To Hillary Clinton; Mrs President/part 3, attack the real issue

To Hillary Clinton; Mrs President/part 3, attack the real issue

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edward w pritchard


Madame President, so often well intentioned Government programs do not attack the real problem at hand. The reasons are varied.

As an example prison reform. What is the best way to improve the happiness of unfortunate prisoners while they are incarcerated. It's to send willing women in for conjugal visits.

Here in my Home town of Akron, Ohio what do we most need to improve the general level of happiness? No it's not to outlaw begging at the side of expressway entrances.

What we need most here in Akron, Ohio is a really cool bridge across the Ohio Canal like the bridge of sighs in Venice Italy or a bridge like the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. If we had such a bridge the general happiness would be raised and the citizens would be more self confident and industrious leading our area to a new re-burst of creativity and artistic accomplishment.

To Hillary Clinton; Mrs President, / part 2, re sustainability

To Hillary Clinton; Mrs President, / part 2, re sustainability

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With fears abounding about global warming and individuals causing an overly large footprint on the environment perhaps we can use pro-active forms of a negative income tax or lump sum payments to help the environment, alleviate some of the carbon footprint left by citizens, and make people happy in a sustainable lifestyle that is healthy and wholesome.

We are talking here about encouraging citizens to adopt a nomadic lifestyle to follow reindeer or herds of buffalo and to use the animals to provide the majority of the groups food, shelter and clothing.

Government fiscal policy could be used to initially to recruit persons to join the new lifestyle.

 Perhaps citizens of Alaska or Native Americans on reservations would best initially respond to the new program.

Once successful and if a large enough number of persons were following the nomadic lifestyle a sustainable enjoyable wholesome life style might be available to all Americans who wished to travel and make smaller their carbon footprint upon the Earth.

"The" Dow crosses it's 50 day moving average

"The" Dow crosses it's 50 day moving average

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Where is it going to? "The" Dow crosses it's 50 day moving average. But where is it going next?

For a clue look at the Hang Seng. [ China]. Hey dude it's more or less the same chart. What's up with that? Type now DJI compare to HSI.

Why it's a small world. But wait a minute.

Are the Chinese and the Americans of a similar temperament when it comes to looking at the world?

Odd, compare DJI to HSI; it's the same chart. Who is running things anyway? and Where are they taking us?

Until now I liked the fact that at least the Chinese weren't bombing the Syrians. [see previous post].

Sad;
I see China will team up with the Russian coalition to bomb in Syria. I wonder if it's [ the creation of a new China Russia bombing team] is reflected in the Dow, coincidentally which had a good day on the news?

And I had hoped that China had a Buddhist heart under that practical face it showed to the World.

stop the bombing raids

stop the bombing raids

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Is it yesterday or tomorrow today over there in Syria?

It's a new day and its time for a lot of bombing crews from a lot of countries to drop bombs on the Syrian people. It's absurd but absurdity doesn't scatter sharp pieces of metal into children's legs.

Stop the aerial bombing raids over Syria today.

Here's what I wrote before on poor Syria, ancient nation, modern tragedy.

SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2012

Wake softly Syria

Wake softly Syria

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Wake softly Syria,
the sun has risen bringing morning breezes to soothe your sorrows.

Look to the horizon Damascus ancient Mother city.
Streaks of gold light entice you, awake; stir again Mother Damascus arouse your children
to productive activity.

Up and about to the souk hearty Aleppo.
Send men to trade and build.
Daylight is upon us Halab, greet foreign traders in the marketplaces.

Whisper in Aramaic humble Ma'aloula, tell the nations what comes next.

Joy and create sleepy Ras Shamrah, out to Ugarit to remind the world who taught them to write.

Awake sleeping Syria, ancient land. Your friends far away bid you reclaim your destiny.

Wake softly Syria.

Donald Trump woos Hillary; credit score blues part 3

Donald Trump woos Hillary; credit score blues part 3

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edward w pritchard

I read another ridiculous article on yahoo finance that the Federal Reserve was using tax payer funds to investigate and then concluded that couple's had better long term relationships if they started with  higher credit scores. More Charles Murray thinking [ "the Bell Curve", " Coming Apart "].

Here I thought good marriages had something to do with both being of similar religious backgrounds and beliefs and one being willing to stay home and take care of the children when necessary.

Well here's a brief couple of sentences on a Trump/ Clinton Presidential ticket and then my original "Credit score blues" the story where if you have a bad credit score you are marked for annihilation by a bounty being placed on your head as your death would help the economy and common good of society.
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Donald Trump woos Hillary; Can American have two Presidents at once in the White House?

