Common Saint

On more than a couple of occasions in my life I have been grievously disappointed after trying to help someone battling an addiction...only to see them squander the resources I have given them to fall back into the same trap. People who are desperate to satisfy that need just won't stop asking....begging....stealing. The manipulate in anyway they can if they think it will result in getting what they are after. If you have ever experienced that frustration....then you know exactly the emotion that I have in regard to this bailout that the President and Senate are trying to push down the throat of the people. The Senate voted out of turn today, in order to pressure the house to pass this, after adding another Billion (yes, with a 'B') to the prior nightmare, which was rejected outright. I am praying the representatives in the house, both Republicans and Democrats, will stand their ground to reject this piece of legislation again. The message needs to be sent, "What is i...

It has been forever since I actually sat down in front of the computer to write anything on my blog. I think I should do it a lot more...good therapy. I find that many of the links that I have, lead to blogs of people who haven't posted since before me. Some links don't work, and others have changed and no longer go to Blogger or Word Press. So I guess a little house cleaning is in order and I will get to that soon. I have spent the past hour checking the headlines and catching up on the whole political scene, trying to make sense of the $700 billion dollar bailout that has suddenly became my and my family's responsibility. Typically, I only track what is going on in D.C. with only cursory interest, but this whole deal has really made me just incredibly frustrated. It appears that the bailout will extrapolate to about $3100 per person. In the simplest of terms, my family of five will now be on the hook for $15,500 of someone else's mortgage. I really was not intending...