Archive for November, 2009

Supporting Junior: The Ingratitude of Sons and Daughters: Boomers Helping Unemployed Family

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

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Articles from Boomeryearbook.com explore the fascinating and varied behavioral patterns that occur when families are affected by outside events, or by the impact of the modern World; the challenges faced in the new age and the hurdles that must be addressed: The Boomeryearbook.com Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation.


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A working life can be rewarding, especially when one is able to reach a position of seniority, earning the respect and remuneration associated with a successful career. Psychological articles show us that if you want something done efficiently it is always more effectively done by a busy person rather than someone who is unfamiliar with multi tasking.

The same principle applies to work ethics: people who have become accustomed to a pressured working life can take on extra work more effectively than someone who might not have been exposed to a regular work routine. In our modern employment market, the work ethic is becoming undermined by the absence of strong job opportunities. A great number of younger people, on being disappointed in the job market, rely on the income of parents or even grandparents to enable them to make ends meet.

Baby boomers with large families will sometimes find they are better qualified to earn a higher salary than their children and grandchildren and so continue to work long after the conventional retirement age, due to what they see as necessity; to support the family financially through an economic downturn.

Psychological articles state that many of the children and grandchildren who are the recipients of baby boomers’ generosity in providing funding for food; clothes; pocket change and other expenses, display a woeful lack of appreciation for the sacrifices being made of their behalf.

One of the main reasons for this seeming lack of gratitude is simply familiarity: people who have not had the experience of a responsible working environment will rarely understand the effort that is required to hold down a job in a competitive market or even appreciate that they are privileged to receive necessities bought with baby boomers’ hard earned cash. In fact, they are often so used to receiving money in this way that the idea of earning their own living is novel in the extreme.

To say that this bread winning structure within a family is destructive is to understate the long term effects, not only on family relationships but also on baby boomers’ physical and emotional health. When a person reaches the age of sixty or more, a natural slowing down process should commence prior to retiring. It is not acceptable that older family members should automatically become liable to undertake a lengthier career for the sake of younger individuals without either the ability or the opportunity to earn their own living.

The Psychological Article on Supporting Junior: The Ingratitude of Sons and Daughters: Boomers Helping Unemployed Family is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Making a Living at Seventy: People past Retirement Age Going Back to Work to Help Out Younger Family Members

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

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Articles from Boomeryearbook.com explore the fascinating and varied behavioral patterns that occur when families are affected by outside events, or by the impact of the modern World; the challenges faced in the new age and the hurdles that must be addressed: The Boomeryearbook.com Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation.


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We all love our children. We all love our families and extended families. Regard and respect are traditionally a two way exchange and problems within an affectionate family unit are aired and shared, often resulting in a combined effort to address financial difficulties. Baby boomers who are already in middle or older age often volunteer to help younger family members out of financial hardship, making certain sacrifices in terms of their own freedom and quality of life.

The modern World is in bad shape when it comes to employment and many of the younger generation are unable to find work. Occasionally a strange equation surfaces, where an older member of the family is eminently more employable than a younger one, leading to certain decisions having an impact on baby boomers who should be thinking about permanent retirement rather than taking on full time work.

Psychological articles explore the elderly problems that an extended career can have on the older family member. Although the process can in some ways be positive in that a prolonged exposure to a younger generation of working colleagues can help keep the elderly mind active, other physical strains can be exhausting for baby boomers who are ready for a pipe and slippers rather than a keyboard and mouse.

For people whose career included a degree of physical fitness, such as lumberjacks; mechanics; truck drivers and haulage contractors, a return to work can be out of the question so an alternative working role dictates learning new skills late in life, sometimes in a pressured environment. The resulting lack in confidence can produce feelings of inadequacy and stress and lead to other psychological and elderly problems.

Baby boomers who might have had an enjoyable working atmosphere in their chosen career might have a totally different experience working in a modern office or factory on their return to the workplace, souring their perception rewarding work. As the end often justifies the means, baby boomers ‘stick it out’ to get debts paid on behalf of younger family members such as sons or daughters. Tolerating a poor working environment can lead to elderly problems such as feelings of being exploited, despite the choice to return to work being their own.

