BACK TO WORK

The Holiday (Christmas or Seasonal) is over...   and now that most of us no longer refer to this holiday as Christmas, what the hell are we celebrating for?  Of course...  I forgot...   it was NEW YEARS EVE and then NEW YEARS DAY..  and, all those presents that we bought and wrapped and shared was just to celebrate the approach of the new year.  What a fickle group of people to spend so much time and money celebrating the new year as if it were our own private birthday...

WELL...  anyway, it is gone...  over...  say goodbye...   because it ain't coming back for another 12 months and in the meantime, it is time for us to return to work...  and make some damn money...

But, some of us are still out-of-work because of COVID and there are others who cannot go back to work because they ignored all the warnings and now they are home with COVID...  and if they are in relatively good health will live to WORK another day.

Then...  there are some of us...  who...  have decided we have earned enough money and need no more and now call themselves RETIRED...  however, many people simply NEED to work and earn money like it was some sort of COVID Disease where they can only get better if and when they earn another dollar, and then another, and then another.

In a way, I feel sorry for those who are addicted to money and greed like those addicted to drugs...  and, must live the rest of their lives with that as their only motivator other than spending the money they earn with is the other side and equally as harmful.

Some of retired folk understand that money is not happiness nor is money success no matter how the media and advertisers try to spin it.

Life is a GIFT and work is a necessary evil nowadays in order to enjoy that GIFT...  but, life did not always used to be that way and I doubt if it was ever that way for Native Americans before the rest of us arrived and stole everything from them because we out-numbered them and were stronger.

But, what we did to the Native American was not LIFE AS A GIFT either...

So, since progress ruined the concept of life as a GIFT, we must now work and pretend that we are working to enjoy LIFE AS A GIFT...  retirees see life as a gift and are thankful for that insight and feel rather sorry for all of those who cannot see it or can never see it because they do not know how to enjoy life unless they are earning money by convincing others to spend their money...  in other words, give it to them...

Back to Work?

Our Federal Government has given so much money to the American Worker that on average, these American Workers can generate more income staying at home than they can generate going back to work...

The Democrats are standing up cheering!!!

Of course, I do not know this for sure, but I suspect that this is what they wanted all along...

HOWEVER, at some point-in-time, Americans will have to return all this money that has been borrowed and redistributed out to them...

What does that mean?

INCREASED TAXES...

If the wealthy are forced to pay more taxes what do you think they will do?

• Put more money into tax free accounts
• Shelter more money in off shore, non taxable, accounts
• Reduced money given to businesses and industries
• move operations overseas
• Lay off employees

People want to return to work...

Medical experts say this should not happen...

People claim that their civil rights are being violated...

I say let them do what they want to do and take their own chances...

BACK TO WORK

MOST EVERYONE is anxious to get back to work and put behind them COVID-19 and this Pandemic that has restricted their movements for a couple of months.

America and Americans don't like being RESTRICTED...

BUT, can we take all the necessary precautions not to catch or spread the virus?

This is the really important question.

HERE, in the Tennessee Valley of the Volunteer State of Tennessee and being retired...  I am not sure that I share the anxiousness of the American Worker.  If I was working...  yes...  I would be concerned about being out-of-work and out-of-money, but I would also be concerned about my health and the health of my family.  I also realize that the older I became, the more conservative I also became so I really do understand their feelings...   I just don't support their feelings...