In Military aviation circles the term screwing the pooch means you missed the third wire or had a poor approach to a carrier landing. In common everyday life it means that perhaps I was not completely able to convey my thoughts through a blawg entry. On the subject of the lost cost grants for people to create their own jobs when few if any are available versus staying on public welfare rolls or SSI I thought makes real sense and cents if not dollars. Yes poor money management can make any business go in the toilet, but if Obamabeenlyintoya can rakeout zillions of dollars to AIG, GM, Chrysler among others, why not make public money available to people really trying to crawl out from under a bad economic rut? Like wise about creating a planned residential or for that matter a community, hey I never said I could do it. The thing is I saw with my own eyes a successful very successful planned community spring up on an otherwise barren desert just west of Lehi Utah, called Eagle Mountain Utah. Whether anyone wants to buy into this or not, I was there looking at putting one of my concepts into place there. I saw this group of forward thinking people put something together that has become a real town in central Utah. If it could work for them, why not the Knytes? Or just people fed up with the status quo? Have your own town, with a nice place to live, at family as well as individual, friendly prices. Eagle Mountain at the time, offered a three bedroom, very environmentally friendly home on an acre and a half of ground for around $200,000.00 after closing costs. The commercial infrastructure is yet to be completed, but I saw a city hall, fire department, police station etc go up, out on what was really worthless desert. There are many areas this same thing could work. From just on the Idaho/Utah border at what is Stevel Idaho, Plain City Utah. over in Wyoming I have seen desert ground that such a thing could bloom. I'm not saying every place can be the Hazzard we saw on TV. Or a fictional landscape that problems are solved in one to a half hour like they are on TV. But a place where one could go, to live out the remainder of ones life in peace, with some measure of trust and economic benefit. Without all the crap would be a good way to go. It's like all these folks who put up these storage garages. Sure they are great for storing your stuff, but what about building such things say 500 feet by 500 feet, with electricity and water with a toilet , rent the things for $600.00 or less, so those looking to turn a wrench for a living could at least get their foot in the door, and off SSI, and contributing to society. This is what I'm getting to. I'm not saying every enterprise would succeed, but hey it'd be a start. Its more on the line of giving a hand up, rather than a hand out. Believe it or not, there are many who like me, would love to get up in the morning, go to their own shop, and make a fair living, rather than just sit on their can watching TV. I hate to bring this up again, but like in Utah, a forward thinking semi-retired tech worker exec, started this thing called Growing Utah Ventures. Where they took a run down bus station in Ogden Utah , and gave out low cost loans and grants to folks building technology style business's. That start up company has built some really great other start up's. So why not extend that into other types of business's? Say a media production firm, or even some person needing a very low cost office to start his or her insurance business, real estate firm, or even a barber shop? Hell even a radio station. Its called putting America back to work. Until they cain't work in their old years then if needed then get back on SSI. Many people like myself are on government money, and what SSI pays barely scratches the itch. If you rent a house or a decent apartment, at minimum of $450.00 a month, plus even if you only drank one glass of water a day, and all between the water, trash, power or gas bill, that mere $674.00 a month gets used up purtty quick. Let alone trying to maintain a cell or other phone and maybe cable TV. People in this country deserve more. Rather than bail out big companies, lets bail out Americans. Give us the ability and we can repeat can make it work.
My thoughts, I could be wrong.
L8R
Quote of the Day:
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
--Jane Wagner
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