Wednesday - mid morning
As I said, I have today off and I am in no hurry to do anything. Like, sit here, drink coffee, muse about different things, decide what I'm going to do and do it. I will probably try to get the deck off the riding mower, pull it out from underneath it, turn it upside down and find out what the problem is - and hope I can find parts locally. I know it needs new blades, but there is something else going on underneath there.
And, it looks like it will be a PITA to get that thing off of there, I have no choice. Either do it myself or take it somewhere and pay considerably more to have it fixed. I'll try myself, I have fixed several other things on it, only taking it to a shop for a cable that I didn't want to fool with.
If the forecast is right, we have a lot more rain coming. To the point I wonder if I shouldn't be trying the grass seed again. I don't know what happened to the last stuff. It's possible I put it down too early, ie: several days before it was going to rain and perhaps the seed got moist but then didn't stay moist. Perhaps put the seed down the day of the rain. This is the time of year to do it, that's all I can say about it. Free water from the sky without the hassle of sprinklers having to be set up everywhere....
The one month stay is due to leave today before noon. Yup, I'll be going over there to check. The dog lady that was always claiming she was cleaning up dog poop was moving her stuff out of her trailer yesterday, I am assuming she is having that thing pulled out of there. She hasn't communicated with me in probably a month now. Don't really care, others have said she is angry with everyone and one of them thought "money has gone to her head". She received a large settlement from the state on cash payments for disability. Plus a decent check that has started being deposited into her account every month.
She's so disabled, she can walk all over the place, throwing toys in the doggy park for her dog and basically getting around just fine. I don't know how some of these people get on disability and live the "high" life, so to speak, for free. Some people should get it, for sure, I am not saying throw everyone out to the wolves, but there are many people I have observed in my lifetime getting "free" government money that don't appear to have anything wrong with them at all. If you can walk and pick things up and move around normally, unless your disability is a mental one, I don't see how you should be getting this free money. Retired, obviously, is the other one I fully agree with.
If you are retired and you paid into the system, I do not considering it an "entitlement". I am entitled to the money I dumped in there that funded a bunch of other people's retirements. Very disconcerting that in 9 years, if they don't do anything which they probably won't, SS payments will be reduced to you only getting 75% of what you are owed. Republicans have wild ideas of doing away with it altogether, all well and fine, I wouldn't be opposed to that, as long as it is graduated. Meaning, if you are retired, you get whatever you are already getting. If you are close to retirement, same. In fact, a whole new system would have to affect the younger generation. I am for having personal accounts you dump your money into that isn't government controlled and doesn't have penalties for taking it out "early". I paid a hefty chunk of change to cash out my 401k's. I don't regret it tho.
The park is worth far more than the money I took out for retirement. At least 3 times the amount. I've got 400 to 500k worth of property/business. I'm just going on what other parks are being valued at around the country and more specifically near my park. I do wonder if the one that is being sold for almost 2 million ever sold. It's an old behemoth. I also wonder what kind of profit margins that new park is making.
I put an ad boost on Facebook, the ad shows on my business facebook account and then is boosted from there. Some guy got on there saying "great price" followed by another dude who said: "no it isn't" He went off on how so many RV parks are being built and "shop around". The first guy countered that the average is around $500. Nah, this dude says, condemning my ad and my park. I would have found it amusing, the guy is clueless, I have done my homework. Instead, I didn't feel the need to have some dude sh******* on my parade, so I deleted his comments and blocked him. This is my business, not a political debate group. Another posted a stupid meme, apparently Facebook targeted people that aren't into RV's or have any use for an ad that is irrevelant to them. He posted the meme and then blocked me, lol. I deleted that as well.
Still, the ad has garnered over 100 likes and several shares. And still yet, I have only had one person come out of that ad. But, for $35, I won't complain too much. Especially since the dude is working at a local college and hopefully will be sticking around for a while.
Next infusion of money to come in on the 28th.
Electric bill $900. That's only $100 more than last month. It'd be nice to get another month of reprieve from high electric bills.
Well enough of this. My lazy time is over. Just not feeling it this morning, meaning not really wanting to do much of anything. But, I need to get over there and at least see who's still there and what's available. I will look at the mower and decide whether I want to get involved with that or not, lol.
And finally, there is rain slated to begin Friday and going through Tuesday. It's why I didn't rent the tractor today, there is no reason to spend $400 and have the driveway get completely trashed all over again 2 days later. I do hope the forecast is wrong....
G'day
2 comments:
In the days when Wilbur Mills was in office and Bob Ball ran Social Security, things were SO good that people came from abroad to see how it was done. Of course when SS started, people worked from 16-65 and then helpfully died 3 years later. There were ten workers for every recipient.
Congress destroyed SS. They included categories of beneficiaries never intended to be paid, like grand children and divorced spouses. They simply made such a mess out of it that it never had a chance to continue as it had. Of course, people now work from 25-55 and die thirty years later, and there are three workers for each recipient. Then they dumped medicare on it and then had it run SSI in their spare time. They lowered the qualification for interviewers and the rest was inevitable.
To clarify the media and government: An entitlement is something you are ENTITLED TO! Welfare is not, Social Security is.
But you see that many of the people that are opposed to SS in retirement see it as some sort of freebie giveaway. Like, it's something you don't actually deserve, it's something like a socialist giveaway of taxpayer dollars. I depart from conservative thinking on that one. I've been paying into that system since I was 16 years old, so currently at 44 years. I am not opposed to changing it or getting rid of it for younger generations - tho generally I think a forced savings account is better than the nothing many Americans have right now. Even when I was poor and broke all the time, I still decided to have 5% going into 401k. It's a large part of what funded my RV park. The SS payments were forced the entire time, it was automatically deducted out of my paychecks. They created this monstrosity, at some point they're going to have to deal with it. Frankly, with the trillions of dollars they give to everything else, they could at least think about funding this thing and not having to even think about reducing payments. Same with medicaid, I fully expect to be on the receiving end of that if I make it to 65. But, the disconnect is there, conservatives especially don't "believe" in such things as a whole, maybe it's the people that aren't at that age yet and don't understand the costs involved with just having that kind of health insurance, much more the need for it as you age.
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