BY THE NUMBERS: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Health Care Bill

Today I received this picture in an e-mail of our government at work.Makes me wonder if they really are working for my best interests.House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)
The guy sitting in the row in front of these two... he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores. These are the folks that can't get the budget out by Oct. 1, Seriously! So, we’ve got a 30 day budget extension. Well, guess what, 30 days from now we will be in the same boat. I guess this makes it easy for the news ‘reporters’ as all they have to do is recycle the same headlines from this week and from 2 years ago.


I also received a newsletter from our Congressman Tom Latham telling me that 220 people have decided that the 307,889,856 people living in our United States are to have much more government involvement in our private lives.

This is a quote from the e-mail
"Everyone agrees that health care costs too much in this country, and too many have to go without insurance. But we can fix these problems without a $1.2 trillion government power-grab that will force every single American to become more reliant on the federal government for the delivery of their health care, whether they like it or not."


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Health Care Bill
The numbers read like this

Quote
" 5.5 million -- The number of jobs that could be lost as a result of taxes on businesses contained in the legislation

$729.5 billion -- Total new taxes on employers and individuals


114 million -- The number of individuals who could lose their current coverage under the bill's government-run health plan, according to the non-partisan Lewin Group


43 -- The number of entitlement programs created, expanded or extended by the legislation


3,425 -- The number of uses of the word "shall," representing new duties for government bureaucrats and mandates for Americans "

I agree that we need health care for everyone.

It is something we already have now through the welfare program.A government program.It is something we are all paying for now if you pay taxes.Any one who does not have health care ins. can get care.It is the law no one can be refused.The illegals have found this to be true.
Why would we want to allow the government to take more tax dollars? This is just nuts.
From this e-mail it appears more will loose insurance than don't have it now.114 million will loose

From the National Coalition on health care
"Several studies estimate the number of uninsured Americans. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 47 million Americans, or 20 percent of the population under the age of 65, were without health insurance in 2008."

How much sense does that make??
I pray each day that the elected officials listen to the people who elected them and fix this health care problem without forcing the middle class to pay for another mistake.
The other question I have is why are they in such a hurry???????Wake up and speak up before it is to late.!!!!

Beautiful Sunday

There is nothing better than a breakfast cooked over an open fire.!!!
We had such a perfect Sunday morning I fired up the BBQ pit and cooked bacon,eggs and fresh grown fried potatoes with onions.OH SO GOOD.


Our older daughter and her 2 sons were here over night.I love when they come to visit.Always sad when they go home.They have been adopted by a dog.She is a sweet heart.I helped to name her Sadie.It will be sad if the owners come to claim her. They have all become attached to her already. They have called the animal rescue to find out if any one has called about a missing dog.

great friends

Good morning to you all.I am still digging trough collections deciding what to take to the booth at the mall.This has turned into quite an undertaking.I never thought of my *stuff* as things to sell. now I am walking around my house thinking how would *that look * in the booth.Look out Mr. T. I may start looking in your shop for things!!
When I went to take some things in on Sunday there was a very nice 'Good luck' surprise waiting for me. Our good friends,Pat and Jerry, sent a wonderful fresh flower arrangement in a beautiful ceramic pumpkin.Thanks you 2.Isn't it just beautiful???
Have a great day everyone.j

Booth set up/Halloween

What a busy day. we worked at the booth again today.Mr. T. had to help me put up the ladder to hold baskets and we put up the old door wooden grids as a sort of ceiling between the door and the wall. Hard to explain.You can see it a bit in the picture of the door at the top
I will get more pictures when I get some more things set up in the coming week.I wall papered the one side of the door with an old song book.It turned out really good.Lots of good comments on it
from customers in the store.







Here are a few of the trick and treaters we had tonight.
What fun.Halloween has always been a fun time.One I enjoyed as a child,
in a small town that was safe to go to any neighbors for candy.It is still that way in the town we live in.
Our children looked forward to it as well.
Have a great new week.j

gardens and brussel sprouts

Finally we got the garden clean off.The Iowa weather has been rain, rain, rain.
We waited to harvest the brussel sprouts until after a frost.A nice crop off 4 plants.Into the freezer they go!
The leaves are falling fast,hopefully we will have a few nice days to rake.It makes so much more work in the spring if we do not get them all picked up in the fall.

I finally got a picture of the small buffet.The redo turned out really well.it is a bit brighter in the pictures than in person.I finished the chalkboard to go on top.Nice old picture frame.
Mr.T cut my boards.i have several more frames to finish for my booth at the antique mall.
The washing machine is rocking with all the table clothes I found to resell.My goodness no one needs 25 table clothes!!There is so much more to go through.Toys and books in the attic.Kitchen utensils in pantry and the baskets oh my goodness.!!
I better get to it.Have a good week.
j

the booth progress

The only day Mr.T could help me move the big pieces for the mall booth was Sunday afternoon.I hated to do that on Sunday but had no choice.The field work is ongoing.
I have decided this is going to be a long process.It is going to take time to go through all the collections acquired over 38 years.
It will be November 1st before I will have the booth open for sales.
I have so many ideas for the peg board wall.
Tomorrow my mom will be helping me mark the linens.She has been in the 2nd hand business for over 40 years.
Check back I will post pictures as we get things more organized.
No doll making for me for a while.
j

Mall booth/Fall color

You know how they say one thing leads to another?
Well it is true for me.I moved the hoosier cupboard to the screened porch. After emptying it there were things I decided I do not need.I thought where to take these things and decided to try a booth in the local Antique and Art mall. After making the decision I thought of so many things I do not need any longer. This is going to be fun.Vintage linens, children's dishes,a doll house,pictures,dishes and glass ware,pottery and so much more.I have enjoyed collecting all of it but now it is time for someone else to enjoy my finds.The picture is the before.I will be posting the after when done.We start moving in tomorrow.Thank goodness they are open on Sunday afternoon. I will need Mr.T's muscle for a couple of hours .

The weather here has not been the best for a speedy harvest.We had hoped to take a drive to see the fall color but we had a freeze and the trees are now a dull brown.I did find one stand of trees that are still a brilliant red/orange.It was over cast again today but if i didn't get the picture soon the leaves will be history.




There is a young man that had surgery for bone cancer on Friday. He is the son of our daughters best friend since high school.I think he is 14.
Things were worse than they first thought.He had bone replaced in his arm and will have a long process of treatments and therapy.Please keep Seth and his family in your thoughts and prayers.
J