Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Jul 31 2007
Government money grows on taxpayers, but the forest may be thinning soon
The idea that we years to go in Iraq is quite depressing. Even more depressing is the fact that the military price tag (in dollars alone, without counting human lives) will continue to climb, while more and more people I know are struggling financially on a personal level. Someone said something to me last week, quite tongue in cheek, that is beginning not to be funny. They were joking that the people on public assistance were actually eating better and driving better cars than the people paying out a lot in taxes. The day may come when we finally have more people in line for aid than we have taxpayers willing and able to pay for it. I have a feeling we're going to see another rebellious, retro-hippie, dropping out generation very soon in America.
posted at: 15:04 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
The idea that we years to go in Iraq is quite depressing. Even more depressing is the fact that the military price tag (in dollars alone, without counting human lives) will continue to climb, while more and more people I know are struggling financially on a personal level. Someone said something to me last week, quite tongue in cheek, that is beginning not to be funny. They were joking that the people on public assistance were actually eating better and driving better cars than the people paying out a lot in taxes. The day may come when we finally have more people in line for aid than we have taxpayers willing and able to pay for it. I have a feeling we're going to see another rebellious, retro-hippie, dropping out generation very soon in America.
posted at: 15:04 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
Distracted
My blog attention is being dragged about today, partly due to word from a friend that someone we both love was inadvertently a little too close for comfort when it came to the crime scene in this story out of Tennessee. Each of us probably knows of someone who has been the victim of stalking and sometimes violent behavior. We can't understand the mind of someone who would hurt people this way and we can't understand the bizarre survival of one person over another when violence does come into the picture.
As far as I know, the man in the story, who has also been identified in other reports as Roy Lynn Rogers, has not been charged with a killing at this time. It is also my understanding that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has taken over the case.
posted at: 12:27 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
My blog attention is being dragged about today, partly due to word from a friend that someone we both love was inadvertently a little too close for comfort when it came to the crime scene in this story out of Tennessee. Each of us probably knows of someone who has been the victim of stalking and sometimes violent behavior. We can't understand the mind of someone who would hurt people this way and we can't understand the bizarre survival of one person over another when violence does come into the picture.
As far as I know, the man in the story, who has also been identified in other reports as Roy Lynn Rogers, has not been charged with a killing at this time. It is also my understanding that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has taken over the case.
posted at: 12:27 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
