good grief...

I'm overdosing on the news and what's going on in congress and in this country.

my wife and i get to a point to where we're about to scream after watching news for a while during the day.

it seems to us that there is nothing POSITIVE in the news now...it's all about negative goings on's...if it's not about the highly volatile health care issue, it's about a child killer or mass murderer.

it's my opinion, that this congress, and most, state legislatures, are dysfunctional...period.

the results of being so highly dysfunctional? mass dissatisfaction among the population.

it seems that our so-called legislators, believe that penalizing the population by way of excess taxation, is the answer to everything yet they fail to realize that pour national debt is now out of control and may never be able to be paid, ever. i saw one estimate that each American family is committed for $45,000.00 per year to pay of the debt...that's staggering in itself but that's not the end of it.

congress wants to lower Medicare benefits and raise the price of them...go figure.

congress mandated we MUST all pay for medicare then they want to deny us the benefit as promised.

that's reasonable to them i suppose...not to me and millions of other Americans, though.

the state i live in, California is broke. they retaliate against me by raising my already oppressive vehicle registration fees. they, in fact, increased by $50.00 each. i have to make a choice of buying groceries or pay the vehicle fees without out fear of retaliation from the state as i live on a limited income. they fail to realize that not every one who is retired is wealthy. furthermore, they could care less if they do realize it. counties are trying to increase property taxes, water districts are doubling and even tripling water rates, utility providers are increasing rates at a phenomenal rate and all the while, our pay does not go up...

welcome to the REAL world...the occupant of the white house did promise change didn't he? I'm sure he meant it, but what he didn't tell us is that it's change for the worse...all one has to do is look around to see that.

good grief...