Worse yet is that psychological articles show us that younger family members being helped in this way by older relatives are often less than grateful for the sacrifices being made on their behalf.

The Psychological Article on Making a Living at Seventy: People past Retirement Age Going Back to Work to Help Out Younger Family Members is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Lowering The Bar: Accepting a Less Active Role in Family Life: Matriarchs Handing Over the Reins

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

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Articles from Boomeryearbook.com explore the fascinating and varied behavioral patterns that occur when families are affected by outside events, or by the impact of the modern World; the challenges faced in the new age and the hurdles that must be addressed: The Boomeryearbook.com Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation.


By Boomeryearbook.com

When we are in our twenties and thirties and have an army of children running riot all over the house, we embrace a chaotic existence with both arms and love every moment of our children’s youth and exuberance – well almost every moment – perhaps we could all do without the novelty hair cutting incidents and the moments when the dog has toothpaste in his ears.

As baby boomers age, they experience a slowing down that is not entirely unwelcome but none the less, some of us have difficulty stepping aside to let younger family members take responsibilities we have been accustomed to over many years. For matriarch baby boomers, especially those with larger families and armfuls of grandchildren, it is often more difficult.

Naturally, the busier family life has been, the greater the contrast when children leave home to start families of their own. This silence in the family nest can cause a number of problems, according to psychological articles, such as depression associated with loss; feelings of inadequacy; loss of confidence and any number of emotional difficulties.

Baby boomers who are matriarchs with large families find shopping and cooking second nature by the time their children are grown. For someone who is used to feeding a table of ten, there are certain adjustments to make and scouring cookbooks for meals for two can be a sad affair. Just when we thought we were getting used to the idea, our daughters start inviting us around for family lunch on Sunday and doing a better job of it than we did! Aaagh!

Watching our daughters and sons take charge can be a bitter sweet experience; with our emotions swinging between pride as we realize how well we taught our children the life skills they need to raise a family of their own and sadness that we are no longer a vital part of their new family structure.

Psychological articles that deal with the subject of loss note that this period of baby boomer family life can be among the most stressful, as feelings of uselessness overwhelm our determined efforts to not be affected by our new status of ‘part timer’.

Baby boomers who are going through this difficult time will sometimes find the birth of a new grandchild will provide the role they are waiting for. The transition from Mom to Grandma can be fraught with feelings of being ‘usurped by an interloper’, albeit a much loved one, but in fact taking a backstage role is part of the natural evolvement of family life.

The Psychological Article on Lowering The Bar: Accepting a Less Active Role in Family Life: Matriarchs Handing Over the Reins is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Staying Afloat: A Look at the Problems of Elderly Debt

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

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Articles from Boomeryearbook.com explore the fascinating and varied behavioral patterns that occur when families are affected by outside events, or by the impact of the modern World; the challenges faced in the new age and the hurdles that must be addressed: The Boomeryearbook.com Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation.

By Boomeryearbook.com

Elderly debt is infinitely more distressing than any other kind. Why? Why should insolvency and financial difficulty in later life be any more distressing than in early life?

The emotions that rise to the surface when debt becomes unmanageable are certainly difficult to deal with for people of any age. However, psychological articles inform us that it can become a true elderly problem for the aging baby boomer, as the daunting task of dealing with a mountain of unmanageable bills on a fixed income can have a smothering effect and result in all kinds of psychological problems.

As people get older, they experience all over again the loss of confidence a child might feel when trying to tackle problems for which they are ill equipped. Facing debt at thirty five is quite different than facing it at sixty five. When we are younger and fitter, we are able to take on an extra job to handle a shortfall in monthly income and although the prospect is not exactly attractive, at least it is an option. Psychological articles point out that for many of the older generation, there are no such choices available.

Apart from the inability to handle extra work to generate funds due to a general lack of stamina, there are other factors such as tax to take into consideration. Taking extra work might often mean parting with benefits that are impossible to retrieve once the crisis is past and the person might even find that they are unable for health reasons to perform a new job role efficiently.

