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  4. 100 bucks !!!

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    Begin forwarded message:

    Subject: $100 Bill

     It's a slow day in the small town of Pumphandle and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everyone is living on credit. A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night. As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. (Stay with this....and pay attention) The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Co-op. The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the localprostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit. The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner. The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves. No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town now thinks that they are out of debt and there is a false atmosphere of optimism and glee. And that, my friends, is how a "government stimulus package" works!

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  5. Advice?

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    One question. Have you ever had a straight forward conversation with your children to let them know how you feel?

     

    If not, I suggest a round table meeting of the entire family. A member of my extended family found themselves in this situation and actually left his home for several days because he was so frustrated with the situation. When he came back he found out his wife had talked to the others and when they set down for breakfast they had a "come to Jesus" meeting. There were loud voices, tears flowing, etc. but when it was over, everyone understood how inconsiderate each was being to the other. Things seem to be much better now.

     

    Sometimes, the problem comes down to "lack of communication".

     

    :twocents:

     

    :cowboy2:

    You are the bench mark of what we as people should be. I admire you and your ability to see the best and the flaws in people. I myself get overwhelmed with all that life throws me,  and No I have not let them know how I feel. I worry that if I say anything I will drive them away because they are too young to understand. I need to keep my babies close and make sure they know that they know they have a place to fall back on and they will always have a place to come to. I just did things  wrong!!!  I only did what little I knew as far as raising kids, after that I just followed my love for my babies.. I do believe if they do not know God, they will be in trouble 

      I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT BRO. I HAVE A SIMILAR SITUATION EXCEPT I HAVE ONE DAUGHTER AND HER THREE CHILDREN WITH US AND HAS BEEN FOR MANY YEARS. I AND MY WIFE DIFFER GREATLY ON THIS BUT I  WAS RAISED VERY DIFFERENTLY.  i DO PUT UP WITH IT BUT AM NOT OVERLY HAPPY ABOUT IT. GUESS IT IS A NEWER GENERATION AND FOR SURE A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOVING FOR SURE. I LOVE MY DAUGHTER AND GRANDCHILDREN BUY WOULD RATHER FOR THEM TO VISIT ME INSTEAD OF LIVE WITH ME.  GOOD LUCK THERE BUT IF I WERE YOU AND THEY ARE BOYS, THINK I WOULD TELL THEM TO STAY AWAY UNTIL

    Thanks Man> Life sucks but you do make me feel better with your honesty, and that alone helps a lot.

  6. Advice?

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    Jax,Scrappy, Dog, Vietnam. I can not tell you how much I thank you for your feed back. I have become a man who has lost his way, I cannot give my kids everything they want.,My goal at this stage of this my life, is to take care of the women who started it all, our time could be limited and because we never had a chance to have our own time it becomes upsetting because I know the kids are fine, if they apply themselves.!!!!


    One question. Have you ever had a straight forward conversation with your children to let them know how you feel?

     

    If not, I suggest a round table meeting of the entire family. A member of my extended family found themselves in this situation and actually left his home for several days because he was so frustrated with the situation. When he came back he found out his wife had talked to the others and when they set down for breakfast they had a "come to Jesus" meeting. There were loud voices, tears flowing, etc. but when it was over, everyone understood how inconsiderate each was being to the other. Things seem to be much better now.

     

    Sometimes, the problem comes down to "lack of communication".

     

    :twocents:

    I believe that Jesus is what I have lost ......

    :cowboy2:


    Tell them with love, that you love them, but they don't live here any more. They are visitors at your house. ( I had to do that

    with 2 of my 3 ). After 20 some years of taking, It doesn't sink in that those days are over.

     

    Tell them with love, that you love them, but they don't live here any more. They are visitors at your house. ( I had to do that

    with 2 of my 3 ). After 20 some years of taking, It doesn't sink in that those days are over.

    Thanks, it kinda stinks that things do not get any easier


    One question. Have you ever had a straight forward conversation with your children to let them know how you feel?

     

    If not, I suggest a round table meeting of the entire family. A member of my extended family found themselves in this situation and actually left his home for several days because he was so frustrated with the situation. When he came back he found out his wife had talked to the others and when they set down for breakfast they had a "come to Jesus" meeting. There were loud voices, tears flowing, etc. but when it was over, everyone understood how inconsiderate each was being to the other. Things seem to be much better now.

     

    Sometimes, the problem comes down to "lack of communication".

     

    :twocents:

    Thank you for your wisdom, I will try that!!!!  Here"s to me crossing my fingers     

    :cowboy2:

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    Tell them with love, that you love them, but they don't live here any more. They are visitors at your house. ( I had to do that

    with 2 of my 3 ). After 20 some years of taking, It doesn't sink in that those days are over.

    I had wanted to try that, but I was afraid I would push them away. You always want to give your kids better then you had<

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  7. Advice?

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    Jax, I thank you for that, wish I could plus you more. I have this thing where I feel guilty for how I feel, but I would never think of doing that to my parents. I just worry that I compromise my old thoughts with today's thinking, I am trying to find a way to teach my kids without pushing them away.

