It is the economy, stupid!

The economy is at 0.1 %. The important thing is 0. 0 new jobs. 0 new business. 0 government competence. The gov't is printing money; prices for local stuff will go up. The value of the dollar will go down again; foreign goods, like oil, will go up. 47% of our people live on government checks, and most other Americans get small paychecks. Taxes on small paychecks are up.

If this sounds like boring white cracker stuff, go buy food for your family at the grocery store.  Most bread sells for $4 a loaf at local stores.

So, how long did Obama tell us the lie that the economy was above 2% or 3%? Does it matter that you were lied to?

Is it time to ramp up the hate speech on MSNBC against white Republicans?

How high do prices rise before the riots start?
Do you expect government checks to go up with prices?
Do you expect your county (or city) paycheck to go up with prices?

Really?

An Amazing Grant Writing Nonprofit Group

Listen!  I am a citizen of a county, state, and a federal government: no one listens to me or helps me. There is, however, a group that listens and will help you. You have never heard of them.

Circle of Ten: A Circle of Ten, Inc. - Network for Collaboration, is a nonprofit group that is amazing.

Grant Writing: The Circle of Ten has monthly grant writing sessions for persons in nonprofit groups. The attendees bring their hopes, desires and needs. Libraries need books and computers. Schools need computers, buildings, a/c systems.

Preparing a Grant Application: A Circle of Ten, Inc. session guides the preparation of applications, which are submitted during the session. A Circle of Ten knows who to ask for the money and knows, before giving out any money, what the agency is really looking for. A Circle of Ten also knows who to call at the agency. They are on a first name basis with the right people, at federal, state, and private agencies, who judge applications and sign the checks.

No Go.  Of course, you can buy a book of forms and fill in the blanks. And, you can fly to Washington D.C., and spend the summer trying to see the right person. Or, you can go to Google, get the names of charitable agencies, and start making telephone calls. Oh yeah. You probably tried that already.

Contact Info: A Circle of Ten, Inc. is not hard to find. A list of dates, times and places for grant writing sessions is found on your computer. Go to Circle of 10 or Virtual Village for info and schedules. Send them an email. Or you may pick up your cell phone and call 903-541-0013 (Fax 888-214-5210).

I remember sitting down for lunch in Tyler, Texas, at Cox's Grill, and meeting the director of the public health department for our district. For some reason, I shut up and listened. He told me that every day, some of his employees receive a list of names and some  medicines. The list of names is a list of those persons with a disease so dangerous (Tuberculosis) that his employees are instructed to go see them, and watch them take the medicines. Simply asking the people if they had taken their pills is not good enough, the employee had to see the person place the pill in his mouth and swallow it. A refusal to take the medicine would result in the person being locked up in a hospital and receiving his medical treatment there.

As dangerous as Tuberculosis is, it seems that some forms of mental illness, along with guns, is even worse. Sending someone out to watch the bi-polar person take his medicine (and see if he is playing with an AR-15) is fairly simple. It is certainly easier than finding and locking down hundreds of millions of firearms.

Isn't one solution to send someone out, watch the dangerous person take his medicine, and see what is going on?