"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap."   Bob Hope

Last month's reminiscence of my childhood without the basics of life as we know them today seemed to have struck responsive chords in many of you, dear readers.   My main point, that no one owes us a living, was somewhat obscured, but hey and so what, my thanks to all of you for your kind words and shared thoughts. I was not the only one who had no TV in my formative years... and survived. And now, back to today.

The question on the lips of most of you is, "Where are the jobs?" but not on mine. What I want to know is," Where is the work?"

We millionaire giants of industry, whizzing around in our corporate jets, are told to get off our butts and hire some people, like we have been holding back deliberately. After all, hiring is what government does, isn't it? And then the bureaucrats go about making busy work, like 2,000 pages of healthcare legislation, which contains opportunities to create commissions, departments, committees,  regulations, czars and imaginative ways to choke free enterprise with new rules while adding costs and penalties. Do not scoff! This is not easy. It means loosening your belt, not tightening it. I seriously doubt that you or I could do that because all we know about is hiring when there is too much work to be done, not making work for people to do. We have to make a profit. The government has no respect for that motive, just the money we make. And why is that? Because the Federal Government has NO profit motive, that's why. What is theirs is theirs, and what is ours is theirs. Need money? They take it or print it, then redistribute it. The trouble is that it cannot go on forever. Cutting expenses, capping expenditures and balancing the budget works for most of us in free enterprise and in our personal lives. How many of us can go on spending more than we make indefinitely? Our US Government, too big to succeed.

At least that is how I see it, but what do I know? I had no TV when I was a kid. "As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it."  Buddy Hackett 

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