Letter to the Editor, Guadalajara Reporter
Generally I have left politics out of this blog for several reasons - as much as anything because this adventure into Mexico was in part a leaving behind some parts of life, a time away from much of what we knew and know of life as we lived it NOB. But, even here in paradise there is always at least one who doesn't get the message, one who can't let go of their baggage, one who can't just shut up, quietly vote their choice and be more interested in the new tamale shop in the village than who is perceived to be lying to us about whatever - by their standards you understand. So, an old habit was brought out of storage and pressed into action this last week and for many, probably most of you who never has seen A Guadalajara Reporter this will be printed in the current edition.
As you don't have the basis for my irratation, it was a full two page center of our local Gringo rag last week, apparently financed by some deranged left wing whacko. The usual suspect parties are listed as well, I assume to mean they have no better way to spend their money here in Mexico? The article was basically a reprint from some leftwingnut and the local (or loco) lady who appears to be the main financier is down on the Tea Party and she'd rather spend money telling everyone her misguided opinions than something of charitable value for instance, donate to the committee to create a life size memorial to the stupidity and inanity of Nancy Pelosi, I really don't care, it would be money better spent, at least the pigeons would have a place to - - - well, to roost. I don't belong to the Tea Party, I've never been to a meeting of the Tea Party, but I was instantly polarized, antagonized and traumatized by her presumptuous shouting in my face here in sleepy Mexico, hence the Letter as follows:
Letter to the Editor:
Many, maybe even most, of us came here to put our former lives behind us, all the drudge of our adult years and certainly the incessant whining of politics like an eternal fly that can't be swatted. We were tired of the never ending vitriol of politics which always seems to end the same, they win, we lose - so, enough, go away, take your baggage and be gone, leave me in peace. Yet here in our sleepy little retirement life we can't escape the shrillness of someone obviously worried about the Tea Party. Of course her outpouring has actually legitimized the Tea Party as a viable threat to her perceived political beliefs which are of absolutely no interest to most of us, take it back NOB, march, scream and stamp your foot, just leave me in peace here.
Last Saturday I opened the weekly paper to find two complete pages shouting in my face, mostly bored, I started to read and the first item told me all I needed to know, the two pages are a sham, completely without merit and exactly what the person purports to find wrong with America. Take the first item, it falsely states SSI is held in a "trust fund" - a complete blatant lie. All that is in the "lockbox" is an infinite number of IOU's. This from the OMB: "The existence of large trust fund balances, therefore, does not, by itself, have any impact on the government's ability to pay benefits." NO IMPACT: The lockbox, the balances, the pieces of paper, amount to nothing, they're simply accounting line items of no value other than to denote the amount stolen by generations of pols in DC for other projects.
Another item says Clinton left a surplus, read the Treasury website, it has never reported a "surplus" since 1994. That was simply a slight of hand transferring federal, or public debt to intergovermental holdings, or another "pocket" so it wasn't counted the same. You doubt? Look it up on the Treasury website, from 1994-2001 there was never a surplus, every year showed a deficit.
My point is simple, be gone, take your baggage, your politics back NOB, most of us here are not interested. I might point out the apparent purchaser of the ad has a single vote, I have one vote and it appears I just nullified all her rage and indignation because we will definitely not be voting alike, so all her bluster and disinformation are a wasted effort.
Steve Brown
Riberas del Pilar
And, besides; the darn paper comes out once a week, it's only a few pages and costs $15 MXP or about $1.20 USD and to find two whole pages of it wasted on something I wouldn't even put in the bottom of the bird cage (if I had one) is a smack in the face. However, I do consider the Reporter's printing of my letter to be a justified use of print paper and a fine and suitable addition to the bottom of any bird cage.
There, I feel better all ready, I get real testy when someone presumes upon me for most any reason these days, I take my time and my privacy seriously, I take my rights seriously and I absolutely insist on being left alone when I don't want to be hauled kicking and screaming into someone else's bad dream. I'm more than old enough to make up my own mind without someone's assistance and whining. I'm old enough that I had to be 21 to vote the first time, I've voted religiously in every presidential election since, I ran for County Commissioner in '72, I stood in line 4 hours in a N Dallas parking lot to vote in '80 and I drove my sealed ballot from here back to TX in '08 to be mailed and counted. I participate, but quietly, ever so quietly please - I INSIST!
