We have begun taking daily walks, even though it is cold out right now. I did see where the temps are supposed to moderate to around 50 by next week sometime. Too bad. I'd rather have it snow some more, like, all the way through the end of February. Then it can warm up and rain.
I read about a place in New York where it has snowed every day since late December, and they now have 55 inches on the ground, with more on the way. We'll have to wait and see if the next system will bring us any. It's supposed to hit the midwest pretty hard again, but the pundits say only that it "could" bring us some snow Thursday or Friday. That includes Atlanta, which at least in the past, if they got snow, we got snow. However, unless the system heads off the coast, and then comes up the coast, we'll get very little, if any.
I guess I shouldn't complain. After all, we moved down here from Maine because we were tired of the cold weather up there.
Lunch today with my friend who grew up in Turkey. He purchased a new Outback, and I am anxious to see how it performs. Where we'll go to lunch? Don't know yet. Don't care, really. All I'm going to have is a salad of some sort.
After that - Starbucks, lattes, and reading for the afternoon!
Saw where yet another player of baseball received $120 million for seven years. What a waste of money! I wonder how the sports teams will be doing later this year after people can no longer afford to go to games. The economy will eventually hit them as well, and frankly, I wish everyone would stay away from the stadiums, but, we all know that won't happen, just like all the people who complain about the idiots in congress will complain while they reelect the same bums that are there.
They listed some of the latest restaurants that are closing due to the economy in the paper today, some that we have gone to, but like many others, have not for a while. Too bad. More people out of work now.
I think it is disgusting how many American companies have left this country to seek "cheaper" labor in other countries. Their products are just as expensive as they ever were, in cases more expensive. But, they could care less. Their big concern is satisfying the huge Chinese market, since that is where they can make the most money. The US is nothing more than an afterthought now.
And still, the powers that be keep saying we just need to come up with the next big thing, whatever that is. If there is another big thing, it will be made in China anyway, so what does that get us?
I corresponded with Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor, a few years ago, about all the outsourcing that was draining jobs from American soil. His response was that we needed to adapt, that outsourcing would create opportunities for Americans to be retrained into the new fields that were just emerging. We never got into exactly what those fields were, or the fact that no company I can think of would retrain their older workers in new technologies and pay them what they were making. I cannot think of a single company that will hire a person over fifty who has retrained themselves to do something, and pay them even close to what they were making, and that's if they hire them at all.
Even though the trend is for more "old" people in the future, all the thrust of advertising and jobs is for the younger generation. This tells me that most companies will treat anyone over fifty as if they were non-existent, lower their sales expectations, and market their goods overseas to the younger generations of the upcoming leaders of the world, China and India.
This president, and presidents past kept telling us that America's best days lie ahead. This while everything keeps sinking lower and lower... And, we hired them to lead us to this better place, but where they are taking us is into the morass of newspeak... George Orwell, we may be a few decades late, but we're coming, man, and we're picking up speed!
