Taking Care of Yourself: The other day, I read a post by Ronni Bennett, "On Employment and Retirement Fears". There were a number of comments, including mine, sharing where we were financially at the later stages of our lives. Most of us who commented that day did not expect to be where we are today, financially. And I thought about not only the circumstances that led me here, but to the choices I've made regarding money over the years. It's hard for me to charge for my services. Most of my speaking and singing engagements have been free. I devote huge amounts of time doing things I get no financial compensatio...

You are falling into a trap believing one side does all good and the other all bad. The truth is neither side will do anything unless they can take credit for it or blame the other side. Take the budget crisis, the budget was suppose to be passed on Oct 1 2010 for that fiscal fear. Democrat pres, congress, and senate. They did not pass it because they saw the looming crisis (why did Allen Greenspan retire?) and waited for the republicans to be the bad guys. This is undisputable. Why wouldn't they pass a budget when they had a super majority? They could have made pig latin the official langua...