As you don't have the basis for my irratation, it was a full two page center of our local Gringo rag last week, apparently financed by some deranged left wing whacko. The usual suspect parties are listed as well, I assume to mean they have no better way to spend their money here in Mexico? The article was basically a reprint from some leftwingnut and the local (or loco) lady who appears to be the main financier is down on the Tea Party and she'd rather spend money telling everyone her misguided opinions than something of charitable value for instance, donate to the committee to create a life size memorial to the stupidity and inanity of Nancy Pelosi, I really don't care, it would be money better spent, at least the pigeons would have a place to - - - well, to roost. I don't belong to the Tea Party, I've never been to a meeting of the Tea Party, but I was instantly polarized, antagonized and traumatized by her presumptuous shouting in my face here in sleepy Mexico, hence the Letter as follows:
Letter to the Editor:
Many, maybe even most, of us came here to put our former lives behind us, all the drudge of our adult years and certainly the incessant whining of politics like an eternal fly that can't be swatted. We were tired of the never ending vitriol of politics which always seems to end the same, they win, we lose - so, enough, go away, take your baggage and be gone, leave me in peace. Yet here in our sleepy little retirement life we can't escape the shrillness of someone obviously worried about the Tea Party. Of course her outpouring has actually legitimized the Tea Party as a viable threat to her perceived political beliefs which are of absolutely no interest to most of us, take it back NOB, march, scream and stamp your foot, just leave me in peace here.
Last Saturday I opened the weekly paper to find two complete pages shouting in my face, mostly bored, I started to read and the first item told me all I needed to know, the two pages are a sham, completely without merit and exactly what the person purports to find wrong with America. Take the first item, it falsely states SSI is held in a "trust fund" - a complete blatant lie. All that is in the "lockbox" is an infinite number of IOU's. This from the OMB: "The existence of large trust fund balances, therefore, does not, by itself, have any impact on the government's ability to pay benefits." NO IMPACT: The lockbox, the balances, the pieces of paper, amount to nothing, they're simply accounting line items of no value other than to denote the amount stolen by generations of pols in DC for other projects.
Another item says Clinton left a surplus, read the Treasury website, it has never reported a "surplus" since 1994. That was simply a slight of hand transferring federal, or public debt to intergovermental holdings, or another "pocket" so it wasn't counted the same. You doubt? Look it up on the Treasury website, from 1994-2001 there was never a surplus, every year showed a deficit.
My point is simple, be gone, take your baggage, your politics back NOB, most of us here are not interested. I might point out the apparent purchaser of the ad has a single vote, I have one vote and it appears I just nullified all her rage and indignation because we will definitely not be voting alike, so all her bluster and disinformation are a wasted effort.
Steve Brown
Riberas del Pilar
And, besides; the darn paper comes out once a week, it's only a few pages and costs $15 MXP or about $1.20 USD and to find two whole pages of it wasted on something I wouldn't even put in the bottom of the bird cage (if I had one) is a smack in the face. However, I do consider the Reporter's printing of my letter to be a justified use of print paper and a fine and suitable addition to the bottom of any bird cage.
There, I feel better all ready, I get real testy when someone presumes upon me for most any reason these days, I take my time and my privacy seriously, I take my rights seriously and I absolutely insist on being left alone when I don't want to be hauled kicking and screaming into someone else's bad dream. I'm more than old enough to make up my own mind without someone's assistance and whining. I'm old enough that I had to be 21 to vote the first time, I've voted religiously in every presidential election since, I ran for County Commissioner in '72, I stood in line 4 hours in a N Dallas parking lot to vote in '80 and I drove my sealed ballot from here back to TX in '08 to be mailed and counted. I participate, but quietly, ever so quietly please - I INSIST!
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