Comments on: Messy, Messy, Messy

By: Patricia

Patricia — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:14:26 +0000

Dot,
Wow good new shortcuts that work within the old system…Thank you…I am going to put several of these to work right away.

I also heard about a thumb drive that you put once a year into a port slot on your CPU and down load everything from your computer as a back up…it will take about 4000 pictures too…then put the thumb drive and disk in your safety deposit box for safe keeping – doesn’t matter if you do your birth certificate or marriage lic. every year along with you taxes…you have the records in a very small and very safe storage unit? Haven’t followed up on that one yet.

By: Dot

Dot — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:07:24 +0000

That's awful what happened with your software/bank. I had a similar problem when I was using Microsoft Money, my bank changed, and I couldn't get into my own money. Very frustrating. My bank has been bought out repeatedly, as have many of the others. It has just been bought again. I went back to paper records, because it was so tedious to enter them into the computer. I'd rather spend a few hours once a year than all that time once a week. I keep all tax-related receipts, and write everything else into my checkbook manager (whatever that little book is called), which has plenty of space because I rarely use checks any more. The rest is autopaid from my bank, and I just save the statements (or print them out). Lately I've started scanning receipts into my computer because they're so much easier to find, but I also keep the paper version of tax items or returnable items. Paper and pencil are the most stable of all! Dots last blog post..OpenOffice Extensions

By: patricia

patricia — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:40:10 +0000

jgj,
I am not an economist by any means and I am not an historian, but I have been working at understanding the Chicago School of Economics as an outsider for about 30 years in relationship to the mass destruction it has been a part of and in how many instances it has been a central part of human agony and distress.

I am a student of the human – in humane cost of programs and systems, because all of my lenses of living are through the eyes of the homeless, the uneducated, unhealthy, and woman.

It is a very poor system of birth control and human management and the greedy, unhappy and immoral seem to always benefit the most….

I am just working on explaining here that I became too dependent on a system that worked for me and when it no longer worked for me and I could not correct it’s problems the system became corrupt.

That’s what folks who teach ethics do…they attempt to share ways of thinking about things that create new solutions and answers that open possibilities and teach regulation/correction.

Folks are yelling and screaming because they are frustrated and afraid….and I heard over 50 times this weekend that “this is something that has never been experienced before-unprecedented,” that phrase helps to make people feel even more afraid and worried.

I wanted to say this is not new…this is resolvable- we can correct this situation and it will take work and not be “instant pudding”.

I probably know nothing about what you know about this school of economics. My eyes and heart are cast in another direction…

I surely do appreciate your comments and I will follow through in my research. Thank you for intriguing new ideas for me to understand and learn.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:57:35 +0000

Barbara,
It is very comforting to know that I know how to do all this work and that I can accomplish it in time, but it is still causing flustered feelings!

Jannie,
I am sure there is great creativity in chaos and often profound beauty.

I just wish it was not so time consuming right now.

Thank you for your responses – I so appreciate them

By: Jannie Funster

Jannie Funster — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:46:25 +0000

Yes, the more things change the more they stay the same. And we do keep repeating the same mistakes in government. Sorry about your program crash, I now from experience how aggravating that is! Luckily you still have your brain to count on. It's funny, when I see Kelly getting involved in artwork or another creative pursuit, journaling, etc. she has all her stuff spread out around her in a circle on the floor, the same way I did (do.) Out of such "chaos" comes great beauty methinks. Jannie Funsters last blog post..Like a bord on a wire, 4

By: jgj

jgj — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:35:56 +0000

You are incorrect in your statement that the Chi school did not work. China, Singapore, India, et. al.; through deregulation, trade, & opening private markets; coached by economic advisers from that school created the largest human movement from poverty to middle class in world history… Are you sure you’re not just throwing around buzz words you kinda-sorta know the meaning of?

By: Barbara Swafford

Barbara Swafford — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:26:38 +0000

Hi Patricia – You have me smiling. For so many years I did all of our paperwork manually (before we were computerized), and even though the accounting program I now use is so much easier, I relish the thought that I can do it all manually if I have to. There are benefits to being mature (I didn’t say old ) aren’t there?

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:19:34 +0000

Mark,
Thank you for your comments. I thought your writing about illusions fit nicely into my thinking these days – yep a false economy

As Betsy says on her post – folks just don’t want to dig down to the bedrock and take a look…

Guess I just have to keep suggesting it.

Thank you for you good works…

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:01:40 +0000

There is much wisdom in understanding where we have been and how it has affected us. We also, like you must understand our co-dependence on external systems and ensure that we have back-up systems and systems which ensure that we are dealing in reality and not in a false something, in this case a false economy.