For those who are determined to generate extra income and work to pay off financial obligations, there is a great possibility that work will not be available, with so many able bodied, younger and better qualified prospects for employers to choose from. The modern workplace can also present a challenge with its computer driven systems, especially for baby boomers without the necessary training to cope with unfamiliar working procedures.

Psychological articles show that the effort required to conquer debt late in life can cause a number of psychological problems as a result of stress, leading to feelings of inadequacy, despondency and depression. Baby boomers experiencing debt problems should consult professional help before making the decision to return to the workplace. A reputable debt management company might often offer alternative solutions such as debt consolidation.

As baby boomers enter older age, they can be faced with the problems of addressing debt issues not only for themselves but also on behalf of other members of their family. The solutions are not always palatable.

The Psychological Article on Staying Afloat: A Look at the Problems of Elderly Debt is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Letting Go: Sooner or Later, We Have to Stop Being the Breadwinner

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

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Articles from Boomeryearbook.com explore the fascinating and varied behavioral patterns that occur when families are affected by outside events, or by the impact of the modern World; the challenges faced in the new age and the hurdles that must be addressed: The Boomeryearbook.com Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation.


By Boomeryearbook.com

As singles, we enjoy the freedom of being without responsibility. When we marry (or not, as the case may be) and have children, we assume a mantle of obligation to our kids and our love for them is so often expressed in the material advantages we are able to provide through our hard work, such as good schooling; fashionable clothes; a good social life and later on perhaps a car and help with the deposit on an apartment.

Our children are indeed fortunate to have parents who can afford to provide the best in life. Or are they? Do such privileges carry the same value when they are gifted by affluent parents? And where does the generosity stop? And when does it stop? When we reach forty? Fifty? When we become older baby boomers suffering with our own elderly problems?

The good things in life are well publicized. The desire to possess the best begins in the school yard continues into old age and certainly baby boomers are well acquainted with the urge to own a fancy car and a nice house. Problems begin when the younger generation, brought up in luxury, cannot adjust to borderline poverty as students and a well meaning set of parents start to underwrite a number of expenses on behalf of sons and daughters who by rights should be providing for themselves.

Putting a standing order in place to help out a younger family member who is experiencing hardship can seem so little to do and in fact we all do it to help our kids when they need our financial support. The long term result of providing this life line, according to psychological articles, can be detrimental rather than beneficial, depending on the level of help being given.

The unpleasant truth is that sooner or later, whether he likes it or not, Junior will have to stand on his own feet and do without financial help from the Mom and Dad Bank. Many families have no difficulty with the transferring of financial responsibility from older members of the family and once younger people leave college they no longer ask for or receive financial help. However, some continue to depend on their parents for financial support even after they have a young family of their own and this obligation puts pressure on baby boomers to continue working well after retirement age.

So many times we hear the phrase ‘Oh, they don’t ask for the money but I like them to have it anyway’ – almost like a weird parental insurance premium that guarantees solvency for Junior and his girlfriend or wife or kids.

Psychological articles tell us that sooner or later, baby boomers have to ‘let go’ and stop being Mom and Dad Bank, not only for our own benefit but also for the sake of our kids who need to learn independence. It’s a tough pill to swallow, but we boomers need to heed this advice or we will find ourselves facing some strong elderly problems.

The Psychological Article on Letting Go: Sooner or Later, We Have to Stop Being the Breadwinner is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Dear Senators,

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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By Joseph J. Kusnell

Dear Senators,

I received this from Senator Arlen Spector’s (PA) office:

“Health care reform should improve health care for those currently insured. Insurance companies should cover more preventive care costs and be prohibited from refusing to renew coverage in the event of catastrophic illnesses, denying coverage, or charging higher rates based on gender, pre-existing conditions or health status. Reforms should also eliminate lifetime and annual caps and limit out of pocket expenses.”

Give me a break. First, let’s discuss pre-existing conditions. How do you presume a for-profit company can accept someone at $700/mo. who is terminally ill and will cost them one million dollars. Would you do that with your own money? And what happens to the company or its employees because that company can’t stay in business being Santa Claus to people they never saw until they walked in sick.

