I just got called for an politcal interview and then told that an TV station might be calling me...

Next time that happens, Shirley, tell them what Seinfeld tells telemarketers.  "Sorry, I don't have time to talk right now.  Give my your home number and I'll call you back later." 

   My great aunty knew an past President, she was taking care of his home while himand his wife were in Washingotn DC...via her position in the Eastern Star. Both have since passed on though..but it started then and at times has never stopped in some ways..Yes.I did tell them what I thought...and that whomever is elected had better be coming in with an plan based on reality...for the way things really are these days, not what they would like to think of them as being. So many of the old and tried methods are not working, and so many of the"new"ideas border on stupidty in my estimation. Many of us wonder here..when it's going to stop...so we can get back to the job of "living"again.

  That a way Paul..excellent advice! I actually grew up with an family that one of them married an freind and was an banker. We had had our car totalled and I was sent to his bank to get the check cashed, because it was drawn by their bank..and they were going to make me call my hubby 45mins.away to cash the check..even though hubby had already signed the check,when my friend camein andasked what I was doing there,and I said trying to cash an insurance check..they look to not believe whomI am..and this was some 10 years ago...h elooked at the teller and sai..I know her, since childhood..cash her check and they mincednot an minutemorein doing it.then he tookme aside and we caught up with family a bit and he told me that he was giving up his banking job to work for our Governemnt in Thialand exporting logs...that as far as he was concerned that he saw financial trouble ahead..he had by nowworked himself upinto the bank towers in downtown Portland, this was no little job he had...he hadalready manged several smaller banks in the area. the he toldme something, he said, I know you grew up in the old school, like I did, but for your own sake, the world is going to each person on thier own rather married or not...you need your own line of credit..actually three, one for each of you and one together. You must do this before you retire...so you have something to fall back on in old age. Each of you get your own credit cards and both of you get "equal rating" as to the house bills getting paid.  He said, I wish you my best, and I said, I wish you my best also...and much success between us in the coming years. We parted with him going through the bank being clamored over by the girls he knew that had at sometime worked for him...and me with my money. so this U. S. money situation has been coming on for at least that long here in the states. His job was to lucritive to pass it away so lightly career wise.