I certainly can't proclaim June, July or August as my favorite months--primarily because of the heat and humidity. It's getting to be that time of year again, when you simply walk out the door and get hit with that stifiling heat and humidity. It's easy to see why so many people flock to places like California where, for the most part, the climate tends to be much drier.
I don't know about you, but my phone rang during the middle of the night. Guess who was calling? Me! It was the Weather Call phone system doing what its designed to do, warn of dangerous storms. In this case, it was a severe thunderstorm warning for my neighborhood in Shelby county. I didn't have to sit through a long barrage of sirens screaming for other counties. Weather Call is programmed for my neighborhood and it gave me the warning I needed.
These are certainly trying times for our country. And while the government printing presses are busy printing new money, I ran across an idea for stimulus spending that was rather creative. These ideas were supposedly printed in the Letter to the Editor section of a Florida newspaper.
"For a total cost of $40 Billion you could solve our financial problems. There's about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance with the following stipulations: 1. They leave their job. Forty million job openings--Unemployment fixed. 2. They buy NEW American cars--Forty million cars ordered--Auto Industry fixed. 3. They either buy a house or pay off their mortgage--Housing Crisis fixed."
Very innovative idea. The only catch: This idea would cost $40 TRILLION! Do the math.
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