Perspective

I trapped three of the four cats this morning, fed by the old woman, who is quite interesting to talk to, out in the Jefferson area. I have a trap left set for the fourth, one of three half grown orange tabbies. At least I caught the mom, a fire torti.

I stopped by the Millersburg Country colony on the way home. I came home via country roads and so went by there. The old woman there says there are no new cats which made me happy, but that one of the black cats fixed in the very first round there, a couple years ago, is very very ill, with a foot and leg swollen up to tennis ball size. The cat even falls over it is so sick with that infected leg. I tried to find the cat but couldn't and will try again.

They are all out of work. The old woman and her husband, of course, are long retired and have many health issues. Their adult daughter, middle aged, who lives in the trailer out behind the house, laid off. The granddaughter who has little ambition was laid off from her part time job, also.

The old couple's son-in-law--laid off. A son--laid off. Another son, with a health issue he is trying to get an operation to solve, is in jeopardy of losing his job and hopes to get that operation before he is laid off and loses health insurance. If he doesn't get the operation while he still has a job, he fears, his mother says, he will never find a job again.

The middle aged daughter is a really delightful person, in the way that she plods on, keeps trying, and is now attempting to get back to school. First, she must get her GED and she is trying. She remains hopeful and keeps plugging away. The granddaughter is perhaps a lost cause, as far as her grandparents opinion. She is not the daughter of the middle aged woman, but of another son of the old couple. She, being so young, in her twenties, has the best chance of training for a job that might bring money to the group of family members living there. Her grandparents hope she will take on this challenge, although they are deeply skeptical.

Anyhow, when you meet the economic crisis face to face, it is sobering. I hope our President can find a way to inspire this country into solutions. He sure can't do it alone. That family out there, struggling as they are, are not happy with those opposing the President. They were conservatives, but voted democrat the last election and are very angry that the last President plunged us into such debt and with the croni good old boy special interest behavior in WA, that allowed lack of oversight and regulation, further crippling our nation. They see our President as optimistic despite racism and people working against him for political reasons, and the result is bestowed in hardship upon common Americans.

Well anyhow, I'll try to stop by there tomorrow and catch that horribly injured cat. It's interesting to hear the various views of people about what is going on and what they think our future holds.