420 Day - Freedom Has Begun

This day we give thanks.

Thanks that two states in this country have now legalized recreational marijuana.

Thanks that a majority of Americans now favor an end to cannabis prohibition.

Thanks that in many places, jails are too full to hold us. Sad, really. The mentally ill homeless have found their way to the only safe place still available, and have learned how to be just bad enough to stay there.

We give thanks that other countries are beginning to question and to legalize.

Thanks that already there are investment opportunities for those brave enough to buy penny stocks: MJNA, HEMP and PHOT are three that this writer owns.

The path to the future is getting clearer and clearer. Government is trapped into defending an obvious fallacy. They must defend the notion that cannabis is both toxic and addictive. Good luck with that!

Increasingly, the opposite is shown, the obvious is known. Government is a fool.

MJNA is making its money licensing systems that produce pre-packed, uniform-dosage, medical marijuana. They have made marijuana prescribable. They license production of THC/CBD formulations for medical use and, where it is legal, formulations for recreational use.

The federal government has hesitated to prosecute. Perhaps it sees the writing on the wall.

Obama Turns Out The Light

The sacred guarantee of retirement that keeps us all at our desks, the light at the end of the tunnel, has become pie in the sky.

Chained CPI:  If something cheaper can effectively replace what you buy, then your payment is reduced accordingly.

 - corn meal mush is as effective as Post Toasties.
 - a Ford is as effective as a Pontiac.
 - a 21" television screen is as effective as a 42" television screen.
 - a walk in the park is as effective as a trip to the movies.

Chained CPI is a winch that will ratchet ever tighter.

 - hamburgers from McDonalds are as effective as gourmet cookery for White House dinners?

Yah, sure.

There is no need to shrink the Social Security payouts - increase the pay-ins!

Scrap the cap. Scrap the income cap on Social Security withholding. Join your local 'scrap the cap' movement. Or start one.

Time to go on the offensive. We've lost an ally. It is up to seniors to become involved, to organize, to besiege Congress to stop playing games with Social Security.

The football must now be moved the other way.