Hubs fixes country ham along with

• What do you fix for Christmas morning breakfast? - Sunshine
  • aebleskivers - they are yummy and a tradition - MTT
    • aebleskivers - MTness
  • Hubs fixes country ham along with - Christmas meal
  • Biscuits and gravy, of course. It's the law. - nm
  • Cheese souffle, you make it the day before - Ella
    • I do something similar but alternate cheese, cubed ham, and broccoli. There is also sm. - justme2
  • Scrapple and eggs, hashbrowns, muffins, bagels and toast. - Philly b'fast of champions!
  • Baked oatmeal. - sm
  • I always make breakfast strata - sm
  • Rachel Ray had the cutest looking french toast cups yesterday. sm - LMT
  • Baked French Toast - AnnieM!AnnieM!
    • This is nice done with orange juice & orange peel in it and/ - or eggnog replacing the milk, too. nm Mmmm
    • OMG, this looks delicious!!! NM - Ella
      • And the aroma... (sm) - AnnieM!AnnieM!
  • Christmas Breakfast - MT
    • I do the same thing :-) (nm) - NCMT
    • Yum, that sounds good - LinK
      • I make egg gravy with biscuits, sausage, and bacon. - All egg gravy is (sm)

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Another post that was removed mentioned golf course in Florida that was now owned by the Japanese.  Jobs, property, borders, etc.  Why are our leaders allowing this?  I do not believe the average citizen want this.

that is why i can post that i thought * nn * sounded angry, deeply angry.

and it is MY OPINION that you sound very young.  maybe in 10 or 20 years, you will get the gist of what is going on here.

give it a rest.  i know i am.

IMHO, many people have blinders on. Still buy like crazy, charge everything, drive brand new cars with big monthly payments, have all the toys, new everything and then only pay minimums on their CC payments or miss a house payment or two and think everyone lives that way. People need to learn how to save money, plain and simple. DH and I both work, make just over six figures, have only the house payment, cars paid for (not new ones but don't care to impress anyone with our cars), no CC debt, gas prices aren't hurting us too much and we can still take nice vacations 2-3 times a year. Most people these days live like there is no tomorrow, don't bother to save for retirement, try to keep up with the Jones' and are miserable. We make a nice living, live well within our means and are content. Do we want new things...sure, but we pay cash for what we want. Nothing irks me more than when someone charged to the hilt on credit cards complains that the debt collectors are calling them because they are behind in payments. Most people whould be able to ride out a recession if they had some money in the bank.  

What do your think about Sean Young?

Our once great country, I afraid, has just turned a corner for the worse. I have watched as the mentality of our country has gone from setting your mind to something, working hard, and you can accomplish it to giving up, sitting back, and letting somebody else take care of them.

I was brought up, as many were, with a good work ethic that was instilled in us by our parents. With the idea that if you want something you had to work for it, and by working for something you learned quickly the difference between wants and needs.

There were always incentives for a person to strive to better themselves. Whether it were financial incentives, or just the pride you gained in knowing that you did something yourself, it didn’t matter.

I wasn’t long ago that people had that “small town” mentality, and everybody knew their neighbors. And those neighbors helped each other out, in any situation, it was just what you did. And people were so proud that some times help would have to be disguised, you remember the lines like..”Mom made more stew than we could eat, could you help us out by taking it so that it doesn’t go to waste?”

But, somewhere along the line those thoughts of some (I guess now the majority) have changed. Some how, if somebody works hard to gain something others feel entitled to have the same things, even if they didn’t have to go through the struggle to earn it. Some how, things like big screen TVs, cell phones, and shiny new cars have wrongly slipped from the “wants” list to the “needs” list.

Somewhere the incentives to strive for betterment have been replaced by incentives to be lazy. The easy way out and hand outs are now the norm. The feeling of pride about being self sufficient is supposed to be replaced by guilt for having more than others.

The “small town” mentality is gone and our neighbors have turned into strangers. People no longer help out their neighbors or even themselves, instead they sit and wait for the government to come solve things for them. And when help does come they complain that the help wasn’t good enough or didn’t come fast enough, the pride is gone.

Well, I refuse to think that way, my small town roots and work ethic runs to deep. I refuse to let somebody take care of me while I am willing and able to take care of myself. I will continue to meet and know my neighbors and help them out when they need it. I will continue to work hard to take care of my needs and by doing so, my wants will take care of themselves. I will continue to volunteer for things and give to charities of my choice regardless of what the government wants to take away from me and give to the undeserving.

My hope is to change the thinking back to the way it was. The sun will rise again tomorrow, I’ll keep doing what I do, and this country can be great again….at least in my little corner of it…

didn't get it.

I was a teenager....and survived!