Pumps' Perplexities

The state County, in which sits the little town
of Jabunyaville, has released its 2009 Real
Estate Tax Assessments.......

We all know that America is now in somewhat
of a financial crisis and people are trying to
manage their income the best they can.....

With this in mind the County has raised the
assessment on its lower income priced
housing......If your house is worth $300,000
or better - forget any assessment increase.....

And when it comes to us "blue collar" types,
they even got smarter.....There was no tax
increase on the structure, ONLY THE LAND...

If the "Town Fathers" have all the brains
to do this, why can't they by more efficient
in their own governmental operations???
Pumps

I doubt that many people today know what a
clothes line is.....It was a way to dry clothes
before the electric/gas dryer was invented.....

In New York City, many years ago, the clothes
line would extend from one kitchen window,
over a vast alley, to a window on the
other side.....

Clothes lines do "weather" and do become
"worn" and have to be replaced.....So about
every year or so the 100 foot clothes line
had to be replaced.....

How do your recycle and olde clothes line?.....

You make jump ropes.......Pumps

During the World War II years we recycled
because there was a demand for metals, paper
and other items used for the "war effort"......

Here some 60 years later, people have once
again spent time and effort in the recycling
of metals and paper in order to be "green"
and "clean the earth"......But today's recycling
has a "catch".....Someone has to make
money doing "it"......

Well, because of the current economic
"down-turn", it seems that there is no longer
any money in "it" and people are losing
interest in being "green"......

I believe that until our economy improves,
and there is money one again in recycling,
the people who say we should continue
to recycle should volunteer their free time
in collection of used metals and paper......

Let their words be converted in actions...Pumps

The President-Elect has had staff members
say that "you need a good crisis" to get
anything done.......

On "his" plate are the following:

What to do with Israel and Gaza?
What to do with the Analog/Digital change?
What to do with the European/Russian
natural gas Ukraine problem.....And,
What to do with the American economy?

After the parties on January 20th, welcome
to the WORLD, sir......Pumps

The above "title" has just come across my
computer screen over a news story.....The
"title" is self explanatory......We will now
have a whole generation of people and some
of their offspring crying about the state of
the world.......

Hey Boomers, you were the ones that
created the "world" that you live in......
The so called "Woodstock" generation is
only reaping what it sowed some 4o
years ago......

I will admit that the structure from the
mid-40s to the mid-60s may not have
been the best, but it was STRUCTURE.....

Well "time" has caught up with them and
they have to "pay the piper".....The Boomers
will not be able to take the day off from
work to attend a modern Woodstock
function.....They will need the money for
their medications......

As they say "payback is a bitch".....Pumps

Since the first beginnings of the caveman, the
word was "conquer"....Back then it was to obtain
the women in the next cave......For the Romans
and Egypt it was land......Today the land is all
gone and accounted for......

Where does this "caveman conquer" spirit go?....
We, as humans all have it.......Well it seems
that the "conquer" now comes down to
"power" and to some "money"......

Please, bear in mind, that "power" and "money"
are not the same thing......But both are gained
by "conquer"......

History has recorded that there were
people of "power" and people of "money"....
Nothing has changed in the year 2009 and
I suspect it will still be the same in 3009.....

Each human has an "ego"......Each human
wants to satisfy this "ego".....To some it is
a simple task and to others it is control
and "power" and/or "money"........

The "power" and "money" people are in
conflict today.....The world is changing.....

There is still Antarctica to be invaded, but
I suspect it has no "power" or "money"
value......What about the Arctic oil???...Pumps