The holiday seasons are in full swing it's hard to believe that next week is Thanksgiving already. It was fun yesterday helping out at the Thurston County food bank to distribute meals for next Thursday. If I remember correctly they will distribute about 3000 meals. This distribution is on top of the food they give out day-to-day or week to week. I'm not sure when they distribute food if it's daily or how often they do it I should know but I don't. I should be thankful that I don't know the schedule because that means I don't have to rely on them for food and that my closest friends and neighbors do not rely on them. I know the local churches give out at least one meal a day I think a couple even give out two. Places like the union gospel mission might even give out three meals a day as well is a place to sleep.
Our area is finally seeing temperatures below freezing and this morning there's a little snow blowing around. this is a tough time a year from a homeless around our area. It seems we always lose a few of them to the extreme temperatures or illness this time year. Overall we have a lot to be thankful for. This is something we should remember next Thursday before we have our feast.
The title this post blah blah or blab lab doesn't have real meaning to me. Blah blah seems to be repeating the same things over and over. Things that people already know really don't need to hear again. Blab blab seems to be more like gossip or useless conversation. If I have my choice I like to keep this blog lost rather than blab blab. Blah blah is not the ultimate goal of this blog. But I'd rather be repeating things people already know that repeating gossip or useless stuff.
There seems to be a lot of repeated themes over and over and a lot of blogs and news articles and TV shows. It is a lot of the same old stuff repeated over and over again. I think the daily show with Jon Stewart does the best job of digging these out. It is great the way they show the same points being made over the years and through the months by the same old tired politicians. I guess a comment blah blah from me is the notion that it's time we focus on something other than party differences. You know, the things that used to make this country great, or at least a lot of us a lot better off than we are now. I think I'm too young to be thinking about the good old days but it seems that's what they were years ago, the good old days.
It is still the goal of this blog in the Trinity website to bring people together to more common ground. Useless bickering about which party or candidate is better is nothing more than the old Ford versus Chevy argument. It is time we get ourselves moving together in one direction instead of always coming head-on at each other.
Wouldn't it be great to have a president elected with more than 60% of the vote?
Wouldn't it be great to have legislation, meaningful legislation, passed with over 70% of the vote?
This might seem to be as hard as getting everyone to pick one football team, baseball team, or automobile manufacture as a favorite. It would be rewarding if we could get it done though. Imagine having a topic the vast majority of us agree on. I had hoped health care reform would be something a lot of us agree on because I feel it is something everyone deserves. It was disappointing to learn that so many people feel that access to health care is a privilege that only a few deserve. I guess being healthy or have to be left up to clinics and shelters for the poor as well as those working that cannot afford health insurance. My stance is that if you work full-time in the great United States of America you should have at access to health care. You should not face financial ruin because of an illness or accident. We as a nation, should see to it that everyone that wants to get back on their feet and be productive has access to the help they need.
This is no more of a socialist program than dialing 911. We all pay for the service and we all have access to it.
Wow, am I making an argument that we should all have a phone so we can call 911?
The point is, we should not be the type of people that ignore others who are suffering, who are hungry, who are cold, or just need a helping hand. Most of us take care of our friends and family. The church used to be the primary source of funding for the poor but now a lot of it goes to the government. I could get out my guitar and write a protest song reminiscent of the 60s as long as I can find someone to sing it for me. It would not be fair to subject people to my vocal stylings. Maybe my first CD for the Trinity site should be titled, "We are Still the World".
I understand the fear of those afraid to give government any more money. I fully agree that money is wasted and spending for needless and useless things are out of control. However, I think a lot more people would be willing to pay a little more for the benefit to all of us if we trusted the government with our money. There is a given be one libertarian or tea party supporter to agree with this last sentence at all. They want no government, no taxes, and think capitalism solves every problem. I don't know who they thinks will pay for the roads and infrastructure, or for the military, or the state services. We all have to pay for fire, police, emergency aid, and even things like libraries. The idea that one should be able to keep every cent a person makes and that everyone else is on their own just doesn't work for me. I don't want to pay 90% of my income to have services and things I feel we need. Nor do I want to only pay 1% for services at things I feel we need.
We all have ideas and none of us has all the answers by ourselves. I believe we can come up with answers that most of us can agree on if we work together. The folks we have elected do not seem capable of getting this done. We can help them out by demanding they quit acting like children and bickering like brats. We can no longer let them distract us from the real issues while they are picking our pockets.
Take a minute to visit Old iSkool and The Goal Farm too!
I am sticking with this hands-free data-entry device and still would like someone to volunteer to edit this blog. I'm doing the best I can but it's hard to catch my mistakes and all the times the software doesn't understand me.
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