I agree - and in a foreign country nonetheless! (sm)

• Pertaining to the little girl missing, Madeleine - Oh, it does happen
  • I' still not convinced - I think they are usually to quick to jump on paren
    • Just the opposite in this case, the authorities - Oh, it does happen
  • So I'm behind I guess - they found her?? - Lisa
    • Not that they have found but - Oh, it does happen
  • Madeleine (missing girl) - ER MT
    • Tell you about this - Oh, it does happen
    • I agree - and in a foreign country nonetheless! (sm) - Lisa

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Just about every decision that is made by our esteemed lawmakers seems to have a money trail somewhere, and that is so sad.  Whoever has the most money, wins.  It's also sad that the government is seemingly no longer "by the people, for the people," and our constitution is trodded on day after day.  The very freedoms our parents and grandparents fought for in wars are slowly being stripped away.  Two words--"Patriot Act."  I still can't figure out where the "patriot" part of that whole abomination comes into play. 

Sigh...and so we just all keep on doin' the best we can and the world keeps a' turnin. 

I am getting a string of foreign dictators, the kind who can barely speak English.  On top of that, they are disorganized, mumbly.  It just irks me that I have to lose money listening to their rambling, unintelligible gibberish, long pauses.  They have sick people in their own countries, why aren't they there taking care of them?   I get 2 or 3 of these people and my line count goes right down the tubes.

I don't want to hear from you bleeding hearts - all the mularkey about we are all immigrants, etc.    I don't want to hear about how your favorite dictators are foreigners.  I'm not talking about dictators with accents, I'm talking about doctors who cannot speak decent English and yet are allowed to practice here.

I have a 2005 Chevy Malibu Maxx. My last car is a 93 Buick Century wagon. I sold it to my nephew and he's still driving it. My car before that was a 2004 Chevy Malibu Maxx.

Both Maxxes have 3.5 motors. I'm squeezing out an average of 24 mpg. I do mostly city driving. On a road trip last month the average was 38.6 mpg. The Buick wagon has a 3.3. The car is bigger so the mileage was lower but around 18 mpg.

I have not owned a foreign car since 1996.

face what you're suggesting?  (and I'm not talking about the situation with Mexico, rather ALL foreign countries actually)

ALL your relatives/kin came from some foreign land, that is unless you are a Native American.  Think y'all better think before you type on this subject...and try to remember what all your grandparents or great-grandparents, (or even some parents today) had to go through so that YOU all can live and be free (and some of them did not do it legally)....Think Ellis Island...for one place.... where everyone just GRABBED names.....

those who live in glass houses or lived in glass houses via ancestry should never throw stones.....

I think, JMO, that we should CLOSE THE DOORS TO EVERYBODY.....and then get rid of the wet-foot-dry-foot policy ongoing in Florida too that merely caters to the Cubans......and to nobody else trying to escape their country(ies) for the same exact reasons (sociopolitcoeconomical reasons) as the Cubans.  We should close our borders because of running out of natural resources and we already are having problems taking care of our own.

jes' my nickel's worth....LOL

the Lincoln is currently in storage, as 8 mph is not really practical.  never had a foreign car, was raised by dad to never do such a thing 

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Another post that was removed mentioned golf course in Florida that was now owned by the Japanese.  Jobs, property, borders, etc.  Why are our leaders allowing this?  I do not believe the average citizen want this.

that is why i can post that i thought * nn * sounded angry, deeply angry.

and it is MY OPINION that you sound very young.  maybe in 10 or 20 years, you will get the gist of what is going on here.

give it a rest.  i know i am.

IMHO, many people have blinders on. Still buy like crazy, charge everything, drive brand new cars with big monthly payments, have all the toys, new everything and then only pay minimums on their CC payments or miss a house payment or two and think everyone lives that way. People need to learn how to save money, plain and simple. DH and I both work, make just over six figures, have only the house payment, cars paid for (not new ones but don't care to impress anyone with our cars), no CC debt, gas prices aren't hurting us too much and we can still take nice vacations 2-3 times a year. Most people these days live like there is no tomorrow, don't bother to save for retirement, try to keep up with the Jones' and are miserable. We make a nice living, live well within our means and are content. Do we want new things...sure, but we pay cash for what we want. Nothing irks me more than when someone charged to the hilt on credit cards complains that the debt collectors are calling them because they are behind in payments. Most people whould be able to ride out a recession if they had some money in the bank.  

What do your think about Sean Young?

Our once great country, I afraid, has just turned a corner for the worse. I have watched as the mentality of our country has gone from setting your mind to something, working hard, and you can accomplish it to giving up, sitting back, and letting somebody else take care of them.

I was brought up, as many were, with a good work ethic that was instilled in us by our parents. With the idea that if you want something you had to work for it, and by working for something you learned quickly the difference between wants and needs.

There were always incentives for a person to strive to better themselves. Whether it were financial incentives, or just the pride you gained in knowing that you did something yourself, it didn’t matter.

I wasn’t long ago that people had that “small town” mentality, and everybody knew their neighbors. And those neighbors helped each other out, in any situation, it was just what you did. And people were so proud that some times help would have to be disguised, you remember the lines like..”Mom made more stew than we could eat, could you help us out by taking it so that it doesn’t go to waste?”

But, somewhere along the line those thoughts of some (I guess now the majority) have changed. Some how, if somebody works hard to gain something others feel entitled to have the same things, even if they didn’t have to go through the struggle to earn it. Some how, things like big screen TVs, cell phones, and shiny new cars have wrongly slipped from the “wants” list to the “needs” list.

Somewhere the incentives to strive for betterment have been replaced by incentives to be lazy. The easy way out and hand outs are now the norm. The feeling of pride about being self sufficient is supposed to be replaced by guilt for having more than others.

The “small town” mentality is gone and our neighbors have turned into strangers. People no longer help out their neighbors or even themselves, instead they sit and wait for the government to come solve things for them. And when help does come they complain that the help wasn’t good enough or didn’t come fast enough, the pride is gone.

Well, I refuse to think that way, my small town roots and work ethic runs to deep. I refuse to let somebody take care of me while I am willing and able to take care of myself. I will continue to meet and know my neighbors and help them out when they need it. I will continue to work hard to take care of my needs and by doing so, my wants will take care of themselves. I will continue to volunteer for things and give to charities of my choice regardless of what the government wants to take away from me and give to the undeserving.

My hope is to change the thinking back to the way it was. The sun will rise again tomorrow, I’ll keep doing what I do, and this country can be great again….at least in my little corner of it…

didn't get it.

I was a teenager....and survived!