More!

I haven't posted much in the last few weeks because I have been busy. Maybe I'll have more time after I retire.

Now I do have a few observations.

I'll be going on social security in a few months after I retire, but what do I think of it?

It's a ponzi scheme, and has been since it was started in the 30's. My thinking now is that there should be a better way to invest the funds from social security then IOUs that have no value.

I admit that when I was in my 20's if I had the option of getting my hand on more money if social security didn't exist I probably would have spend it. There probably needs to be a mandate from the government how much you and your employer should save for your retirement, but then the government should keep their hands off. If you want to invest it in stock, us saving bond, gold, pork bellies, oil, etc., that your business.

I've been a republican all my life, and recently I have admired what the teaparty is doing. I have become a member of a local teaparty organization, and have attended a few rallies. But I do have some concerns. First: how many teaparty organizations are there? It seems that anyone with a computer can create an organization. How do we know which are real, and what could be a plant? You see conflicts between organization that have teaparty in there name, so do they serve the interest of the American people, or are they just misleading us. They appear to endorse candidates without vetting them first, They endorse because of something they said recently, but have little concern about what they have said in the past, or their personal faults, but that
comes out after the primary, and tears down the candidate. I would prefer one organization, within, but independent in the Republican Party. They could endorse candidates that did not have the backing of traditional republican groups, but would use the resources of the party
to vet all their candidates.

The recent trial about the murder of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters in Connecticut, got me think again about the death penalty. If anyone deserved death, the two animals in this case do. But I need to express my opinion about the death penalty in general. The death penalty
is meant to be a deterrent, but is can't be much of a deterrent if it
takes 20+ years to be concluded. Any one found guilty and sentence do death should have the right to appeal. They would have the right to appeal to a special judge would review the trail transcript, and if there was any possibility then trail could be in error, or there were any extenuating circumstance, then their sentence would be commuted to life in prison. If the judge found nothing, he would say so, and the next day the sentence would be carried out.

Just some thoughts.