Ah spring...

I love my house! Here I am, out by the barbie on a cool spring night cooking pork chops and blogging on the Internet in between ministering to the chops. We went out and spent over $400 on stuff for the house at the Toy Store (otherwise known as Home Depot). Got all the molding for the french doors and three sconces for the wall. We also got a new faucet for the kitchen, but I digress. I've got to call our landscaper (also know as the lawn mowers) to arrange a meeting before his guys show up to do the clean out and lay the sod in the backyard. Just want to be sure we are all on the same page.

In preparation for their arrival with the sod, I place the stones for the stone border along the north boundary garden. I will wait until the sod is in before I trench and place the stones in their permanent homes.

OK, that's all I had on my mind tonight. Tomorrow I'll post something nasty about the Republicans and how they obviously hate the founding ideals of this nation.

Shutting down the government

The Republicans are making a lot of noise about this, but the truth is that they have another agenda entirely. Their goal is to subvert the democracy we have in favor of a plutocracy. They want the rich and powerful to rule and for the rest of us to serve that ruling class. That is why there has been the intense war on the middle class these past thirty years or so.

The current budget crisis is a case in point. Shutting down the government primarily affects those of us on the middle and lower rungs of the economic ladder. If the Republicans really had our best interests at heart, then they would be insisting the taxes on the rich must increase at the same time spending is cut. That is the only way the budget is going to be balanced. And, by the way, it has conclusively been proven that “trickle down” just plain does not work. The rich use their money to garner more of the stuff which means there is less in the pot for the rest of us.

No, if the Republicans were truly working for the good of the country, they would be addressing the disparity between the Haves and the Have-Nots. Another case in point: look at the move by ATT to acquire T-Mobile. Rather than use the billions of dollars that they (ATT) has in their coffers (in other words, the huge profits they have made on the iPhone) to increase pay to the their non-executive employees, they are trying to buy T-Mobile to make themselves even bigger. This is just wrong, but the Republicans don’t see it.