The local Police department has been making a “push” for everyone to ALWAYS lock their car when they leave it, even for a minute or two. It has curbed a lot of auto thievery already, and has helped solve various other connected offenses.

Small example: Sometimes a neigborhood can be brought closer. We have a lemon tree that is a major producer most of the year. Hundreds of lemons. We put out a sign in front of our house telling people they could come in and pick lemons for their personal use. We have met a few new people and received a lot of appreciation. One said he would do the same when his apple tree produces.

Small example: Sometimes a neigborhood can be brought closer. We have a lemon tree that is a major producer most of the year. Hundreds of lemons. We put out a sign in front of our house tellnig peole they could come in and pick lemons for their personal use. We have met a few new people and received a lot of appreciation. One said he would do the same when his apple tree produces.

I think all of us in our own way do what we can for our friends and neighbors, but until those things which divide us stop being used as political tools nothing will change.

Your post bears repeating.

“When government policies instill a sense of entitlement in people, they begin to think what belongs to their neighbor, belongs to them also.”

That is the “money phrase” right now. Thanks for saying it so eloquently.

We will be able to get through this mess, if we do it together. But we have to resist the natural instinct to draw inward. Perhaps your neighbor works for a restaurant so food isn’t a problem, but clothing for their children IS a problem. Maybe you have some closets that could stand some cleaning out. Perhaps your neighbor has the things they need but can’t find the cash for utilities. But they might have a teenager who can fix your computer, which is running like crap. And you can pick up an electric bill in appreciation for the neighbor kid fixing it.

This is truly the time to pool our talents and resources and think out of the box. We can do this, and we MUST do this.

The big Zero is counting on a policy of Divide and Conquer.

We need to defeat him on this.

That is the danger of Obama’s socialist policies. The difference between his character and moral compass and Hillary’s, was light years apart and still is.

We have corruption in government, and unchecked corruption and greed in the corporate world. Without a moral compass in those who have wealth, it’s very difficult for those who are poor and feel entitled.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-wilson8-2009jan08,0,1034978.story

Another loss was my favorte pen when I was in college. I was in the honors program and it never occurred to me that those mainly privileged young people could possibly want anything that I had. I left class for a few moments and when I returned, my pen was gone. I was pissed but I thought that I could live with my own Karma and I would let them live with theirs.

Finally, almost all my jewelry was stolen by my sister-in-law who is a kleptomaniac. She has also stolen jewelry from my mother. I was hospitalized for depression after the death of one of my children. When I was admitted to the hospital, my brother and S-i-l were there. A nurse took all my jewelry and handed it to my s-i-l to be taken to the desk and put in he vault. When I got out of the hospital a year later, there was nothing of mine in the vault. She does occasioally wear my jewelry in my presence but she thinks that since I had ECTs, I don’t recall that it is mine. None of those cases fit the idea that petty crime is a result of need. Two of three of the cases were siuations in which the perpetrators were much more well-off than I was AND both those cases the pepetrators were out-spoken Republican advocates of the idea that “the poor do not work o try to take care of themselves.” Thus, I believe it was primarily greed on the part of the greedy and you can tell when someone is greedy when they believe they are rich because they deserve to be rich and it is okay to take anything that they want.

Great idea for a blog. Thanks for letting me put my two cents worth in.

Maybe that is the silver lining, that we can no longer think just I and we will be forced to think more we for our own protection.

Rich