barbie biggs
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Josh:
Yeah, I read part of this blog with Dave over the phone and at first he was puzzled. "Barb, is there some point to this?" But then when we finished it and he understood where it was all going he was quiet, thoughtful. This morning he said, "When you get back to that blog, tell Josh I feel better".
Wendy:
I love living in a state with four seasons: except for the part about being cold and wet part of the time. But you know what? I lived in Thailand for a year and in South Korea 6 months. I spent 9 months scuba diving off ancient Chinese junks in the Gulf of Siam. I've been to a number of different colleges and lived in lots of different parts of the U.S. I could have just stayed in Los Angeles like my sister and brother and never gone anywhere else except for vacations. I'll take the snow, the rain, the sleet, the sun of summer.
Ain't it great to really live your life?
I was in Cambodia the day the Khmer Rhouge took over and left precipituously. Took forever to get my passport back. Gave new meaning to the concept of being an illegal alien. It was poor planning on my 19 year old part of course, but the U.S. consulate assisted me in getting home. Made for an interesting chapter in my diary.
Our country has lots of problems but I'm not ready to give up on it yet. I've had a good life here, and there. Injustices do happen. Every day. How could they not? We are people and not perfect. There are some things that are not acceptable. But they happen anyway. So the goal is to keep moving forward and create the best system we can by constant involvement.
What was that phrase about "Eternal Vigilance"?
barbie
Yeah, I read part of this blog with Dave over the phone and at first he was puzzled. "Barb, is there some point to this?" But then when we finished it and he understood where it was all going he was quiet, thoughtful. This morning he said, "When you get back to that blog, tell Josh I feel better".
Wendy:
I love living in a state with four seasons: except for the part about being cold and wet part of the time. But you know what? I lived in Thailand for a year and in South Korea 6 months. I spent 9 months scuba diving off ancient Chinese junks in the Gulf of Siam. I've been to a number of different colleges and lived in lots of different parts of the U.S. I could have just stayed in Los Angeles like my sister and brother and never gone anywhere else except for vacations. I'll take the snow, the rain, the sleet, the sun of summer.
Ain't it great to really live your life?
I was in Cambodia the day the Khmer Rhouge took over and left precipituously. Took forever to get my passport back. Gave new meaning to the concept of being an illegal alien. It was poor planning on my 19 year old part of course, but the U.S. consulate assisted me in getting home. Made for an interesting chapter in my diary.
Our country has lots of problems but I'm not ready to give up on it yet. I've had a good life here, and there. Injustices do happen. Every day. How could they not? We are people and not perfect. There are some things that are not acceptable. But they happen anyway. So the goal is to keep moving forward and create the best system we can by constant involvement.
What was that phrase about "Eternal Vigilance"?
barbie
One thing that will help is that, in spite of the volatility that it adds to the economy, we are not hampered by the gold standard. In the Great Depression this necessitated keeping the money supply, which was largely tied up in the hands of a small number of extremely wealthy people (Sound familiar?) and thus not circulating through the economy, too low because of the risk that it would cause a run on the treasury (Fort Knox). The current bail-out(s) are a result of printing money that doesn't represent new wealth to get the money supply (read credit markets) going again. I won't go into the ramifications of this now.
