I just heard the President of the United States state that "only the Federal Government has the resources" to get us out of this economic problem that we are facing as a nation. The last time I looked the Federal Government has NO RESOURCES. All the resources are all, at least for now, in the hands of the people of the country and, unfortunately, the COUNTRIES that own our debt. Yes that's right we have a National Debt. Remember the National Debt? The thing that for so many years everyone was concerned about? That the Dems were concerned about when there was a Republican President? The burden we will place on our children's, children's, children by mortgaging our future and spending money WE DO NOT HAVE Do you remember that big thing?? I do.
If you have not thought about the National Debt in sometime here it is:
$10, 728,811,857.59 over $10 Trillion Dollars!!!!!
and it is GROWING at the rate of $3.44BILLION per day.
If you have a debt that large and you are borrowing more to pay everyday bills - guess what? YOU HAVE NO MONEY!! YOU HAVE NO RESOURCES!!!
How could your family survive like this?
So you might ask yourself what is another Trillion here or there right? What is the big deal? After all we just spent $750,000,000.00 or so in the waning days of the last President. Remember that was supposed to have some impact on the situation.
But, it HAD NO effect on the economy.I hear that the current size of the stimulus bill is enough to pay off about 95% of ALL mortgages in the country. If they are going to spend the money wouldn't that be a better way to free up the money of ordinary Americans and get the consumer driven economy back on track. Better yet why not build thousands of concrete highrises and move all of us into them at government expense and eliminate the need for private housing altogether. Here are some places we might get to enjoy.
Political rant brought to you by Kevin. The rest of the family should be excused from any recrimination.
Becca measuring the snow fall from over night ~ 4 1/2 inches!
Kevin made some no bakes. :)
Becca and I made a dozen bagels.
We had visitors this week. Friends that we went to church with when we were stationed at Ft. Hood. They had moved to CA about 18 months ago. He is now here for a class till May. Shannon and the kids are only here till tomorrow.
Little Sarah is 12 weeks old ~ what a cutie!
Josh didn't like the ride so he got off early and this is how he looked the rest of the time that the carousel was going! :)
Kathy
This is what she was watching at the time that Sarah had the camera out:
She has also watched the following today:
here is a close up of one of them:
Many hands make light the work :)
The recipe ~ wonton wrappers, brush beaten eggs on the edges and put a spoonful of Nutella in the center. Fold in half and push the edges closed.
Fry for 45 seconds:
Sprinkle with powdered sugar:
I just love to see my kids have a good time together. A couple of weeks ago we had a really warm day and I looked out the kitchen window after lunch and saw this:
They spent about an hour and a 1/2 outside jumping rope, riding that little 4 wheeled thing, shooting each other with air soft guns, hoola hooping etc. It was heart warming!
Happy Valentines to ya'll! I thought I would show you our table for our dinner tonight. We had steak and salmon cooked on the grill by Kevin. It was great. And don't worry ~ Kevin's plate was still empty when this picture was taken. After taking the pics I put his gift and card there, so don't feel bad for him! :)
Hope you all have a nice day with your loved ones.
