Are you a moocher?

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Raise your hand if you:
went to a public college or university
work for government (i.e., cops, teachers, firefighters, military, social workers, librarians, school janitors, judges, court reporters, bus drivers, etc),
borrow books from a public library,
work for or own stock in a defense contractor,
get your electricity or water from a government-owned utility,
went to, or send your kids to, public school,
ride on government-run buses, subways or light-rail,
use or work for the post office,
went to college on the GI Bill, Pell Grant, state financial aid program,
are retired and get Social Security payments,
ever used

Kaddish

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I discovered this and bought the album way back in the ’60s.
I still have the album but hadn’t heard it in a long time until I discovered it on Youtube.

I used to be a Republican

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I used to be a Republican. There have been a lot of great Republicans; Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt , Dwight Eisenhower, the Rockefeller brothers. Hell, I even voted for Nixon in '68 (but don't tell anyone!) I even supported George, Mitt's father in '68 until he dropped out of the race. There were no "birthers" like Trump and the others today who claimed he was ineligible to be President because he was born in Mexico.

The Measure of Success

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How do you measure success? Dollars and Cents? By that criteria Lincoln, Florence Nightingale, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Theresa, MLK, even Jesus were failures. Real success means doing something with your life that lets people live better lives, makes the world a better place to live. Getting rich is just a side affect that some experience. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, got rich, but more importantly, they were successful. Mitt Romney got rich.

The Middle Class

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One of the favorite “buzzwords” the politicians keep using is “middle class.” Do you know who Romney or Obama are talking about when they use it?  I don’t. It would be helpful if they would tell us who they mean when they say “the middle class.”  I suspect they are not talking about the same people.
My curiosity got the better of me and I did a Google search to see what I could find.  I got 510,000,000 results.  I looked at a few.

Budget

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Dean Heller along with all the other Republicans keep harping on the fact that Congress hasn’t passed a budget in three years.  Does it matter?

Que Sera, Sera

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"It is what it is" is obviously true, but "que sera, sera" is not.  I reject the idea that we have nothing to say about the future.  We can not change the past, (although there have been many attempts to re-write history) but "what will be" is what we make it.