The cap is another matter and certainly a case can be made that you can’t discharge someone simply because they reach a maximum cost to you; not if you are to remain in the insurance business. That has an element of truth but the rest is political and that’s sickening.

Some insurance companies have a waiting period for pre-existing illnesses. Why not just let Medicare cover the waiting period and then turn it back to the private company. That works for me.

As to the 43 million or 61 million or 30 million – Democrats have used all those numbers – the truth is none of them are accurate and your using them tells me you don’t mind lying if it gets your agenda passed.

The following breakdown comes directly from the US Census Bureau, 2009.

 10.0 million are individuals who have income of $66,000 for a family of four that choose not to have insurance. They could afford it if they wanted it. It’s their choice. ERASE 10.0 MILLION.

 9.3 million are non-citizens who generally do not pay tax. (ILLEGALS)
They are going to become part of the final group in this list. So save this number.

 6.4 million are enrolled in Medicaid or S-CHIP but reported to the Census taker that they were not. This phenomenon is known among statisticians as the Medicaid undercount. These folks are covered yet are wrongfully included in the non-covered count. ERASE 6.4 MILLION.

 4.3 million are eligible for Medicaid or S-CHIP but for their own reasons, have not enrolled.
(So when they come in for any service, enroll them. Problem solved. ERASE 4.3 MILLION.

 5 million are childless, mainly healthy young adults who could afford insurance but don’t want to pay for it because they think they are indestructible. Money is not their problem so (1) mandate health insurance to get a driver’s license and (2) offer cataclysmic health insurance for singles up to age 35. Then let them buy their own insurance. ERASE 5 MILLION.

 10 million indeed do need help to buy insurance. So save this number.

So in summation, you can see that the number that have no insurance and cannot afford insurance is really significantly less than 43 million. It is closer to 20 million and that includes 10 million who are not even citizens of the United States. You could buy them all health insurance for 160 billion s year and it would be a lot cheaper than what you are doing and a lot smarter. Anyway, they don’t all need 100% assistance. Some may need as little as half so the total would probably be under 100 billion annually. Far short of a trillion.

If you really wanted to solve the problems you could but it wouldn’t fit your real agenda – Universal Health Insurance and control of 1/3 of the US economy – so you won’t. And because you are so biased and so driven by your agenda, we can’t resolve the real problems that do in fact exist. Thanks to you, this has become a political football rather than a true attempt at reform.

You people should all be kicked out of office since you are incapable of telling the truth.

I care about the poor and disfranchised but that doesn’t make me stupid. If you kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, there will be no more geese and no more golden eggs either. And if you take from producers repeatedly to give to non-producers you are going to create a world of non-producers and in the end that just won’t work. What do you guys eat for dinner anyway.

We are being led by fools.

Oh yes, I love the idea of Marxists and Mao-lovers in the White House and DEVOUT MUSLIMS in Homeland Security lol. I was led to believed that the guns that ran those planes into the World Trade Center were all DEVOUT MUSLIMS.

What’s up, Mr. Chamberlain? How did your meeting go with Mr. Hitler?????

Dopes.

If we get hit because of your idiocy and toleration of our enemies, I hope it’s in your town and not mine.

Say a prayer for the kids killed at Ft Hood in that “man made disaster”.

The lady in the harbor has a tear in her eye, for sure.

Sincerely,

Mr. Joseph Kusnell

A LESSON IN WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
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A LESSON IN WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION

By Joseph J Kusnell

This is how it works, this is how they redistribute the wealth.

First, as a government you can spend money any way you like. So if you are the current government, you give it to non-producers in order to help them which is your goal.

You can give out welfare checks or food stamps. You can give out tax rebates to people that don’t pay taxes. You can have a “Cash for Clunkers” program which is money for nothing. You can give our stimulus payments. You can buy a car company and stiff all the investors and shareholders and bondholders and IRA investors so the union members can keep their high paying jobs – the jobs they have done poorly for years. Then you can advertise all kinds of deals for these cars (GM) knowing if you operate at a loss, you can just steal more taxpayer dollars for that company. It also creates a situation where you can hurt your competition that must make a profit to exist, unlike your company. GM says buy a car if you don’t like it bring it back in 60 days. Okay, then it will be a used car and will have lost value. What happens to that lost value? That’s easy, the taxpayers pay for it. A normal company couldn’t allow this, but “Government Motors” can because this President who can’t seem to get anything right, will simply send them more taxpayer dollars. That’s because he wants to take care of his friends, his pals, his buddies, his supporters. Let’s call it what it is: political nepotism. That’s seems to fit very well.

