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Senior Times - June 2016
EARN EXTRA MONEY AS A DEALER AT THE ALLEN ANTIQUE BARN
It’s both fun and rewarding when
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• Special promotions
• Elevator & stairs to upper floor • Open seven days
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WISDOM
Michael H. West, Special to Senior Times
TIME TO WONDER & RANT – WHO ARE WE?
The wonder of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump... We’re kerflumixed. (It’s a word.) The Donald is the Anti- Obama: strong reaction. Bernie’s More Government: reaction to capitalism.
All understandable: Massive new pro- grams, unenforced laws, new thinking, couched in ‘false claims.’ Media call politi- cians’ lies ‘false claims.’ Politicians say they “Mis-spoke” except when accusing opponents: They lied. (Media report terror- ists’ crime claims “Claim responsibility”
or “Taking Credit.” We allow criminals to claim credit instead of “Admit Guilt.”) What?
Support for Bernie’s socialism: Apple Computer dictates – blackmails – to Georgia, North Carolina and Indiana, what laws they cannot pass regarding marriage and bathroom attendance? Apple threatens they won’t do business in Indiana if IN passes its traditional marriage law. Apple does business with all World countries – many “one man/one woman.” Just not IN, GA, NC, AL ... It appers Apple Inc. sits on one-half trillion dollars ($500,000,000,000) in cash in a bogus company in Ireland – funneled through a bogus Nevada company. Apple’s riches come from America, without paying U.S. taxes. Humph!
Shell Oil charges $1.50 to pump ‘free air’ into tires. An attendant once provided that service for free. Gasoline cost $0.32! Remember?
Mother’s Day: I spent more on two cards – made in China! – for my wife (one from our dog) than if I had bought a tasty Whitman’s Sampler. How can Hallmark ship greeting cards across the Pacific cheaper than making them here! Such expensive cards should come from Trump Towers in NYC. No more Hallmark brag, “When You Care Enough To Send The Very Best.” $11.00? Kroger? Two cards? China?
LifeLock at their beginning provided full cyber safety. The Full Monty disap- peared. Now I get worthless ‘basic’ protec- tion unless I pay three times as much. How did my protection slip away?
Philips electronics – from TV sets to Norelco shavers – will fix their broken
products “within 24 hours if you pay a flat $250.” After a three days wait, I canceled my appointment with Philips and called a local service company. Philips’ response? You cannot cancel the $250. Me: You promised within 24 hours. Philips: The deposit is irrevocable. (Ha! The credit card company canceled the transfer of funds to Philips. Were they mad!)
I pay extra on computers for large capacity memory. Now they want me to subscribe monthly to store my data in “The Cloud” whatever that is, other than a place for slime balls to hack. Ha! It is to laugh.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce favors illegal immigrants to provide labor at slave wages regardless of the cost to taxpayers. Someday, Business, too, will be stuck with a whopper invoice. We kid ourselves about what we can afford. We borrow billions and provide jobs, but to fewer taxpay-
ing American citizens? Who will buy the future?
If an HP printer stops, throw it away; buy new for the price of ink refills. What a world.
These problems help us glimpse into the Bernie craze.
Is government the honest alternative? Big Daddy in “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof” observed, in that wonderful scene in the cellar with son, Brick, “Didn’t you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity?”
Still, businesses’ stress line is compe- tition: quality and price with profits for stockholders.
The stress line in politics is Reality of Screw-ups vs. Election Perception.
Combining Business & Government? FaceBook’s Mark Zuckerberg smugly smiled on Apr 12 ... “Instead of building walls we can help build bridges. Instead of dividing ... we can connect people.” May 10: FaceBook busted. Former employees report Zuckerberg‘s news curators routinely suppress stories re Conservatives. Some bridge (burning).
Does voting for this government make us all Rhodes Apples & Grubers – names (derogatorily) inspired by people that stated openly that American voters are stupid? Voters hire them. We Voters must ask our- selves: Who Are We?
Legal Advice
By: Megan Reynolds, Managing Attorney
The Legal Services of South Central Michigan-Battle Creek office will conduct interviews for legal advice and possible representation, without charge, to interested seniors.
• Wednesday, June 8, 10-11am, Pine Valley Place, 1050 Canaris Street, Constantine.
• Monday, June 13, 11am-12pm, Sturgis Senior Center, 306 N. Franks Avenue, Sturgis.
• Wednesday, June 22, 10am-12pm, Burnside Senior Center, 65 Grahl Drive, Coldwater.
For more information please call
(269) 965-3951.
for Seniors