It's Odd That Having Holes in your Pants Became Fashionable Right When Everybody Became Poor. Yeah... ODD...

I see that RENT is Going UP Nationwide... and Prices on Everything Else is Going Up Too... WHY? and More Importantly... What Can We DO to Reverse This Trend?

Let's Stop Collecting California Gas Tax for SIX Months. The State has a Surplus! More money is being collected in Taxes Than is Being Spent. Write to Your Elected Representatives. https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

and Governor Newsom:

https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/

I Wonder IF Kidnapping Executives and Holding them Hostage in Secret Prisons Until their Corporations Reduced Prices Would Work?

In a Practical Review of That Plan... It's Damn Likely to End With Your Arrest and Years of Incarceration... If You Used a Cell Phone to Call in the Ransom Demands the FBI Would be able to Trace WHERE You are Calling From and then They Would Send in the Clowns to Visit You.

A Secure Method of Communication With the Corporate Head Office Would be Needed...

Maybe Using The Internet... I Do Not Know Enough about This Subject to make a Valid Suggestion... and... I'm Not Going to Learn...

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and then MD Said on FaceBorg:

It’s easy the government flooded the economy with money. Inflation is a government generated phenomenon. One way to pay off the national debt is by devaluing the currency through inflation. It’s a tax on you and me and the government gets away with it because few people understand it. The only way to counter inflation is by investing in risk assets (ie: Real Estate and stocks) but that doesn’t always work. It’s the old axiom too much money chasing too few goods. If you looked at the money supply and the velocity of money you would see the exponential growth. The reason we had little inflation in 2008 was because the money didn’t enter the economy - the banks didn’t loan it out not so this time

and JB Said:

they say every thing is going to go up - but we get our gas from other countrys - Not the USSR - our food ( corn & weat is grown here, - This is a ploy from our government, california could drop there prices just by dropping that Tax ( $ !.00 ) increase and on top of that the government could also drop it even lower by dropping their tax on it also. We don't know why this war is going on and will never tell the exact reason why ( government never tells us the truth) No war never solves anything - but who am I nothing In there eyes.

SC Repied:

war seems to only benefit the very wealthy. Every time we have a depression or ressession there seems to be a war. What a rotten way to solve problems. California has become a nightmare place for poor people. We are discussing relocating to Nevada. We are thinking the Reno area. Reno is supposed to be very friendly to the LGBTQ+ community.

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and then NDW Said of FaceBorg:

Your light is seen. Your heart is known. Your soul is cherished by more people than you might imagine. If you knew how many others have been touched in wonderful ways by you, you would
be astonished. If you knew how many people feel so much for you, you would be shocked.
You are far more wonderful than you think you are. Rest with that. Rest easy with that. Breathe again.You are doing fine. Better than fine. You’re doing great. So relax. And love yourself today.

- Neale Donald Walsch

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Gordy Wrote:

In Search of Balance ~

~ I wrote this exactly one year ago. My feelings exactly ~

. I am finding the people on FB are separated and ranting at each other, spiking, jabbing, screaming-angry over political issues. I know how easy and funny it is to simply ‘share’ a post, but here I would like to address a few things in my own words. 

. What stuns me about the current state of the American state is a number of policies that have been put forth; 

. #1) The idea of abolishing the EPA. How can that even be considered? In these times of polluted rivers, oil spills, dwindling fish populations, smog cities, bizarre weather patterns, with a bloom of radioactive water just off the west coast, this is NOT the time to shut down our senses. This angers me to no end. 

. When these jackals have passed from the government, I fear the damage they have done in only a few short years will continue to be devastating to our land and culture. Log our national parks? I liken these actions as the same of raping an 11-year-old girl. She is changed for the rest of her existence. 

. #2) I detest the inclusion in our government of incompetent inexperienced appointees, with a pre-existing personal agenda, whether religious, or hateful. Buying your way in, or being a best buddy is not an appropriate resume’.

