O I WISH

MY DREAM TICKET:

BILL GATES AND GEORGE CLOONEY

BILL AND MELINDA, GEORGE AND AMAL.

OR GEORGE AND BILL.

Why can't we have what we want? We're the baby boomers, for Godsakes. We always got what we wanted.

Let's change this thing up. We want George and Amal and Bill and Melinda. How hard can that be? Who's with me?

US NET WORTH $124T IN 1Q14 (WITH $146T DEBT OBLIGATION)

So. What's a $19T national debt do to us?

SEPT 15 ADDENDUM. (CUT OFF BY INTERWEB, BLOGSPOT OR YOUNAMEIT.COM)

 Why are we so divided? Is it educated whites, blacks, Hispanics, etc vs. uneducated whites and rich whites and their spouses? Why can't we talk together with common sense? Well, it's probably too hard for us to do.

Football game started on CBS. Red v. white. Buffalo v. Jets. I always liked CBS - it said to me: see BS. See the US BS.

OK. Back to a point. Hopefully. I feel like Calvin Trillen. I know. Esoteric. Like asking for gespachio at a burger joint.

Allright. A point. What do we want our next President to do for us? I got it. I got it. Fix everything. Get rid of the bad. Give us the good. O, is that too simple? Well, that's kinda what we're getting from one side. Make America great again. When was it great? World War 2. Cuban missile crisis. Desert Storm. Afghanistan after 9/11. Taking out Bin Laden. And stuff like that. We've always risen to greatness when called upon. And always will.

I think the current problem is can we have a woman as President. Why not? They rule everything else if most men will be honest about it. And I say hale yea get them out of the kitchen and go make some money. So I can drink beer on the couch and watch sports and keep track of the kids.

OK. Maybe I'm a little too overboard working on my boat. Game's on TV. Out.

SEPTEMBER 15. THE IDES.

Took time off with Hillary recuperating. And nothing is on schedule. Except baseball, football games, sunrise and sunset.

Where the hell are we in this presidential campaign imbroglio? Apparently, Trump has tied it up or is ahead. With popular vote. But. We all know it's the states. The electoral college. Thank our Founding Fathers. Though we still have the '00 election in our craw. What's a little cheating in Florida, yeah? And then again in Ohio in '04. Well, the Republicans decided to stop paying down the national debt and started giving money back to the ultra rich. Again. Of course, we had to run up deficits then after 9/11. And yada yada.

Here we are. $19 trillion dollars in debt. In debt to whom? Doesn't matter. What matters is interest payments and interest rates. And income. And bills.

LABOR DAY #122

Trump has gained on Hilly. He had good words in Black church. He's been behaving. And Hill hurt again by more email crap.

Young Blacks not as likely to come out to vote for Hill as BO (If at all.)

DT could actually win this thing.

But. I just don't think so. I think we will have Hill and a Democrat Senate. And a more Democratic House. I guess I'm going on record. It's primarily the demographics. And the vagaries of Senate elections (lots more Rs up this year than Ds). And, honestly, things are much better economically in the last 8 years. Even the last 4. Especially for the megarich. You know all that new US debt? Yup, mostly into rich pockets.

But who knows what might happen.

2 months to go.

Teamsters endorsed Hill. Drivers I suspect not so much. (I wonder if there will be an internal fight there over contributions.) Does Teamster leadership take a vote of drivers for endorsement?

"American Experience" on TV. PBS. About US coal miners history. Talk about labor. And now they are out of jobs. Coal power less and less competitive with natural gas, wind, hydro and even solar. And folks, that's good for the miners as well as our own health. Coal power pollution kills and maims us, but gave miners black lung, let alone mine explosions or cave ins.

So God bless the coal miners who grew our country tremendously. When we weren't aware of the effects of greenhouse gases and global warming climate change on top of the pollution.

The labor movement ended 14-hour days 7 days a week, child labor, no benefits, pitiful wages and the rest. Started in 1894. The gilded age. The "Gay '90's". Railroad barons and steel magnates. Coal kings and oil empire builders.

Thank God somehow people rose up and claimed their share of the wealth. The commonweal. Look what they made for us. Look at all we have. Our parents, great grandparents, great great grandparents built what we have today. Because they wanted us to have a better world than they had. And they did that.

Guided by the ultrarich who decided what to build. Because they had the money. And built what would make them even richer. But all the rich were not evil doers. In fact, really, most also wanted things better for everyone.

But you wouldn't be able to tell that back in the 1890's. So.

So. Thank you, labor movement leaders, for fighting for as much of our present world as you could. And the recent $15/hour minimum wage movement is testament.

And may labor be more rewarded as we go onward and upward until Jesus' return.