A Glimpse at History

Here are a couple that give us something to ponder!

Here in Michigan where unemployment has soared to record highs, foreclosed homes are on every block and not just the ones owned by Union workers being laid off by the Big Three. Many homes in foreclosure are/were owned by people with unbelievable experience and with a solid educational background who were either in a supportive industry to the Automotive, or were self-employed with their own company as a supplier or their company had a supportive role to Automotive. Even with a small percentage invested in that arena right now can take a company out because they are not getting paid for work done months ago (that they have already laid out the money to pay employees, benefits and company expenses while they waited faithfully to be paid) and the government is suggesting the Big Three file bankruptcy. Are we all nuts! The Big Three would be sound, financialy, but anybody that could of bought a vehicle, will be living in a box in a local park! Any way….we must try to remember to pull together, help each other, help your neighbor if you can and never give up!

“Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”  Thomas Jefferson

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”  Thomas Jefferson

And lastly if you are as overwhelmed as I am by the Negative articles, gloom and doom always given to us in the news and newspapers to the point I cannot pick them up and read them, nor can I watch the news often without wondering… because of all the horrible events occurring, according the the news media…why more people aren’t committing suicide like they did in the great depression? Could it be because the newspapers are sensationalizing for sales ( and we are reacting to it by not buying anything making this whole thing worse) or is that why the drug companies are so filthy rich…because we are all on anti-depressants just to handle it because of the media?!!!LOL …Seriously….I seem to only be able to digest one paper right now and that is the Monroe Evening News.

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”  Thomas Jefferson

What amazes me about these quotes are that they still hold true today! They were written so long ago…but the man seemed to have not only a looking glass into the soul of man…but a true grasp as to the snares that lay before that man in government.

Try to have a Historical Day!

Make each day count!           Savannah

Filed under: Historical Quotes by Savannah Meade