Wow, I did not realize it had been six months since I posted something on here. And what an eventful six months it has been. Nothing like the prior six months, just busy. A is almost halfway through with her second year of school here. Dealing with all the dramas of a preteen. Friends, clothes, rebellion, lack of respect, just to name a few. G is going strong. I still battle his stubbornness each and everyday. He is slowly speaking more and more each week.
I am on my last week of the first semester of my college career. Was hoping to keep a 4.0 but that went out the window with a brutal History class. The grading rubric honestly states that it is uncommon to receive an A and only exceptional students will accomplish this. Gives you a lot to strive for, huh? It has been interesting though. I found out that I am a decent writer. That I can take classes and actually get an A in them. That my mind just does not get statistics. We have reached a few milestones too. We have been Ohioans for over a year now. The fire was 13 months ago. This blog is just shy of a year old.
In the last six months, we have done a ton of home repairs. Repaired our front stoop to keep water from coming in the basement. Repaired a corner of the basement wall to keep water from coming in. Although there still is water coming in that area when we get a 2 or 3 day soaking rain, it is much better. And hopefully when I finish the repair it will end it all. Cut out and rebuilt our cabinets to accommodate a dishwasher, which I hoping to put in next week. A lot of yard maintenance. A lot of preventive caulking. A lot of grilling and smoking and beer, lol. Put a booster fan in A's air duct, to help get the warm and cool air up to the second floor.
So to end this post, I thought I would talk politics. I am a conservative. I have mainly conservative views. But I am not a strict party line voter. There are sometimes I know the candidate or feel another party will do a better job. At this moment, I feel all parties have let us down. The issue that brought me to write this is simple: money. How much tax payer money did the current administration spend on the health care bill, only to know that as soon as a republican president enters office it will be torn to bits? How much state tax money was spent on Senate Bill 5 here in Ohio fighting the Union's collective bargaining rights? How much tax payers money is being spent in Kansas fighting abortions? While each of these issues are important, and need to be discussed, reviewed, and corrected, it seems these day it is a race to finish line to pass new bills. How many federal tax dollars were spent on the never ending battle of the budget? It seems that common sense has completely left politics. Compromise is an evil word. Our newly elected politicians need to be cautious of what they promise on the campaign trail. Let's look at the Health care Bill. This is something our administration could have worked on over the course of their four years. They could have actually developed a real plan, that possibly both parties could have backed. But no. It was rushed. Pushed through as quickly as possible. Now it is a calamity. Many states are battling the constitutionality of it. I guess my bottom line is the fact that we should actually think about the cost of these battles. That most are continual battles, or the vast majority that are passed will be overturned by the next administration. Why can we not actually work towards a finale.
I generally keep most opinions to myself, but this was something that popped into my head today. The cost of these battles and bills is never brought up. But the national debt, the salaries, and wasteful spending on other areas are discussed all the time. My two cents...hope I didn't bore you.
