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I knew a good medical doctor . He was my dad.
To know what these people are like from the viewpoint of what my dad and mom and all us kids went through... the love and dedication my dad had for his patients... a little bit of that kind of Dr has already been taken away from us. Now what?
To look for that care, in his diagnosis and treatment and mainly educating his patients... the years of friendship even after his retirement... and on his death bed at age 91...
My dad was a hard worker all his life and moved to the US from Canada because of the changes going on up there in the 40s.
He saw the writing on the wall. He lived through that... he taught us well...
but still... the leaders of today do not listen to someone like my dad. He was always learning, writing letters to lawmakers... but he felt they never did listen. What are we in for now?
I hate to sound negative, but it is not a nice feeling to know that they do not want to listen. It reminds me more and more of abusive relationships. They are the controllers and will do what it takes to remain in control. How to get out of an abusive relationship?
It can be done.
I know that. Staying healthy and sane while under their thumb is a hard thing but doable too. With sanity and God’s help, we will survive and we will be free someday.

I received a request from a young relative asking for support for her trip to a South American country to help the locals down there. I think that is not my job to pay for those things and have to admit I have not responded. Maybe I can reword this letter from grandpa ... to read as a letter from Auntie.
I feel something like this is going to happen to many Obama lovers.
We cannot just keep paying and pretending its all ok...
I am worn out and drained also by the taxes on my business..

Have earned less but still got a tax bill.
sales taxes are so bad that we have to find a way around that. Garage sales? I guess that is where we will shop.
Obama lovers cannot have it both ways. And what really burns me up is my dad was aware of all this and how these people in my family can still be Obama supporters, they learned nothing from my dad.
That is so sad.

Maybe things will wake them up in time and us cutting off the flow of always being there for them is part of it.

Just think of your descendants doing research on your family tree in 100 yrs or so! What info do they really need ? I see my ancestors answered the census. Most have name and age and not all have race but some have race, some have type of employment and relationship to others in the household.
They do not need to really know more than that basic info either. I think I will answer the questions with my many descendants in mind!

I think they have to try to find you and ask you the questions 3 times, then they go to neighbors to dig for info. I know cuz I worked on it in 2000.
Many did not answer the door. I was stuck going back the 3 times and then asking neighbors!
Many neighbors will not go there either, so... I had to then make my best guess. That was the way we were trained.
Isn’t that funny?
But if you mail it back, they ought not be knocking on your door.
If you hand them the copy, I wonder if that was part of the training, haha. We just had our list of people that had not sent their forms in.
I enjoyed the work for the most part as it was my first job when I had a 7 mos old baby and my husband completely ditched me at that point.
It was a flexible job for me and got me out working.
Don’t worry if they knock, just let them do it and no big deal.

We quit the girl scouts and are happier with the 4H club. I felt we did the right thing and never looked back. The 4H club is more focused on the child’s own learning and they do a lot of community service but that part is your own choice.

I think it is great. I live in Illinois and too bad our area everyone seems to stop at 4 kids and the father gets a vasectomy( even in our Catholic parish) I am going to pray for the quiverfull movement to come to my parish. I have 5 kids and 2 grandkids. Come from a family of 8 and think we are all great people. Too bad so many of my siblings subscribe to the zero population growth movement! There are about 19 grandkids from my parents now... from 8 kids, that is not very high. But one brother is still making babies.