What if Donald Trump decided the best way for him to get ahead in Life and become President was if he decided to have Hillary be co-president? Would Hillary Clinton be able to give up some of her self and her future fame and prestige for the Good of the Country? What kind of gifts do you buy a woman who would be President to woo her? How about a South American County?
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Here's what I wrote before on America's crazy obsession with credit scores:
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ADBRIGHT

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010

Credit Score Blues

Credit Score Blues

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I got my credit score in the mail today. Because of two years without lowering my credit card balance they put me on the blue list. Thanks from Sioux City, SD it began.

News travels quickly and my front door, with the broken lock, had my score 517 in large red letters scrawled across the middle. The reds are the more radical faction of the blue movement and are the hands on group and are the ones who perform the actual annihilation of the undesirables and it looks like I am now one.

A Tennessee based insurance company called today also. They want to send me hourly updates of changes in my credit score by e-mail for at least the next ten days guaranteed or until my death which ever comes first; in exchange for me assigning my $255 death benefit from social security to them. The changes in the score is important because the bounty paid by the New York banks is based on groups of ten individuals cumulative scores, in a bundle. It's said that any credit score ending in an odd number is lucky, and a very good thing because the computers picking the individuals for liquidation 70% of the time will pick an even number ending credit score. However, to me that's just numerology not numeracy. The blues follow some of the original bundling in choosing victims but the reds they kill for sport and you can't dodge them once your number is posted.

I took all my change over to the grocery store and got $67 from the coin counting machine after the 9% fee and am going to do some of my favorite things until they come for me. Maybe I will go to the Art Museum one more time and I might splurge and have some of the Ahi tuna from Wall Mart. It's my favorite. While at Wall Mart I have to buy a bottle of imported Chinese beer. I'll pay cash of course for I have been trying to keep my credit card balance in a reasonable range. We must be responsible with our spending if we are going to have any kind of a future.

Hillary Clinton JD

Hillary Clinton JD

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I wanted to warn future Congress and The Senate that when Hillary Clinton gets elected not to put her on cross, that is cross examination over her past dealings. Not because she is the new President, or a strong woman but because she has a Doctor of the Laws degree from Yale.

From experience some of us know that a woman lawyer likes to ask the questions and when it comes her turn to be under cross examination they have a short memory and often although they have no independent recollection of the events under discussion if they do recall anything they recall that nothing like that ever really happen, ipso facto.

Still women lawyers, don't we just Love them anyway.

fly by night

fly by night

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To pay down my student loans I have taken two main strategies.

The first is to be voluntarily incarcerated here in the local County jail which under the new law enacted by new first woman President Hillary Clinton erases $100 dollars a day from my composite student loan debt. It adds up. In three years of voluntary incarceration I could have most of my $125,000 for my restaurant management degree paid off at this rate. That is if interest rates aren't raised again.

I am in a hurry to get out of jail though, let's just say I don't like living with other men. So I have taken Mrs. Clinton's second option under her new programs to pay off student loan debt by us unfortunates who are having trouble getting a job in their field and I am working  9pm to 6am as a debt collector here at the jail. I call delinquent borrowers on their student loan payments and dun them every few days to stand up to their obligations and promises and pay their student loan payment this week. Now a student loan can be paid weekly, daily or even hourly to save on interest on interest, on fees, and on penalties.

There is a certain symmetry to Mrs. Clinton's new ideas on how to help us unfortunates pay down our accrued student loan debt with innovative programs. Some of us didn't quite understand what we were getting into and I believe it took getting the first woman President elected to have the compassion to understand our problem. Most Americans think if something couldn't happen to them then it is a problem that doesn't really exist. Like normal Americans looking back on American history and not wanting to think about the Native Americans having their land taken by force and legalese or slavery for other unfortunates.

Student loans are a lot like slavery what with interest rates going up weekly anymore for reasons most of us debtors don't really understand. Maybe I should have studied finance in school instead of my two year restaurant management degree.

It 's hard being a student loan debt collector on an automatic dialer from 9pm to 6am. It's good there is a bathroom here in my cell so I can go anytime unlike collectors in the private sector who only can leave their desk once every three hours.

Am I unhappy with my lot in life at this time?

I'll be out of this nightmare of voluntary incarceration and working all night as a debt collector of others in student loan purgatory in about another 14 months, so I guess I am just resigned and coping.

 I am grateful to Mrs. Clinton for having the compassion to help people like me with new ideas and programs. I don't in anyway feel that being in deep student loan debt is like being a slave or anything like that. Still sometimes at night when I am looking over my student loan debt lists to see if I have to call myself to remind me to make this weeks payment I get a little down.

When I am down I remember that old song  "some sweet morning I'll fly away" and I lay down my headset for a minute and imagine flying beyond these prison walls to freedom.

But that kind of thinking won't get me out of my student loan debt. I am just happy to have the opportunity to try these new innovative programs to restart my life.