Turkey Day!

So what is turkey day all about? I used to think it was about the pilgrims and the indians and all that nice stuff they teach you in school. My understanding is that is not true, and the "thanksgiving story" is a load of crap.

I like the idea of a national day of gratitude, but I am not sure if that is really wat happens. We talk about the things we are thankful for in the weeks leading up to the holiday. Then on the big day we make mountains of food, glut ourselves, sleep it off, and then eat turkey sandwiches for weeks.

My guess is that if we were truly thankful we would probably do some things a little different. Personally, i would rather just call it turkey and continue the holiday as it is. the only condition I place on the holiday is that all turkey's must be deep fried!!!

So whats the big deal?

I just had a very interesting conversation with a friend of mine about the economy. He is freaked out because prices are going down like they did before the great depression. He is a financial guy so he was able to speak with some authority. He is also freaked out about the possible bail out of GM by the federal government. I see his point, congress is trying to fix the economic crisis caused by bad loans and too much debt by creating more debt.

It reminds me of the 0% balance transfers offered by many of the credit card companies to convince us to move our debt from one place to another rather than pay it off. So you move yourdebt from one place to another racking up "transfer fees" until the debt gets so big that no one reputable will give you another transfer. Then you go to the loan sharks, I mean payday loan stores. Then you can't make the payments and they come break you legs.

I guess this sounds good to our congressman (most of them probably own payday loan stores. They are going to borrow more money from progressively less friendly nations until no one will lend us money. Then the loan sharks will come in and break our national "legs."

The solution....print more money. Thats right, its all just paper any way, lets print lots of it. We could send it over to iraq and afganistan... instead of droping bombs we could drop tons and tons of $20 bills. Kazam the wars are over, were out of debt and every ones is happy...

What is it...no not afganistan.

What am I to do!!!

Ok, so they say the constitution gives us the right to the freedom of speech. I am not sure what that really means, because one way or another I always seem to be paying for it. If you say what you think at home you have to do spend the next few hours getting out of the dog house. We won't talk about work or church.

It is my belief that these protections where generally only for the purpose of preventing the government from interfering in the communications of citizens. It also was meant to protect those who chose to criticize the government. Now we have the right to criticis just about everything else, but watch out if you want to say something about the government.

Personally, I like being able to more or less say what I want. Basically I think it is important that we remember that it is not free. It has cost this country in cash, and lives. It also costs us each personally because there are consequences to every thing we say.

Bottom line, if we are not responsible with what we say it could cost us a lot!!!