It’s the same with not drilling for our own oil so we can then send billions of our own dollars overseas buying oil from other countries. That way we redistribute our wealth which is the whole idea. That’s the Democrats for you.

Then there is this: we just lent PETROBRAS – the Brazilian State Oil Company – billions of American dollars to help them drill offshore for oil which they can then sell to China. You need to be either as dumb as dirt or agenda-driven to think any of this makes any sense. Because it doesn’t. We give our money to Brazil so they can do offshore oil which we aren’t allowed to do in America. Make sense? How about this? George Soros founder of the ACLU, Moveon.Org, Mediamatters.com and other liberal sites, a man who gave tons of money to Obama for his election campaign, just happened to own lots of shares in PETROBRAS earlier this year. He sold it at a big profit. Then Obama lends PETROBRAS billions of our taxpayer dollars so they can find oil offshore, sell it to China, and make money and create jobs for Brazilians.

Can you explain that to me? Are you so dumb that you can’t see through this hypocrisy? They won’t let us drill for our own oil so we have to buy oil from other countries weakening us and strengthening them. Why? Because that’s what this guy said he wanted: he wanted a less rich, less strong, less robust, less influential America. He also said he want’s to put our navy under control of some international body giving up our sovereignty altogether. He believes in one world and that is a world where we are just one of many. He truly wants to change America and what he wants to change us into, isn’t pretty.

Add in Cap and Trade, a penalty system meant to punish America further for its success by making up some nonsense about C02 causing us to send our money in penalties to the UN for distribution among their own countries.

In time, we will be broke. What do governments do when they are broke? That’s, easy, they raise taxes. And who pays those increased taxes? Well, the same people that paid the prior taxes because they are the only ones that ever pay taxes.

Okay, so they pay and the cycle starts over again and it will continue until there is no one left that can pay any taxes and then everyone will be equally poor and equally broke. Then we can all live in our worker state paradise and suffer together.

That’s socialism. That’s Marxism. That’s this government, one of rampant economic insanity. In the end, no one will have anything because producers, who can’t keep some of what they earn, will stop producing and the non-producers who never did produce still won’t produce and therefore nobody will.

Have a nice day, America. You put a dunce in control of your country and you gave him the key to the bank.

Now watch and see what happens to all of us. It won’t be pretty.

Actually, it’s already begun. And this guy gets up and talks nonsense and the suckers drink it in and the attack on American and American liberty continues.

How did we let so many dumb people get in here?

Joey

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Dear Mr. President:

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
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By Joseph J Kusnell

Dear Mr. President:

Dear Mr. President:

You have lied and deceived us every step of the way since you have been in office. You are constantly running around the world I assume campaigning for the world Presidency while condemning America for everything from causing poverty to creating international tensions.

The economy is in the tank thanks to the Democratic Party and all those no-doc loans packaged as derivatives and then sold to unwary investors around the world, yet you spend more time winning friends and influencing people abroad than you do on the job. (You all should be in jail for what you did with Fannie Mae.)

You passed a huge stimulus and most of the money remains unspent. We have roads and bridges badly in need of repair and no money sent to the states to do that work which of course would make us safer and also create jobs. You are too busy trying to “fundamentally change America”. That makes me wonder sir, from what, to what would you like to change us??? From a White dominated society to a society dominated by people of color? Is that it, Mr. President? Is that your agenda?

I remember when you said if we didn’t pass the stimulus right away, unemployment might reach 8% which it would not do if we passed it. We passed that nonsense (unread) and unemployment is now at least 10.2% nationally and as high as 17.0% in some localities. And what do you say now? This is Bush’s fault. We inherited this mess from him.

