Saturday, December 19, 2009

no happy every after for him.





Once upon a time there was a young man who was happy go lucky. He lived life every day to the fullest. Then one day he met his love, dancing down the street. It didn’t take long for them to fall madly in live and get married.
They both worked hard and played hard. He worked from early morning to late at night. They family had everything except their father-husband there with them. He was trying to make a living for them but as usual he didn’t realize that they rather have him. He finally realized what his family wanted. They wanted him around more so he stepped down from his high paying position to a lesser position, a job to spend more time with his family. That position paid less and the family had to do with less. His wife didn’t like that. She was use to not working and having anything she wanted.
After twenty years of marriage it finally caught up to them. The arguments when they were together became command place.
One day his daughter look up at him and asked,” Why do you and mommy argue all the time, he answered, when we stop arguing it will be time to start worrying because then we wont care what happens to our family. As long as there was something to fight for the marriage would stay together he thought.
That day of reckoning came and after twenty years their family broke up. It was a very sad day for the kids but the parents knew it couldn’t go on. That it was better that he left and maybe his wife and the kids would live a calmer life. As most families he became a weekend dad, but he called his kids every night. He wanted to let then know that he loved them very much.
He stay by himself working all day and most of the night in a business he started. He was getting very lonely and prayed to the God above that he would met someone that would totally love for what he was and no for what he can give her. For years he would go out with several different woman and have a meaningless relationships with them. He was never really happy and always was glad to be alone again.
Then one day he met this very charming lady. She had a glare in her eyes a smile in her voice. He knew that she was special when he met her but how special she really was, was a pleasant surprise. She was a unique person, someone who would make everyone who met her feel good to be in her presents. To be around her was to be in front of an angle that was here on earth to spread happiness and joy. Could it be that God had finally answered his prayers? She was way more than he had asked for. He found a meaningful relationship with her that grow into a love that was strong and every lasting. Everyone that met them both could see how very much in love they were. It was a love story that you read in a book or see in the movies. His family and hers fell in love with each other. It was like they were all made for each other. They married and lived very happily but only for a short time.
Once again his hart would be broken. His soul mate died suddenly and he was left along again to morn her death forever. There could be no one to take her place; she was truly one of a kind. Once again God would take away the reason for living. When she was alive he had a purpose. Now there was nothing. What was sense of looking again, to fall in love, for it to be taken away? There will only be loneliness and despair there will be no happy every after for him.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Target does it again

I remember around last thanksgiving and Christmas emails were going around about Target. While Wal-Mart and other big stores would help the Vets and let Salvation Army set up in front of their stores Target wouldn’t.
When I got this email it reminded me why I don’t shop in Target. I rather go to K-Mart or Wal-Mart and spend my US Currency. Lets keep our money helping our economy.

Remark
Herb A

Wasn’t it last Christmas that Target refused to let the Salvation Army ring their bells in front of their stores?
Dick Forrey of the Vietnam Veterans Association wrote.'Recently we asked the local TARGET store to be a proud sponsor of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall during our20 spring recognition event. We received the following replyfrom the local TARGET manag ement: ' Veterans do not meet ourarea of giving. We only donate to the arts, social actiongroups, gay & lesbian causes, and education.' So I'm thinking, if the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall andveterans in general, do not meet their donation criteria,then something is really wrong at this TARGET store. We were not asking for thousands of dollars, not even hundreds, justa small sponsorship for a memorial remembrance.As a follow-up, I E-mailed the TARGET U.S. CorporateHeadquarters and their response was the same. That's theirnational policy.Then I looked into the company further.They will not allowthe Marines to collect for 'Toys for Tots' at any of their stores.. And during the recent Iraq deployment, they wouldnot allow families of employees who were called up foractive duty to continue their insurance coverage 20 whilethey were on military service.. Then as I dig further, TARGETis a French-owned corporation.Now, I'm thinking again. If TARGET cannot support AmericanVeterans, then why should my family and I support theirstores by spending our hard earned American dollars! And, have their profits sent to France .... Without the American Vets, where would
France be today? 'They, most likely would be speaking German and trading in Deutsch Marks' Sincerely,Dick ForreyVeterans Helping VeteransPlease send this on to everyone you know to let Target know we don't need them either !

