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Had lunch with a dear, conservative friend of mine last week (also got to testride a Ford Freestyle, traffic where his dealership was was too bad for me to want to test drive the thing). He started talking politics, I said, "you don't really want to do that, do you?" and he said, "I've only once before not voted Republican and that was for Nixon. My WHOLE family, who usually votes that way (except for him, they all live in Michigan) says Bush would be a Bad Idea. It surprised me totally.

I don't resent Social Security for my mom even though she almost never worked, because she was so happy to get it, and various viccisitudes made her life seem so precarious at times (about a year before my father died, he bet a mortgage against Microsoft stock. It died in worth about a month before he passed. And caused him agonies, but way less than it did my mom. She had to sell a huge chunk of land to just pay off the mortgage and not have to pay monthly payments which were larger than her annuity from his pension.

And he set up his military benefits so that his wife had nothing. What's up with that? i so don't understand that. But he had a streak of paranioia from living in the Depression and in a disadvantaged community so much so that I do not understand it.
Mom's okay now, but there are other things hanging (dad was a Gold Bug, there is a lot of metal in safe deposit boxes) that I totally dread her passing because there is a lot of stuff that should have been declared as assets that were not. And my sister and I are going to have to deal. My older brother is a flake who can't be trusted (he got broken in Viet Nam and, because of a college psychiatry degree, does not wish to be fixed -- he has a happy life but while disturbed he stole a lot of things from my folks and was cut out of the family trust).

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