Jan 31 - 61st birthday what it means to me?

 Today is my 61st birthday. The day we are all born, so many years ago - we came to this physical world that day - and there starts the trials and tribulations on being alive - sometimes happy sometimes sad, sometimes frustrated, sometimes sorrow. And to reach up to this age- without much of damage is being lucky. A lot of people won't make it till now. Think about all the lives lost before they reach 60 - so many of them for so many reasons - being born in the bad part of the world where wars and famine ravage- must not exist by now, possibly, unless you are lucky. So circumstances and situations play a big part of being alive. 

So when you reach a certain age, is it not happy to be aging - when younger - can't wait to grow up - now older, getting older is not something we look forward to. Another page of the book has torn away, and how soon are we reaching the end? Is the end near? All those worries!

But when you reach an age - it is not about birthday celebration but it is about what you want to do with the rest of your limited life you have?

By this time, most people if they were lucky would have completed a life cycle - that is raised kids and they have become independent and the next life cycle for them starts - so you are out of that cycle - possibly retired - or maybe not, and wondering how to spend the remaining years when life winds down.

For some - bodily ailments start and suffering will be part of it - even if temporarily will become aware that we are no longer young.

So the question is - what are you going to do with the rest of your life?

America is a Great country

 I am very convinced that in spite of all the ills of America is a great country to live in. I’ll tell you one main reason where America is much better than other countries - LGBTQ freedom - that alone is worth it’s concept in gold the freedom to be what you are as compared to  being in Russia or in any other countries where LBGTQ people are frowned upon. So America is great with just that one alone.

LEGAL SYSTEM: 

American legal system people complain about our jail system. Everybody complaints about yes it definitely needs reformation but the way not to be involved in. It is not to be criminal not to show criminal tendencies where you get entangled in the mental system if you can live a straight life, obeying the laws of the country -  America is heaven, but if you mess with the American law, then you are in for hell a lot of trouble with a legal system which could destroy your life. It’s not easy to come out of it once you get involved in it.

As far as the Jail system goes, we should rename all the jails to Timeout facilities. Basically, it’s nothing but a timeout for people who do bad stuff and the sentences should be reduced to a few days and whenever they get in a series of people need to interact with them -  mental health people, their teachers if they are  juvenile and find out why they did what they did and help them transition back into better, life, straightforward life, and we should watch for reservation if the environment of the society in every person‘s life, we should be able to make them walk on the straight path. 

TAXES: 

People talk about the tax system I think American taxes are OK we are using that money for various reasons to improve upon the country to improve our lives and  pretty much all the infrastructure we see around us and  is funded by the government by collecting taxes. I don’t think anybody should complain about the taxes. it’s all used for good. Yes definitely we need to whittle down the taxes charged. See our military budget is too huge - to gain an upper hand in the world - but do we need to? It is an attitudinal adjustment - why can't be live in peace with others and respect others and not try to gain an upper hand on everyone else? America spends almost $1 trillion on food stamps. We could try to save that money by social engineering and intervention of government in people’s lives to make them better to stand their own legs. 

What America is not doing right:

Humans are human resource - in Economics - we call the people - Human Capital - human capital drives everything - the prosperity of a country is dependent on the people who remain productive at their peak earning ages. It takes a lot of money and effort to bring up a person to working age - if immigrants flock to America - it is a great thing! We are getting people who are already prepped for work! We should be thanking God that they are showing up so that we can put them to use to increase prosperity in the country.

Why do small towns - wonderful places die a slow death - young people leave - that is why! Now you understand why young people are important for even the existence of a society? So we need to bring more and more people to this country to remain prosperous!

Stopping them at the border- packing them away all these are bad things to do 99% of the immigrants are not bad people - even people who commit bad things and be turned around that is the power of human mind - just because someone committed crime doesn't mean that you have to get rid of them. Just because a key of an expensive piano is bad doesn't mean that you throw away the piano! We fix the key!