health care bill

Congress has spent months now working on the health care bill that is going to cost us A lot of money .If they ever do pass it I have my doubts if we will be any better off then we were before.Congress has'nt done much of anything else except to spend A lot of money trying to cure the recession.I never thought the best way to cure your financial problems was to spend A lot of money that you already do'nt have.If it works for the government I may go out and buy A few cars that I do'nt need just to shore up my bank account,Global warming is another problem that our government and other world leaders are working on and it could be A serious problem .Especialy for all the people that are living on those islands out in the oceons that are going to dissapear under water.And we should try and do something about it but I am not convinced that our activities on this world have anything to do with it. I think mother nature is going to do whatever it is going to do in spite of what we do, According to science and history there have been climate changes in this world for millions of years.How about the ice age when this whole country was covered with ice. And there must have been A tropical age when all those tropical animals and fish that we are finding skelatons from lived here. I am more concerned that we as people are going to destroy ourselves with all the chemicals we are producing and the eficient killing machines like the atomic bombs etc, My opinion by John Zilverberg.

recovering

The president and some of the democrats claim we are recovering from the recession .But frrom my side of the fence it dos'nt look so good.The washington athorities keep talking about phisical responsibilities but I do'nt think they know what the word means.Congress just voted in an expence bill to run the government and the legislaters added 5000 ear marks ( those are pet projects of individual senators)that are costing us billions of dollars.The fact is we are drowning in red ink and if we do'nt learn to swim we are going to die. The fact is this twelve trillion national debt is not going to be paid off unless we raise the taxes to pay it and the destitute people with no jobs and no money can not do it so it is going to be up to the people that have the money to do it. We better get with it and get this country back on A sound financial basis or all that money is'nt going to be worth anything anyway. my opinion by John Zilverberg.

christmas greetings

Merry christmas and happy new year to you all.I hope this finds you all healthy and happy. I have been living alone now for A year and it has been A long year but I try to keep myself busy . I raised A good garden this year and was able to supply A lot of people with tomatoes cucumbers and squash this summer.I played A lot of golf and played A lot of pool at the senior center.I guess the high light of my year was my trip to the national senior games in Sanfrancisco california. My son Gary and their two children went with me.While there I managed to win A gold medal in bowling and A gold in shot put,A silver in the 100 meter run and A silver in the discus. I had A slight stroke but I recovered from that in good shape.Otherwise I have been in good health I have developed A newspaper column (My opinion by John Zilverberg) that rus in the Highmore herald every week .And in eleven other papers on occasion. that takes up some of my time .We have only one bowling league this year so I only get to bowl once A week.My bowling isnt what it used to be . My average is way down but I still enjoy it and feel lucky that I am still able to do it at the age of 96 years. Best wishes John.

the 26 week unemployment law is about to run out and congress is considering an extension that isgoing to cost another 100 billion dollars that is on top of the 140 billion that is already being paid out in unemployment benefits.I know we can't just let these people starve. But we will soon be A bankrupt nation if we have to keep this up very long.And these people will eventualy turn to crime or whatever they have to do to make A living. I am wondering how many of all these illegal emigrants that are in the country are recieving the unemployment benefits. Or have the jobs that our legal citizens should have.Health insurance for all these unemployed people is another problem that is going to cost us billions.I think Mike Huckabee is getting A bad rap being blamed for signing the papers the released Clemmens from prison who then went out and shot four police officers.We all know now that that was A bad mistake but at the time he was following the recomendation of the patrole board.Clemmens was arrested A couple more times after he was released on serious crimes and again let loose. The people that turned him loose the last times are the ones that should have the blame for turning him loose again.they say it takes up to 20000,00 to keep one of these fellons in prison for A year and that is quite A stran on our econamy and in some cases may influance the athorities to turn these criminals loose.And if we don't find employment for all the unemployed people we will have A lot more criminals to support.I am sure that is what is fueling the big drug cartels in Mexico ,Afghanistan and columbia,I believe if most of these people could find A job and make an honest living they would not be involved in these criminal activities. My opinion by John Zilverberg

salaries

I was appaled recently to learn of the salaries some of the people were getting that run the charities that I was supporting It was in the hundred thousands to over A million dollars.Just imagine anyone taking A salary of A million dollars out of money they colected to help needy people.That would be enough to give 200 needy familys $5000.00 each. Well black friday has come and gone and from all reports most of the stores did perty well.That is A good sign but we have A long ways to go.With over ten percent of the people in this country unemployed and the national debt we have we better find A way to put these people to work and pay off the national debt.If we get these wars settled and our military personel comes home we are going to have A lot more people looking for jobs.The only way I can see out is to lower the minimum wage back to five dollars so we can get some factories going and start manufacturing some of our own goods.And put in my recomended tax increase of one percent for every one hundred thousand dollars after the first 250 thousand on personal incomes.up to 90 percent that would lower the living expence for everybody and eventualy lower the income tax for the low income people. our present income tax is creating A class of multi millionairs and billionairs at the expence of the general public.Some people say that is socialism and wont work. the only reason it wont work is because the big money people that are in controle wont let it work. This is supposed to be A democratic country where the majority rules. There is no good reason why 90 percent of the people should let the other ten percent of the people have 90 percent of the money. My opinion by John Zilverberg