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Always Thinking About Money

I'm so tired, it's difficult to think about something you'll never have enough of because there is no such thing.  I can pay my bills, buy stuff I don't need, and save some too.  Isn't that enough?  But I need to work to keep the flow of dollars into the house so I think about that all the time.  So I'm tired.

Exhausted by National Finance Issues

I can't get my arms around everything that is going on.  I'm tired of hearing certain congressional voices and I'm very tired of graphs with downward plunging arrows.  I have been making more food at home and thinking of services to discontinue and about items not to buy.  Oh, and I have clothing items to return.

I'm a great returner of things.  Sometimes you just need to have the opportunity to change your mind.  It's like a little savings account, well not really, but it's nice to think about the positives.  Now I need to find the receipts.  Yikes!

Sue and Pkin Enjoy the Weekend

Life is about making choices and then living with the results.  One of the things I committed to when marrying a man with very different interests than my own was that we would do the things that each other enjoyed.  Sometimes it's been a challenge for each of us.  I learned this lesson from my parents.  They chose to have more separate lifes, and now they've lived in separate homes for 20-some years.

For Pkin and I, he's seen more musical comedies on the stage than he ever dreamed of and for me I've seen more unfinished hot rods than I ever knew existed.

Yesterday we spent 5 hours celebrating my great-aunt's 83rd birthday.  Pkin railed against liberal politics and entitlement programs and enjoyed the taquiera.  Today we're in an auto rebuild shop in the Valley (say with Valley-tone.)  I don't know when it will end.

There is a promise of BBQ.

The thing we have in common is our love of food.  It's a bonus when the food is good.  We need to have something to keep us together.

Why I'm a Heifer

Dr. Oz's website advises eggs as the morning key to weight loss, http://www.realage.com/ct/eat-smart/food-and-nutrition/tip/6931.  My breakfast was Costco key lime pie.  Do you see the disconnect?

You Have to Read This

Love and Life and Old Age

I Will Never, Ever Complain About My Job Again

 

I'm sure I'll still bitch and moan on my bad days, but perhaps I'll think about the elephant guys and their everydays.  What do you think the guy on the right is thinking?  "Tomorrow is my turn."

A New Deal

UPDATE 9/26/08:  As the commentor noted, the math is wrong.  But it was nice to dream for a while.

From T. J. Birkenmeier, A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic (I don't know who he is, but Pkin shared this!).  Oh to dream!

Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend.

To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+.

Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up...

So divide 200 million adults 18+  into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00.

My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free.  So let’s assume a tax rate of 30%.  Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes.  That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.  But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. 

A husband and wife has $595,000 .00.

What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?  Pay off your mortgage housing crisis solved.  Repay college loans what a great boost to new grads.  Put away money for college it’ll be there.  Save in a bank create money to loan to entrepreneurs.  Buy a new car create jobs.  Invest in the market capital drives growth.  Pay for your parent’s medical insurance improves health care.  Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean or else.

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+  including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back.  And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.

If we’re going to re-distribute wealth let’s really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( vote buy ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President.

If we’re going to do an $85 billion bailout, let’s bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!

As for AIG  liquidate it.
Sell off its parts.
Let American General go back to being American General.
Sell off the real estate.
Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

Here’s my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn’t.  Sure it’s a crazy idea that can never work.  But can you imagine the Coast-To-Co ast Block Party!  How do you spell Economic Boom?

I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC .

And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest.

Kindest personal regards,
Birk

T. J. Birkenmeier, A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic

Prefer to Be Watching the Federal Hearings

But I have to work to earn money that will be valued at less and less as each second passes.  I really don't know what is going to happen but I don't trust anyone who is making decisions about my finances.  Honestly, most of the time I'm seconding guessing my own decisions.  It's going to be a long week. 

But If Bernanke and Paulson really know what they are doing wouldn't they have done it already?  Why didn't they bring their legislation forward last month, quarter or year?  Why the burning rush? 

A Nice Way to Go

Casper Star-Tribune Online - Obituaries

Monday, September 15, 2008 2:05 AM MDT

DOUGLAS -- A celebration of life for James William "Jim" Adams, 53, will be held at a later date.

He died Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008 at Memorial Hospital of Converse County in Douglas.

Jim, who had tired of reading obituaries noting other's courageous battles with this or that disease, wanted it known that he lost his battle. It was primarily as a result of being stubborn and not following doctor's orders or maybe for just living life a little too hard for better than five decades.

He was born June 8, 1955 in Garrison, N.D. the son of James William and Ruby Helen (Clark) Adams.

He was sadly deprived of his final wish, which was to be run over by a beer truck on the way to the liquor store to buy booze for a date. True to his personal style, he spent his final hours joking with medical personnel, cussing and begging for narcotics and bargaining with God to look over his loving dog, Biscuit, and his family.

He would like to thank all "his ladies" for putting up with him the last 30 years.

During his life, he excelled at anything he put his mind to. He loved to hear and tell jokes and spin tales of grand adventures he may or may not have had.

He is survived by five sons, Jeremiah Adams and his wife, Nicole, Mica Olivas, Wade Olivas, Brice Simpson and Cole Adams; sister, Jerri Giegerich; two ex-wives, Vickie Harrison and Marilyn Williams; four grandchildren; two nieces; and two great-nieces.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother-in-law.

In lieu of flowers, he asks that you make a sizeable purchase at your favorite watering hole, get rip roaring drunk and tell the stories he no longer can.

Gorman Funeral Homes - Converse Chapel of Douglas is in charge of the arrangements.

Name-Dropping by Remote Relationships and Stuff

I've met the guy, once, who is helping the FBI find the person who broke into Sarah Palin's email.  Does anyone what to touch me?  It will only cost 25 gold doubloons.

Nothing else is really happening in my life, so I'll share that little tidbit.

The toesies continue to recover.  I'm not in the shoes I would prefer to wear but I'm in my own size mules today.  They are nun shoes usually reserved for rainy or colder days. 

My recovery ritual involves Scar Cream, ironically it is scar fade cream but big as day on the label is SCAR CREAM, seeming to say that the cream will give you scars.  I think about this every time I open the tube and I laugh.  The directions advise rubbing liberal amounts of the cream, gently massaging it in 3 to 4 times a day.  I'm usually doing it two but am trying to get it up to three times.  I spend lots of time and money on tape.  The toes are taped up continuously. 

I've decided that I want to swim as part of my recovery.  Now I have to get Pkin to uncover (and then recover) and skim the pool, daily.  What do you think the odds of that are?  Oh, I want to heat it too.  I guess I don't like the $12 monthly gas bills!  What is wrong with me!?!

I'll let you know how it all shakes out.