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Thoughts of a Widower

I promised myself that I would not put my feelings of the lose of my wife and the loneliness I feel on my Blogs again but I was sitting watching the rain and felt sadden. So I started to write. I wanted to share my feelings with anyone who is going through the same hartach that I still go through almost two years afterwards. It’s never gets better. The pain will always be there
Thoughts of a Widower
As I look out my window watching the rain falling to earth and against the glass. It reminds me of the tears that fall down my face every night and every day. I could feel the cold wet damp weather that goes through you, the kind that chills your to the bones. It reminds me of the nights we sat by the fireplace cuddling to get warm.
I enjoyed holding you tight in my arms and touching your face with my hands, looking into your eyes and seeing all the love we had for each other.
When I close my eyes at night I ask to have that monument play once more time in my head.
My prays go unanswered and I feel abandon. For no one knows the loneliness and hurt I go through every day without you. You are still the first face I think of in the morning and the last face I think of at night.
How do we as widowers and widows get over the lost of our loved ones?
Is it written that we will find true love only to loose it?
Will we ever find the love we once had again?
Or move on to another type of love?
Will it ever be as good as it was before?
Or will we have to settle for second best?

It is hard once you have found your soul mate to seek that kind of love again.
I am ready to start over again but I don’t know how to obtain the love I am looking for.
I need mad passion in my life. A passion that will keep the flames of love and desire glowing for every.
Some one who could make the world happy with her smile and her angelica voice.
They say the eyes are the windows to our souls .I need a good soul in my life so I can become a better one and so I can become happy once more.
I dedicated this to my love Brenda and to all the Widows and Widowers that have found their soul mate and lost them.
May we all find love once more?

Monday, August 17, 2009

Doing with less 2009

Doing with less 2009

Everyone is cutting back now a days to afford just to survive. City’s, States and companies are doing the same to stay in business.

People are asked to do with less and take a cut in pay. Working fewer hours no matter how you look at it is a cut in pay. Some of us are asked to except a lesser health plan. We as consumers are spending less which controls the stock market and that controls our retirement (pensions&401K’s).

Us who are getting closer to retirement can’t afford it now. We have to get jobs in Wal-Mart to supplement what we receive. Social Security is not nearly enough to live on and Medicaid does not cover all the medicine a lot of the seniors have to take.

We as a country could and should do better for our citizens.
Staring by cutting back on what we give the World Bank and other counties. Let’s keep some of our money right here in the USA where it belongs. Maybe then we could afford healthcare and other service that should have.

Last but not least I haven’t heard the people who run this country talking about cutting their pay or benefits. Lets start with our dear old President. Senators, Congressman all along down the line, lets give all of them the same healthcare the give have and us them pay into the Social Security fund. Have them play by the same rules we have to play by.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

The Obamanation called Obamacare

Page after Page of Reasons to Hate Obamacare

By Alan Caruba Sunday, July 26, 2009

Here are just a few very good reasons to hate Obamacare:Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)Page 42: The Health Choices Commissioner will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules in order to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliensPage 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No judicial review is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payrollPage 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payrollPage 167: Any individual who doesn't have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.Page 203: The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax. Yes, it really says that.Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you will all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)Page 253: Government sets value of doctors time, their professional judgment, etc.Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited from owning and investing in healthcare companies!Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on community input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patients health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.A tip of my hat to my friend, Ben Cerruti, for providing this look at the Obamanation called Obamacare. Write, email, fax or call your Senators and your Representative and tell them to vote NO!
Here are a few links to look at Judge for yourself

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574298661486528186.html

http://patientsunitednow.com/?q=node/233

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23162.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/help-analyze-obamas-health-care-bill-2009-6

http://www.scribd.com/doc/16180589/Full-Bill-Now-Searchable

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per

Social Security 2009

I just received this article in an email. Maybe we should all pass it around and call our representatives and let them know that we want them on an even playing field with us. This way that would have the same healthcare and benefits that we get. Ha Ha I really don't think they would agree.


Social Security 2009

LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON
"PEOPLE POWER" AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS.
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!KEEP IT GOING!!!! Propose this in 2009: START A BILL TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOCIAL SECURITY ----------------- ----------------- SOCIAL SECURITY: (This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it. You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan. In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan. For all practical purposes their plan works like this: When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die. Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments... For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7, 800,000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), with their wives drawing $275, 000..00 during the last years of their lives. This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries. Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives. Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. NADA!!! ZILCH!!! This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds; "OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"! From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into, every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer), We can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month after retirement. Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator Bill Bradley's benefits! Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made. That change would be to Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen.. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us Then sit back..... And see how fast they would fix it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.. How many people can YOU send this to? Better yet...... How many people WILL you send this to ?