Strange sights -
I do believe the people in this country are going crazy...
Sitting in Starbucks. Couple came in. He looked to be in his fifties, she in her forties, I guess. They went and ordered. His drink came first, so he took it and sat down at a table. She received her drink and proceeded to walk past him and sit at the bar running across the front window. He waits a few minutes, gets up, and goes and sits by a table closer to her. She finishes whatever she had, gets up and leaves. He gets up and follows her. Go figure...
Went to Qdoba for dinner tonight. Looked across and their was a "family" sitting in a side booth. Father in a corner, son sitting next to him, daughter in the other corner, and mom's plate waiting for her on the outside of the booth. Mom comes, picks up plate and sits at the table behind father. Daughter gets up and follows mom to other table. Son gets up and follows mom to other table. Dad eats alone.
Many young people (anyone under thirty) tend to ignore the presence of anyone over fifty, as if they were invisible. I guess the young have not come to grips with the fact that every day they move closer to becoming "old", and being ignored... Too bad I probably won't be around to enjoy their trying to figure out how they ended up getting old.
Was surfing through others blogs last night and noticed they were a lot more dressed up than what mine is. I guess I'm going to have to start learning how to dress mine up so it won't look like it was written by an old person who just doesn't understand how blogs are supposed to look and how to achieve a better look. Maybe I'll get my ten year old granddaughter to help...
Saw on MSNBC that the pundits are saying that the jobless rate will continue to be very high, possibly throughout the next decade, which starts in five days. The seven million plus jobs lost, added to the three or four, or more million jobs that went overseas is one reason. They say that companies will not be hiring because they won't need to. They can fill vacancies with part-time people and OVERSEAS WORKERS! Or, just threaten the ones they already have into working harder for no raises. Real patriotic, these companies. The article also indicated that the middle class would continue to be "hollowed out", which I guess means they will fall into the upper lower class, or lower than that as well. Companies will not be willing to give much in the way of raises because they don't have to. Thus, the rich get richer, and the rest of us go to seed...
Of course, the "Health Care" bill that is proposed will add to the countries misery, what with mandating everyone must buy health insurance, and small business has to offer it to any employees. Does anyone really believe that doing that is going to help increase the number of small businesses in this country? If you do, please explain to me why anyone would like to start a small business knowing they have to expend many more dollars just to be in business?
Mind you, I am not against health care reform. It sorely needs it. I cannot understand why pharmaceutical companies can raise the cost of their products 10% or more in an economy that has been running in a negative inflation path for over a year - (but, that's not covered in the bill). And, insurance companies should not lock out people based on a pre-existing condition. In the past, pre-existing conditions may not have been covered for a period of one year, but at least one could get insurance to cover all the other things.
And if people do not think there are already "death panels", look at the insurance companies that dump insurance holders, or refuse to pay for expensive treatment.
And, our esteemed congress did not touch tort reform! Doctors pay outrageous rates for malpractice insurance. Try and find a lawyer that will take on a malpractice lawsuit. Most will not touch them because they are so difficult to prove, and therefore many people who have a case never see anything done about it.
Were you aware that the democrats in congress do not care what the people want? They fully expect that they will loose so many seats in the house and senate next year as a result, but figure they have the means to ram this through, and by God they are going to do just that, the people, and logical reform be damned!
Howard Dean, the one time presidential candidate, and leader of the democratic party, has said they need to kill this mess and start over. And he's a BIG proponent of health care reform!
Congress - arrogant and ignorant, and we foot the bill!
This process is yet another step towards the two class society the government has been working towards for some time, decades, in fact. Don't look now, people, but the US is headed for third world status.
