I just received a post on our local neighborhood site that our town is planning to fine anyone caught stealing shopping carts $1000. fine!
I answered: How can a poor (as former Church Mice,) devil’s be able to pay that fine for stealing a shopping cart that they will put all their worldly possessions, from a Corporate Millionaire?
She answered me with the statement of; “Stealing is stealing!”
I said, “What is wrong with our Government? When any of our citizens are starving?” And desperate enough to steal one friggen shopping cart?
Do you think that any one of our Billionaire or Trillionaire Corporate Giants will starve at the loss of one or a thousand shopping carts? Even several thousand? Do you really?
Maybe if they volunteered to pay the minuscule amount of tax dollars anyone in their high style of living, could certainly afford, more of the poorest of our people, and they are people, not statistics, could find work and live the good life! The Billionaires have the advantage of calling on any of the many benefits of the Police, Fire Department, Emergency Personnel in case of accidents, Hospitals, Air Traffic Controllers, and many more people who work harder for much less pay than they deserve, because they want to help.
Most of the above will NEVER be able to retire on their yacht and travel the world. Most of them can barely afford to save enough for their children to attend one of the major colleges. Their children will have to work to help pay the exagerated tuition to just get by.
It can never be justified to give so much to so many who do not deserve it!
Enough Ranting! I am an Author and my books are available on the following sites; Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Everand, Smashwords, Tolino OverDrive, bibliotheca, Baker & Taylor, BorrowBox, Hoopla, Vivlio, Palace Marketplace, Odilo, Gardners, Amazon or you can find them on my website: http://www.brendacolbathbooks.com.
Thanks for listening and will talk again, soon!
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Biography
Creating worlds, characters, and wielding power like a madwoman, making my characters happy, sad, angry, and some of them with no redeeming qualities. I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I sometimes laugh out loud when I am writing a scene, and I have been known to cry when one of my favorites has to die.
I am a left-handed Gemini, what do you expect?
Reading bedtime stories to my two children until they fell asleep or until they just told me to go away, was fun. Making up wild stories for my grandchild, and creating Halloween costumes from Cowboys to a Dragon, was another favorite thing to do. I missed that so much when they were grown, that I started writing.
My yearly newsletters frequently were drafted third-person by my Love Birds, Miranda our motorhome, and by Sir Fit the White Knight, our faithful Honda.
Throughout the years, some of my creative talents centered around writing letters of complaint expressing my displeasure with services or products. One crucial, at least to my Son, was a note to our local school bus driver petitioning her to allow him back on the bus. He was kicked off for making an obscene gesture at his buddy. I reminded her that it was not directed at her, and that “obscenity can be in the eye of the beholder,” kids use that gesture as a greeting. He rode the bus until he graduated.
I loved driving my English teacher crazy. Leaving a “continued next week” at the end of my five handwritten pages required each week. He was one of many people that suggested I “do something about my writing.”
I graduated from the School of Hard Knocks at the top of my class.
After 30 years, in the trenches as a Real Estate Professional, I have found that truth is stranger than fiction. My books are filled with characters I met in that profession. Their names were changed to protect the guilty. Others were from people we met traveling around the country in Miranda, our Motorhome.
I am married nearly 60 years to the love of my life, Shirl, and partner-produced two exceptionally talented children, and one grandchild who is our pride and joy.
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