No, Sir, you did not. When Bush left office unemployment was 5.8%. The Democratic Congress created this mess by insisting mortgages be given to people who could never hope to service them or to pay them. That signaled financial destruction for our system and to many of the world’s financial systems. Trillions of dollars of bad mortgages (toxic assets) tucked inside investor derivatives totally unknown to the buyers who believed Fannie Mae mortgages were still as secure as they had been historically. But they weren’t thanks to you and your Democratic colleagues.

So now I have a suggestion: instead of blaming someone else as you have been doing and getting away with, its time to look in a mirror. This is YOUR depression and you were responsible for us getting into it and now you are responsible for getting us out of it. Not with handouts. Not with free money we can’t possible pay for, but with JOBS. With ideas that stimulate our ECONOMY.

Stay the hell home and DO SOMETHING!

What? I’ll tell you what.

(1) Take some of that unspent money and transfer a few billions to the SBA for direct loans to small businesses. NOT minorites which is your strong suit. To businessmen and businesswomen that qualify for direct loans. Put money into startups and expansion. Just do it with the SBA rather than the banks and do it directly but be smart about it. Make them business loans not handouts to your priviliedged few.

(2) With that done, pass some legislation. Here are some examples: (a) increase deductions by 50% for all money paid by employers for health care costs (b) reduce corporate taxes indexed to the number of Americans hired in the United States by these corporations. The more Americans they employ, the better the tax breaks. After all, Sir, American labor costs more so we have to help our companies afford us. (c) reduce or eliminate taxes on capital gains. That money becomes investment money and that’s what we need now. (4) Release some of that stimulus money for bridge and road repairs just like you said you would and keep minority programs separate from job creation. One is our economic problem which affects us all, the other is a social problem. We can solve the second better if we solve the first now.

You see Mr. President, your Marxists friends never did understand this but worker’s republics around the world all fail. China was failing before it decided to open up its citizens to a form of capitalism. That’s because their Marxist economy failed so miserably. When China wised up, things began to improve. And you want to take us back to that failed system?

Freedom works. Competition works. Capitalism works. Our private sector works. Sure we need controls and limits but we set them and then we let our American entrepreneus loose and they will solve our problems. Certainly not you and not the Democratic Marxist Socialist bunch of morons you put in to office half of whom belong in jail. And certainly not the US Government which couldn’t run a charity bazzar successfully. Check out the government’s history: Hud, Fannie Mae, Freedie Mac, The Post Office, Amtrak, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid – they are all trillions of dollars in debt! Badly run, poorly supervised, and totally inefficient. It nobody’s fault because entities as big as our Federal Government basically are out of control what with duplications, mistakes, graft and corruption and political payoffs. How could it possible suceed in running a business? Answer: It can’t.

Come home, stay home, and do your job. The health care problem can be resolve far more easily and cheaply by setting some rules and then letter it alone. Everyone can be covered with insurance because everyone today is getting health care one way or the other. NONE of them are just dying in the streets as your lying Czars keep telling us.

Wise up. If you want to destroy America, we are going to destroy you. IF you want to make us a stupid Socialist state like your friends at SEIU want, we will throw you out of office!

God knows I could do a better job running this country, saving America, and putting our people back to work than you are doing. And maybe if you would get away from your rendition of Black reparations (Hawaii???) and concentrate on the other 66% of Americans, maybe you can actually do something good for your country.

It IS your country, isn’t it Mr President?
You were elected to work for us. How about coming home, staying home, and doing just that: working for US. For all of us.

JOBS – JOBS – JOBS. That is the key to ending this depression. And get off helping big corporations, big banks, big labor unions, big associations like the NEW and Trial Lawyers and Unions – you belong to US, not to THEM!!!

Get it? Get it!!!!!!!!!!!

My God what have we done!

Joey

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Baby Boomers in Beautiful Paris

Monday, November 16th, 2009

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Articles from Boomeryearbook.com explore the fascinating and varied behavioral patterns that occur when families are affected by outside events, or by the impact of the modern World; the challenges faced in the new age and the hurdles that must be addressed: The Boomeryearbook.com Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation.


