Sympathetic.
One of my neighbors has fallen on hard times. They came over today and asked for water to drink, because they had trouble paying all their bills and the water company turned off their water.
(I have a slight case of "survivor's guilt" with all the rough times I am witnessing, while WE are having one our best years, yet - investments have kicked ass for about two years, both my wife and I have good jobs, things are just mostly UP for us, so ... I felt a need to try to help them.)
I offered them a five gallon jug of our drinking water to get through this and after asking if they had plenty to eat (they have five kids, FFS) I gave them a large bag of staples from our pantry and a six pound pork roast from my freezer.
It is the least I could do, but I hope things get settled for them soon.
DD you are so patriotic at times, but really, a country that cuts off a basic human resource, such as water? We pay surcharge for overuse to the Council, but that's for really excessive use.
How are they bathing?
Well, being Americans, bathing is definitely a concern, and all.
As far as city utilities that we all use in THIS country, it is a no-brainer that it is far more efficient to farm most of these functions out to the private sector, rather than leaving it all to the disordinate Federal Union to oversee. We have varying levels of government interference that we tolerate. Most state governments are able to make their own laws, assuming that their state laws do not violate our federal United States Constitution. County and city govermental structures are for more free and it is up to the local communities to set our way of governing our smaller lands.
You have to understand that our entire economy is established upon the idea that we all pull our own weight and we "pay as we go," in theory. While this is rapidly becoming only a dream that we older still have, due to the socialist intervention that is destroying our way of living, we are still doing better than many socialist countries, not only economically, but patriotically. (I know, there are large factions of Americans who are stupid enough to throw away what we have gained, but they are still a minority, thank fuck in a bucket!!) These companies I mentioned are in the business to make a profit, in the truest American tradition, and as long as they meet the "governmentally ordained" requirements of service to the general public, they can take what profits they have made, freely (after proper taxes). They are NOT charity organisations, such as is the case with many foreign, socialist states that we have to take crap from on a daily basis. Guess, what! We do take care of our own.
When the day was almost done, yesterday, I found out that she and her husband were around twelve dollars short of paying for their past bills, plus a deposit for the future, in order to get their water turned back on. I pulled a twenty out of my wallet and she made it in time to the pay station. The company sent a man well after hours to make sure that things were up for them, after they met their billing responsibilities. Their water was turned back on at nine PM last evening, a full four hours past the closing time of the office that takes money. All is better, now. It is done.
I still say that this system of each taking care of their own and someone making a profit for services, and THEN hiring on those willing to work, makes more sense than having absurd taxes levied upon every business that tries to survive and ridiculous taxes upon all the general public in order to take care of all those who are not even trying to do better for themselves and their ways of life.
Just so that you and any others who make less of what I am and what I know, I will go to my grave as a patriotic American, defending what is left of our freedom in the face of any enemy.
Our way may not be as "safe" as having a nanny take care of us, but most of us who can make a difference do not depend upon a nanny to do everything for us.
If we, as law abiding citizens, did not have to pay for literally millions of illegal aliens in this country, we could certainly lower the average citizen's taxes quite a bit. As it now has become, we support a class of illegal immigrants with totally free medical care, education, etc. we as proper citizens do not have the luxury of free living accommodations. We have to do things for ourselves or get help from our community when we need it, such as how we came together this week for a single family in need.
There is some speculation that a Federal judge will be unseated for over turning an election result in Arizona. The local election allowed for local law enforcement officers to aks for credentials upon "stopping an alien" for a traffic violation. It seems that the law was regarded by this judge as allowing an illegal alien to be stopped by a law enforcement officer and allowed to go free despite not being able to show a drivers license, proof of registration of the vehicle or proof of liability insurance, three things that every law abiding citizen MUST carry at all times while traveling in an automobile. This judge made that provision go away. He is like to be unseated for this illegal action. The most basic requirements of anyone who drives on a state or federally funded highway are that they MUST carry with them, proof of registration of the vehicle, proof of liability insurance and a proper photo ID/driver's license.
A judge can not make a law that says that this is not so for illegal aliens, which he tried to do. He will certainly be unseated.
I AM A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN! THANK YOU FOR NOTICING!!
