Revolution Watch---Green Must Go

As the economy slows down and the powers to be start pulling the funds from the easiest targets, and that would be the the targets that are outside the mainstream view of what Americas is all about,they dump the remaining funds into roads when the future will be in mass transit just like it is in Europe.They put more into the military so we can continue to secure supplies of energy rather than finding programs to cut back on consumption as they have done in Europe---Oh, they use half the energy per person as we do, but lets buy those massive SUVs.

Interestingly, they also cut it from schools as if the goal is to dumb down the populous so maybe they will not see what is being taken away from them and given very cleverly dish it out to the 1% ers.

So here goes some funds form the local green projects and incidently from the Holly shop which sold items made by the old folks. Gotta get to the basics but what shitty basics. Vision?

Hey, if they get the populous dumb enough maybe they can convince them to do really dumb things like Hitler did. Getting late but the revolution is on.

France---My Impressions--Starting with the Good

I have never been to Europe but I have always known it was there. I knew it was a different set of countries and not necessarily like the US of A but still mostly white people doing European things, not that really different from what we do do but maybe less of it.

I believe I was right on that one because they do have some of the same things we have but most of it is just plain smaller, be it refrigerators or cars, and houses and body sizes, roads and rules, meals and toys. Everything is smaller or in the case of toys hardly there at all. While I did see numerous motor scooters, some that are fast beyond imagination, there were no four wheelers, no water scooters, just not many motorized toys. I saw this a positive advancement.

The distances between places was closer, probably because their country is no bigger than Texas and they do have an abundance of people and have had for thousands of years. This closeness has made them focus on other activities like eating food which is pretty much a big deal. Every meal is taken seriously, seriously in the sense that everyone takes time to be together and talk. It is relaxed and the food is important. It is against the law for a baker to put preservatives in bread. Each day, it is fresh and well made and damn good---but I will say that right here in Amherst we have a bakery turning out an equal product. Still, we liked fetching the food and bread each day.

The pace is more relaxed. There is not the hustle, the ever present effort to seek out every possible dime to buy more stuff. A 35 hour work week, not bad. They seemed to have less stuff which to me was an indication that maybe we too could learn to live with out less and still have a great life. This was the one big lesson. We too can be smaller and still live the life, live the good life. A touch of hope if you will.

Well, here goes. I needed a break so to speak. It is now summer and I guess it is time to communicate with the world through this blog thing. Ya, we were in France for awhile but I couldn't really write about it because we are also, or were in a lawsuit. It seems that the Marshfield Clinic saw fit to file some papers of mitigation against us for failure to pay a bill. Ann had breast cancer a few years back and she was uninsureable due to a previous bout with cancer so the bill came directly to us.

The odd part turned out that if you do not have insurance, the bill is more than twice as large as it is for the insured. It was absolutely astounding and I decided to fight it. Had they billed us what they would have an insured person we could have written a check right then and there. But no, they send us this monster that no one normal could pay---like $55k. So after paying half, I told them to put it were the sun don't shine. The half is more than the insured would have paid.

Well, due to us having out positions in a trust or in LLCs they have no access to out retirement. None. Well, it dragged out but after about a year of bull shit and a lot of wasted time and money they essentially gave up and now I can talk again, talk about being in France. I would not have looked too cool had I gone to court again pleading hardship when we had just spend three weeks in southern France and then talking about it on a very public forum. But with that being over and normal life returned, my mouth can once more be shot off.

It was an education and deserves to be written up very completely so as to inform others what goes on when you can not get insured. It is a very strange and unjust world. More later.