  8. Advice?

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    So here is some back ground first. Married @ 19 years old, SHOTGUN WEDDING" not really but we had our first child about 3 months after the wedding. Second child two years later. Fast forward, first child graduated from college the second still going and works for me at a floor company which I do not own but I do run the day to day ops. The first child gets married in May, the boy has moved out for about a year now. So here's my deal, both of them pop in when they are in need of food, money, comfort, or Momma to cater to them. There is never for warning, no idea when they want to pop in. They just come intake what they want and do what they want, total disregard for our home or our feelings. I believe they use us. They will leave the place a mess, leave dirty clothes and drive me absolutely out of my mind. I had big plans for V -Day with my wife only to come home after work and find my son who took the day off( because he had a birthday party with his bud on Thursday) sleeping it off all day, thus killing all my plans with my wife of 22 years of marriage. FYI. We have been together since 96". Am I wrong? Am I being selfish ? I would love to have them come to see us and not to have us cater to them, but it has not worked out that way. I feel that my time is up to God so I would like to have a little time where it's just me and my Lala, we have never had that time, and of course I realize I made this bed but I would like to get a little bit of advice and or feed back. FYI. Trying to type this with the I-phone please forgive any errors.

  12. Janis Joplin - Piece Of My Heart

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    Posted

    Live in Germany 1968.

     

    Nice pick big U, you know I really think , janis J could of been as big as Gladys Knight ,just like Jim Morrison or Jimmy Hendririx, all three were just used up by the record producers and agents who never tried to get them on the straight and narrow but choose to think of their bottom line and just ride the boat load of Money as long as they could, all three were huge stars that someone decided to just let burn out. Paul McCartney just did a awesome concert in Milwaukee last night at 71 years old, 71" that blows my mind, but tells me that the people that handle these stars need to know what they are doing.
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  14. Zimmerman facing racist thugs ever since Martin jumped him.

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    For the supporters of Zimmerman... if he is convicted for murder or not, how will that affect your life? Same questions for the supporters of Martin. If none of you witnessed with your own eyes what happened that night or none of you are directly involved with this case and it's outcome, why get so emotional about it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know everyone has an opinion and a right to voice it but not every opinion need to be heard. Especially if it's given just to cause tension within a conversation. What happens to Z is in the hands of the jurors. Some are going to be happy with the outcome and some are going to be pissed. One life was taken. The remainder of another life may be spent in prison. If not, that life may be taken on the streets as well. The way I see it, nothing positive or anything to be happy about will come from this case no matter what side of the fence you're on.  :twocents:

    . I really had hoped we as a country have gotten past this race thing, it is 2013 by the way, not 1950, if GZ IS Found inoccent I really fear there be will riots in Florida, and this is something that we cannot have as a country, if what I READ about Obama's statement is true, that alone is fuel for the fire, and let that SOB figure what to use to put it out! God help us all, this whole innicdent is unfortunent and not cut and dry!

  19. Lou Reed Sweet Jane (With Intro) (Live)

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    Posted

    Standing on the corner,,,, with a suit case in my hand,,,, waiting, waiting, waiting ,,,,, for the Dinar to land! Great tune man, I remember my old man and uncle jammin to this after a packers loss back in the late 70s- early 80s, I even think I first heard this on reel to reel.

    P.S this was heard almost every Sunday, cuz we lost a lot back than! LOL

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  21. Two explosions at Boston marathon finish line

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    Posted

    Jay Soroko of Fox News was running in the race and just said that he heard 

     

    THREE distinct explosions. Lets see if our Gov will change this story. It is very 

     

    sad but these things shall wax worse and worse. I am afraid that it is time to 

     

    pay the piper for our sins. 

     

    Tankdude, you say that you have seen this type of things first hand? Just wondering

     

    after watching the explosions on tv does it look like what you saw in country? 

     

    And thank you and God for serving, SEIMPER FI. [/quo

    Ya, lets just see how soon we will read how the government is behind this, today? Tomorrow ? I am sure we will read something soon. It really breaks my heart, why is there so much of this going on as of late?

  22. Reality Check

    in Opinions, Perspectives, and Your Two Cents on the Iraqi Dinar

    Posted

    Go ask your bank why they wont deal with the dinar its because of the sanctions. IMHO wonder why the budget hasnt been released and also wonder why they targeted the Gazette building also 4 other newspaper agencies. Maybe just maybe the new exchange rate is in that budget. There are people that dont want to see this come out and others that do.

    Why hasn't the budget been released? Has there been any articles that stated why it hasn't been published? I thought they let it know like a week or so after it was approved.

  23. Iraq budget?

    in RV & Dinar Questions

    Posted

    Does anyone believe we will see and or decipher a R.V. rate once the budget is posted. I have been on the fence with what I have read as to if there is any validity to the budget showing us a potential rate for a R.V. Thanks in advance for any enlightening responses.

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  24. Cancel sequester now!

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    Posted

    Bottem line is we have supported those who choose to feed off our us for way too long, now the well has run dry and you cannot change those who have been pampered half their life, Its gotta come from somewhere. Who ? The backs of the middle class. Why can a women have 4 kids with no Daddy and recieve from the state as much as I get from working? how can I claim zero exemptions and still owe the feds 1000.00 bucks? Bull, I pay a ton in taxes every year. This country was meant to be a melting pot not a soup kitchen for those who choose not to take on the onus to at least try and make a go at it. I could go on forever, but at this point it really does not matter..

  25. The girls of FOX NEWS!!!

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    Posted

    yep, pretty girls...(wonder whats under all that makeup) :lol:  :lol:

     

    Lol, Hell hath no fury. Thats funny and very true, wonder how the'' just rolled out of bed look is? Good and very valid reply', sometimes I am ashamed of how superfical i can be , thanks for the kick..

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