Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Awakening Moon<\/p>\n
You’re traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead: your next stop: deciphering Medicare!\u00a0 I’m not kidding here.\u00a0 Kate and I have given this day to determining a post retirement budget and one of the most difficult things to understand is not the cost of medicare, but just what goes with what.\u00a0 If the explanatory booklet that simplifies Medicare, from a local senior citizen organization, is any indication of what health care reform promises, God help us.<\/p>\n
On the other hand this is an exciting time for both of us, investigating life when Kate no longer has work demands, figuring out the wonders of budgeting when such terms as dissaving begin to make sense.\u00a0 Dissaving is, you guessed it, spending money you’ve saved.\u00a0 That’s the basic idea in retirement unless you’re stuck behind the counter at Mac and Don’s with a silly hat and the smell of grease in your gray hair.<\/p>\n
After a while we gave up and went to lunch.\u00a0 Then a nap.\u00a0 Now we’re refreshed and ready to get back at the budget process.<\/p>\n
Say, did I mention that I’m proud of the Democrats?\u00a0 Damn.\u00a0 Gutsy politics.\u00a0 The last time we had truly historic reform came under a former senator, Lyndon Baines Johnson who gave us Model Cities and Civil Rights.\u00a0 Remember the Great Society?\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 Except for that pesky war in Vietnam Johnson was a great one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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