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Baby boomers have enjoyed a special relationship with Paris ever since naughty old Wallis Simpson ran off with the British king, Edward VIII. The British government was sufficiently annoyed to force his abdication and condemn him to live in the elegant boulevards of Paris for the rest of his life, along with the infamous Wallace, a succession of pampered pets and a jewelry collection that was the envy of magpies everywhere. Where else would the chicest of the chic live but incomparable Paris with its timeless architecture; designer lifestyle and love of the best of – well – everything!

Paris is Mecca for style conscious baby boomers. Its restaurants, galleries and shops are absolutely the pinnacle: to drink your coffee on Sunday morning at the local corner street café, read your paper and glance up every so often as the most elegant city dwellers in the world float past is to many observers, the most satisfying ‘people watching’ experience the World has to offer.

On a bad day, Paris can be rainy and grey; slightly littered and none too clean. But for those who love Paris; only Paris will do. Baby boomers determined to spend their retirement years in Paris tend to retain a second home in the US and return from time to time. In most European cities, it is possible to get by without speaking the lingo but local Parisians tend to be somewhat peeved with those who do not make an effort to speak even pidgin French, so if you are considering retiring on French soil, steel yourself to learning to communicate in French, albeit badly!

Psychological articles on elderly problems show us that baby boomers retiring to European cities are usually not complete strangers and have spent vacations there regularly over several years before making an informed choice of where they wish to be in their twilight years. Paris addicts are more often than not completely in love with this romantic retirement destination and it is said that diplomats’ wives on having to leave Paris often throw spectacular tantrums on being forced to transfer!

Baby boomers wishing to retire to Paris on a permanent basis will require a regular visa from a French consulate, which must be approved; a process that usually takes a few months. You can buy property in Paris but don’t expect costs to compare favorably to rural areas – however, you can rent somewhere at a reasonable cost while you are looking around to ensure you find the right location that suits you and your lifestyle.

Psychological articles on elderly problems recommend a happy retirement and for baby boomers in love with Paris, walking along cherry tree lined boulevards in the spring is the only way to start!

The Psychological Article on Baby Boomers in Beautiful Paris is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Baby Boomers and Retirement in Brazil

Monday, November 16th, 2009

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The one thing Americans can be certain of in Brazil is a warm and enthusiastic welcome. Brazil absolutely adores the United States and everything it stands for: their culture is colorful and has an empathy with American exuberance; the beaches are to die for; the local cuisine is excellent and the people are completely charming.

All the parts of Brazil that are not covered in lush rain forest are crammed full of delightful things to see and do, with perfect weather conditions and a menu of outdoor activities to challenge even the most energetic baby boomers. The cost of living is one of the lowest anywhere and housing is very reasonably priced – low enough to buy rather than rent and if you buy you can also get a good rental return during lengthy absences should you decide to share your retirement between Brazil and the US.

Immigration laws that apply to retiring baby boomers are easy to navigate and criteria is made deliberately easy for Americans and Canadians as American investment is actively encouraged in Brazil. Many simply go with a trial period in mind, draw their pension from the hole in the wall and stay forever…! Baby boomers who like Mexico will fall instantly and permanently in love with Brazil, with its warm climate, diverse entertainments and hospitable people; most of whom are incurable party animals and respond to the slightest encouragement to take the afternoon off and shoot the breeze on a warm beach or balcony with a glass of something delightful and a good friend.

Anyone who has spent a long and hard working professional life and is feeling slightly frayed around the edges instantly melts when confronted with Brazilian charm and a country rich in music and sunshine. Psychological articles on elderly problems teach us that retirement is always more successful spent in warmer climates and people enjoy a longer life expectancy when they have plentiful sunshine and smile a lot – the Brazilian national sport – next to football that is!

The cost of living in Brazil for baby boomers on a generous pension is low enough to accommodate the expense of a full time maid or cook /housekeeper (are we liking the sound of this!) to enable a truly restful retirement experience. Psychological articles on elderly problems tell us that the higher our quality of life, the more likely we are to avoid illness in our older years, so what are we waiting for…?

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