Taxes and Jobs

If no one has a job, how do they pay taxes?

Ever Wonder

The older I get the "wiser" my elders have become. Even though some have passed on, I still marvel at the wisdom they had about Vietnam. For instance when I was younger and in the military I thought we should get involved in Vietnam. To me it was like playing football in high school. Why should you spend all the time practicing if you are not going to use it. Once we became involved and I matured a little more and observed the politics of war I started to realize that war is for the politicians not the generals. The last General I can think of that fought and won a war was U.S. Grant. He negotiated the terms of peace and respected his enemy. Since then it seems that all wars that ended by negotiations of the politicians has sooner or later resulted in a follow on war somewhere else, because no one really thought through the history or social conditions that may have precipitated the out break. I recall when recently we invaded Iraq I was starting to question in my own mind the reason we were doing it. Sure all the information indicated they had WMD's but I still felt there were better ways to deal with it. Granted Saddam was an a..hole, but there were better ways to handle that than with a big budget war. $3.50 worth of ammunition and a well disguised CIA agent could have done that task. How many times has Afghanistan been invaded with the same out come. Looks like we are going to follow history and get out with out accomplishing much except leaving a bunch of cronies in charge which sooner or later will be out of office at the hands of local feudal tribes. That's the way they like it, who are we to try and change it. So as the vets of this war will learn, there will be another one in the next generation to test the warriors. Man cannot practice football and never play the game. Thus is is with war.

Debt and taxes

I wonder how long politicians will think all they have to do is reduce spending and the national debt will go away. Pretty soon it will start to cut into muscle and without some kind of investment in the future our children wont have to worry about the national debt. Instead they will have to figure out how to make a living in an anarchy.

Weather

I wonder if it will quit raining some day. I am getting very tired of grey days, wet nights and needing to use the furnace in the mornings to take the chill off the house. Oh sure it makes everything green, but when it is under two inches of water who cares. Frogs croaking at night are not entertaining anymore. All I hear on the news is the crappy weather all over the country, so I guess I should just be content with the rain. At least we don't have a lot of tornadoes and violent flooding to contend with.

OBL

Well he's gone. Buried at sea, now all the fishes can cope with him. I thought it was nice he received a burial according to his traditions, but wonder how many he didn't offer the same to. I can't help but wonder what would have happened if we could have gotten him in Tora Bora several years ago. I wonder how long it will be before everyone can just be a little civilized.

Whats new

I am in a ballet now. I consider my self a movable prop as I don't do any dancing, but I am having a great time. Kind of fun being around all those young folks and seeing the energy they have. The name of the Ballet is the Emerald Bay. It is a story about the 1880's in Bellingham WA and the Chinese expulsion. It is similar in some aspects to Westside Story and Romeo and Juliet. It is a love story biased on an Irish girl and a Chinese sailor set in a time when that was very forbidden.

I am having fun.

Wondering 1

I have often wondered about things and if anyone else does too. Some of the things are serious and others just plain silly. Serious things may be political or philosophical in nature, while other may just be plain frivilous. I suppose some of the more serious thoughts have evolved with maturity (anonter way of saying "getting older") I love idealists because they have such a nice way of putting everything in its place. I wish I could be one, but for some reason I sometimes wonder about the exception. Often Idealist just have the broad scope like "lets reduce the national debt." How is it folks can fix any problem with just a broad statement. What gives folks,