S. President Obama, you should have just given the American People all of the money you gave the banks etc to "bail them out", we wouldn't be where we are now if you had done that. Other wise, I will indeed vote for you again...however, don't give a speech about being for the American workers and every day people while you wear Armani suits and Michelle walks around with Tiffany's on her neck and wrist...be very careful sir, we love you, but we want to see an every day president not a king. thank you.

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep - Mary Frye : Pearls Of Wisdom

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep - Mary Frye : Pearls Of Wisdom




Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there, I do not sleep.



I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the diamond glint on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle autumn rain.



When you wake in the morning hush,

I am the swift, uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circling flight.

I am the soft starlight at night.



Do not stand at my grave and weep.

I am not there, I do not sleep.

Do not stand at my grave and cry.

I am not there, I did not die!

THE GREEN THING.....

Just think, we used solar power to dry our wash on the line,, we used wind that turned tall fan on the top of the house or barn, to make and store electricty. We used Glass bottles, no paper or plastic for us. We saved grass clippings and used it to enrich the ground we used for our vegetable garden, we used our saved egg shells, coffee grounds,and mixed it with the dirt and used that in our garden for plants. We did not throw away any fruit seeds we shoved them in the dirt and suprise some of them grew into a fruit tree. We hung laundry out




to dry, using wind power! Now they want to lecture us on green power, read on!



Recycle? What's that?



~Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.



In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.



The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day."The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."



He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing when we were younger!



Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store and got money back on beer and soda bottles. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.



*But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.



We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.



*But we didn't have the green thing in our day.



Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. We shared, as



kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, or an occasional sewn new outfit, e.g. not always brand-new clothing. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.



Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. There were no remotes then, you got up to change the channel.



In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.



When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.



Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.



* But we didn't have the green thing back then.



We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water.



We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.



*But we didn't have the green thing back then.



Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their parents into a 24-hour taxi service.



Some had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.



*But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?



Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.