. #3) I oppose and reject the current arrogance, as like the immature posturing of an 8th grade boy. I see the evident bad attitudes of not working together in compromise, to accomplish a better world for our grandchildren.

. #4) I further deplore the low level of empathetic care, the promulgation of hate in this land and the world. As a representative of our country, that attitude is disgusting.

. From evidence I see that Republicans continually vote Yes for these negative things. In what way are they serving the people of this land? How do they justify their actions? Do they not see that they are damaging the very Republic they cherish?

. How can they even consider deactivating a plan to keep people healthy? In what way is this beneficial?

. Making fun of these people is very easy… calling each other names...that is a cheap shot. That is not the issue. I honestly don’t expect things to drastically change, as evidence indicates the majority of humanity is rather dull. But for those of us who are aware, those on the cusp of change, it sure would be nice if we could all get in the kitchen and get something done. 

. I vote we not wallow in the past, but work together to get out of this existential mud hole. Thought into action.

. Thank you for your time ~ Gordy

And so... Here's my little story about Pete Seeger.
      By way of introduction, I confess that the Seeger family looms large in my collection of momentous moments. 
      I've had the incomparable joy of sitting with Mike and Peggy, swapping songs and  laying out a sweet third harmony. A sparkling happy time. I also met Pete a number of times and can say without reservation that the man changed my life immeasurably.
      I was just starting out as banjo boy of 12 when my parents loaded me up in the station wagon and we drove over to Berkeley for this concert in a big building. It was something about banjos.
      Well, I had never been in such a gathering before...it was like seeing the mother ocean for the first time.
      Here was this thin unpretentious man that walked out on a bare stage, dropped his coat on the floor, and stood there in a plaid shirt talking and singing. Somehow I was impressed that he didn't have an instrument stand or a table, he'd just lay his banjo on the floor when he'd switch to guitar. My body pulsed large and small as the whole room sang. I didn't know what I was doing or what was happening, but we were all singing in intricate harmonies , dynamics, and counterpoint. It was SO beautiful, my heart almost burst. I looked around enveloped in the color of joy...
       He was just the friendliest fellow I had ever met. My folks encouraged me to speak with the promoters on the way out, and they gave me his address! So I scrawled  him a little letter of  "Thanks, and I really liked that one song you did." Pete wrote me back! and  included the words of the song.
        I can't articulate how powerful that was for me. I want to be a nice-guy banjo-guy when I grow up.
      "As the twig is bent, so grows the tree."
       The last thing he said to me years later was; "Gordy, keep on keepin' on."
        I have.

Open Door ~
.  Well, that wasn't difficult. I found out how to delete contact with some of those annoying FB people. I actually feel lighter.
.  I anguished over it...as I want to be open with all. Who am I to judge?.. yet here they are EVERY SINGLE DAY saying something negative and argumentative. Pouring hate and bile into my life. 
.  Then at once I recalled years ago when I had literally no lock on my door. Yes all were welcome, I fed a lot of folks. ...and some came back to steal my tools, my generator, my bike, and my clothes. (My clothes, fer gawd sake!) So there are some I need not feed.
.  Slow learner, eh?

I am of the age, the times when Ram Dass spoke directly to me. I was starry-eyed from Colusa and met him in L.A. when in college. This is to the point.

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”
~ Ram Dass

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Bubble UP! Economics:

LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans and Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... The Total Will Remain the Same! We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy. All Boats Float in a Rising Tide!

Even if Billionaires Pay Taxes, They'll Still be Billionaires! With Increased Sales Due to the BUBBLING Economy, Profits Will Increase... Making Stockholders Happy... EVERYONE WINS! Including Jeff Bezos Because We'll be Buying Stuff at Amazon!

Meme that fits the
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Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour and Raise all Social Security Checks 15%. All Those people will spend the extra money at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never!

Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady...

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