That's a start. Are you helping to make a difference? I'm sure you are but people have to realize it's a 2 step process.
1. Wake up
2. Vote
I don't need to make a difference to adults, it’s not up to me to impose my values and beliefs on other people. Like I said, I have been awake and making plans and taking notes. I make a difference every day I am in the classroom,
teaching high school kids to become better readers and coaching basketball to players who do not realize I am teaching life lessons.
As far as voting, it makes no difference who is in there, everything comes and goes in cycles. Voting for president is a waste of time, it’s all in the delegates any ways, our founding fathers did not trust our judgment.
My number one job in this life right now is to take care of me and my family. I worry about what I can control, which are my actions. My decisions directly impact the well being of my family.
I got two choices, stay out in front of things and be proactive, or get left behind and be at the mercy of others. In life sometimes you are the bug and sometimes you are the windshield. I try to be the windshield as much as possible.
Having been a history teacher I have the advantage of seeing things evolve long before they become a problem. (There is a little story about Rockefeller and the shoe shine boy back before the great depression began that helped me see where we we're headed) I had a buyer for my house in Hillsborough at a price I knew would never happen again, so I got out. Moved to north Pasco and started reducing debt and cutting back long before things went south.
Hillsborough house taxes 2100
Pasco house taxes 300
Hillsborough house ins. 2200
Pasco house ins 700
Hillsborough water bill 120
Pasco water bill 0
Hillsborough car ins. 1600
Pasco car ins 475
Credit cards 0
debt payments - vette, 10 months left, Wife’s car, paid in full june 2011,
House paid in full 2016 and debt free.
I have half an acre zoned agricultural and can do basically whatever I want to do. I love it. This is where I plan to retire at in 26 years. So if for some reason social security is gone, I have 20 years to invest most of my salary for retirement since I will have no debts and my pension. Already researching solar power so I can tell the electric company to take a hike.
I don't care what the dems do, what the republicans do, what the conservatives do or anyone else for that matter. I care what I do and what my family does. That I can control.
Can any of the current elected officials cite the cost of a gallon of milk, gallon of gas or a loaf of bread today? I doubt it.
No offense but what I think and how I think it should be done are irrelevant, always has been that way and always will be, regadless of whom is in office or control. My job is to make the best of whatever the situation is for me and mine.
Cheers