When I went back to work and the company I worked for wanted to invest some of my money I earned into a plan, then I really began to understand why I should be interested in the stock market. So many members of my family have been affected tremendously by the stock market and are worried about their pensions, deferred comp, IRA's, 401-K's, etc..
IDEA! Let the market work. If you have ever noticed, the market goes up and it goes down. Having jobs in this country, affects the markets. Did you hear that if you go to a drive-thru and order food, you may be speaking to someone in another country instead of at the ordering area at the drive-thru window? How does that make you feel? You say, "Outsourcing"? How is this possible? I order a meal and someone in a foreign country is taking my order and not my neighbors' teenage son or daughter. WOW!
IDEA! Let the market work. All you bright young people out there, take back your future. Use your knowledge to improve your future. You do not need someone to teach you that does not have any experience and the ability to teach. You need experienced leaders that have lived through a bad economy and have survived. Someone who has survival experience and remembers the past and will lead us away from repeating the same mistakes.
I have an idea! Ask yourself these questions, What am I looking for in life? Do I ever want to become a responsible person? Will I just stay here in this school or college for the rest of my life? Do I want anyone to look up to me someday and say, I want to be like you when I grow up? Do I ever want to get involved in what is happening in this world? Do I want to make a difference? Do I want to become so greedy that I do not care who suffers? Do I want to be the answer and not the question? Do I respect myself? Do I make decisions that will affect my future by how beautiful someone can speak on a subject? Am I educated enough about a subject to make a commitment? Do I do my homework or do I let someone else give me the answers?Who suffers if I make the wrong decision when I do not do my own homework? What affects my likes or dislikes? Do I let others tell me what to think? Am I a follower or a leader? Do you care more about the outward appearance of an individual or the character of that person?
I have always informed my grandchildren that beauty is only skin deep. Can you really tell a book by its cover? My husband (may he rest in peace) was a people watcher. Sometimes when he would take me to a store before I started driving myself everywhere I needed to go, he would sit out in the parking lot and watch people. Have you ever watched people? Do you know you are being watched? I, usually, do not pay much attention to what others are doing because I keep my eyes pealed to the children I have with me when I am out, especially, the youngest one. Why do I mention this? It is about being able to determine who you want to be your leader into the future. Beauty is only skin deep and can be misleading.
Why do you not know that in the past, beautiful women were used to entice in the spy business and other fields? It goes on today, also. Have you ever had your goat gotten? My husband (may he rest in peace) use to be able to get a persons' goat. Once he had that person, he knew which buttons to push to get what he wanted. If you do not understand that phrase, it is the ability to gain control of your emotions in order to get you to do what that person wants you to do.
Idea! Let the market work. We do not need the government to control the market just like they took control of the social security program. Our government needs oversite but not control. If you have a business, is the government hiring your staff for you? If we have a business, we need the ability to hire people we need to help our business grow. We need the ability to hire the best and the brightest no matter what the color of the skin or whether that person is a male or female or whether that person is of a certain political persuasion. We must have people that care about making the business grow and increase productivity. We need to create a business that makes a person feel, as if, they are part of it and we care about their ideas and input.
Idea! Let the market work. Let us strive to grow this economy by becoming what we can become. Let us get back to the days that we make this government accountable to the people. Do we want to let others determine whether we are successful or not? Are we going to sit back and let ourselves be taken over by an outside force?
Idea! Young people, do you want your parents to control your lives? Do you want your parents to control your money and tell you how to spend it? If you want your parents to control your lives, then why do you rebel? Would it not be nice to just hang around the house and let mom and dad pay all the expenses so you did not have to ever go out into the world and have to make your own way? It can be scary out there in the real world. There's the electric bill, water bill, sewer bill, rent or mortgage, gas bill, food bill, cable or satellite bill, telephone or cellphone bill, clothing bill, shoe bill, equipment bills (lawnmowers for mowing lawns if you have a lawn, etc.), repair bills and the list goes on. Do you not want to live your own life?
Idea! Let the market work. Let us start putting leaders in place that work for us and not for their own self interest. Let us not put ourselves first but work for a greater cause so that we can leave this world a better place than the way it was when we entered. Do you want to be remembered or just pass and no one take notice?
Idea! Let the market work but do not put on blinders. Let us hold those accountable for what is happening but do not let us fail to see that the government should not be in control of the free market. How can a free market be free if it is controlled by the government?
