This is one American dream-helping each other

9/21/2011


This is one American dream-helping each other, read on...

http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/20/7862008-restoring-belief-in-the-american-dream


Cheers...Joe

It's a nice story - we need 14 million of them. There was a time in this country when we lived in small communities where help was available from friends and neighbors. My neighbors have it as difficult as me - even worse - four lost their homes to foreclosure. They were not old enough to take early Social Security to stay afloat. They were families with children home - where both parents worked and both lost their jobs. In one family that had lived there since their children were babies, he worked construction and she sold real estate. In Florida, that was a double whammy. I can only hope things improved for them; they had two young children. Their home was modest. They were not over their heads - they were trounced by the failing economy. Before they left, both had been distributing flyers offering to do repair work, home sitting, home cleaning - and anything to make a buck. Whatever they brought in was not enough to keep their house.

The comments were better than the fluff article. I agree with most of them. Implement protectionist policies like every other country in the world. We can't compete with cheap Asian labor and shouldn't have to. Revoke NAFTA. Stop flooding the shores with "diversity lotteries" in the name of "creating goodwill." Goodwill with whom? Bring back the troops from the Mideast and use them to seal the borders. Tax Warren Buffett's capital gains 50% and revoke his ability to shelter it all in private foundations of his choosing (like billion dollar gifts to his kids). If nothing else, it will shut him up about not paying his fair share, and it will enable those of us who don't have capital gains like his to live on to to not have our income taxed so much. Just a start...