ITS RAINING!

It has been raining fairly steadily for nearly 7 hours. Not hard, just a nice gentle rain. We just watched the weather report on a Chattanooga. By Tuesday evening Pikeville, about 20 miles from us, is forecast to get 8" of rain. There are flash flood warnings out for the area. Since we are up at around elevation 2,000', and there are really no valley that would be prone to flooding near us, we don't have anything to worry about from the rain. We do have to cross Laurel Creek if we want to go to Crossville. It is dry now and normally is just a relatively small creek. The water would have to be over 20' deep to even get up to the road surface, probably possible, but not likely. We don't need to go to town anyway.

We went to church at Lantana Grace Church this morning. It is less than 10 miles from us. There were about 50 in attendance. People were very friendly but we will try some place else next Sunday. One other time we attended a service at a church in Crossville and think we will try that church again next Sunday.

Hopefully I will get started on the bathroom tomorrow. Marvin, our carpenter neighbor, said he would be available to help and I'd like some help getting things started.

Good night to all and may God bless you and yours.

Political Commentary - Illegal Immigrants

How much have we heard about closing tax “loopholes”? It seems that the Obama stimulus package had a doozey in it. Illegal aliens are now collecting billions from his “Additional Child Tax Credit.” According to government sources this “tax credit” provides illegals with an additional incentive to invade the US. The government says that 2.3 million illegals claimed the credit in 2010, adding up to $4.3 BILLION in tax refunds. By the way, illegals supposedly can’t get Social Security numbers so the IRS gives illegals “Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers” so that they can file tax returns to take advantage of such programs.

Government puts the number of illegal aliens in our country to be 11 million while most sources on both sides of the issue peg the number at closer to 20 million. Catholic Online did some work on the demographics of illegals and claim that 37% of them are children, which means there are around 13 million adults. (If half of the 7 million kids are in school it is costing American taxpayers $2 BILLION a year to educate them.) Assuming most of the illegals are employed one can only wonder why, especially after an August jobs report showing NO new jobs, that the Feds refuse to send some of them back to their home countries and open up jobs for citizens.  There were 14 million unemployed US citizens in August. If the Feds would do their job and enforce current Federal law we could have full employment. I don’t want to hear that Americans won’t do these jobs. If that is so, then welfare benefits are far to high, the illegals are supposedly supporting themselves with these jobs.