Author: Doris

Oak Ridge, TN has one of our Nation’s top labs.  Yet, it seems to me, these Federal supports don’t translate into its wealth.  I guess, the majority of people work here probably stay in Knoxville instead.  Knoxville is very close to here.  But, even at Knoxville, the in-bound and out-bound air traffic are pretty limited.  Sometimes, the air ticket from here to Washington DC is more expensive that for the cross country.

People here are nice and very friendly.  But, social fabrics here is quite different than those in Washington DC.  The money here is much, much useful than those in Washington DC.  And there is no production work in Washington DC,  Here, at least, we produce materials for the security of our nation.  All Washington does is solely paper work and re-distributes the wealth of our nation. Of course, it retains the best part for herself first and then distributes the remaining parts to those people being taxed to its limits.

I heard the other day, someone gets an outrageous university speaking fee which probably is many times more than the average people earned yearly.  How true it is that as Ronald Reagan said “Government is the problem, not the solution”

Big government is even worse.  Big means that it digs in deeper to our daily activities.  It treats its citizens as uninformed masses.  It legislates everything possible.  It regulates our water heater with an extra expansion tank.  As far as I can tell, the old one without expansion tank is just working fun.  But, certainly, it is less safer than the new one – theoretically.  But, the installation cost is double.  What if I just don’t have the money to do it.

Believe me or not, it even regulates our toilet tank size.  With smaller size, I flush at least three times more than the grand old one – much bigger yet just flush once.  In the end, which one actually saves water?

This July 4th long weekend, I am in town with Rena.  On July 4th, we decided to go to our farm and see our neighbors there.

One of our neighbors, while working in a local grocery store, he raises a lot chicken, ducks, etc.  We bought three dozens of eggs from him.  Besides, he would like to give us a frozen chicken of his own.  We decides to pay him.  Two large bags of frozen chickens, only $10.00 dollars total.

The other neighbor in front us is retired with his wife.  They have a log house which is pretty modern.  The other neighbor at back raises turkeys for big cooperations.  He just raises them for several days in between. I guess in the mid life of a turkey.  His turkey barn can’t be accessed by ordinary people.  They must be sanitized beforehand.

We seldom see them.  But, our neighbors love to hunt in our farm in the fall with our permission.  I looked at those trees, they can be harvested at any time.  Probably will do that while I am retired.

Happy July 4th.

Rena and I decide to celebrating our July 4th holiday by visiting our farm.  Rena would like to harvest some matured trees there.  I have a kind of wait-and-see altitude.  Because with extra income of harvesting, it certainly will not help us on our bottom lines of taxing.

Btw, China is pretty bad as far as World Cup is concerned.  With so many people and so much resources, China can’t even produce a World Cup qualified team of dozens.  I believe they just got into once.

The real picture is with all this greed, corruption, fixing the game by players, coaches, organizers and gangs, etc.  I think they should fire every one involved right on the spot.  Strange enough, the government there can almost do everything that one can think of.  But, just can’t fix her foot ball problem.

Even more funny is that those teams get qualified, many of them are from under developed and developing world too.  There, government is in pretty bad shape too.  A huge excuse, may be, football genes are not in our blood 🙂

Oh, I remember one thing.  Once, my Dad questioned my poor score on math.  I, in turn, asked him about his math scores.  Guess what I got beat up pretty badly.  Luckily, it happened many years back.  Or, a child abuse case might be filed by those more modern folks.